PMSS Song Ballads and Other Songs 1923

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 30: MUSIC
PMSS Song Ballads and Other Songs 1923

PMSS Song Ballads and Other Songs 1923

“Song Ballads and Other Songs of the Pine Mountain Settlement School.” April 1923. 1923_ballad_bk_001.jpg

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“Song Ballads and Other Songs 1923 of the Pine Mountain Settlement School” was a 125-page songbook that was used by workers and students in the early years of the School to learn and preserve the folk tunes of the surrounding community. Listed below under “CONTENTS” are the following:

INDEX OF TITLES An alphabetical list of the song and ballad titles, their song numbers, and sources. (Note: Some of the song titles beginning with “The” are listed under “T”.)
REFERENCE A list of resources of many of the songs or ballads. Other songs or ballads are sung by the children to tunes known only in the PMSS locality and not printed in any collection. Some come from sources too miscellaneous to print.
CONTENTS: GALLERY I and GALLERY II A list of the image, page, and song numbers indicating where the song or ballad may be found in the galleries of images.

IMAGES: GALLERY I and GALLERY II Two sets of images of pages 1-50 and 51-118, showing the full text of the songs, followed by the Index of First Lines on pages 119, 120, and 1-5.
IMAGES: INDEX OF FIRST LINES Full-size images of the pages in the songbook which display the first line of each song or ballad.

To find the image number of the page that contains a particular song title, go to CONTENTS: GALLERY I or CONTENTS: GALLERY II below.

CONTENTS: PMSS Song Ballads and Other Songs 1923

001 Cover: Song Ballads and Other Songs of the Pine Mountain Settlement School April 1923.

002 INDEX OF TITLES

Song# (Tune found in)

A Child This Day is Born – 105 (Stainer)
A Highland Lad My Love was Born – 80 (Morning Stars)
Annie Laurie – 75 (Morning Stars)
At Summer Morn – 90 (Morning Stars)
Auld Lang Syne – 76 (Morning Stars)
Aunt Sal’s Song – 30 (Local)
A Virgin Unspotted – 103 (Stainer)
Away in a Manger – 112

Barb’ry Ellen – 31 (Local)
Begone, Dull Care – 1 (Morning Stars)
Billie Boy – 32 (Lonesome Tunes)
Brother Jacob – 90 (Morning Stars)
By the Moon’s Pale Light – 73 (Morning Stars)

Canons – 91
Chairs to Mend – 90 (Morning Stars)
[A Child This Day is Born – 105 (Stainer)]
Cockles and Mussels – 68 (Morning Stars)
Come All you True Good Christians – 113 (Folk Carols)
Come Lasses and Lads – 2
Comin’ through the Rye – 79 (Morning Stars)
Cradle Song – 83 (Morning Stars)
Cripple Creek – 58 (Nursery Songs

Dabbling in The Dew – 4 (Chanteys)
Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron – 5 (Chanteys)
Duke Marlborough – 6 (Morning Stars)

Edna’s Song (Easter Carol) – 98 (Local)

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Edward – 33 (Tune found in Sharp I.)

For Health and Strength – 91
Frog Went A-Courting – 54 (Lonesome Tunes)

God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen – 102 (Stainer)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice – 101 (Stainer)
Good King Wenceslaus (sic) – 115 (Stainer)
Good Night To You All – 90 (Morning Stars)
Green Broom – 7 (100 Songs)

Hark Hark The Lark – 66 (Shakespeare)
[A Highland Lad My Love was Born – 80 (Morning Stars)]

In Poland There’s An Inn – 88
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing – 87
I Saw Three Ships – 111 (Stainer)
It Was A Lover and his Lass – 65 (Shakespeare)
I Wonder When I Shall Be Married – 27

Jackaro – 36 (Lonesome Tunes)
Jog On, Jog On – 64 (Shakespeare)
John Peel – 8 (Morning Stars)
John Riley – 37 (Lonesome Tunes)

Lavender’s Blue – 9 (Morning Stars)
Le Cycle du Vin – 74
Little Mobee – 38 (Lonesome Tunes)
Little Sparrow – 39 (Lonesome Tunes)
Loch Lomond – 81 (Morning Stars)
Lord Batesman or the Turkish Lady – 40 (Lonesome Tunes)
Lord Lovel – 10 (100 Songs)
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellendor – 41 (Local)

