Accession
Number: 5
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection, 1915-1940
1.6 linear ft, 4 mss boxes
Online Catalog
Record (BANC)
Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Ballad and Song Texts
Series II - Tune Transcription Notebooks
Series III - Fiddle and Banjo Tunes, Musical Events, Instruments,
and Games
Related College Archives:
Related References
Stephen B. Green. “The Berea Tune Lists : An Archival
Resource for the Study of Social Music in Eastern Kentucky and
East Tennessee
in 1915.”Tennessee
Folklore Society Bulletin 57(1995):39-67.
Series Description and Box Lists
4 Manuscript Boxes
| Series I |
Ballad and Song Texts |
Boxes 1 and 2 |
This series consists of over 320 handwritten and typed texts,
arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y
- A
Absent Lover (Sweet Birds) [2]
[Adiew, Kind Friends]
After the Ball
Aged Mother [2]
Andy and Susie
Answer to the Gypsy's Warning
As I Walked Out One Morning Fair [2]
[As I Went Out One Morning]
At the Bar
- B
Baggage Coach Ahead [2]
The Bailiff's Daughter [2]
A Bairnie in the Home For Me
Ballad of Batchler's Hall
The Ballad of the Cross [3]
A Ballad of the Pinnacle
Barbara Ella
Barbara Ellen
Beautiful Home of My Childhood
Bill Baily [2]
Bird in a Gilded Cage
Black Jack Davy [3]
The Blind Child [2]
Blue Bell
The Boston Burglar [2]
[Boys and Girls Pay Good Attention]
A Boy's Best Friend
The Boy's Lament
The Boys of the U.S.A.
The Boys Won't Do to Trust [3]
The Breaksman
A Brisk Young Farmer, Neat Young Lady
The Broken Engagement [6]
Broken Heart
The Broken Hearted Lover
Broken Bows
Buck Creek Girls [2]
Buried Friends [2]
Bury Me Not in the Deep, Deep Sea [2]
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me
- C
Charles Giteau (Guiteau) [2]
Charlie Brooks
Charley Brooks [4]
Chase the Buffalo
Chewing Gum [2]
The Chewing Gum Girl
Chiggers and Seed Ticks
Christian Lee Roy [2]
The Coal Creek Mines
Coffee Crows on White Oak Tree [or, Pretty Little Pink]
Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap [2]
Come All Young People Who Delight in Sin
Common Bill
Confessions of a Flirt
The Coo-Coo (Cuckoo)
The Cottage by the Sea [2]
A Cowboy
Cripple Creek [3]
The Crucifixion [4]
Crystal Eroy
- D
The Darby Ram
Darling, I'm Dreaming of You
[Daylight May Do For the Gay]
The Death of Mr. Moss
Devilish Mary [2]
Dina [2]
Diney Frow
Dog and Gun [7]
Dog and Gun [or] The Golden Glove [2]
Dog and Gun, Wealthy Young Golden Glove Squire of Farnworth
Dolly Gray
Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu
Do They Miss Me at Home
Don' t Be Angry With Me, Darling
Don' t Forget Me Little Darling [2]
Don' t Go Out Tonight My Darling
Don' t Leave Me Alone
Down by the Old Mill Stream
Down the Georgia Line
The Drunkard's Dream [Oh Ed, You Look So Hearty Now.]
The Drunkard's Lone Child
A Drunkard's Wife
The Drunken He' Cups
The Dying Cow-Boy
Dying From Home and Lost [2]
Dying Maudie
The Dying Soldier
- E
Edward Edwards
The English Girl
Ennui [2]
Evening Star
- F
Faded Flowers
Fair and Tender Ladies [or, Little Sparrow] [3]
Fair Ella
Fair Ellen
The False Lover
Fare Thee Well [2]
Father Come Home
Flora Ella [6]
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
Fond Affection [4]
For Twenty Long Years I've Been Married [2]
Frankie [3]
Frankie Baker
- G
Gambling on the Sabbath Day [2]
Georgia Allen
Ginnie Put Your Kettle On
The Girl I Left Behind
The Girl I Left in Kentucky
Git Along Down Town
Give the Fiddler a Dram
Going Down in Town
The Golden Dagger
Granny's Puppy
[Green Granel, Green Granel the Grass Is So Green.]
