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Paul Ashford Archive Folk Music/ Songs Collection -- Unlabelled Folder: Bibliography & notes [handwritten] 7 pages 1)Miscellaneous group (songs & tunes) Patriotism & Bethlehem Steel (c.1940) Volunteer song, Mexican War Captain Jinks Irish Washerwoman Flowers of Limerick An Cumhain Latsa an Oidhche? Skylark Song Una Cursed be the man... Liberty Tree (Thomas Paine) The Enchantress Song Yankees have the marrow Bombed last night, bombed the night before I’ll take my knapsack... The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga The Bonnie Blue Flag Along with my love I’ll go Fair maidens Beauty will soon pass away Cold and rough the north wind blows My long blue tail Old Dan Tucker Such a getting upstairs Bowery gals If you want to know how for to make the sauerkraut Liza Jane Tobacco is an Indian weed Mothers gone down to the beer saloon to pray Come all you... She like Delilah his heart did ensnare Come all you jolly soldiers High Germany Sacramento gals California people... Bunker Hill Grandma’s advice 2) Lumberman’s Songs

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Page 1: Paul Ashford Archive Folk Music/ Songs Collection -- Unlabelled

Paul Ashford Archive Folk Music/ Songs Collection

-- Unlabelled Folder: Bibliography & notes [handwritten] 7 pages 1)Miscellaneous group (songs & tunes) Patriotism & Bethlehem Steel (c.1940) Volunteer song, Mexican War Captain Jinks Irish Washerwoman Flowers of Limerick An Cumhain Latsa an Oidhche? Skylark Song Una Cursed be the man... Liberty Tree (Thomas Paine) The Enchantress Song Yankees have the marrow Bombed last night, bombed the night before I’ll take my knapsack... The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga The Bonnie Blue Flag Along with my love I’ll go Fair maidens Beauty will soon pass away Cold and rough the north wind blows My long blue tail Old Dan Tucker Such a getting upstairs Bowery gals If you want to know how for to make the sauerkraut Liza Jane Tobacco is an Indian weed Mothers gone down to the beer saloon to pray Come all you... She like Delilah his heart did ensnare Come all you jolly soldiers High Germany Sacramento gals California people... Bunker Hill Grandma’s advice 2) Lumberman’s Songs

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Lumberjack’s alphabet The woodsman’s alphabet Shantyman’s alphabet Shanty alphabet The Western lumberjack The wild Mustard River The jam on Gerry’s Rocks The little old log cabin on my claim Mighty Swenson’s axe Harry Bail Save your money when you’re young When the lumberman comes down (tune: Lamplighter Hornpipe) Shanty boys The grindstone teamsters Shanty song The river driver Black stream driver’s song Shanty boy on the Big Eau Claire Jack Haggerty, or Flat River girl Santa Ana Dark forest wild and drear 3) Dirge Man or mouse? (several versions) 4) Ballads [ Several ballad tunes, music only ] Dying Hobo (Beside the Western water tank) Big Rock Candy Mountain Hard Times Shantyman’s life Save your money when you’re young Long John Woman Blue Tara-ra Boom! Deray Ballet of the Boll Weevil Don’t swat your mother – Cause it’s mean She is more to be pitied than censured The Butcher B oy (2 versions) Lady Gay A Lyke Wake Dirge Bonnie George Campbell The Twa Sisters (4 versions) Little Musgrave Lord Banner Wife of Usher’s Well The Rolling of the Stones, or Two Brothers

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The house carpenter, or Daemon Lover Bessie of Ballydubray Lord Lovel Barbara Allen (with variants) Lord Randall Lady Isabel and the elf knight There was a jolly beggar... Goodman Death of Queen Jeany Young Bacon (or Beichan, Batesman) The Bonny Bonny Biscay Lady Margaret (Lord William) Devil and the farmer’s wife There were three Gypsies The wraggle taggle Gipsies, O! The Bonnie Broomfields Young Hunting Old Hewson the cobbler Hynd Horn Lord Thomas and Fair Elinor Tam Lin (Tam Lane) Mary Hamilton The Silver Dagger I’m troubled in mind Mary of the wild moor Wind blew over the wild moor Troy Town I am a brisk and bonnie lass... Katy Cruel Jack the sailor boy The carrion crow My fairey and my forey Three jovial huntsmen I used to work in the kitchen... The Yorkshire Bite Botany Bay The Babes in the wood Jiffrey, James & John The Miller’s three sons Dog and gun Joys of Mary Brave Cowboy (Blood on the Saddle) 5) Ballads, part two Foggy, foggy dew St. James Infirmary

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Willie the Weeper Young Hunting Widdicombe Fair Curst Wife (Devil Take Her) Clerk Saunders and May Margaret Barbara Allen Hynd Horn Hang-a-man Lord Thomas and Fair Elinor Jimmie Randall Home Came our Goodman Jolly Beggar Tam Lin Young Bacon Bonnie Broomfields Wee Cooper Seven Sleepers Sweet William and Lady Margaret Queen Eleanor Nightingale’s Song The Four Mary’s The Death of Queen Jeanie 6) Spirituals & Carols [30 songs with words and music.] 7) Dance & Game Songs [ 7 pages of Slavic (Hungarian ?) tunes] [ 4 Irish tunes ] [8 Native-American dance tunes (Arapaho, Navajo, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Zuni, Mojave-Apache, Dakota )] [4 tunes from Haiti ] How many miles to London Town? My fairey and my forey Green grow the rushes In and our the window Here we go gathering nuts in May The bear went over the mountain Pop goes the weasel The Red Sarafan The fir tree near the field Bedouin song Tlinget Hat Game The month of May (Albanian)

