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Table of Contents:

• Rosemary one time
• Pretty Polly
• Billy Boy
• How come that blood on your shirt sleeve
• Three black crows
• Loving Henry
• Fair Ellender
• Who will shoe your pretty little foot
• The three little babes
• Barbara Allen
• The hangman's rope
• The four Marys
• Gypsy Davy
• The house carpenter
• The drunkard's song
• Ti risslety rosslety
• The devil's song
• The merry golden tree
• A rich Irish lady. William Hall, or the brisky young farmer
• A pretty fair maid

• Late one Sunday evening
• Lovely William
• Once I courted a fair beauty bride
• Come all you pretty fair maids
• The little sparrow
• I dreamed last night of my true love
• Come, all you jolly cowboys
• On the Red River shore
• Lovely Mary
• As I walked out on a May morning
• All the scenes of winter
• I was out walking
• Oh, Willie
• Young Johnnie
• The Oxford girl
• The drummer boy of Waterloo
• Young Charlotte
• The butcher's boy
• The wild moor
• Little Mohea
• the jealous lover
• The banks of Cloddie
• Fair Fannie Moore
• Brother Green
• I was standing on Pickets
• Jesse James
• Cole Younger
• The Boston burglar
• The two orphans
• The grog shop door
• the roving gambler. The sailor boy
• Nora darling
• the Irish girl
• Fond affection
• Bury me beneath the willow
• The Birmingham jail
• My blue-eyed boy
• They say it is sinful to flirt
• Too late
• Lorene
• On top of Old Smoky
• The bright Sherman Valley
• Goodby, little Bonnie Blue Eyes
• My prettly little pink
• Jack and Joe
• The widow of McCarty
• Noddingham town
• It was a young man
• Come all you fair maidens
• Dear John.
• Brynie O'Linn
• Come all you Mississippi girls
• Went out a-sparkin'
• Hard times
• The young men they'll dress up
• Not the only turtle in the tank
• Old Kincaid
• Jennie Jenkins
• There was an old man that lived on the hill
• Devilish Mary
• Blue-eyed boy is mad at me
• Rolly troodum
• I wish I was a single girl again
• I wish to my Lord I was single again
• The blue-tailed fly
• I don't like to see boys
• Who will hold my stovepipe hat
• The lazy man
• Hurrah for Arkansas
• Pompey Smash and Davy Crockett
• Joe Bowers. Come all you jolly hunters
• Frog went a-courting
• Way down south where I was born
• When I'se a little boy
• Prettiest little tree
• Hunting the wren
• Saw an old crow
• Old jay bird
• The brown duck
• Shoot the buffalo
• I'm on my way to Georgy
• Weevily wheat
• Little brass wagon
• The girl I left behind me
• Going to Boston
• Old Dan Tucker
• Hog-drovers
• Dance Josey
• Old Joe Clark
• Buffalo girls
• Skip to my Lou
• Tideo. The Hebrew children
• I will arise and go to Jesus
• On Canaan's happy shore
• And am I born to die
• There'll be no dark valley
• No, never alone
• Come, humble sinners
• The wicked daughter
• the orphan girl
• The Romish lady
• I've been listenin' all day long
• Travelin' shoes
• By and by
• Oh, my lovin' brothuh
• Oh, Mou'nuhs
• Oh, hear that trumpet sound
• You shall be free
• Go to sleep, little baby
• Well, the day I left my po' mama's door
• Go to sleepy.

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Author/Creator:

Owens, William A., 1905-1990 , compiler

Contributors:

Texas Folklore Society , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Texas folk songs [by Owens, W.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Texas folk songs [by Owens, W.A.] (2d ed. rev. and enl.; Dallas : SMU Press, ©1976 — LCCN 76043005; OCLC Number 2978481)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 23

Subjects:

Folk songs, American — Texas

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and indexes.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 190 pages) : illustrations, music.

Digital Characteristics:

image file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.23 1976eb

ISBNs:

0870741578 [Invalid]
9780870741579 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1055250589
619960084 [Invalid]