The Songs 19 1. CLASSIC BALLADS 21 The Dapple Grey 22 The King's Daughter 25 Lord Gregory 27 Barbara Allen 30 The Gypsy Davy 33 There Was a Lord in Edinburgh 35 The House Carpenter 38 I'll Go See My Love 40 The Golden Vanity 42 2. SONGS OF TRUE LOVE 45 The Gallant Hussar 46 The Cottage on Yonders Moor 48 The Rifle Boys 50 The Lady Leroy 53 The Wars of Troy 56 The Banks of the Nile 58 Molly Vaughan [...] A dugout, and he'd burn it—he'd shape the bow and he'd shape the stern, and then he'd burn it and then he'd chisel it out, and then burn some more and chisel it out, and I used to go and sit in there with my white dress on— in the part he had burnt and chiseled out. [...] The LeBarres The story told about my people the LeBarres in New Brunswick: the Marquis de la Barre and Jean La Barre, my ancestor, came out with Jacques Cartier to Grand Anse, New Brunswick, in the year 1534, and they settled there and they stayed for the first winter, and it was too cold so Jacques Cartier returned to the seaport of St. [...] Malo and they said in the history books that all of the people who had come out with him in the beginning went back with him, but the people down there said that they didn't all go back, that the LeBarres and several other families stayed, and they built log cabins and they mixed with the Indians, they were friendly with the Indians, the Micmacs, and they built log cabins and formed a settlement w [...] At eighty-two he said, "If I see a skirt blow I'm going to look out the window." When my Grandad Watson was a boy of fifteen he decided he'd like to know of his ancestry and so he got a job working on a cattle-boat and went back to England and he travelled up to the border of Scotland and England to Cumberland and there was a big castle and there was a big knocker on the door and he lifted the kno
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- Includes bibliographies, discography and indexes
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 782.42162/0092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Includes melodies of the songs Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781552383377 1895176360
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- M1678
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- F26 1994eb
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- 1 electronic text (308 p. : music, port.)
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- Canada
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- Story and songs of LaRena Clark
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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