Madam Will You Walk – 13 (Local)

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Marianina – 72 (Morning Stars)
May Day Song – 14
Merry May the keel Row – 71 (Morning Stars)
My Love’s An Arbutus – 70 (Morning Stars)
My Man John – 15 (Chanteys)

Now the day is nearly done – 90 (Morning Stars)

O Dear, What Can the matter be – 16 (Morning Stars)
O Give Thanks – 91
O How Lovely is the Evening – 90 (Morning Stars)
O Hush Thee, My Baby 85 (Morning Stars)
One Man Shall Mow My Meadow – 92 (100 Songs)
O No, John – 11 (Chanteys)

Paper of Pins – 45 (Local)
Paul’s Steeple – 17
Pretty Polly – 46 (Local)

Robin Hood and the Tanner – 18 (100 Songs)
Rounds and Catches – 90 (Morning Stars)
Row The Boat – 90 (Morning Stars)

Silent Night, Holy Night – 114
Skye Boat Song – 82 (Morning Stars)
Sleep, Baby, Sleep – 84 (Morning Stars)
Softly Sleep Thou – 86 (Morning Stars)
Soldier, Soldier – 47 (Eng. Folksongs)
Sourwood Mountain – 48 (Lonesome Tunes)
Spanish Ladies – 19 (100 Songs)
Swapping Song – 49 (Ky. Mt. Songs)

The Barnyard Song – 50 (Lonesome Tunes)
The Bed-Time Song – 51 (Lonesome Tunes)

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The Blue Bells of Scotland – 77 (Morning Stars)
The Brisk Young Widow – 20 (School Songs)

The Campbells are Comin’ – 78 (Morning Stars)
The Cherry Tree Carol – 108 (Eng. Folksongs)
The Coventry Carol – 110 (Stainer)
The Crabfish – 21 (100 Songs)
The Crystal Spring – 3 (100 Songs)
The Cuckoo – 52 (Sharp II)

The Donkey – 90 (Morning Stars)

The First Nowell – 100 (Stainer)
The Frog and the Mouse – 53 (Nursery Songs)

The Gipsy Laddie – 29 (Sharp II)
The Green Wedding – 22 (100 Songs)
The Ground Hog Song – 34 (Lonesome Tunes)

The Hangman Song – 35 (Lonesome Tunes)
The Holly and the Ivy – 107 (Stainer)

The Keeper – 23 (Chanteys)

The Lark in the Morn – 12 (100 Songs)
The Little Family – 97 (Local)
The Little Pig – 55 (Nursery Songs)
The Low-Backed Car – 69 (Morning Stars)

The Milking Maid – 56 (Local)
The Merry Golden Tree – 42 (Lonesome Tunes)

The Nightingale – 43 (Lonesome Tunes)

The Old Maid’s Song – 44 (Lonesome Tunes)
The Old Man in the Wood – 24

The Red Herring – 25 (Chanteys)
The Riddle Song – 57 (Sharp I)

The Song of the Vine – 74
The Squirrel – 58 (Nursery Songs)
The Sweetheart in the Army – 59 (Lonesome Tunes)

The Ten Commandments – 93 (100 Songs)
[Three Blind Mice – 90 (Morning Stars)]
The Tottenham Road – 58 (Nursery Songs)
The Tree in the Valley – 96 (Local)
Tree in the Wood – 95 (Chanteys)
[‘Twas in the Winter Cold – 106 (Stainer)]

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The Twelve Days of Christmas – 94 (100 Songs)
The Two Sisters – 60 (Sharp II)

The Wassail Song – 109 (Stainer)
The Wee Man in the Wood – 89
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies – 28 (Chanteys)
Three Blind Mice – 90 (Morning Stars)
‘Twas in the Winter Cold – 106 (Stainer)

Under the Greenwood Tree – 62 (Shakespeare)

[A Virgin Unspotted – 103 (Stainer)]

What Child is This – 104 (Stainer)
Where the Bee Sucks – 63 (Shakespeare)
White Sand and Grey Sand – 90 (Morning Stars)
Who is Sylvia – 67 (Shakespeare)
Widdicombe Fair – 26 (Chanteys)
Will You Walk into my Parlor – 90
William Hall – 61 (Lonesome Tunes)

