A Treasury of Folk Songs
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- Barbara Allen
- Come, o my love
- The devil and the farmer's wife
- Frankie and Johnnie
- Lord Randal
- The gallows-tree
- Henry Martin
- Peter Gray
- Careless love
- Foggy, foggy dew
- I gave my love a cherry
- I know where I'm goin'
- I know my love
- Irene
- Spanish is the loving tongue
- He's gone away
- Katy Cruel
- John Henry
- Jesse James and Pretty Boy Floyd
- Joe Hill
- Sweet Betsy from Pike
- Boll weevil
- Yankee Doodle
- John Brown's body
- Follow the drinking gourd
- Many thousands gone
- The dying British sergeant
- Up on de mountain
- Union train
- Jim Crow
- Gee, but I want to go home
- Union maid
- The cowboy's lament
- Home on the range
- Night-herding song
- Old Chisolm Trail
- Strawberry roan
- Sioux Indians
- The Colorado Trail
- Shenandoah
- The drunken sailor
- Boney
- Haul away, Joe
- On the E-R-I-E Canal
- Captain Kidd
- A-roving
- Blow the man down
- The sow got the measles
- Jennie Jenkins
- The bold fisherman
- Springfield Mountain
- The young man who wouldn't hoe corn
- So long, it's been good to know you
- The blue-tail fly
- The good boy
- Chilly winds
- Down in the valley
- On top of Old Smoky
- Every night when the sun goes in
- St. James Infirmary (Gambler's blues)
- Lay dis body down
- Go 'way from my window
- Git back blues
- All the pretty little horses
- Fiddle-de-dee
- Mister Frog went a'courting
- The birds' song
- Cotton-eye Joe
- Paper of pins
- Skip to my Lou
- Old Joe Clark
- Cindy
- I sent my brown jug downtown
- Pauve Piti Lolotte
- Widdicombe Fair
- Schlof, Bobbeli
- Salangadou
- Pat on the railway
- Raisins and almonds
- Cielito Lindo
- Wee Cooper O'Fife
- Ezekiel saw the wheel
- Go down, Moses
- On my journey home
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
- Wayfaring stranger
- Crucifixion
- The twelve days of Christmas
- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?
- Joshua fought the battle of Jericho
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