Green Leaf
Ground Hog [2]
Gypsey Laddie
- H
Happy Girl [4]
Helen Flanary
Helen Flannery
Her Front Name Is Hannah
Hiram Hubbert
The Hobo
Hobo John
Hook and Line
Hop Along, Peter
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
The House Carpenter [8]
Huntsmen's Chorus (Freischutz)
- I
I Always Loved You [2]
[I Am Going Faraway Norah Darling.] [2]
I Cannot Come Back to You, Sweetheart
Idie Red [Or, Idy]
I Don't See Why I Love Him
I Fond Affection
I Have a Call for You [2]
I Have a Ship on the Ocean
I Have No Mother Now [4]
I Have Written Him a Letter [Or Lula Wall]
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
[I'll Be Back Tomorrow Night.]
I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers [2]
I Love Little Willie [2]
I Love My Wife but O You Kid
I Loved You Better Than You Knew
I'm Tired of Living Alone [2]
[I Won't Fly Down.and Sit Upon Your Knee]
The Inquisitive Lover [2]
In Some Lonesome Valley [2]
In the Shadow of the Pine [or, Shadow of the Pine]
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
I Want a Beau
I Will Sing You a Song
I Will Tell You of a Fellow
- J
Jack and Jo
Jack and Joe [3]
Jackaro [5]
Jealous Lover
Jersey City [4]
Jersey City (Butcher's Boy)
Jessie James
John Hartie [2]
John Riley [2]
Johnny Cordell (Waggoner Lad) [Johnny Cordell]
Johnny Caudill
Johnnie Dial [3]
The Jolly Group of Cow-Boys [2]
Josie
Jumbe Town [2]
- K
Kitty Wells
- L
Let Me Call You Sweet Heart
[Let Us Follow the Star to the Land of the Sky..]
The Letter Edged in Black
The Lightening Express [2]
Listen to the Mocking Bird
Little Bennie
Little Bessie
The Little Black Mustache [7]
The Little Brown Jug [3]
The Little Cabin Boy [Or, Rosewood Casket; or, a Package of Old Letters]
[2]
The Little Sparrow [or, Fair and Tender Ladies]
Little Sparrow
Little Tree
Little Willie [2]
Locked Out After Nine
The Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Scenes of Winter [2]
Lonesome Wife
Longest Way 'Round Is the Sweetest Way Home
Lord Lovell
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender [6]
Love Is Not a Pleasure
Lovely Nan [4]
Loving Nancy
Loving Henry [or, Little Cabin Boy]
Lula Wall [or, I Have Written Him a Letter]
Box 2 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y
- M
Maid and Her Love
Maple on The Hill [2]
The Mary Golden Tree
Meet Me in the Moonlight
The Men of the Mountains [2]
Merry, Merry Christmas [Miss Adire Since I Came to The City..]
The Missed Companion
Miss Massie
Mollie Bond [2]
Mollie Darling
The Moonlight [2]
Moon Shiner [3]
Mountain Top [2]
Mount Top
My Dearest Love, So Fare You Well
My Little Darling
My Mother-in-Law
- N
Napanee
Nellie Gray
Nellia Darling
Nobody's Darling
Nobody's Darling on Earth
Nola Shannon
Nora Darling [2]
No Sir!
- O
[O Bury Me Not in the Deep Deep Sea]
The Ocean Burial
O'er Life's Long Weary Way
[Oh How Gladly My Heart Beats Toward Thee]
Oh, How Gladly My Heart Beats Toward Thee [3]
[Oh! If He's Drownded, I Hope He's Happy..]
Oh Pray, Kind Miss [3]
Oh What Shall I Do With the Baby?
