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Sam Henry's Songs of the people, edited, transcribed, and annotated by Gale Huntington ; rev., with additions and indexes by Lani Herrmann ; geographical index prepared with the aid of John Moulden

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Sam Henry's Songs of the people

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edited, transcribed, and annotated by Gale Huntington ; rev., with additions and indexes by Lani Herrmann ; geographical index prepared with the aid of John Moulden

Old choir rhymes: Abbey ; Dublin/Coleshill ; Dundee ; French ; Maryʼs ; Martyrs ; York ; Newto[w]n -- Lullabies: Heezh Ba ; Hush Alee ; Ballyeamon Cradle Song ; Irish Lullaby for the Christ-Child ; Lullaby for a Sailorʼs Child ; Raven-Locks -- Childrenʼs games: I am the Master ; Green Gravel ; Ring a Ring oʼ Roses ; Water, Water, Wallflowers ; Iʼll Tell My Ma ; Hereʼs a Poor Widow ; Old Sally Walker ; Broken Bridges ; Fair Rosa/The Sleeping Beauty ; How Many Miles to Babyland? ; Cricketty Wee -- Animals, hunting, racing: A Childʼs Lullaby ; The Little White Cat ; My Bonnie Wee Hen ; The Bonnie Brown Hen ; Nell Flahertyʼs Drake ; The Duck from Drummuck ; The Lost Birdies/The Hobe and the Robin ; Robin Redbreastʼs Testament ; The Goatʼs Will ; Matty Broonʼs Soo ; The Moneygran Pig Hunt ; Bellaghy Fair ; Sportʼs Lament ; The Heifer ; The ?Crummy? Cow ; The Mayogall Asses ; Seal Song ; The Crocodile ; The Fox and His Wife ; The Hunting Priest ; Squire Agnewʼs Hunt ; The Hare of Kilgrain ; The Hareʼs Dream ; The Clady River Water Bailiffs ; A Ballad of Master MʼGra[th] ; Cashel Green (II) ; Arthur Bond ; Spanking Maggie from the Ross -- occupations, lifestyle: Waulking Song ; The Tailor Boy ; The Cobbler ; Jim, the Carman Land ; My Rattlinʼ Oulʼ Grey Mare ; My Irish Jaunting Car ; The Farmer ; The Rocks of Bawn ; The Charity Seed/We Never Died in the Winter Yet ; The Lint Pullinʼ ; The Jolly Thresher ; As a King Went A-Hunting ; Shanty Boy ; The Shepherd Laddie ; The Thatchers of Glenrea ; The Dandy Chignon ; Long Cookstown/Nancy Whiskey ; The Jug of Punch ; A Cup oʼTay ; The Black Pipe ; The Wee Cutty Pipe ; The Rakes of Poverty ; The Oulʼ Rigadoo ; Old Rosin the Bow ; Bryan OʼLynn ; The State of Arkansaw ; Denny Byrne, the Piper ; The Sailor in the Alehouse ; The Private Still ; Mick Magee ; My Grandfather Died ; The Buttermilk Boy ; OʼRyan ; The Jolly Fisherman ; Songs of Old Ireland ; The Salutation ; Fine Broom Besoms! ; Better Bide a Wee ; Gaol Song ; The Bramble ; The Leaves So Green ; Dun Ceithern ; Barossa/Oliverʼs Advice ; The Yellow Bittern/An Bunnan Buidhe ; The Parting Glass -- Celebrations: Dan Murphyʼs Convoy ; The Wedding at Ballyporeen ; The Ballinderry Marriage ; Coleraine Regatta ; The Lammas Fair in Cargan ; On the Road to Bethlehem -- War: The Shepher Boy ; My Parents Reared Me Tenderly ; The Black Horse ; Pat Reilly ; Pat Muldoney ; You Broken-Hearted Heroes ; Lovely Sally ; The Deserter ; Bonny Woodhaʼ My Son Ted ; Lovely Jamie ; The Hungry Army ; The Plains of Waterloo ; The Drummer Boy at Waterloo ; The Bonny Light Horseman ; The Irish Soldier Boy ; The Three Flowers of Chivalry ; The Heights of Alma ; Balaclava ; Old Ireland Far Away -- Sea: Kishmulʼs Galley ; Sailorsʼ Shanties ; Itʼs Time for Us to Leave Her ; Tomʼs Gone to Ilo ; Santy Anna ; Paddy Doyle ; Iʼm Going Home ; The Girls of Valparaiso ; The S[team]s[hip] Leinster Lass ; The Cruise of the Calabar ; The Zared ; Yellow Meal ; The Shamrock Shore ; Patrick OʼNeal ; The Sailor Boy ; Franklin the Brave ; The Loss of Seven Clergymen ; The Portrush Fishing Disaster ; The Wreck of the Enterprise ; The Falcon ; The Wreck of the Fanad Boat ; The Wreck of the Nimrod ; The Loss of the Royal Charter ; The Trader ; The Wreck of the Rebecca ; The Good Ship Mary Cochrane ; The Banks of Newfoundland ; The French Privateer ; Captain Coulston -- Crime: Botany Bay ; The Boston Burglar ; The Wild Colonial Boy ; Eight Mile Bridge ; Whiskey in the Jar ; Waltzing Matilda ; Heather Jock ; Jamie Reaburnʼs Farewell ; James Magee ; John Mitchelʼs Farewell to His Countrymen ; John Mitchell ; Hugh Hill, the Ramoan Smuggler ; The Three Huntsmen/Wilson, Gilmore and Johnson ; The Crafty Ploughboy ; Shane Crossagh ; The Breaking of Omagh Jail ; The Dreary Gallows ; Lambkin -- Death, laments, ghosts: The Bard of Culnady/Charles OʼNeill ; Finvola, the Gem of the Roe ; Heilanʼ Jane ; An Irish Motherʼs Lament ; The Cowboy of Loreto ; John McKeown and Margaret Deans ; Annie Moore ; Molly Brown Lowry ; A Collier Lad ; My Lowlands, Away ; Maryʼs Dream ; The Nightingale ; Willie Lennox ; Sloan Wellesley ; James Kennedy ; Miss Cochrane ; Rachel Dear/The Maine Water Slide ; Polly Primose ; Holland Is a Fine Place ; Susan on the Beach -- Praise of home: The Little Thatched Cabin ; The Old Stone Wall ; Old Arboe ; The Hills oʼBallyboley ; Ballycastle, O! ; Ballymonan Brae ; Benbradden Brae ; The Braes of Carnanbane ; Carnlough Shore ; Beautiful Churchill ; The Girls from [Dt,Wt: of] Coleraine ; The Maids of Downhill ; Dungiven Priory Church ; Faughanvale ; Bonny Garrydoo ; Glenariffe ; Glenelly ; Lovely Glenshesk ; Old Inishowen ; Kearneyʼs Glen ; The Shores of Sweet Kenbane ; The Braes of Sweet Kilhoyle ; Knocklayde ; Lochaber Shore ; Mountsandel ; Mudion River ; Oville ; The Peistie Glen ; Bonny Portrush ; The River Roe ; Sliever Gallen Brae ; Fair Tyrone ; Among the Green Bushes ; Where Derry Meets Tyrone ; The Land of the West ; Old Ireland ; Erin, My Country ; The Enchanted Isle ; The Macʼs and the Oʼs ; The Connaught Man ; The Rocky Road to Dublin ; Dungiven Cricket Match ; March of the Men of Garvagh ; Ta Ra, Limavady ; The Knights of Malta ; The Bright Orange Stars of Coleraine ; The Boys of Coleraine ; Neuve Chappelle -- Goodbye home: Lovely Armoy ; Monk McClamontʼs ?Farewell to Articlave? ; Farewell, Ballycastle ; Carnanbane ; Carntogherʼs Braes ; The Flower of Craiganee ; The Hills of Tandragee ; My Girl from Donegal ; The Flower of Sweet Dunmull ; The Faughan Side ; Finn Waterside ; Gelvin Burn ; Glenrannelʼs Plains ; Farewell to Sweet Glenravel ; The Glenshesk Waterside ; Lovely Glenshesk ; In Praise of the Glen ; The Brow of Sweet Knocklayd ; Owenreaghʼs Banks ; The Point Maid ; Adieu to the Banks of the Roe ; Farewell to Slieve Gallen ; The Hills of Tyrone ; Bonny, Bonny ; Knoxʼs