North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy : as sung in the backwood settlements, hunting cabins and lumber camps in northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910 / Henry W. Shoemaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoemaker, Henry W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk songs, English.

Folk songs, English--Pennsylvania--Texts.

Ballads, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Penn State University Press, 1919.

Summary:

"A collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century folk songs and ballads, compiled with the assistance of John C. French and John H. Chatham from Union, Snyder, Centre, Lycoming, Clinton, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Forest, Cameron, Elk, and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: John H. Chatham (Frontispiece)

John C. French (Frontispiece)

Alfarata, the Maid of Juniata

All is Vanity, Saith the Preacher

America's Call

Answer to the Gypsies' Warning

Atlantic Cable, The

Ballad of Wyoming Massacre

Billy Boy

Billy Boy (another version)

Billy Grimes, the Drover

Blue Juniata, The

Blue Bonnets Over the Border

Bonny Barbara Allen

Braes o' Balquhither, The

Brave Wolfe

Camp Barber's Song, Black Forest

Canadian Shanty Boys, The

Canal Boat Song

Captain With the Whiskers, The

Charlie and Sallie

Come With Me In My Little Canoe

Constancy

Cruise in the Lowlands Low, The

Death Song

Down In a Coal Mine

English Folk-Songs

Ex-Ranger's Song, The

Fair Fannie Moore

Fields of Labor

Friendship on Indian Run

Girl I Left Behind Me, The

Goat Hill

Go Up West

Grandma's Song

Harry Bell

Hiawatha's Wooing

Jam at Gerry's Rock, The

James Bird

Jeanette and Jeanot

Jeannette and Jeannot

John Hopper's Hill

Jolly Lumbermen, The

Juanita (Waneta)

Katie Maury

Keating Town

Kitty of Coleraine

Kitty Clyde

Kitty Wells

Labors of True Lovers, The

Lady Le Roy

Leek Hook, The

Listen to the Mocking Bird

Little Nell of Narraganset Bay

Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane, The

Logger's Boast, The

Lord Lovel

Lord Thomas

Lorilla

Lumbermen's Drinking Song

Luliana, Maid of Susquehanna

Lushbaugh Girls, The

Maggie May

Man That I Look Out For, The

Mary Blane

Mary of the Wild Moor

Massacre of Butcher's Hall, The

Melody of Rain, The

Miller of the Dee

Minnehaha (A Lament)

Mistletoe Bough, The

My Little Kerry Cow

McCarty's Mare

Nellie Gray

North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy (An Introduction)

Octogenarian Memories

Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?

Oh! Susanna!

Old Ironsides

Old Rosin the Beau

Old Timer's Plaint, An

Paraphrase of Hiawatha's Wooing

River Driver's Burial, The

Roll On, Silver Moon

Roving Joe

Soldier's Poor Little Boy, A

Song of Old Potter

Song of Sugar Valley

Songs of the Civil War Period

Springfield Mountain

Sulphur Spring, Loganton, Clinton County

Sung by Homesick Southern Darkey Swamper at a Pennsylvania Lumber Camp

1894

Swinging in the Lane

Tale of "Our Wandering Boy Tonight"

Ten Cents at the Gate

Three Leaves of Shamrock

Trainman's Song, The

Tramping Chant

Two Orphans, The

We've Drunk from the Same Canteen

Where the River Shannon Flows

Will the Weaver

Wooing and Death of John Randal

Yankee Combination, The

Young Charlotte.

Notes:

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