More songs of the hill-folk; ten ballads and tragic legends from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, collected and simply arranged with accompaniment for piano by John Jacob Niles.
Pretty Polly (Viper, Ky.)--John Henry (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.)--Barbary Ellen (Puncheon Camp Creek, Breathitt Co., Ky.)--The two sisters, or, The old lord by the Northern Sea (Hardshell, Fugates Fork, Breathitt Co., Ky.)--A paper of pins (Russellville, Tenn.)--Piri-miri-dictum Domini (Berea, Ky.)--There was an old woman (Ringgold, Ga.)--The cuckoo (Willscott Mountain, Cherokee Co., N. C.)--The wind blew up, the wind blew down (Flat Lick, Ky.)--Black is the color of my true love's hair (Airy, on Troublesome Creek, Perry Co., Ky.)
Series:
Schirmer's American folk-song series, set 17
OCLC:
(OCoLC)2116009
LCCN:
40031904
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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