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A History of the United States through Folk Song
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART THREE -- Antebellum America -- 1815 - 1860
Chapter 5 -- The North in Antebellum America
"Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?"
"The Master of the Sheepfold"
"The E-ri-e"
"The Two Sisters"
"Pity Me My Darling"
"To Work Upon the Railway"
"Stewball"
Chapter 6 -- Songs of the Sea
"Haul on the Bowline"
"What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?"
"Shenandoah"
"Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her"
"The Greenland Whale Fishery"
"The Banks of Newfoundland"
Chapter 7 -- The West
"To the West"
"The Wisconsin Emigrant"
"The Jam On Gerry's Rock"
"When I Was Single"
"Single Girl"
"Shady Grove"
"Skip To My Lou"
"The Fools of '49"
"Santy Anno"
"The Dying Californian"
"The Lousy Miner"
Chapter 8 -- The South: African-Americans and Bondage
"No More, My Lord" ("Lord I Wonder Where He's Gone?")
"Long Summer Day"
"Follow the Drinking Gourd"
"All the Pretty Little Horses"
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
"Go in The Wilderness"
"Go Down, Moses"
"Roll Jordan Roll"
Folksong In The Classroom and us
Index
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