GENERAL INDEXCOMPARATIVE STUDY INDEX
Love Songs
- Bitter Lovers' Quarrel; One Side, [127]
- It Is Hard to Love, [132]
- I Wish I Was an Apple, [133]
- Lovers' Good-night, [129]
- Me and my Lover, [132]
- Mourning Slave Fiancees, [129]
- She Hugged Me and She Kissed Me, [131]
- You Have Made Me Weep, [128]
- You Love your Girl, [95]
Dance Songs
- Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, [27]
- Banjo Picking, [21]
- Brother Ben and Sister Sal, [46]
- Bull Frog Put on the Soldier Clothes, [20]
- Chicken Pie, [69]
- Cotton-eyed Joe, [32]
- Cow Needs a Tail in Fly-time, The, [35]
- Devilish Pigs, [24]
- Die in the Pig-Pen Fighting, [39]
- Dinah's Dinner Horn, [18]
- Don't Ask Me Questions, [63]
- Gooseberry Wine, [41]
- Gray and Black Horses, [45]
- I am not Going to Hobo Any More, [70]
- I Love Somebody, [51]
- I Went down the Road, [50]
- I Would not Marry a Black Girl, [56]
- I Would not Marry a Yellow or a White Negro Girl, [63]
- I'd rather Be a Negro than a Poor White Man, [42]
- Jack and Dinah Want Freedom, [215]
- Jaybird, [14]
- Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough, [36]
- Little Red Hen, [37]
- Little Rooster, The, [29]
- Master is Six Feet One Way, [40]
- Master's "Stolen Coat," The, [62]
- My Fiddle, [39]
- My Mule, [19]
- My Wonderful Travel, [55]
- Negro and the Policeman, The, [66]
- Nobody Looking, [48]
- Off from Richmond, [15]
- Old Gray Mink, [33]
- Old Hen Cackled, The, [50]
- Old Molly Hare, [22]
- Old Section Boss, The, [64]
- Old Woman in the Hills, The, [54]
- Opossum Hunt, An, [23]
- Plaster, [60]
- 'Possum up the Gum Stump, [3]
- Promises of Freedom, [25]
- Sail Away, Ladies! [20]
- Shake the Persimmons Down, [34]
- Sheep and Goat, [17]
- Sheep Shell Corn, [59]
- Sick Wife, A, [55]
- Simon Slick's Mule, [47]
- Sugar in Coffee, [30]
- Suze Ann, [68]
- Walk, Tom Wilson, [68]
- Wanted: Cornbread and Coon, [37]
- We Are "All the Go", [52]
- When My Wife Dies, [26]
Animal and Nature Lore
- Chuck Will's Widow Song, [156]
- Frog in a Mill, [167]
- Frog Went a-Courting, [190]
- Full Pocketbook, A, [99]
- Man of Words, A, [208]
- Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, [162]
- Molly Cottontail, [8]
- My Dog, Cuff, [150]
- My Speckled Hen, [170]
- Old Molly Hare, [22]
- Origin of the Snake, The, [165]
- Tails, [5]
- Town Bird and the Country Bird, The, [166]
- Turtle's Song, The, [30]
- Why the Woodpecker's Head is Red, [203]
Nursery Rhymes
- Captain Coon, [176]
- Children's Seating Rhyme, [179]
- Chuck Will's Widow Song, [156]
- Cooking Dinner, [156]
- Crossing the River, [6]
- Deedle, Dumpling, [171]
- Destinies of Good and Bad Children, [200]
- Did You Feed My Cow?, [78]
- Don't Sing before Breakfast, [186]
- Doodle-Bug, [174]
- End of Ten Little Negroes, The, [163]
- Fishing Simon, [177]
- Flap-jacks, [196]
- Four Runaway Negroes; Whence They Came, [205]
- Frog Went a-Courting, [190]
- From Slavery, [162]
- Getting Ten Negro Boys Together, [184]
- Go to Bed, [175]
- Good-by, Ring, [171]
- Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine, [173]
- Grasshopper-Sense, [169]
- Great Owl's Song, The, [151]
- Guinea Gall, [176]
- Hated Blackbird and Crow, The, [183]
- Hawk and Chickens, [185]
- Here I Stand, [153]
- Little Boy Who Couldn't Count Seven, [160]
- Little Dogs, [150]
- Little Negro Fly, The, [199]
- Little Pickaninny, A, [186]
- Little Sleeping Negroes, [187]
- Mamma's Darling, [188]
- Miss Blodger, [199]
- Miss Terrapin and Miss Toad, [162]
- Mother Says I am Six Years Old, [164]
- Mud-Log Pond, [185]
- My Baby, [180]
- My Dog, Cuff, [150]
- My Folks and your Folks, [187]
- My Little Pig, [157]
- My Speckled Hen, [170]
- Mysterious Face Washing, [174]
- Old Aunt Kate, [179]
- Origin of the Snake, The, [165]
