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Franz Rickaby Collection

Inventory

SERIES I : Transcriptions and commentary

Folder 1 : Ballads and songs of the shanty-boy

  1. Gerry’s Rocks
  2. Jack haggerty
  3. Jim Whalen
  4. The banks of the Little Eau Pleine
  5. The shanty-boy’s alphabet
  6. Save your money when you’re young
  7. Michigan-I-O
  8. The shanty-man’s life
  9. The shanty-boy and the farmer’s son
  10. The shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire
  11. Ye noble big pine tree
  12. The little brown bulls
  13. Jim Porter’s shanty-song
  14. The Three McFarlands
  15. Ye maidens of Ontario
  16. The falling of the pine
  17. The pinery boy
  18. The Maine-ite in Pennsylvania
  19. Driving saw-logs on the Plover
  20. Fred Sargent’s shanty song
  21. The Lac San Pierre
  22. The festive lumber-jack
  23. The Crow Wing Drive
  24. The M. & I. goo-goo eyes
  25. Harry Dunn
  26. Harry Bail
  27. Shanty Teamster’s Marseillaise
  28. The fatal oak
  29. Bung yer eye
  30. The backwoodsman
  31. The river in the pines
  32. Silver Jack
  33. Ole from Norway
  34. The lost Jimmie Whalen
  35. Kenneth Cameron
  36. A-lumbering we go (The logger’s boast)
  37. ’Way down near Alpena

Folder 2 : Ballads and songs of the American wars

  1. Colonial (Indian) and Revolutionary Wars
    1. The Battle of Point Pleasant
  2. War of 1812
    1. James Bird
    2. The hunters of Kaintucky
  3. The Mexican War
    1. The Texas Rangers
    2. The Battle of Buena Vista
    3. My pretty little pink
    4. Jackson
  4. The Civil War
    1. The Charge at Fredricksburg
    2. The Monitor and the Merrimac
    3. The Cumberland’s crew
    4. Colonel Ellsworth
    5. Libby Prison
    6. The faded coat of blue
    7. The drummer boy of Shiloh
    8. The soldier boy at Gettysburg
    9. Sherman’s march to the sea
    10. Richmond on the James
    11. Old Governor Jackson
    12. The Deutscher volunteer
    13. The bounty-jumper
    14. The Wisconsin soldier-boy (The dying soldier)
    15. ‘Way down in the cane-brake
    16. Hold my shoulder, faithful Pompey
    17. Just before the battle
    18. Just after the battle
    19. Soldier’s return
    20. You said last night, dear Reuben
    21. Glory, glory, hallelujah (John Brown’s body)
    22. The guerillas (a Southern war song)
  5. The Spanish-American War
    1. In the land of the Philippines
    2. The Battle of Bungou
    3. Aint it nice to be a soldier
    4. [Comrades dear and did you hear]
    5. Just as the sun went down
    6. The Blue and the Gray
    7. The Dewey far away
    8. Down in the Harbor of Havana
    9. I’m called away
  6. The World War
    1. Hinky dinky, parlez vous
    2. Ashes to ashes
    3. Pas de Cogniac
    4. Apres la guerre

Folder 3 : Ballads and songs of the cowboy

  1. The dying cowboy (The cowboy’s lament)
  2. The cowboy’s lament (The dying cowboy)
  3. Round-up lullaby
  4. Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies
  5. The dreary, dreary life
  6. The Old Chisholm Trail
  7. The Easy Rider
  8. Punching cows
  9. The Texas Kid
  10. The cowboy’s dream

Folder 4 : Ballads and songs of the later frontier

  1. A home on the range
  2. The stone that keeps rolling
  3. The Mines of Caribou
  4. The little old sod shanty on my claim
  5. The dreary Black Hills
  6. The little old log cabin in the lane
  7. California Joe
  8. The buffalo skinners (Range of the buffalo)
  9. The dying ranger
  10. Joe Bowers
  11. Dakota land
  12. The old sod shack
  13. A packer’s wooing

Folder 5 : Ballads and songs transplanted to America

  1. The house carpenter (The daemon lover)
  2. The brown girl (Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor)
  3. Barbary Allen (Barbara Allen)
  4. Mary across the wild moor
  5. On the banks of the Clyde
  6. The Battle of Harlaw
  7. The rich merchant’s daughter (Constant Farmer’s son)
  8. Drummond’s land
  9. VanDieman’s shore
  10. The dying soldier (“In old Erin far away”)
  11. Hibernia’s lovely Jane
  12. Peggy Walker
  13. The silver dagger (The drowsy sleeper)
  14. Old Crumny
  15. Three loving brothers
  16. The wild shore
  17. The noble skew bald
  18. The Heights of Alma
  19. Brennan on the Moor
  20. Rosalie, the Prairie Flower
  21. They say I may marry a laird
  22. The old miller
  23. My Willie’s on the dark blue sea
  24. The old Virginia lowlands
  25. Die zwei Soldaten
  26. Lady Leroy
  27. Young Sandy

