Some Songs and Ballads from Tennessee and North Carolina

During the summer of 1923, while collecting folk stories in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, the writer heard many songs and ballads and took down the words of fifty of them. During the past twenty years so much excellent work has been done in recording both the words and music of old songs in the United States that some hesitancy is felt in publishing these songs without the accompanying music. The following thirty have been selected, however, as worthy of publication due to their interest as new ballads such as Alcoa Mule and Little Mary Phagan; or because they have not previously been recorded from this section as Old King Kind; or, more frequently, because they are variants which may be of interest to the student of folk songs. Further information regarding variants and sources may be obtained by consulting the selected references given. The most frequent references are abbreviated thus

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