Ye, Shepherds, Leave Your Flocks – 99

007 REFERENCE

References in the Index of Titles are made to the following volumes where the tunes of the songs may be found:

Local – Not in any printed collection.
Stainer – Christmas Carols, New and Old, edited by Bramley and Stainer, London, Novello and Co.
Morning Stars – Folk Songs for Children, “The Morning Stars Sang Together,” Boston, Oliver Ditson Co.
Lonesome Tunes – Wyman Brockway, New York, H. W. Gray Co.
Folk Carols – English Folk Carols, Sharp, London, Novello and Co.
Nursery Songs – Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains, Sharp, London, Novello and Co.
Chanteys – Folk-Songs, Chanteys and Singing Games, Farnsworth and Sharp, New York, H. W. Gray Co.
100 Songs – One Hundred English Folk-songs, Sharp, Boston Oliver Ditson Co. (Musicians’ Library).
Shakespeare – Fifty Shakespeare Songs, Boston, Oliver Ditson Co. (Musicians’ Library).
Ky. Mt. Songs – Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs, Wyman-Brockway, Boston, Oliver Ditson Co.

Sharp I – American-English Folk Songs, Sharp, First Series New York, G. Schirmer.

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Sharp II – Folk-Songs of English Origin, Second Series, Sharp London, Novello and Co.
School Songs – Novello’s School Songs.

Many of the songs in the index are sung by the children, to tunes known only in this locality and not printed in any collection. Some come from sources too miscellaneous to print.

CONTENTS: GALLERY I
Image #: Page # – Song # and Title

009: Page 9 – Song 1 Begone, Dull Care!
Song 2 Come Lassies and Lads
010: Page 10 – Song 3 The Crystal Spring
011: Page 11 – Song 4 Dabbling in the Dew
012: Page 12 – Song 5 Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron
013: Page 13 – Song 6 Duke Marlborough
014: Page 14 – Song 7 Green Broom
015: Page 15 – Song 8 John Peel
Song 9 Lavender’s Blue
016: Page 16 – Song 10 Lord Lovell
017: Page 17 – Song 11 O No, John
018: Page 18 – Song 12 The Lark in the Morn
019: Page 19 – Song 13 Madam, Will You Walk

020: Page 20 – Song 14 May Day Song
Song 15 May Man John
021: Page 21 – Song 15 (cont’d)
022: Page 22 – Song 15 (cont’d)
023: Page 23 – Song 16 Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be
Song 41 (sic, 17?) Paul’s Steeple
024: Page 24 – Song 18 Robin Hood and the Tanner
025: Page 25 – Song 19 Spanish Ladies
026: Page 26 – Song 19 (cont’d)
027: Page 27 – Song 20 The Brisk Young Widow
028: Page 28 – Song 21 The Crabfish
029: Page 29 – Song 22 The Green Wedding

030: Page 30 – Song 22 (cont’d)
031: Page 31 – Song 23 The Keeper
032: Page 32 – Song 24 The Old Man In the Wood
033: Page 33 – Song 24 (cont’d)
034: Page 34 – Song 25 The Red Herring
035: Page 35 – Song 26 Widdicombe Fair
036: Page 36 – Song 27 I Wonder When I Shall Be Married
037: Page 37 – Song 28 The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O!
038: Page 38 – Song 29 The Gipsy Laddie
039: Page 39 – Song 30 Aunt Sal’s Song

040: Page 40 – Song 31 Barb’ry Ellen
041: Page 41 – Song 31 (cont’d)
042: Page 42 – Song 32 Billie Boy
043: Page 43 – Song 33 The Edward Ballad
044: Page 44 – Song 34 The Ground Hog
045: Page 45 – Song 35 The Hangman’s Song
046: Page 46 – Song 36 Jackaro
047: Page 47 – Song 36 (cont’d)
048: Page 48 – Song 37 John Riley
049: Page 49 – Song 38 The Little Mohee

050 : Page 50 – Song 38 (cont’d)

