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Folk Songs of old New England

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Reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1962.
Counting out -- Did you ever see a lassie? -- The farmer in the dell -- Go in and out the windows -- Green gravel -- Green grows the rushes, Oh! -- Here come three Dukes a-riding -- Here stands an old maid forsaken -- Here we go gathering nuts in May -- How many miles to London town? -- I am a rich widow -- I'll give to you a paper of pins -- I put my little hand in -- Jennia Jones -- King's land -- Lazy Mary -- London bridge -- Lucy Locket -- Mulb'ry bush -- My fairey and my forey -- The needle's eye -- Old woman all skin and bone - On the green carpet -- Poor Mary sits a-weeping -- Ring around o' rosies -- Shall I show you how the farmer -- The twelve days of Christmas -- Water, water, wild flower -- Bonaparte crossing the Rhine (March) -- Boston fancy, or Lady Walpole's reel -- Chorus jig -- Devil's dream -- The Duchess -- Fishers' hornpipe -- French four -- The girl I left behind me --
Grand march, followed by Sicilian circle -- Green mountain volunteers -- Haymakers' jig -- High, Betty Martin -- Hull's victory -- Lady of the lake -- The London Lanciers -- Maid in the pump room -- The merry dance -- Miss Brown's reel -- Money musk -- Morning star -- Ninepin quadrille, or The cheat -- Old Zip Coon -- Petronella -- Plain Quadrille -- Pop! goes the weasel -- Portland fancy -- Soldier's joy -- Speed the plough -- Steamboat quickstep -- The tempest -- Twin sisters -- Virginia reel -- The waltz -- The white cockade -- Amsterdam -- Blow, boys, blow! -- Blow the man down -- Captain Kidd -- The dead horse -- The gallant victory, or Lowlands low -- Haul away, Joe! -- Haul the bowline -- Homeward bound -- Johnny Boker -- A long time ago -- Old horse -- Reuben Renzo -- Rio Grande -- Shenandoah, or The wide Missouri -- Tommy's gone to Hilo -- Whisky Johnnie --
All bound 'round with a woolen string -- Away down East -- The Bailiff's daughter of Islington -- Barb'ry Ellen, or Barbara Allen -- A bear went over the mountain -- Billy boy -- Bingo -- Blow, ye winds, blow, or The Elfin knight -- Bold Dickie -- The Brookfield murder -- The Bunnit of straw -- The butcher boy -- Canaday-I-O -- Caroline of Edinboro town -- The carrion crow -- Common bill -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- Dirante, my Son, or Lord Randall -- Fair Rosamond, or Rosamond's downfall -- The Farmington canal song -- Fiddle dee dee -- First families of Fall River -- A frog he would a-wooing go -- A fox went out on a starry night -- Frog in the well -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Gypsy Daisy -- Here we go up -- I had a little nut tree -- I'll not marry at all -- In good old colony times -- Jack Haggerty, or The Flat River girl -- The jam on Gerry's rocks -- The jolly miller -- Jolly old Roger --
Julia Grover -- Katy Cruel -- The ladle song -- Lavender's blue -- Let's go to the woods, or The hunting of the wren -- Lord Lovell -- The lumberman's alphabet -- Maple sweet -- The mill -- The monkey's wedding -- My grandmother lived on yonder little green -- The ocean burial -- The old man who lived in the wood -- Old pod-auger times -- The old sow song -- The old woman in Dover -- The old woman who whentto market -- Our Goodman -- Over the water to Charlie -- The oxen song -- Perrie, merrie, dixi, Domini -- Peter Emily -- Polly Oliver -- Polly Van -- The Quaker's wooing -- The rolling of the stones, or The twa brothers -- The sawmill song -- Scotland's burning, and Three blind mice -- A ship a-sailing -- Springfield Mountain, or The black sarpent -- Sweet Kitty Clover -- Three children sliding on the ice -- Three crows -- Three jovial huntsmen -- Tittery Nan -- Too-ril-te-too -- Tyburn Hill --
Washing day -- Will you wear the red? or Jennie Jenkins -- Willikins and his Dinah -- Young Alanthia -- Young Charlotte.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Dover Publications, 1993, c1990.
Year Published: 1990
Description: xxiii, 344 p. : music ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0486278271 (pbk.) :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Linscott, Eloise Hubbard.
Carpenter, James M.

SUBJECTS
Folk music -- New England.
Folk songs, English -- New England.
Folk dance music -- New England.
Games with music.