On Folkways June Lazare recorded (1966) Folk Songs of NYC

I believe the dates reflect the time of occurences & not the dates the songs were or appeared in print.
Michael Roy 1851. appeared in songster 1856

Hicks the Pirate 1860.

Express Song 1856.

The Two Orphans 12/5/1876 by PJ Downey

The Patriotic Diggers 1813 by Sammuel Woodard

Magistrate's Song 1734

Jolly Old Roger

The Brooklin Strike 1895

The New York 'Prentice Boy

Down in Dear Old Greenwich Village early 1900's

Westfield Disaster 1871 by AW Harmon

Billy Barlow 1840

The Castle by the Sea 1923 by HJ Howard as "A Lementation for JP Donnelly"

The Three Sisters (a version of "Her Age it was Red")
Dead Rabbit Fight with the Bowery Boys 7/4/1857 (I believe that the movie "Gangs of NY" was based on this incedent)

The Knickerbocker Line

The Great Police Fight 6/15/1857

Jim Fisk 1/6/1872

The Shoddy Contractor early 1860's

Mrs Cunningham's Darling Baby 1857


I believe June also relased a 2nd LP in this collection

I think a lot of this is buried in a few old threads.


I probably still have the LP but my turntable has been a has been for quite a while now thought I do recall that sh did being a great job on this recording, well worth digging around for. Good Luck Barry