A Family Heritage : The Story and Songs of LaRena Clark

Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• Acknowledgements 10
• I. Introduction 12
• Women and Folksongs 12
• My Relationship with LaRena 14
• LaRena's Repertoire 14
• General Aspects of LaRena 16
• II. LaRena's Story 18
• Background 18
• Early Life 19
• LaRena and Gordon 20
• LaRena's Songs and Records 22
• LaRena Tells of Her Ancestors 24
• LaRena Talks of Her Songs 27
• III. The Songs 30
• 1. CLASSIC BALLADS 32
• The Dapple Grey 33
• The King's Daughter 36
• Lord Gregory 38
• Barbara Allen 41
• The Gypsy Davy 44
• There Was a Lord in Edinburgh 46
• The House Carpenter 49
• I'll Go See My Love 51
• The Golden Vanity 53
• 2. SONGS OF TRUE LOVE 56
• The Gallant Hussar 57
• The Cottage on Yonders Moor 59
• The Rifle Boys 61
• The Lady Leroy 64
• The Wars of Troy 67
• The Banks of the Nile 69
• Molly Vaughan 71
• The Lass of Glenshee 73
• Lovely Jimmy 75
• My Irish Girl 78
• Though Rocks and Hills Do Us Divide 81
• Peggy Gordon 83
• Lord Allan's Daughter 85
• King Henry Has Set Me Free 87
• I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers 89
• A Woman's the Joy and the Pride of the Land 91
• 3. SONGS OF FALSE LOVE 94
• The Ship's Carpenter 95
• The Jealous Lover 97
• Early, Early in the Spring 99
• The Bonny Young Irish Boy 101
• The Butcher Boy 103
• The False Young Man 105
• Go and Bring Me Back the Boy I Love 107
• Go and Leave Me If You Wish To 109
• Adieu Unto Cold Weather 111
• I Once Loved a Lass 113
• Rattle on the Stovepipe 115
• I'm Ruined, I'm Ruined Forever 117
• The Hidden Question 119
• Young Jimmy Brown 121
• I'll Go Seek for Another 123
• 4. RETURNED LOVER BALLADS 126
• The Dark-Eyed Sailor 127
• The Mantle So Green 129
• Bloody Waterloo 131
• George Riley 133
• The Banks of Claudy 135
• The Banks of Inverness 137
• 5. THE BURNS CONNECTION 140
• Burns and His Highland Mary 141
• Highland Mary O 143
• The Soldier Laddie 146
• 6. BAWDY BALLADS 148
• The Foggy Dew 149
• Razinbeny Lane 151
• The Little Ball of Yarn 155
• The Roving Shantyboy 157
• Green Grows the Rashes O 159
• Green Leaves So Green O 161
• 7. NORTH AMERICAN ROMANTIC BALLADS 164
• The Lass of Mohee 165
• The Young Indian Lass 167
• The Chippewa Stream 169
• The Banks of the Pembina 171
• 8. COMIC SONGS 174
• Devilish Mary 175
• Pat and His Old Leather Britches 177
• Big Jackass Smelling of Partridge 179
• Jane Mclnerney from Cork 181
• I Had But Fifty Cents 183
• Come Tiddly Wink Some Day 187
• The Burglar Boy 189
• 9. IRISH SONGS 192
• The Drowning of Willie Leonard 193
• The Banks of the Newfoundland 195
• The Cruiskee Lawn 198
• 10. ENGLISH SONGS 202
• The Old County Fair 203
• The Faggot Cutter 205
• Thyme, Tis a Pretty Flower 207
• The Rich and the Poor 209
• Bonny Black Bess 213
• 11. AMERICAN SONGS 216
• The Texas Rangers 217
• The Cowboy's Lament 219
• Young Charlotte 221
• The Arkansas Traveller 223
• Never Going to Cease My Wandering 225
• The Ploughboy 227
• 12. LOCAL CANADIAN SONGS 232
• Bridget from Washago 233
• Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill! 235
• Memories of the Miramichi 237
• 13. LUMBERING SONGS 240
• The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy 241
• Fine Times in Camp Number Three 243
• Hurry Up, Harry 245
• The Squire Boys 247
• The Raftsmen's Song 250
• 14. LARENA'S COMPOSITIONS 256
• O Canada, Land of Our Homeland 257
• Buckskin Baby 259
• Tuscarora Maiden 262
• Woes of Two Fishermen 263
• Hawkestone on the Shores of Lake Simcoe 266
• IV. LaRena's Place in Musical Tradition 270
• V. Summing Up 276
• Sources and References for LaRena's Songs 278
• LaRena's Family Songs 290
• LaRena's Recordings 300
• LaRena's Compositions 304
• Publications Cited 306
• Recordings Cited 310
• Index of Songs 316
• A 316
• B 316
• C 316
• D 316
• E 316
• F 316
• G 316
• H 316
• I 316
• J 316
• K 316
• L 316
• M 316
• N 316
• O 316
• P 316
• R 316
• S 317
• T 317
• W 317
• Y 317
• Index of First Lines 318
• A 318
• C 318
• G 318
• I 318
• L 318
• M 318
• N 318
• O 319
• R 319
• T 319
• W 319
• Y 319