Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean RitchieJean Ritchie University Press of Kentucky, 1997 M03 6 - 100 pages Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. It has been nearly thirty years since she originally published Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, and the music found here tells the story of the "Singing Ritchie Family" at a time when railroads, coal mines, and hillbilly radio were making their first incursions into the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited from old-world Scotland, the family's repertoire was certainly eclectic but not haphazard. The Child ballads, lyric folksongs, play party or frolic songs, Old Regular Baptist lined hymns, Native American ballads, "hant" songs, and carols brought together in this collection were assembled by family members who actively sought out fragments of tunes and completed them by adding or embellishing verses and melodies. This new edition has faithfully retained all seventy-seven line scores of the songs and added four new ones, Loving Hannah, Lovin' Henry, Her Mantle So Green, and The Reckless and Rambling Boy. The original headnotes and photographs tell the history of the song as well as how it became a part of the family's life. Chords are indicated for accompaniment; however, music notation and the printed word can present only a reasonable facsimile of any actual song. Jean's singing is simply the best guide to how the song should be sung, so a new audiography and videography have been added to this edition. |
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Contents
The Swapping Song | 1 |
False Sir John | 2 |
Killy Kranky | 4 |
Nottamun Town | 5 |
Edward | 6 |
London Bridge | 8 |
Sister Phoebe | 9 |
Dear Companion | 10 |
Two Dukes ARoving | 51 |
The May Day Carol | 52 |
Darby Ram | 53 |
Little Bitty Baby Children Go Where I Send Thee | 54 |
Brightest and Best | 55 |
Keep Your Garden Clean | 56 |
Bow Your Bend to Me | 57 |
The Unquiet Grave | 58 |
Jubilee | 11 |
Sweet William and Lady Margaret | 12 |
The Cuckoo | 14 |
Old Betty Larkin | 15 |
Lord Lovel | 16 |
Fair and Tender Ladies | 18 |
Goin to Boston | 19 |
Skin and Bones | 20 |
The Old Woman and the Pig | 21 |
The Turkish Lady | 22 |
Oh Love Is Teasin | 24 |
The Little Devils | 25 |
Whatll I Do With the Baby0 | 26 |
The Hangman Song | 27 |
There Was A Pig Went Out to Dig | 28 |
Golden Ring Around Susan Girl | 29 |
The Lyttle Musgrave | 30 |
Down Came An Angel | 33 |
Among the Little White Daisies | 34 |
Bachelors Hall | 35 |
Carol of the Cherry Tree | 36 |
Shady Grove | 37 |
God Bless the Moonshiners | 38 |
Little Cory | 39 |
See the Waters AGliding | 40 |
The Holly Bears the Berry | 42 |
I Saw Three Ships | 43 |
Father Get Ready | 44 |
Amazing Grace | 45 |
The Day Is Past and Gone | 46 |
Ive Got A Mother Gone to Glory | 47 |
Guide Me Oh Thou Great Jehovah | 48 |
Twilight AStealing | 49 |
Lord Randal | 50 |
The Flower Carol | 59 |
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender | 60 |
The Old SoapGourd | 62 |
Joe Bowers | 63 |
Love Somebody Yes I Do | 64 |
Old Virginny | 65 |
The Death of Cock Robin | 66 |
Bandyrowe | 67 |
Pretty Saro | 68 |
The Miracle of Ushers Well | 69 |
Gentle Fair Jenny | 70 |
I Wonder When I Shall Be Married | 71 |
Over the River Charlie | 72 |
Barbry Ellen | 73 |
Lonesome Sea | 74 |
Cedar Swamp | 76 |
Hiram Hubbard | 77 |
Fair Annie of the Lochroyan | 78 |
The Gypsy Laddie | 80 |
Old King Cole | 81 |
Somebody | 82 |
Dance to Your Daddy | 83 |
My Little Carpenter | 84 |
Bangum Rid by the Riverside | 85 |
Cambridgeshire May Song | 86 |
Mama Told Me | 87 |
Black Is The Color | 88 |
Lovin Henry | 89 |
The Reckless and Rambling Boy | 91 |
Her Mantle So Green | 93 |
Loving Hannah | 95 |
Audiography | 97 |
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Other editions - View all
Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie: 77 ... Ethel Raim No preview available - 1965 |
Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie Jean Ritchie No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
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