A couple of books that I've processed to get off the book shelf might be of interest for someone looking for where to look for a song. It's possible that these might have been listed here before, but I didn't find them with a search.

Those compiling indices are free to move them wherever is appropriate, of course.

Both books were in "well aged" condition, and too fragile to survive as paper. Scanning reduced what was left to "scraps and shreds."

First Book:

BURL IVES SONGBOOK

Front pages through about half of the Table of Contents missing. Ballentine Books (paperback). No ISBN or other publisher data shown on pages remaining, but Amazon & Wiki both show publication 1953.

Table of Contents has been partially reconstructed. Remainder of the book appears complete, although pages in "variable condition."

Table of Contents
  COLONIAL AMERICA 1620 – 1775        1
  Tobacco's But An Indian Weed        8
  Little Mohee        10
  Psalm III        12
  Confess Jehovah        14
  Old Hundred        16
  The Seven Joys Of Mary        18
  The Indian Christmas Carol        20
  Mother goose nursery rhymes        22
  Hey Diddle Diddle
  Fiddle-Dee-Dee
  Mr. Froggie Went A-Courting        24
  The Tailor And The Mouse        26
  The Fox        28
  The Escape Of Old John Webb        30
  Three rounds        32
  The hart he loves the high wood
  Oh, absalom, my son
  Let simon's beard alone
  Greensleeves        34
  The Riddle Song        36
  The Devil's Nine Questions        38
  Paper Of Pins        40
  The Golden Vanity        42
  Captain Kidd        44
  Henry Martin        46
  Edward        48
  Barbara Allen        50
  Brennan On The Moor        52
  Lord Thomas And Fair Elinore        55
  Lord Randall        58
  The Foggy, Foggy Dew        60
  Pretty Polly        62
  Robin        64
  Why Soldiers Why?        66
  On Springfield Mountain        68
  The Bold Soldier        70
  Yankee Doodle        72
  REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1775-1790                75
  What A Court Hath Old England        80
  Heart Of Oak        82
  The Ballad Of The Tea Party        84
  The Boston Tea Tax        86
  Free America        88
  Chester        90
  The Riflemen's Song At Bennington        92
  The Battle Of Saratoga        94
  The Yankee Man-Of-War        96
  Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier        98
  How Happy The Soldier        100
  Sir Peter Parker        102
  Cornwallis Country Dance        104
  The World Turned Upside Down        106
  My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free        108
  THE GROWING COUNTRY: ON THE SEA 1790-1850        111
  The Maid Of Amsterdam        114
  High Barbaree        116
  The Pirate Song        118
  The Constitution And The Guerriere        120
  The Hornet And The Peacock        122
  Ye Parliaments Of England        124
  The Patriotic Diggers        126
  Miss Bailey's Ghost        128
  Blow The Man Down        130
  Away, Rio        132
  Shenandoah        134
  The Drunken Sailor        136
  Hullabaloo Belay        138
  Haul Away, Joe        140
  Sacramento        142
  Rolling Home        144
  Blow Ye Winds        146
  The Whale        148
  Song of the Fishes        150
  The Dreadnought        152
  The Crocodile Song        154
  CHAPTER IV: RELIGIOUS, PROFESSIONAL, AND FOLK SINGING, 1800-1850        156
  The Wayfaring Stranger        160
  Nearer My God to Thee        164
  Wondrous Love        165
  The Turtle Dove        166
  Billy Boy (English)        168
  Billy Boy (Irish)        170
  The Divil and the Farmer        172
  Aunt Rhody        175
  The Wee Cooper o' Fife        178
  A Bonnie, Wee Lassie        180
  Old Blue        182
  Sourwood Mountain        184
  Down in the Valley        186
  Lolly Too Dum        188
  I'm Sad and I'm Lonely        190
  Careless Love        192
  Skip to My Lou        194
  Turkey in the Straw        196
  Grandfather's Clock        199
  Old Dan Tucker        202
  Kemo-Kimo        204
  The Blue Tail Fly        206
  Buffalo Gals        208
  The Abolitionist Hymn        210
  Nicodemus        212

In the above, the entries in ALL CAPS are brief "essays" on the Chapter Contents, rather than tunes/songs.

Second Book:

JoeO pointed out to me that I missed the last page of the TOC for the Burl Ives Songbook

Add onto the end:

CHAPTER V: The Frontiers of America, 1800-1850        215
  The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn        220
  The Sow Took the Measles        222
  The Grey Goose        224
  Peter Gray        226
  The Erie. Canal        228
  The Praties They Grow Small        230
  Patrick on the Railroad        232
  Sweet Betsy From Pike        234
  The Ox-Driving Song        236
  Joe Bowers        238
  What Was Your Name in the States?        240
  The Sioux Indians        242
  The Hand-Cart Song        244
  Old Rosin the Beau        246
  Ben Bolt        248
  The Little Old Sod Shanty        250
  I've Got No Use For Women        252
  When I Was Single        254
  Poor Boy        256
  The Utah Iron Horse        258
  The Cowboy's Lament        260
  TITLE INDEX        262
  INDEX OF FIRST LINES        264
  GUITAR CHORDS        268
  LIST OF BURL IVES RECORDINGS        270

Joe might want to paste the addition into the previous post, and delete this one.(?)

I managed to scan another: American Ballads: Naughty Ribald and Classic edited by Charles O'Brien Kennedy, Fawcett Publications, NY, 1952, but the OCR didn't work too well on the TOC, so I may be able (or not) to get it posted later. This one is lyrics only, and mostly well know songs, but variations(?) in lyrics might be of interest to some people if I can get it put together.

John