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Stalk of maize (Roumanian Ciribiribin The Viennese refrain 8) Labor Protest Songs (P.A.'s label: Cost of Living ) [ Folder includes 1 issue, People's Songs #1 & 2, Feb-Mar 1948 ] Jimmie Jinks The two bums Everywhere the same Convention Song The Convention at Portland Monikas seen on a water tank Tie Pass Hobo John Police catechism The Great American bum The railroad bum Hobo's lament The dying hobo The popular Wobbly The hobo and the right-of-way The harvest stiff's war song Harvest Land 9) British Isles [Handwritten notes and transcriptions. Most seem to be from Winifred Knox of Olympia, WA ] 10) Chinese Songs and Tunes (Music, with words in English) [ 1st page: "Short list of books on Chinese music" a bibliography with 25 sources.] The wave stirred sand Farewell to Spring Moon Giang Maiden You've no field to plough Homesickness Soldier boys Little Cabbage The stuttering girl The post station at dawn Phoenix tower Song of China Flowers and moonlight

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11) Scandinavian Seven songs with music. 12) Jamaican [22 songs, handwritten, w/ music.] 13) French and Spanish [ 24 French songs, 16 Spanish ] 14) Tunes w/o words: I'll make my love a breast of glass Kathleen Aroon Lamentation of Dierdre for the sons of Usneach The white cockade Pigtown fling or Kelton's reel Arkansas traveler Hull's victory Over the water to Charlie The rakes of Mallow Money musk Old grey goose Jumbo Jum Jim crack corn Kate & Davy How do you like her for your wife? The munster buttermilk Jackson at New Orleans Bryan O'Lynn The lark in the morning Captain and his whiskers The Goose – Haugs High Merry lads of Ayr Unfortunate Robinson Crusoe Wexford Boys The wee bag of praties Suvianna (Kick a Dutchman) Kathleen Avoon Crabs in the skillet 15) Work Songs Book: Famous Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads Sheet music: The Quiet Man, Mark Hess & Frank Pearson

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Idaho Ten thousand cattle Dan McGann and the foreign man (and reply) Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road Harvest Home En roulant Ma boule My home's in Montana Cowboy far from home When the land was young Far away from home, or the Texas Cowboy Don't list to the cowboy who swings rawhide The old Chisholm trail Whoopie ti yi yo The cowboy's lament 16) Cost of Living – Washington (includes misc. publications & clippings) Tramp's lament The long shore strike On the dummy line Dad's dinner pail A celebrated workingman John Henry The job I left behind me Going up river, from Catlettsburg to Pike Picket Line blues Anthem Now I work in the laundry Caller Herrin' For statesmen who exploit the poor The saps in Sappho Town Railroad bum Ta-rara boom de-aye (I got a job once threshing wheat) Workers of the world awaken The rebel girl Ten thousand miles from home James Bird I don't like a railroad man… He was a cowboy bold a desperate desperado Wraggle taggle gypsies Worker's song of defense Labor on the march Will we be at war this spring? Horace Greeley Misc. publications: -- More adventures of Capt. Kettle, words for a dozen cowboy songs

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-- Reprint from Journal of American Folklore, v.52, No.203 (from Earl Robinson) -- Pamphlet, "The triple alliance", plan of organization for various organizations -- clipping, Harry Hopkins of the W.P.A., a jingle "the depression is over…" -- Mimeograph sheets w/ words: "Hold the fort, transport workers strike song," "There is power in a union," "Boom went the boom," "Let God save the king," and others, in addition to undated clippings. -- "Socialist Songs," "The new doxology," "Corporation and the workers," "Strike, comrades, strike," and two dozen more. -- "My Country" and "Two Heroes" by Robert Whitaker, publ by People's Institute. -- "Poems on Relief," typewritten poems by Byron Cather. 17) Work songs and poetry This material appears to be notes for a collection Paul Ashford was putting together for publication. He may have been working on a collection for the Federal Writer's Project. Publication, "Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets" 10pp. The liberty tree Jefferson and liberty Yankee girls Hunters of Kentucky Working men Unite Columbia Joe, rough notes Lo que digo Oh picket line, Priscilla, picket line The Avondale Mine disaster With peg and awl Down in a coal mine Daddy don't go to the mines today Down, down, down My sweetheart's the mule in the mines When the breaker starts up full-time Notes, "Possible sources for material on mines and miner's songs", "Lumberjack stuff" Orphan girl Jim Fisk The hard working miner 18) Negro Dick’s March When I am Dead I have Been a Good Man

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Junk Man’s Street Cry Tout Pitit Negresse Maman Donne Moin un Pitit Mari Aurore Pradere He’s Choppin in the New Ground Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word Work Song Shine Reels Green Grow the Rushes Good King Wencelas I had a little Nut Tree Dance to your Daddy Never Go Back on the Poor They Can’t Do That John Henry Shortenin’ Bread If I had Wings Like Norah’s Dove Go Way From My Window Bad Man’s Ballad Sugar Babe Ain’t but the One Thing I Done Wrong Blues Stack O Lee Blues Ain’t Nothin’ [Sandburg, p.234] Unfortunate Rake And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back [REM 208] Man on the Flying Trapeze Take Back Your Gold With All Her Faults I Lover Her Still In the Baggage Coach Ahead My Mother Was a Lady Champagne Charlie Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl Barrel House Conversation Piece Honey Take a Whiff on Me Heavy Hipted Woman I’m Gonna Take Those Shoes I Bought You Reason I stay on Job So Long Jumpin Judy Holler Jump Jim Crow Ole Cow Lil’ Liza Jane Ain’t it Hard... They All Got a Mate but Me

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Way Over in the Blooming Gardens -- Several workbooks w/ handwritten notes, possibly arrangements for recorders. Include fiddle tunes and miscellaneous melodies.