21 Jul 14 - 05:57 PM (#3643984) Subject: Lyr Add: Crabtree- Overton Co. Songs/Ballads 1936 From: Richie Hi, I've started putting Lillian Crabtree's 1936 collection of Songs and Ballads from Overton Co., Tennessee on my site here:http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/songs--ballads-sung-in-overton-county-tn-1936.aspx I've added some texts to Chapter 2- Family Life here:http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/family-life--songs--ballads-from-overton-co.aspx And I've been working on Chapter 11 here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/love---songsballads-from-overton-co.aspx There are 9 or 10 Child ballads and 330 songs/ballads, mostly old-time country, 1800s parlor songs and some true folk songs. I'll be putting some on my site from time to time- there are about 25 on their now. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION p.1-6 2. FAMILY LIFE p.7 Little Brown Cot Blue Ridge Mountain Home My Clinch Mountain Home Little Home in Tennessee The Old Door Step Friends of Long Ago A Message From Home Sweet Home The Drunkard's Lone Child The Wild Moor If I Only Had a home Sweet Home Over the Hill to the Poorhouse I wish I was Single Again I Wish I was Single Again (2) Ain't Gonna Be Treated This-A-Way Married Man's Troubles Now Moses Advice to Young Men Boys Keep Away From the Gals Grandma's Advice The Cumberland You'll Never Know a Mother's Love Again I've No Mother now The picture on the Wall Motherless Children You'll Never miss Mother Shake Hands with Mother Again Ten Thousand Miles away The Lightning Express I have no Loving Mother Now Pictures form life's Other Side Mother Queen of my Heart Mother and Home There'll Come A Time Hello Central, Give Me Heaven Step-Mother Don't Grieve Your Mother 3. WAR AND WAR INFLUENCE (Hush-A-Do) The Soldier Sweetheart After the War The Dying Soldier Boy The Dying Soldier The Soldier's Letter Brother Greene The Drummer Boy Sailor Boy The Navy Song My Pretty Quatroon [sic] My Happy Home in Kentucky 4. CRIME The Braswell Boys Charles Giteau The Murder of James A. Garfield Bad Companions Gambling on the Sabbath Day John Hearty Rose Conna Lee Knoxville Girl Knoxville Girl (2) Frankie and Johnny Jesse James Twenty-One Years Twenty One Years [Answer to Twenty-One Years] My Walking Cane The Boston Burglar Prisoner No. 999 Mary Phagen [Fagan] Ommie Wise Little Omi Wise When the Lilies Bloom Prisoner's Song Prisoner's Song (2) Moonlight and Skies New Birmingham Jail When It's Lamp Lighting Time in the Valley In the Jailhouse Now Ninety-Nine Years The Drunkard's Dream Drunkard's Hell My Tender Parents 5. RELIGION Lonesome Valley One Day Nearer Home Can't Feel at Home Anymore Listening All the Night Long Little Feet Be Careful Diamonds in the Rough Shine on Me God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign The Royal Telephone The Two Rulers Two Young Men The Old Woman and the Devil [Farmer's Curst Wife] V-I-C-T-O-R-Y Be kind to a Man When He's Down 6. DEATH The Blind Child Little Bessie The Orphan Girl The Dying Girl's Message The Dying Girl's Message (Dying Nun's Message) Two Little Orphans Two Little Orphans (2) Row Me Over The Tide A Drunkard's Child A Beautiful Chair Faded Flowers Musician's Harp Dreaming of the Loved Ones The Wreck of the Old '97 The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven (2) True and Trembling Brakeman True and Trembling Brakeman (2) Engine one Forty-Three The Wreck of Number Nine Death of John Henery [sic] A Dream of a Miner's Child Fate of Floyd Collins Little Mary Fagan (2) Kitty Wells The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee George Collins (Child 76) Laura's Grave Put My Little Shoes Away The Letter Edged in Black Baggage Coach Ahead He is Coming To Us Dead My Buddy The Life of Jimmie Rogers [sic] Death of Jimmie Rogers [sic] Johnson and Dickson Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling Conversation With Death 7. WESTERN SONGS The Dying Cowboy The Dying Cowboy (2) The Young Cowboy The Dying Cowboy (3) [Bury Me on the Lone Prairie] Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie (2) I Have No Use For The Women Bury Me Out on the Prairie (3) The Dying Cowgirl The Dying Ranger The Texas Rangers The Texas Ranger (2) When the Work's All Done This Fall [California Earthquake] Yodeling cowboy Old Chisholm Trail The Silver Rio Grande My Texas Home There's a Home in Wyoming Good-Bye Old Paint Wild and Reckless Hobo The Gal I left behind Me The Yellow Roe of Texas When it's Springtime in the Rockies 8. HUMOR AND NONSENSE How to Make Love The Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee Chawin' Chawin' Gum Chewing Gum (2) The Little pink Dress The Possum and the Coon I Love That Cindy Frog Went A Courtin' Away Out on that mountain Bachelor's Hall It'll Never Happen Again Blue Yodel (Muleskinner Blues) The Bug Song All-Go-Hungry Hash Blues Great Grandad My Old Coon Dog Swapped My Horse and Got Me A Mule Hi-Rye Hoopdy-Do The Old Cow Crossed The Road The Old Grey Goose Hole in the Bottom of the sea. It was Midnight on the Ocean [Frog Went A- Courtin'] (2) [Ida Red] 9. VARIED SUBJECTS IN BALLAD AND SONG Cooling Spring (Merry Merry Little Spring) Whippin' That