| Description |
1 score (xxiv pages, 333 pages) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Unacc. melodies. |
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"This Dover edition, first published in 1966, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published by J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, Toronto & Vancouver, in 1932. The 'Postscript, 1966' to the introduction was written specially for this edition by the author"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page xix-xx). |
| Contents |
Alphabet song -- American woods -- Annie -- As now we are sailing -- Back Bay Hill -- Bad girl's lament -- Banks of Newfoundland -- Barrack Street -- Battle of Alma -- Bay of Biscay oh -- Bessie Beauty -- Billy Taylor -- Bold pedlar and Robin Hood -- Bold princess royal -- Bonny bunch of roses O -- Bonny light horseman -- Boston burglar -- Brigantine Sinorca -- Broken ring song -- Broken ring song fragment -- Butcher boy -- Canso Strait -- Captain Burke -- Captain Conrod -- Captain Glen -- Captain Wedderburn's courtship -- Caroline and her young sailor bold -- Casey's whiskey -- Chanty song : So, it's pass -- Chanty song : Soon we'll be -- Charles Gustavus Anderson -- City of Baltimore -- Coloured girl from the South -- Come, all ye old comrades -- Courtship of Willie Riley -- Crocodile song -- Cruel mother -- Cumberland's crew -- Dark-eyed sailor -- Diana and Sweet William -- Donald Munro -- Doran's ass -- Down by the tan-yard side -- Drummer boy -- Dutchman's song -- Erin far away -- False knight upon the road -- Farmer's curst wife -- Female sailor bold -- Flemmings of Torbay -- Flying Cloud -- Fox River line -- Gallant brigantine -- Gay Spanish maid -- George Jones -- Ghostly sailors -- Granite mill -- Green bushes -- Green mossy banks of the lea -- Guysboro song -- Hanstead boys -- Homeward bound -- Indian song (1) -- Indian song (2) -- In the month of October -- Irish labourer -- It is of a rich lady -- It was a mouse -- I wrote my love a letter -- Jack Robson -- Jack the sailor -- James McDonald -- Jessie Munroe -- Jimmie and Nancy -- Jocky said to Jinnie -- Joe Livermore -- Jolly fisherman -- Katharine Jaffray -- Lily of the West -- Lion's den -- Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard -- Liverpool girls -- Loakie's boat -- Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor -- Loss of the Philosophy -- Louisiana lowlands -- Lumbering boy -- Maggie Mac -- Mantle of green -- Mantle so green -- Mary L. MacKay -- Mary Nail -- McCarthy's song -- McNab's Island -- Meagher's children -- Me one man -- The miller -- Mush a doody (Jug of punch) -- My Irish Polly -- My sailor lad -- Napoleon's farewell to Paris -- Ocean Queen -- Old King Coul -- On the lakes of Ponchartrain -- On this hill -- Paddy backwards -- Peter Rambelay -- Prentice boy : As down in Cupid's garden -- Prentice boy : To a New York trader -- Pretty Polly -- Prince Edward Island murder -- Prisoner's song : It's hard to be -- Quaker's courtship -- Rambling rover -- Rambling shoemaker -- Rich counsellor -- Robin Hood's progress to Nottingham -- Rose of Britain's Isle -- Sable Island song (1) -- Sable Island song (2) -- Sailor bold -- Sailor courted -- Saladin's crew -- Seizure of the E.J. Horton -- Silvy -- Since love can enter an iron door -- Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's daughter -- Song of a soldier -- Song of the croppy boy -- Song of the Tangier gold mines -- Sweet fair Ella -- Sweet Trinity, or, The Golden Vanity -- Tacking of a full-rigged ship off shore -- Three gallant huntsmen -- Three men went a-hunting -- Tim Finnigan's wake -- Tom O'Neil -- Turkish rover -- 'Twas in the town of Parsboro -- Unicorn -- Van Diemen's Land -- Villikens and his Dinah -- Well sold the crow -- Western ocean -- When I was a young man -- When I was in my prime -- Whiskey in the jar -- Wild rover -- Ye gentlemen of England -- Young Charlotte -- Young Indian lass. |
| Subject |
Folk songs, English -- Nova Scotia.
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Folk music -- Nova Scotia.
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Ballads, English -- Nova Scotia.
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| Added Author |
Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989.
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