South Carolina Ballads: With a Study of the Traditional Ballad To-dayReed Smith |
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South Carolina Ballads: With a Study of the Traditional Ballad Today Reed Smith No preview available - 2012 |
South Carolina Ballads: With a Study of the Traditional Ballad Today Reed Smith No preview available - 2012 |
South Carolina Ballads: With a Study of the Traditional Ballad To-day Reed Smith No preview available - 1972 |
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Alphonso Smith Andrew Bartin authorship Banjo Barbara Allen bed soon Bobree Allin bride Brother Johnson Brown Girl home Campbell and Sharp Child communal composition County Cox's head-note cried Daemon Lover Danny Deever daughter England fail and lie Fair Elinor father Folk-Lore folk-song gallows-tree gold golden ball Gypsy Gypsy Laddie Hangman's Tree heard heart house carpenter hunting the wren Johnnie Lady Nancy leave your dear Little Matty Grove Lord Donald Lord Lovel Lord Randal Lord Thomas Louise Pound lover Maid Freed married Matty Grove McDonald melody mother Negro night o'er Old Rebel oral tradition original Percy's Reliques poem poetry poor Anzo popular ballad Professor Kittredge riddle ring rode sailed says Scotland Sharp give singer singing song South Carolina stanzas story sung Sweet William sweetheart texts thee Thomas and Fair traditional ballads truelove tune weeping West Virginia Wild goose nest words young
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Page 4 - Love did lichtly me. • O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld And fades awa
Page 69 - Tramp! tramp! along the land they rode, Splash! splash! along the sea...
Page 67 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 9 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 6 - O lang, lang may their ladies sit, Wi thair fans into their hand, Or eir they se Sir Patrick Spence Cum sailing to the land. O lang, lang may the ladies stand, Wi thair gold kems in their hair, Waiting for thair ain deir lords, For they'll se thame na mair.
Page 4 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my Love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie.
Page 68 - The summer day sped onward so fast, that notwithstanding the sharp appetite of thirteen, I forgot the hour of dinner, was sought for with anxiety, and was still found entranced in my intellectual banquet. To read and to remember was in this instance the same thing, and henceforth I overwhelmed my schoolfellows, and all who would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy.
Page 75 - ... off from all traffic with the rest of the world. Their speech is English, not American, and, from the number of expressions they use which have long been obsolete elsewhere, and the oldfashioned way in which they pronounce many of their words, it is clear that they are talking the language of a past day, though exactly of what period I am not competent to decide.
Page 68 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 215 occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes, nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 68 - My wound is deep, I fain would sleep; Take thou the vanguard of the three, And hide me by the braken bush That grows on yonder lilye lee.