- Paying Debts with Kicks, [184]
- Periwinkle, [201]
- Pig Tail, [153]
- 'Possum up the Gum Stump, [3]
- Pretty Little Girl, [172]
- Pretty Pair of Chickens, A, [181]
- Rabbit Hash, [203]
- Rabbit Soup, [33]
- Race-Starter's Rhyme, A, [180]
- Randsome Tantsome, [202]
- Raw Head and Bloody Bones, [174]
- Redhead Woodpecker, [178]
- You Had Better Mind Master, [126]
- Young Master and Old Master, [169]
Charms and Superstitions
- Don't Sing before Breakfast, [186]
- How to Make it Rain, [101]
- Molly Cottontail, or Graveyard Rabbit, [8]
- My Speckled Hen, [170]
Hunting Songs
- He will Get Mr. Coon, [28]
- Hunting Camp, The, [43]
- Miss Slippy Sloppy, [100]
Drinking Songs
- Bring on your Hot Corn, [29]
Wise and Gnomic Sayings
- Don't Tell All You Know, [214]
- Drinking Razor Soup, [211]
- Fed from the Tree of Knowledge, [212]
- How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds, [208]
Harvest Songs
Biblical and Religious Themes
- How to Keep or Kill the Devil, [104]
Play Songs
- Did You Feed my Cow?, [78]
- Down in the Lonesome Garden, [89]
- Green Oak Tree! Rocky-o!, [81]
- Hawk and Buzzard, [75]
- He Loves Sugar and Tea, [84]
- Here Comes a Young Man Courting, [85]
- Kissing Song, [82]
- Kneel on This Carpet, [82]
- Likes and Dislikes, [76]
- Little Sister, Won't You Marry Me?, [90]
- Old Black Gnats, The, [80]
- Peep Squirrel, [78]
- Precious Things, [84]
- Raise a "Rucus" To-night, [90]
- Sallie, [87]
- Salt-rising Bread, [83]
- Song to the Runaway Slave, [88]
- Sugar Loaf Tea, [81]
- Susan Jane, [77]
- Susie Girl, [76]
- Sweet Pinks and Roses, [92]
Miscellaneous
- Antebellum Courtship Inquiry, [135]
- Antebellum Marriage Proposal, [137]
- As I Went to Shiloh, [13]
- Aunt Jemima, [107]
- Captain Dime, [5]
- Care in Bread-making, [112]
- Caught by the Witch Play, [74]
- Christmas Turkey, [98]
- Clandestine Letter, A, [136]
- Coffee Grows on White Folks' Trees, [107]
- College Ox, The, [112]
- Courtship, [138]
- Crooked Nose Jane, [99]
- Crossing a Foot-Log, [109]
- Day's Happiness, A, [125]
- Destitute Former Slave Owners, [97]
- Do I Love You?, [129]
- Does Money Talk?, [113]
- Fattening Frogs for Snakes, [97]
- Few Negroes by States, A, [117]
- Fine Plaster, A, [124]
- Fox and Geese Play, [73]
- Fox and Rabbit Drinking Proposition, [111]
- Frightened Away from a Chicken-Roost, [95]
- Going to be Good Slaves, [101]
- Good-by, Wife!, [148]
- Goosie-Gander Play Rhyme, [75]
- Half Way Doings, [120]
- Hawk and Chickens Play, [74]
- He Paid Me Seven (Parody), [122]
- Hear-say, [114]
- How to Get to Glory Land, [96]
- How to Please a Preacher, [117]
- I Walked the Road, [139]
- I'll Eat when I'm Hungry, [114]
- I'll Get You, Rabbit!, [116]
- I'll Wear Me a Cotton Dress, [118]
- I'm a "Round-Town" Gentleman, [108]
- If You Frown, [137]
- Indian Flea, [12]
- Invited to Take the Escort's Arm, [135]
- Let's Marry Courtship, [138]
- Looking for a Fight, [118]
- Love is Just a Thing of Fancy, [2]
- Mule's Kick, The, [98]
- Mule's Nature, The, [108]
- Negro Soldier's Civil War Chant, [115]
- Negroes Never Die, [11]
- Newly Weds, The, [144]
- No Room to Poke Fun, [99]
- Page's Geese, [102]
- Parody—He Paid Me Seven, [122]
- Parody on "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep", [115]
- Parody on "Reign, Master Jesus! Reign!", [122]
- Presenting a Hat to Phoebe, [140]
- Pretty Little Pink, [127]
- Sex Laugh, [102]
- Short Letter, A, [113]
- Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement, [143]
- Sparking or Courting, [136]
- Stand Back, Black Man, [10]
- Still Water Creek, [2]
- Walk, Talk, Chicken With your Head Pecked, [4]
- We'll Stick to the Hoe, [123]
- When I Go to Marry, [144]
- When I Was a Roustabout, [145]
- Why Look at Me?, [113]
- Wild Negro Bill, [94]
- Wind Bag, A, [101]