CONTENTS: GALLERY II
Image #: Page # – Song # and Title

051: Page 51 – Song 39 Little Sparrow
Song 40 Lord Batesman or the Turkish Lady
052: Page 52 – Song 40 (cont’d)
053: Page 53 – Song 40 (cont’d)
054: Page 54 – Song 41 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellendor or The Brown Girl
055: Page 55 – Song 42 The Merry Golden Tree
056: Page 56 – Song 42 (cont’d)
057: Page 57 – Song 43 The Nightingale
058: Page 58 – Song 44 The Old Maid’s Song
059: Page 59 – Song 45 Paper of Pins

060: Page 60 – Song 46 Pretty Polly
061: Page 61 – Song 47 Soldier, Soldier
062: Page 62 – Song 48 Sourwood Mountain
063: Page 63 – Song 49 Swapping Song
064: Page 64 – Song 50 The Barnyard Song
065: Page 65 – Song 50 (cont’d)
066: Page 66 – Song 51 The Bed-Time Song
Song 52 The Cuckoo
067: Page 67 – Song 53 The Frog and the Mouse
068: Page 68 – Song 54 Frog went A-Courting
069: Page 69 – Song 55 The Little Pig

070: Page 70 – Song 62 (sic, 56?) The Milking Maid
071: Page 71 – Song 57 The Riddle Song
072: Page 72 – Song 58 The Squirrel; Cripple Creek; The Tottanham Toad
073: Page 73 – Song 59 The Sweetheart in the Army
Song 60 The Two Sisters
074: Page 74 – Song 61 William Hall
075: Page 75 – Song 62 Under the Greenwood Tree
076: Page 76 – Song 63 Where the Bee Sucks
Song 64 Jog On
Song 65 It Was a Lover and His Lass
077: Page 77 – Song 66 Hark, Hark, The Lark
Song 67 Who is Sylvia
078: Page 78 – Song 68 Cocks and Mussels
Song 69 The Low-Backed Cr
079: Page 79 – Song 69 (cont’d)

080: Page 80 – Song 70 My Love’s An Arbutus
Song 71 Merry May the Keep Row
081: Page 81 – Song 72 Marianiana
082: Page 82 – Song 73 By the Moon’s Pale Light
Song 74 Le Cycle du Vin
083: Page 83 – Song 75 Annie Laurie
084: Page 84 – Song 76 Auld Lang Syne
Song 77 The Blue Bells of Scotland
085: Page 85 – Song 78 The Campbells Are Comin’
086: Page 86 – Song 79 Gin a Body Meet a Body
Song 80 A Highlander Lad My Love Was Born
087: Page 87 – Song 81 Loch Lomond
088: Page 88 – Song 82 Skye Boat Song
089: Page 89 – Song 83 Cradle Song
Song 84 Sleep, Baby, Sleep

090: Page 90 – Song 85 O Hush Thee, My Baby
091: Page 91 – Song 86 Softly Sleep Thou
Song 87 I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
092: Page 92 – Song 88 In Poland There’s an Inn
Song 93 (sic, 89?) A Wee Man in a Wood
093: Page 93 – Song 90 Rounds and Catches
094: Page 94 – Song 91 Canons
095: Page 95 – Song 92 One Man Shall Mow My Meadow
Song 93 The Ten Commandments
096: Page 96 – Song 93 (cont’d)
097: Page 97 – Song 94 The Twelve Days of Christmas
098: Page 98 – Song 95 The Tree in the Wood
099: Page 99 – Song 96 The Tree in the Valley

100: Page 100 – Song 97 The Little Family
101: Page 101 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
102: Page 102 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
103: Page 103 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
104: Page 104 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
105: Page 105 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
106: Page 106 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
107: Page 107 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
108: Page 108 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
109: Page 109 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE

110: Page 110 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
111: Page 111 – Song xxx MISSING IMAGE
112: Page 112 – Song 108 (?) (cont’d)
113: Page 113 – Song 109 The Wassail Song
114: Page 114 – Song 110 Coventry Carol
Song 111 I Saw Three Ships
115: Page 115 – Song 112 Away in a Manger
Song 113 Come All You True Good Christians
116: Page 116 – Song 114 Silent Night, Holy Night
Song 115 Good King Wenceslaus
117: Page 117 – Song 115 (cont’d)