Oh, Willie
Oh! Willie Come Back
Old Bangum
Old Batchelor
Old Bachelor
Old Dan Tucker
The Old Elm-Tree
Old Gray Mare [3]
Old Grey Horse Come a Tearing out the Wilderness [2]
Old Joe Clark
The Old Maid's Song [3]
The Old Man in the Wood
The Old Miller
Old Tom Wilson [2]
Old Virginia [2]
On the Danville Train
Once I Had a Sweetheart [2]
Only Short Life of Trouble
Our Prayer [2]
Over the Garden Wall
O Where Were You Last Saturday Night [3]
- P
A Package of Old Letters [Or, Rosewood Casket] [8]
A Paper of Pins [4]
Patty Mcguire
Pearl Bryan [3]
Pearlie Bryant (Pearl Bryan)
Pilgrims Song of Hope
Poor Little Joe
Poor Nellie
Pretty Fair Maid (Fair Damsel)
A Pretty Fair Damsel [2]
The Pretty Fair Miss
Pretty Little Miss
Pretty Little Pink (Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees)
The Pretty Mahea Pretty Mohea [Or, Little Mohea] [3]
The Pretty Maiden [4]
Pretty Mollie [3]
Pretty Polly [2]
Pretty Sarah [3]
Pretty Willie - Pretty Mary
- R
The Railroad (Bum)
Raven Hair [Or, Wildwood Flower]
The Red River Valley [2]
Red Wing
Reply to the Gypsy's Warning [2]
The Rich Lady [2]
The Rondy's Song [2]
Rose Conilee [2]
Rose of Red
Rosewood Casket [Or, a Package of Old Letters]
Rosy Nell [4]
The Rowdy's Song
Rowan Country Crew [2]
The Rowen Country Crew
- S
Sad and Broken Hearted
Sad Lamentations [4]
Sally in Our Alley
Sanctus
The Sandman's Song
School Days
The Scolding Wife
Separation
The Shadow of the Pine [or, In The Shadow of the Pine]
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Ship That Never Returned [2]
Shoot the Buffalo
Silver Threads Among the Gold
Sincere Love
The Single Soldier
Sister Martha [2]
Six King's Daughters
Skip to My Lu [2]
So Fare You Well
My Darling Soldier Boy
The Soldier Boy [ I Was Born..] [2]
The Soldier Boy [Once There Was..] [2]
Soldier's Boy [2]
Soldier Boy
Soldier, Oh Soldier
Somebody
Somebody Loves Me Dearly
[Some Body Stole Little Black Dog]
Somebody's Waiting For You
Some Twenty Years Ago [3]
A Song of the Tub [2]
So You Come Back to Me You Say
Stabat Mater
Steam Boat Bill [2]
Susan Gal [2]
Sweet Bunch of Daisies
Sweet Sunny South [2]
Sweet William
- T
Take This Letter to My Mother
Tater Vine [2]
The Texan Ranger [7]
There's a Mother Always Waiting For You
There's Nothing Goes Hard With This Poor Boy [2]
Thou Hast Learned to Love Another
The Three Sisters
Time Enough Yet [4]
Titanic
The Tobacco Union [2]
Too Late [4]
The Troubled Soldier
True Ella or the Jealous Lover [3]
The 12 Xmas's
Two Little Girls in Blue
The Two Orphans
Two Sweethearts [2]
- V
Valse From Ballet (Faust)
The Village Bells
- W
The Waggoner Lad, or, Johnny Cordell [4]
The Wagoner's Song
Wait Till the Clouds Roll By
Wake Up, Wake Up, You Drowsy Sleepers [2]
Walking in the Parlor [2]
The Waxford Girl [3]
The Webfooted Duck [2]
The Wedding Bells [2]
The Weeping Lady [4]
The Weeping Willow [3]
We Parted by the Riverside
What Are You Going to Do With the Babie [or] Oh What Shall I Do With the
Babie?
What Would You Take for Me Papa
When a Boy
When I Was a Little Boy [2]
When Kate and I Were Coming Through the Rye
When You and I Were Young
Where the River Shannon Flows
Where Were You Last Saturday Night? [3]
Whippoorwill Song
Whiskey in Its Place
The White Pilgrim
Why Can't I Have a Beau?
Why Does Mother Stay So Long? [2]
The Widow by the Sea
Wild Bill Jones [5]
The Wild-Wood Flower [Or, Raven Hair]
Will You Love Me When I Am Old [2]
William Bluet [3]
Willie [4]
Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
Won't You Come Over to My House
The Wreck on the B & O
Wreck on the C & O Railroad
- Y
You Are As Welcome As the Flowers in May
Young Charlotte [4]
Young Edward
Young Emily - The Driver Boy
Young Henry
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone [2]
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