Old T.B. (Rodgers) Advice to Wife Seekers Old and Only in the Way The Ship that Never Returned [Blind Man's Ballad] Mississippi Flood You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Old Charlie My Grandfather's Clock 10. BLUES Railroad Blues Brakeman's Blues Memphis Yodel Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Jimmy's Mean Mama Blues Jimmie's Texas Blues Old Virginia Blues (East Carolina Blues) Sissy Cater Blues Blue Yodel (T for Texas) Gambling Barroom Blues (Related: St. James Infirmary) Those Gambler's Blues (St. James Infirmary) Waiting for a Train Oklahoma Blues Mississippi Valley Blues 11. LOVE Barbara Allen (1) [Child 84] Barbara Allen (2) Barbara Ellen (3) Careless Love The House Carpenter [Child 243] Her Bright Eyes Haunt Me Still Flirting Simply A Flirt Forsaken Love The Shadow of the Pine Jack and Joe You've Treated Me mean and Dirty Lullaby Yodel Curly-Headed Baby Isle of Capree May I Sleep in your Barn Tonight, Mister? Lorena Joe Hardy The New River Train My Little Lady Thous Hast Wounded the Spirit That Love Thee Old Ties lover's Farewell The lazy boy Gypsy's Warning The Man's Reply to the Gypsy's Warning Girl's Reply to the Gypsy's Warning I Have No One To Love Me As I Walked out One Morning Fair Brown Eyes Green Ireland Thou Hast Learned To Love Another (1) Thou Hast Learned To Love Another (2) Old Smokey (1) On Top of Old Smokey (2) For the Sake of Days gone By The Fatal Wedding Ella Dare Charlie Brooks Wildwood Flower (Twine Mid The Riglets) After the Ball Broken Engagement Bury me Beneath The Willow (1) Weeping Willow (2) little Rosewood Casket (1) Little Rosewood Casket (2) Little Rosewood Casket (3) A Package of old Letters I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, Love bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me Blue Eyes (I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes) Leave Me Darling, I Don't Mind (Blues) A Forsaken Lover Conquer Pride Poor Nell Loving Henery [Child 68, Young Hunting] The Two Lovers The two Lovers (2) Flo-Ella Pearl Bryant Pearl Bryant (2) Sweet Fern (Sweet Birds) Sweet Birds (2) Still I Love Thee Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder The Sailor's Plea The Maple on the Hill I'm Lonely Tonight Sweetheart Will You Miss Me (When I'm Gone) Will You Love Me When I'm Old Little Darling Are You Tired of Me My Darling/ Black-Eyed Susan Little Sweetheart Be Nobody's Darling But Mine The Red River Valley (1) The Red River Valley (2) The Red River Valley (3) The Red River Valley (4) We Parted by the Riverside Don't Be Weary Little Darling Sweetheart Come Back To Me Bye, Bye, Till I See You Again Down Beside A Brook More Pretty Girls Than One Nobody's Darling (1) I'm Nobody's Darling (2) Peach Picking Time In Georgia (McMichen/Rodgers) The Roving Gambler The Sweet, Long Ago What Is A Home Without Love? Lassie Mohee (1) The Pretty Mohee (2) On the Banks of the Wabash Such A Happy Little Girl Am I Tell Me When The Mountain Laurels Bloom Jennie, The Flower of Kildare Carolina Moon Silvery Moon Sadie Ray I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers The Whip-Poor-Will The Storms Are On The Ocean Down Among the Budded Roses There's a Good Girl In The Mountains The Little Brown Jug Sparking on Sunday Night I love Little Willie My Happy Little Home in Arkansaw The Boys Won't Do To Trust The Aggravating Beauty Lulu Wall (Carter Family) (1) Lulu Wall (2) Meet Me in the Moonlight (Prisoner's Song- Dalhart) Katy At The Gate You're the Only Girl I Ever Cared About My mother Was A Lady Two Sweethearts Somebody Kitty Kline When I was A Boy from the Mountains I Love You Best of All You're As Welcome As the Flowers in May Sweet Bunch of Daisey's You and My Guitar Mary and Willie The Bailor's Daughter (Bailiff's Daughter- Child 105) The Merchant's Daughter (Dog and Gun) The Ways Courting Breeches Barney McCoy Maggie Darling, Now Goodbye 12. CONCLUSIONS ------------- Richie |
22 Jul 14 - 09:27 AM (#3644171) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Crabtree- Overton Co. Songs/Ballads 1936 From: GUEST MY MY, that's some nice work. Do you plan on adding the music also? bob(deckman)nelson |
22 Jul 14 - 01:19 PM (#3644247) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Crabtree- Overton Co. Songs/Ballads 1936 From: Richie Hi, There is no music- only texts. It's clear that Crabtree used some printed material, newspaper clippings, and that most of the texts (she calls poems) were handwritten by the informants and given to her. In my opinion, a small number were actually collected and written down by her from the singing of an informant. The effect of radio and recordings is obvious. There are songs from the Carter family and songs from and about Jimmie Rodgers (his name spelled wrong) as well as other songs from the old-time country record era which began in 1923. There are some unusual texts and some texts that pre-date recordings made in 1936 and later. For example, the Carters recorded "My Clinch Mountain Home" in 1936. They collected and arranged some of the same texts that Crabtree found--her version of Clinch Mountain shows and earlier, yet different version of the famous Carter recording. Richie |