Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Ballads and Songs

Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Child, No. 4)
Earl Brand (Child, No. 7)
The Twa Sisters (Child, No. 10)
Lord Randal (Child, No. 12)
The Cruel Mother (Child, No. 20)
The Three Ravens (Child, No. 26)
The Twa Brothers (Child, No. 49)
Young Beichan (Child, No. 53)
Young Hunting (Child, No. 68)
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (Child, No. 7)
Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Child, No. 74)
Lord Lovel (Child, No. 75)
The Lass of Roch Royal (Child, No. 76)
The Wife of Usher's Well (Child, No. 79)
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Child, No. 81)
Bonny Barbara Allen (Child, No. 84)
Lady Alice (Child, No. 85)
The Maw Freed From Tue Gallows (Child, No. 95)
Sir Hugh, or, the Jew's Daughter (Child, No. 155)
The Bonnie House o' Airlie (Child, No. 199)
The Gypsy Laddie (Child, No. 200)
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (Child, No. 201)
Geordie (Child, No. 209)
Tide Braes o' Yarrow (Child, No. 214)
James Harris (The Daemon Lover) (Child, No. 243)
Henry Martin (Child, No. 250)
The Suffolk Miracle (Child, No. 272)
Our Good Man (Child, No. 274)
The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin (Child, No. 277)
The Farmer's Curst Wife (Child, No. 278)
The Crafty Farmer (Child, No. 283)
The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) (Child, No. 286)
The Mermaid (Child, No. 289)
Robin Hood
John Hardy
The Ashland Tragedy
Mcafee's Confession
The Jealous Lover (Pearl Bryan; Florella)
A Tolliver-Martin Feud Song
A West Virginia Feud Song
The Vance Song
Logan County Court House
Black Phyllis
Jesse James
Ye Sons of Columbia (Fuller and Warren)
Maggie Was a Lady (Frankie)
The Wreck On the C. & O.
Mack Mcdonald
The Dying Californian
Joe Bowers
The Jam at Gerry's Rock
An Aricansaw Traveller
The Dying Cowboy
The Lone Prairie
The Ocean Burial
The Dying Hobo
A Comical Ditty
The Tucky Ho Crew
Immortal Washington
The Constitution and the Guerriere (Hull's Victory)
The Battle of Bridgewater
James Bird
War Song (Texas Rangers)
The Dying Ranger
The Battle of Mill Springs
The Victory Won at Richmond
The Yankee Retreat
Bull Run
War Song
Jeff Davis (The Southern Wagon)
On Glory
Brother Green
The Soldier's Poor Little Boy
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Mother, Is the Battle Over?
The Rebel Soldier
I'm a Good Old Rebel
Corporal Schnapps
Old Joe Camp
Fair Charlotte
Springfield Mountain
The Drummer Boy of Waterloo
The Sheffield Apprentice
The Boston Burglar
My Parents Reared Me Tenderly
Jackison and Dickison
The Anpord Wright
The Bramble Briar
Come, Pretty Polly (Polly's Love)
The Wexford Girl (The Cruel Miller)
Rose Connoley
A Pretty Fair Maiden (The Single Sailor)
The Broken Ring
The Banks of Claudie
George Reilly
William Hall
Johnny Germany
Jackie Fpaisure
The Silk-Merchant's Daughter
The Orphan Gypsy Girl
William Reilly
Mollie Vaughn
Charming Beauty Bright
The Rich Merchant
Vilikins and his Dinah
Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low
A Poor Stranger Far From Home
The Drowsy Sleeper
The Silver Dagger
Sweet William (The Sailor Boy)
Early in the Spring
Caroline of Edinburgh Town
The Sailor and his Bride
Pretty Sally (Sally and her True Love, Billy)
A Gay Spanish Maid
The Pretty Mohea
The Soldier's Wooing
Lady Leroy
The Banks of Sweet Dundee
William Taylor
Dog and Gun
Pretty Polly
The Jack of Tar
Young Johnny
The Milkmaid
My Pretty Maid (Seventeen Come Sunday)
Kitty Wells
The Yellow Rose of Texas
The Drunkard's Dream
Forward Boys, Hurrah
Temperance Song
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Jonah
The Little Family
The Twelve Joys
Wicked Polly
The True Lover's Farewell
The Green Willow Tree (The Sprig of Thyme)
The Green Laurels (The Orange and Blue)
Young Ladies (Little Sparrow)
Youth and Folly
Maggie Goddon
A Forsaken Lover
Love Has Brought Me To Despair
The Butcher Boy
Farewell, Sweet Mary
Mary o' the Dee
Mary of the Wild Moor
The Gypsy's Warning
Fair Fanny Moore
Erin's Green Shore
Poor Little Joe
The Orphan Girl
The Blind Man's Regret
The Dishonest Miller
Father Grumble
An Old Woman's Story
The Spanish Lady
Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
A Bachelor's Lament
Little Johnny Green
The Frog and the Mouse
The Fox
The Ranger
The Three Farmers
The Three Rogues
The Skin-and-Bone Lady
Billy Boy
The Old Man Who Came Over the Moor
Old Grimes
The Cobbler's Boy
The Young Man Who Travelled Up and Down
The Young Man Who Would N't Hoe Corn
Old Joe Clog
Old Sam Fanny
Ground Hog Song
Davy Crockett
Creation Song
The Arkansaw Traveller
The Nigger Tune
Old Noah
A Glorious Wedding
Hard Times
Putting on the Style
Get Up and Bar the Door (Child, No. 275)
Six Kings' Daughters
The Miller's Two Daughters
The Greenwood Siding
The Three Crows
Lady Margaret
Sweet William and Lady Margaret
Barbara Allen
The Gypsy Davy
The House Carpenter
Mcafee's Confession
Ye Sons of Columbia
The Wreck on the C. & 0.
Joe Bowers
Young Charlotte
Young Beeham
William Hall
Mollie Vaunders
Charming Beauty Bright
The Squire Young Ladies
The Butcher Boy
The Dishonest Miller
Frog Went A-Courtin'
The Fox
Three Farmers
Billy Boy

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines