COUNTING OUT RHYMES

• Bickety, bickety, binda
• Chicka mah, chicka mah, craney crow
• Keemo, Kymo, daro ware
• King William was King James's son
• William de trimmety / was a good fisherman

SONGS AND POEMS

• All around this little log hut
• Charley, he's a nice young man
• Charlie he's a nice young man (Weevily Wheat)
• Chase the rabbit, chase the squirrel
• Circle four to London just so I heard them say
• Come all ye hither and trip together
• Consolation flowing free
• Flies in the sugar bowl, shoo, shoo, shoo
• Go in an out the window
• Go in and out the window
• Gone again skip to my Lou
• Had a little war in Mexico
• Hair in the butter and who told you?
• Here comes Sambo through the window
• Here comes Jumbo through the window
• I rolled my brown jug down to town
• I'm going down to the farm (Little Brown Jug)
• In a little rosewood casket
• Jingle, jingle, jingle, Joe
• Jingle, Jingle, Jingle-oh
• La, la, tinktum la
• Lead her up and down the old brass wagon
• Lost my pardner, skip come-a-Lou
• My mother was chasing her boy round the room
• My pretty little pink, I once did think
• Oh, Charley, he's a nice young man (Weevly Wheat)
• Oh, we'll shoot the buffalo
• Oh we shoot the buffalo
• Oh that girl, that pretty little girl
• Oh, Sister Phoebe, how merry were we

FOLKSONGS--CHILDREN'S GAMES, SONGS, AND POEMS
SONGS AND POEMS

• Oh, Pap was a miller boy
• Oh, we've got a new pig in the parlor
• Old sister Phoebe how merry was we
• Pass one window--tideo
• Prettly little pink I once did think
• Promenade around with hands on shoulder
• Rats in the buttermilk two by two
• Right hand cross with a bounce around
• Roll my brown jug down to town
• Roxy Ann is a fooling me
• Run negro run
• Shoo, shoo fly, don't you bother me
• Shoo-shoo fly, don't you bother me
• Skip to my Lou, I love my partner
• Swing young gents to the opposite lady
• Take this hat on your head
• The girls all dressed and ready for the dance (Willia's Ballroom)
• Way down in the hollow
• We have a pig in the parlor
• We put pigs in the parlor
• We are marching round the levee
• We're marching down the river (Swing Josie)
• When you want to steal apples
• When you steal apples

• Ah come to town for to have a picnic
• As I walked out by the light of the moon
• By O Sarah was a big ol' boat
• Come on you Louisiana girls
• Come all you jolly Union Boys
• Come all you boys of tender hearts
• Dixie sez to Johnson / One a holiday
• Dixie said to Johnson / On one holiday
• Dixie sez to Johnson, / On on holiday
• Dixon and Johnson / was ridin' around de world
• Down, down before him kneeling
• Frog went a-courting, he did ride
• Froggie went a-courtin' he did ride
• Froggie sittin' on lady mouse knee
• Go tell Aunt Roadie
• Had me a cat and the cat pleases me
• Hit er, shove er, go up in the juberr-ju
• Home came the old man
• I want everybody to be quiet
• I went out the animal fair
• I'd rather have a young man
• If you want to git to heben, I'll tell you what to do
• In scarlet town where I was born
• It was in early month of May
• It was in St. Louis one dark and stormy night
• Jesse had a wife
• John Henry had a little baby
• John Brown died on account of freeing the slaves
• Johnson said to Dicky / One cold winter's day
• Last night I was aweepin' dear mother
• Molly, pretty Molly
• My mammy bought me a rubber dolly
• Needles eye that doth supply
• No matter where I go
• O twas on a Friday night
• Oh, once I was a-roamin'
• Oh, come all you jolly sportsmen
• Oh, Betsey was a virgin fair
• Oh, dey was a jolly sailor
• One night I went aroving
• Sam Steinmetz is our captain
• Short horn cattle are lovely
• Sweet William died on Saturday night
• Tafy was a Welshman
• The first I saw was a maiden
• Two little niggers lyin' in bed
• Twas in the merry month of May
• Twas in the town of Export
• Watch her and catch her
• Well met, well met, my old true love
• When I come home from Birmingham
• Where are you going, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
• Where does Miss Mousie live
• Where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
• Who's dat behind you
• . . . what shall the wedding supper be

FOLK SONGS--MISSOURI
BY TITLE

• Barbara Allen
• Billy Boy
• Dan Tucker
• Dixie and Johnson
• Dixon and Johnson
• The Erie Canal Ballad
• The Export Girl
• The Farmyard
• The Frog and the Mouse
• Get Along Home Cindy
• Go Tell Aunt Roadie
• The House Carpenter
• If you want to git to heben, I'll tell you what to do
• Jesse James
• John Henry
• Needles Eye
• Old Dan Tucker
• Our Goodman
• Poor Lorella
• The Ranger
• Rye Whiskey
• Stack O Lee
• Ten Thousand Miles from Home
• The Three Butchers
• Where Are you Going Charming Billy?