Farewell ; The Emigrantʼs Farewell ; The Happy Shamrock Shore ; The Brown-Haired Lass ; Paddyʼs Green Countrie ; The Shamrock Sod No More -- Longing for home: Norah McShane ; The Old Blacksmithʼs Shop ; The Little Old Mud Cabin on the Hill ; The Green Hills of Antrim ; Cloughwater/The Shamrock Shore ; The Coleraine Girl ; Oh, Derry, Derry, Dearie Me ; The Hills of Donegal ; Drumglass Hill ; The Happy Green Shades of Duneane ; Oulʼ Dunloy ; Sweet Glenbush ; Glen OʼLee ; The Pretty Three-Leaved Shamrock from Glenore ; Juberlane ; Sweet Loughgiel ; Maguireʼs Brae ; Where Moyola Waters Flow ; Mullaghdoo ; The Maid of Mullaghmore ; Owenreagh ; The Banks of the Roe ; Farewell to the Banks of the Roe ; A Shamrock from Tiree ; The Call of Home ; Och, Och, Eire, O! ; Thereʼs a Dear Spot in Ireland ; Riding Herd at Night ; Charlie Jackʼs Dream ; The Irishman -- Praise of a girl: Happy ʻTis, Thou Blind, for Thee ; My Bonny Breeden ; O, Jeanie Dear ; Bonny Mary Hay ; So Like Your Song and You ; Not the Swan on the Lake ; Nancy, the Pride of the West ; The Maid of Erinʼs Isle ; Peggy of the Moor ; Mary MʼVeagh ; The Holly Bough/The Pride of Altibrine ;The Maid of Burndennet ; Kate of Coleraine ; Kate of Glenkeen ; The Star of Glenamoyle ; The Flower of Glenleary ; The Flower of Gortade ; A Kintyre Love Song ; The Manchester Angel ; Mary Smith, the Maid of Mountain Plain ; Autumn Dusk/Coimfeasgar Fogmair ; The Dear-a-Wee Lass ; The Valley Below ; The Dark-Haired Girl ; Braiding Her Glossy Black Hair ; The Old Dun Cow ; Gragalmachree ; The Maid of Altaveedan ; Jean of Ballinagarvey ; The Flower of Benbrada ; The Beauty of the Braid ; The Maid from the Carn Brae ; Claudy Green ; Maggie of Coleraine ; The Flower of Corby Mill ; The Flower of Magherally, O! ; Magilligan ; The Valleys of Screen ; Summer Hill ; The Maid from the County Tyrone ; Her Bonny Blue Eʼe ; Rosaleen Bawn ; The Blazing Star of Drim ; The Blazing Star of Drung ; Ann oʼDrumcroon ; The Pride of Glenelly ; Mary, the Pride of Killowen ; Moorlough Mary -- Courtship and dalliance: Nae Bonnie Laddie tae Takʼ Me Awaʼ ; Maidens of Sixty-Three ; The Black Chimney Sweeper ; The Wee Article ; Rogerʼs Courtship ; Grandmaʼs Advice ; The Nonsense oʼ Men ; As I Go I Sing ; The Strands of Magilligan ; Green Grow the Rashes ; The Young Farmerʼs Offer ; The Load of Kail Plants ; An Irish Serenade ; Youʼre Welcome as the Flowers in May ; Magherafelt Hiring Fair ; The Roving Bachelor ; The Whistling Thief ; The Feckless Lvoer ; The Ride in the Creel ; Iʼm Seventeen ʻgin Sunday ; As I Gaed ower a Whinny Knowe ; The Rambling Suiler ; A Beggerman Camʼ ower the Lea ; The Galway Shawl ; Where the Moorcocks Crow ; The Maid of Seventeen ; Cloughmills Fair ; Oʼer the Moor amang the Heather ; The Whinny Knowes ; The Captain with the Whiskers ; Youghall Harbour ; The Cup of Gold ; The Mountain Road ; The Woods of Mountsandel ; The Ould Lammas Fair ; The Star of Moville ; Mind Your Eye ; The Basket of Oysters ; Tumbling through the Hay -- Faithful farewells: The Londonderry Air ; Down in My Sallyʼs Garden ; Early, Early ; The Green Banks of Banna ; A Sweetheartʼs Appeal to Her Lover/Oh, Itʼs down Where the Water Runs Muddy ; My Sailor Boy ; The Drinaun D[h]un ; The Boatman/Fear a Bhata ; A Rathlin Song ; Bring back My Barney to Me ; Linton Lowrie ; The Sea-Apprentice ; My True Loveʼs Gone A-Sailing ; So Dear Is My Charlie to Me ; The Jolly Roving Tar ; Alt[i]mover Stream ; Fare Ye Well, Enniskillen ; My [The] Dear Irish Boy ; The Banks of Sweet Lough Neagh ; The Soldier Boy ; The Banks of the Nile ; Johnnie and Molly ; The Bold Privateer ; The Maid of Dunysheil ; The Maid of Carrowclare ; The Blooming Star of Eglintown ; The Faithful Rambler ; Loveʼs Parting/Jamie and Mary ; Dobbinʼs Flowery Vale ; Londonderry Love Song ; The Maids of Culmore -- The returned lover: The Banished Lover ; Learmount Grove ; Mary Machree ; James Reilly ; Skerryʼs Blue-Eyed Jane ; The Banks of the Clyde/One Fine Summerʼs Morning ; Mary Doyle/The Wreck of the Lady Shearbrooke ; Laurel Hill/Kyleʼs Flowery Braes ; The Lady of the Lake ; The Banks of Claudy ; The Banks of [the] Dee ; The Mantle So Green ; Johnny Jarmin/The Rainbow ; Mary and Willie ; Lurgan Town ; The Broken Ring ; Green Garden ; The Dark-Eyed Sailor ; The Love Token ; The Pride of Glencoe ; The Banks of the River Ness ; Jennie of the Moor ; Bordonʼs Grove -- Disguises: The Drummer Maid ; On Board of a Man-of-War ; The Drum Major ; The Female Highwayman ; The Squireʼs Bride ; Lovely Annie ; The Rich Merchantʼs Daughter ; The Sailor on the Sea ; The True Loversʼ Departure ; The Jolly Ploughboy ; Blythe and Bonny Scotlan/Indiaʼs Burning Sands ; Canada, Hi!Ho! ; Willie Taylor -- Love uncertain: The Six Sweethearts ; Iʼve Two or Three Strings to My Bow ; One Morning Clear ; The Maid of Tardree ; Dark-Eyed Molly ; Farewell Ballymoney ; The Sweet Bann Water ; The Rejected Lover ; The Banks of Mourne Strand ; Fair Maid of Glasgow Town ; The Ploughboy ; The Blackbird and Thrush ; Farewell He ; The Cuckoo ; If I Were a Fisher ; The Star of Benbradden ; I Am a Wee Laddie, Hard, Hard Is My Fate -- Love unrequited: John MacAnantyʼs Courtship ; Paddyʼs Land ; Claudy Green ; The Maid of Croaghmore ; The Bonnie Wee Lass of the Glen ; As I Walked Out ; Farewell Darling ; Will Ye Pad the Road wiʼ Me? ; The Maid of Craigienorn ; Lurgan Stream ; Castleroe Mill ; The Banks of Kilrea ; The True Loversʼ Discussion ; The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe ; Cahanʼs Shade Glen ; Fair Maid of Ballygan ; The Grey Mare ; Iʼll Hange My Harp on a Willow Tree ; The Bonnet sae Blue ; Tarry Trousers ; The Factory Girl ; Campbellʼs Mill ; The Maid of Faughan Vale ; Wester Snow ; Drummondʼs Land ; My Charming Kate OʼNeill ; The Maid of Mourne Shore ; The Girl from Turfahun ; The Lass of Mohee ; The Lakes of Ponchartrain ; Am I the Doctor? ; Barbara Allen -- Love unfaithful: The Ripest of Apples ; The False Lover ; The Bonny Bushes Bright ; Willie Angler/The Banks of the Bann ; Lovely Nancy ; Under the Shade of a Bonny Green Tree ; Must I Go Bound? ; Phelimy Phil ; Norah Magee ; The Broken-Hearted Gardener ; Gramachree ; Belfast Mountains ; My Love John ; My Flora and I ; The Flower of Sweet Strabane ; Bring Me Back the Boy I Love ; Never Change the Old Love for the New ; Oh, Johnny, Johnny ; The Apron of Flowers ; The Bonny, Bonny Boy ; The Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair ; The Green Bushes ; Out of the Window ; My Bonny Brown Jane ; The Slighted Suitor ; Twenty-One ; Polly Perkins of Paddington Green ; My Darling Blue-Eyed Mary ; My Bonnie Irish Boy ; Sween Clonalee ; An Old Loverʼs Wedding ; The Lairdʼs Wedding ; The Girl I Left Behind -- Deadly love: The ʻPrentice Boy ; Blooming Caroline of Edinburgh Town ; Ballindown Braes ; The King oʼ Spainʼs Daughter ; The Broomfield Hill ; Lord Ronald ; Susan Brown ; Susan Carr ; Flora, the Lily of the West ; The Old Oak Tree ; The Silvery Tide ; The Willow Tree ; Killeavyʼs Pride ; The Pride of Newry Town -- Despite relatives: The Maid of Ballyhaunis ; The Banks of the Cloughwater ; Hiberniaʼs Lovely Jane ; If I Were a Blackbird ; The Maid of Aghadowey ; The Slaney Side ; The Maid of Sweet Gorteen ; McClenahanʼs Jean ; We Met, ʻTwas in a Crowd ; Johnny Doyle ; The Loverʼs Ghost ; Sweet William ; Young Edward Bold/The Lowlands Low ; The Constant Farmerʼs Son ; The Bonny Labouring Boy ; Willy Reilly ; Young Mary of Accland ; Erinʼs Lovely Home ; Sweet Dunloy ; Henry Connor of Castledawson ; Sally Munro ; John Reilly the Sailor Lad ; Kellswater ; The Banks of the Bann ; Johnnie Hart ; Love Laughs at Locksmiths ; The Lady Leroy ; Eliza/When I Landed in Glasglow ; The Apprentice Boy/Covent Garden -- Successful courtship: Our Wedding Day ; The Boy That Found a Bride ; The Swan ; The Tossing oʼ the Hay ; Pining Day and Daily ; The Pretty Blue Handkerchief ; The Gentle Shepherdess ; The Bonny Wee Lass ; Lovely Annie ; Iʼm from over the Mountain ; The Bann Water Side ; Beardiville Planting ; Bess of Ballymoney ; The Blackwaterside ; Cashel Green ; My Charming Coleraine Lass ; The Star of Donegal ; Glenarm Bay ; Greenmount Smiling Arm ; Gruig Hill ; Innishowen ; Kellswaterside ; The Banks of Kilrea ; The Largy Line ; Sweet Londonderry ; The Lovely Banks of Mourne ; Wild Slieve Gallon Brae[s] ; Sandyʼs Wooing ; ?Thank You, Maʼam,? Says Dan ; The Yowe Lamb ; Petie Camʼ ower the Glen ; The Navvy Boy ; One Penny Portion ; The Inniskilling Dragoon ; The Gallant Soldier ; Young Edward the Gallant Hussar ; Green Broom ; John Hunter/The Wheelwright ; The Journeyman Tailor ; Lough Erne Shore ; Belfast Town ; Jamie and Nancy ; Molly, Lovely Molly ; When a Manʼs in Love ; Charming Mary OʼNeill ; The County Tyrone ; My Fatherʼs Servant Boy ; Jamie, Lovely Jamie ; You Lovers All ; Mullinabrone ; Jamieʼs on the Stormy Sea ; Wait till the Ship Comes Home ; The Garden Gate ; Henry, the Sailor Boy ; The Lass of Glenshee ; The Hielanʼs oʼScotland ; The Glove and the Lions ; Johnny Scott ; The Keeper of the Game ; The Rich Ship Ownerʼs Daughter ; Lord Beichan -- Domesticity: The Married Man ; The Happy Pair ; The Day We Packed the Hamper for the Coast ; The Tay ; The Scolding Wife ; Upside Down ; The Single Days of Old ; The Wealthy Farmer ; Will the Weaver ; The Tailor in the Tea [Sea] Chest ; I Wish That You Were Dead, Goodman ; The Auld Man and the Churnstaff ; The Blinʼ Auld Man/The Covered Cavalier ; The Brown-Eyed Gypsies ; Fair Annie ; The Ship Carpenterʼs Wife ; Whiskey Is My Name/The Blacksmith ; The Wee Wifukie ; Johnny, Mʼ Man