A Treasury of Folk Songs

New York: Bantam Books, 1955. Revised. White duodecimo, black spine, pocket book, xvi, 240 pages, b&w music; 18 cm. Very gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely mild wear to corners, two creases to front cover, light soiling to covers, clean pages, tight binding, else Very Good to Very Good(+). Paperback.

Contents: 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 Chisholm 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 -- Git back blues -- All the pretty little horses -- Fiddle-de-dee -- Mister Frog went a-courting -- The bird's song -- Cotton-eye Joe -- Paper of pins -- Skip to my lou -- Old Joe Clarke -- Cindy -- I sent my brown jug downtown -- Pauvi 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 fit the Battle of Jericho. Folk songs, English -- United States.