Folder 6 : Hoisting and other chanteys

  1. Hoisting and other chanteys
  2. Sally brown
  3. Blow the man down
  4. Vidi vidi vik
  5. Were you ever in Rio Grand?
  6. Blow, boys, blow
  7. Haul on the bow-lin’
  8. English chantey
  9. We’ll pay Paddy Doyle
  10. A long time ago
  11. Sea ballads
  12. The Flying Cloud
  13. The clipper ship Dreadnaught
  14. Bold Daniel
  15. The demon of the sea
  16. Paul Jones, the privateer
  17. Lake ballads
  18. Persian’s crew
  19. Red iron ore
  20. The bigler’s crew
  21. Samuel Hall (Samuel Small)
  22. River ballads and songs
  23. The Selkirk
  24. The raging canawl

Folder 7 : Biography and autobiography

  1. McAfee’s confession
  2. The wild colonian boy
  3. Jim Fiske
  4. The Boston Burglar
  5. Morrisy and the Russian sailor
  6. Heenan and Sayres
  7. The little German home
  8. Jesse James
  9. The beggar maid
  10. In Springfield Town (Springfield Mountain)
  11. Sam Bass
  12. Charles Guiteau
  13. The emigrants’ lament (Scotch)
  14. D. Knowles (The ballad of a blowhard)
  15. The dying nun
  16. Ned McCabe
  17. The roving Irishman
  18. Heroic Dick
  19. The village blacksmith
  20. We have been friends together
  21. Poor little Joe
  22. The soldier’s poor little boy
  23. The wild rover
  24. The fatal hiss
  25. Wisconsin again
  26. The old musician and his harp
  27. The deep, deep sea (Sea burial)
  28. Hard up

Folder 8 : Catastrophe

  1. The Chatsworth Wreck (Chatsworth Bridge)
  2. The two orphans
  3. Los on the Lady Elgin
  4. The Boston Fire
  5. Jim Blake
  6. Old Ninety-seven
  7. Minnehaha, Laughing Water (New Ulm Massacre)
  8. Late shooting
  9. Dublin Bay
  10. Song of Mrs. Shattuck
  11. Fair Charlotte (Young Charlotte)
  12. Naragansett Bay

Folder 9 : Lovers and relatives, faithful and faithless

  1. The fatal wedding
  2. Drifting apart
  3. Edwin and Mary (The dark British foes)
  4. The Creole girl on Lake Ponchatrain
  5. Come home, father
  6. Red River Valley
  7. Johanna Shay
  8. Grandfather’s story
  9. The stepmother
  10. Johnny Sands
  11. Over the hills to the poorhouse
  12. The Gipsy’s warning
  13. The sick husband
  14. Will and Kate
  15. Fuller and Warren
  16. Daniel Monroe
  17. Brown girl
  18. The beautiful Christine Leroy (Christine Leroy)
  19. Rosabelle
  20. Liziany Quirl
  21. My darling Irish boy
  22. Twilight on a May morning
  23. Young Henry Green
  24. Young betsy
  25. Fair Fanny Moor
  26. Weeping willows
  27. Sweet William, the sailor boy [fragment]

Folder 10 : Indian and dialect

  1. Falling leaf
  2. The Indian’s lament
  3. White man, let me go
  4. Niagra Falls
  5. The pale-faces
  6. The blue Juniata
  7. The Indian maid
  8. Indian death song
  9. Amanda, the captive
  10. Forget me not
  11. A Norwegian folk-song melody
  12. The Deutscher volunteer
  13. The wild Irishman
  14. The Irish barber
  15. Dan McGinty
  16. The O’Kelly Brothers
  17. Lannigan’s Ball
  18. A true Paddy’s song
  19. Oh! Susanna
  20. Every day’ll be Sunday
  21. If my father should ask for me

Folder 11 : Propaganda and social clash

  1. Three grains of corn

Folder 12 : Dialog, nursery and game songs

  1. So we hunted and we hallooed
  2. Father sent me here a-courting (The Quaker’s courtship)
  3. The paper of pins
  4. The seven days of Christmas
  5. Paul and his chickens
  6. The man who wouldn’t hoe corn

Folder 13 : Unclassified

  1. Hunting deer
  2. The blackberry girl
  3. Mother shipman’s prophecy
  4. The king and his three sons
  5. A motto for every man
  6. Wait for the wagon
  7. Behind the times

SERIES II : Miscellaneous

Folder 14

Letter to Rickaby, June 14, 1926

Miscellaneous transcriptions

  1. Jane and Lucy
  2. The dumb wife
  3. By the side of the river so clear
  4. The lament of the sailor’s wife (The sailor boy)
  5. Timo’ra
  6. Sam Bass
  7. The London boy
  8. The Sabbath day was ending in a village by the sea
  9. Chisholm Trail
  10. I’m a bold, bad man
  11. It’s hard for to love
  12. I’m bound to follow the long horn cow
  13. O bury me not on the lone prairie
  14. The Irish wake
  15. The roving boy
  16. Sid Mason’s waltz ; Saeterjentens Sondag ; Den store,hvide Flok vise

Folder 15

Binder covers (photocopies)