FOLKSONGS--NON-RELIGIOUS NEGRO SONGS

• "A" were the Arabs wore dark skins
• Between my fingers and thumb
• Captin don't work me
• Come to my arms Norah darling
• Ef you wanter make a darkey feel good
• Ez I waked up one mawnin'
• Georgie--Georgie, No--no--no
• Go and draw up your papers lawyer
• Goodbye, goodbye, Coral darlin'
• I went to the wrastlin' match the other night
• I am hungry and starvin'
• I have some friends have proved out faithful
• I once had a gal, a good gal was she
• I'm gonter cross de ocean on de gospel raft
• I'm called a savir port
• I've got de blues
• It makes no difference where you go
• John Henry was a steel drivin' man
• My kneebones is achin'
• Now I'm an old man
• Nows about the time
• Oh de pig an' de hen
• Oh dat ham, dat sugar cur-red ham
• Oh, Brown was the gentleman
• Old Aunt Dinah got drunk
• One say--two saw--three saw Sal
• Rabbit sitting on a log
• True love--true love
• We will pick de cotton and hoe de cawn
• Well I was a lad
• Well ol' Uncle Peter got drunk lat night
• When de Windy Steamer rises in de harbor
• When I wore my aprons low

FOLKSONGS--RELIGIOUS SONGS
FIRST LINES

• Amaze and grace how sweet the sound (Lover of the Lord)
• And he went on man's bond
• Are you going to be ready (to hear the kingdom roll?)
• Brother, pray, pray, pray
• Can't you hear the hammers ring
• Come guilty souls and flee away
• Come all you people who delight in sin
• Coming home, coming home, nevermore to roam (Lord, I'm coming home)
• Daniel saw the stone
• Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
• Don't let the preacher turn you round
• Don't let it be said too late, too late
• Every time I feel the spirit moving in my heart
• Get away Jordan
• Get on board little children
• Git on de board
• Glory, glory, Haluja (when I lay my burdens down)
• Glory, glory, halleluia (since I laid my burdens down)
• God told Jonah to preach his command
• God's going to set this world on fire
• Have thine own way Lord, have thine own way
• Here's another come to jine us in de army of de Lord
• Hush, hush, somebody's calling my name
• I asked them brothers how did they feel
• I believe
• I don't need no pillow when I come to die
• I know I'be been converted down in my heart (My joy)
• I shall not, I shall not be move
• I want Jesus
• I want to be ready, I want to be ready (Walk in Jerusalem just like John)
• I went up on the mountain (Heaven in my view)
• I'm going to walk the streets of glory
• I've got heaven in my view
• I've got a mother in the rocks of ages
• If I was you, I'd stop right here and pray
• If your body suffers pain (Leave it there)
• In de morning hest befo' day
• In my heart, In my heart (Lord, I want to be a Christian)
• Is it well with your soul
• Is my name signed there?
• Isn't it grand to have salvation
• It's coming down, it' coming down, oh the glory of the lord is It's coming down,
• it's coming down
• Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know (Jesus, Jesus)
• Keep me in de way
• Let the church roll on
• Let's go down to Jordan
• Little Mary she come weeping and hunting for the lord
• Lord, lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven's table
• Lord, Lord, Lord, he's so good to me
• My mother, your mother, every mother oughta pray sometime (Everybody oughta pray)
• My mother's gone up to heaven
• My mother's left me and she never said goodby (I'm going where my home ought to be)
• Oh, de moon run down de purple streams
• Oh, I am born to die
• Oh, I have a mother over yonder
• Oh, lying man, you'd better make a change
• Oh, save me dear Jesus, save me dear Jesus (Oh, lord have mercy)
• Oh Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn
• Oh Mary, Mary, de hammer did ring
• Oh Mary, don't you weep, don't you moan
• Oh my father, ain't you tired of sinnin'
• Oh, my loving sister, when the world's on fire
• Old Arch's a moviring
• Old sheep, old sheep, he knowd de road
• One day as I was walking down the lonesome road
• Out on the desert so dark and drear (The Prodigal Son)
• Poor mourner, you shall be free
• Pull down de moon
• Rock a my soul in bosom of Abraham
• Sent the word along the line (Ring out the news)
• Sinner man ain't got no home (Sinner man)
• So high you can't go over it, (so low you can't go under it)
• Some cast him by his little rosy hands
• Some folks buried in the graveyard
• Stay in de field
• Steal away
• Stop, stop, Auntie, don't you run
• Tell me how did you feel when you come out of the wilderness (Tell me how did you feel)
• That great day we camped upon de mountain
• The chariot rode on the mountain top (This wicked race)
• The hearst wheels are rolling everyday
• There's one little, two little, three little angels
• This train is a clean train
• This train is bound for glory
• Was you dere when dey crucified my Lord?
• Was you there when you crucified my Lord?
• Well, I cannot stay away
• Well, I couldn't hear nobody pray
• When de trumpet sounds in mah soul
• When I am dying do remember me
• When I was a sinner I sinned both night and day
• Who's that yonder?
• You wonder where my mother gone