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Box 1 Folder 4
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Lonesome tunes, song ballets and love songs of the Kentucky Mountains
Scope and Contents note
Leather-bound ringed notebook with lyrics collected in Kentucky mountains. The location, date, and source of most songs are recorded:
Song/Singer index
The Little Mohee (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 8, 1916)
Pretty Polly (Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
Pretty Polly (Fidella Day, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
Pretty Polly (Hillard Smith)
The dying soldier, or, Brother Green (Art Boggs, Big Laurel, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 10, 1916
The nightinggale (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
The barnyard song (children of the Hindman School, Hindman, Kentucky, May 1916)
The lady and the glove, or, The dog and the gun (Sallie Adams, Setcher County, Kentucky, May 1916)
The lady and the glove (Anna May Wagers, Estell County)
Jackaro (Fitzhugh Draughn and May Ritchie, Knott County)
The ground hog (Hillard Smith)
The ground hog, second version (Una Ritchie)
The bed-time song (Talitha Powell, Jackson County, Kentucky, May 1916)
Billy Boy (Talitha Powell and her mother, Jackson County, Kentucky, May 1916)
The old maid's song (L.E. Meece, Pulaski County)
Frog went a courting (Anna Wagers)
The Turkish lady, or, Lord Batesman (Bristol Taylor, Setcher County, May 1916)
Pretty Polly, or, Six king's daughters (Anna May Wagers
Six king's daughters (Sallie Adams and Hillard Smith)
The sweetheart in the army (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
The sweetheart in the army, second version
Peggy Walker (Abner Boggs, Big Laurel Creek, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 10, 1916)
William Hall (Hillard Smith, Knott County, Hindman, Kentucky, May 21, 1916)
John Riley (Laura Whitt)
Sourwood Mountain (May Ritchie)
The Mary Golden Tree, or, The lonesome sea (the Pine Mountain School)
The hangman's song (Sola Ann Cook)
Little sparrow (Fitzhugh Draughn)
Sweet William and Lady Margery
Sweet William and Lady Margery (Nancy Ann [Drew?]
I've always been a poor girl, or, Loving Nancy (Abner Boggs, Big Laurel Creek, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 10, 1916)
Ona West (Fidella Day, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
Poor Ona Wise (Miss Pettit, Pine Mountain)
Florella (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 9, 1916)
Little birdie, (Cyndie Boggs, Big Laurel, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 10, 1916)
The sinner man (children of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
The house carpenter (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
The drowsy sleeper (Mary Ann Bagley, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
The lonesome scenes of winter (Fitzhugh Draughn, Knott County)
Charming beauty bright (Rob and Julie Morgan, Beaver Creek, Knott County)
Noah's ark (Rob Morgan, Hindman, Kentucky, May 1916)
Goins (Rob Morgan, Hindman, Kentucky, May 1916)
Little Mathew Grove (Sallie Adams, Setcher COunty, Hindman, Kentucky)
Lady Orland (Hillard Smith, Carr Creek, Knott County)
The shoemaker (Sallie Adams, Setcher County)
The rich merchant, or, Lonesome Valley (Sallie Adams, Hindman, Kentucky, May 21, 1916)
The young man and maids (Hillard Smith and his mother Betty Jane Smith)
Fair Nottiman Town (Hillard Smith)
Willy (Sallie Adams)
Come all you young and handsome girls, second version of Willy (Ora and Polly Dickson, Setcher County)
Fanny Blair (Sallie Adams)
Sporting bachelors (Sallie Adams)
As I walked out (Sallie Adams, Setcher County, May 1916)
Molly Bawn [Bond](Sallie Adams, Setcher County, May 1916)
The swapping song (Bristol Taylor, Setcher County)
The toad and the mouse (Bristol Taylor, Setcher County, May 1916)
The old maid (Bristol Taylor, Setcher County, May 1916)
The inquisitive lover(L.E. Meece)
Loving Henry (Laura Whitt)
The woman and the pig (Anna May Wagers)
Young Edward (Sallie Adams, Setcher County, May 1916)
Lord Batesman (Mary Ann Bagley)
Come and I will sing you or The Dilly Song (L.E. Meece)
William Hall, second version (Miss May Stone, Hindman, Kentucky)
The twelve days of Christmas (L.E. Meece)
Six king's daughter's (fragments given by Mrs Bogie, Berea, Kentucky)
Barbara Allen (Miss May Stone, Hindman, Kentucky)
O no John (Sallie Adams)
Sweet William, second version
An inconstant lover (Ora and Polly Dickson, Setcher County, May 1916)
True to the last (Ora and Polly Dickson, Setcher County, May 1916)
The Brown bride, or, Lord Thomas and fair Glendas
I was born in old Virginia (Ora and Polly Dickson, Setcher County, May 1916)
I was born in old Virginia, second version, or My False Love
My Little Pink (Ora and Polly Dickson, Setcher County)
Franky Baker (Wallace Robert Buchanan, Beaver Creek, Ash County, South Carolina)
The Lady Gay (Jasper Day, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 4, 1916
Rocks in the mountains (Fidella Day, Pine Mountain, Kentucky, May 1916)
Vain girls I'm going to leave you
Lord Daniel's wife
The London butcher (Leonard Meece)
Loving Hanna (Miss May Stone, Hindman)
Bonny Blue Eyes
The lady and the glove
Little Nellie
The notebook also contains some loose pages with lyrics, bibliographic information, song lists, a drawing, a Christmas card illustration, typed song lyrics, and musical manuscripts:
Lord Batesman (lyrics, verses IX-XV)
Index of traditional ballad airs from Abeerdeen, Banff, and Moray
The single soldier (copied lyrics)
The [?] maiden (copied lyrics)
Barbra Allen (lyrics and melody)
Lyrics copied from the Journal of American Folk Lore, 1882
Polly's love (lyrics)
Pretty Polly, or, Jackaro ([collected by?]E.M. Backus, Blue Ridge Mountains, Henderson County, North Carolina)
Bibliographic notes (Journal of American Folk Lore)
Pretty Polly (copied lyrics)
My Pretty Little Pink (lyrics)
Song list, beginning with Lord Thomas
Melodic transcription of Nottiman Town
Typed lyrics to Yam, Ram, Gillyam
Typed bibliographic notes from Columbia University, November 1920
Song list from Harvard, beginning with Polly
Song list from Yale, beginning with Polly
Printed illustration of a woman with the text "Loraine Wyman, Noel, MCMCXXI"
Melodic transcription of To meeting
Bibliographic notes, beginning with Purcell
Chord notation
Drawing of woman and child, signed J.F.M
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1916 May
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