Remembering the Old Songs
These articles are a monthly feature of INSIDE BLUEGRASS, the
publication of the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music
Association. They document links between bluegrass and old-time
music and the traditional music of Appalachia, the British Isles,
and elsewhere.
[Bob Waltz is editor of Inside Bluegrass, as well as the
Traditional
Ballad Index, a comprehensive listing and cross-index of
ballads as well as more modern songs in the old-time tradition. If
you have comments, corrections, or anything else you'd like to
discuss about traditional music, contact Lyle at lylelofgren@visi.com.]
- A True Lover of Mine (Child
#2) by Bob Waltz (11/1995)
- The Cherry Tree Carol
(Child #54) by Bob Waltz (12/1995)
- The Wind and Rain (Child #10)
by Bob Waltz (1/1996)
- Papa, Papa, Build Me a Boat
(Laws K12) by Lyle Lofgren (2/1996)
- Barbara Allen (Child #84)
by Bob Waltz (3/1996)
- The Raging Sea, How It Roars
(Child #289) by Lyle Lofgren (4/1996)
- The Storms Are on the Ocean
by Bob Waltz (5/1996)
- The Wild Hog in the Woods
(Child # 18) by Lyle & Elizabeth Lofgren (6/1996)
- Didn't He Ramble by Bob
Waltz (7/1996)
- Johnson-Jinkson (Laws L4) by
Lyle Lofgren (8/1996)
- The Lily of Arkansas (Child
#92A) by Bob Waltz (9/1996)
- Henry Lee (Child #68) by Lyle
Lofgren (10/1996)
- Pretty Polly (Lady Isabel and
the Elf Knight) (Child #4) by Bob Waltz (11/1996)
- The Little Carpenter by
Lyle Lofgren (12/1996) [Exciting New Information: 6/11/2011]
- Pretty Polly (Laws P36) by
Bob Waltz (1/1997)
- A Rose in Grandma's Garden
(Laws M4, etc.) by Lyle Lofgren (2/1997)
- The Banks of Claudy (Laws
N40) by Bob Waltz (3/1997)
- Little Margaret (Child #74)
by Lyle Lofgren (4/1997)
- The Death of Queen Jane
(Child #170) by Bob Waltz (5/1997)
- The Two Soldiers (Laws
A17) by Lyle Lofgren (6/1997)
- Charles Guiteau (Laws E11)
by Bob Waltz (7/1997)
- The Burial of Wild Bill by
Lyle and Elizabeth Lofgren (8/1997)
- The Holland Handkerchief
(Child #272) by Bob Waltz (9/1997)
- The Three Babes (Child #79)
by Lyle Lofgren (10/1997)
- Herod and the Cock (Child
#55) by Bob Waltz (11/1997)
- The Fatal Flower Garden
(Child #155) by Lyle Lofgren (12/1997)
- Lizie Wan (Child #51) by Bob
Waltz (1/1998)
- Little Yellow Dog (Edward)
(Child #13) by Lyle Lofgren (2/1998)
- The Leaving of Liverpool by
Bob Waltz (3/1998)
- Barney McCoy by Lyle Lofgren
(4/1998)
- Wait Till the Clouds Roll By
by Bob Waltz (5/1998) [New information: 6/4/2007]
- The Wreck of Old 97 (Laws G2) by
Lyle Lofgren (6/1998)
- The Homespun Dress by
Bob Waltz (7/1998)
- The Faded Coat of Blue by
Lyle Lofgren (8/1998) [New information: 8/31/2011]
- Little Joe the Wrangler
(Laws B5) by Bob Waltz (9/1998)
- The Lonesome Valley (Two
Cruel Brothers) (Laws M32) by Lyle Lofgren (10/1998)
- Deep Elem Blues/Black Bottom
Blues by Bob Waltz (11/1998)
- Rhinordine (Laws P15) by
Lyle Lofgren (12/1998)
- Saint Helena by Bob Waltz
(1/1999)
- When First To This Country a
Stranger I Came by Lyle Lofgren (2/1999)
- The Joys of Mary by Bob Waltz
(3/1999)
- Prison Cell by Lyle Lofgren
(4/1999)
- The Wild Colonial Boy (Laws
L20) by Bob Waltz (5/1999)
- Fod! by Lyle Lofgren (6/1999)
- The Swapping Boy by Bob Waltz
(7/1999)
- The Highwayman (Child #95)
by Lyle Lofgren (8/1999)
- The Rocky Banks of the Buffalo
(Child #14) by Bob Waltz (9/1999)
- The Gypsy Davey (Child #200)
by Lyle Lofgren (10/1999)
- Clayton Boone (Child #200) by
Bob Waltz (11/1999)
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down by
Lyle Lofgren (12/1999)
- My Bonnie Black Bess (Laws
L9) by Bob Waltz (1/2000)
- The Lady of Carlisle
(Laws O25) by Lyle Lofgren (2/2000)
- Billy Taylor (Laws N11) by
Bob Waltz (3/2000)
- Claude Allen by Lyle
Lofgren (4/2000)
- Nobody's Darling On Earth
by Bob Waltz (5/2000)
- Cave Love Has Saved The Day
by Bob Waltz (6/2000)
- My Gypsy Girl by Lyle
Lofgren (7/2000)
- Omie Wise by Bob Waltz
(8/2000)
- The Wreck of the Number Nine
(Laws G26) by Lyle Lofgren (9/2000)
- The Victory Won At Richmond
by Bob Waltz (10/2000)
- Willie Moore by Lyle
Lofgren (11/2000)
- The Coventry Carol by
Bob Waltz (12/2000)
- Babes in the Woods (Laws
Q34) by Lyle Lofgren (1/2001) [New information: 11/19/2013]
- The Girl I Left in Sunny
Tennessee by Bob Waltz (2/2001)
- Factory Girl by Lyle &
Elizabeth Lofgren (3/2001)
- Goodnight by Bob Waltz
(4/2001)
- George Collins (Child
#85) by Lyle Lofgren (5/2001)
- Kitty Alone by Bob Waltz
(6/2001)
- I Truly Understand You
Love Another Man by Lyle Lofgren (7/2001)
- Hop Along Peter by Bob Waltz
(8/2001)
- A Gay Spanish Maid (Laws
K16) by Lyle Lofgren (9/2001)
- Logan County Jail (Laws
E17) by Bob Waltz (10/2001)
- Railroading on the Great
Divide by Lyle Lofgren (11/2001)
- Pretty Peggy-O (The Bonnie
Lass of Fyvie-O) by Bob Waltz (12/2001)
- Little Sadie (Laws I8) by Lyle
Lofgren (1/2002)
- Bonnie George Campbell
(Child #210) by Bob Waltz (2/2002)
- Katie Dear (Laws G21) by
Lyle Lofgren (3/2002)
- John o' the Hazelgreen
(Child #293) by Bob Waltz (4/2002)
- Jimmy Randall (Child 12)
by Lyle Lofgren (5/2002)
- We Be Soldiers Three by Bob
Waltz (6/2002) [New information: 8/17/2010]
- Will The Weaver (Laws Q9)
by Lyle Lofgren (7/2002)
- Poor Ellen Smith by Bob
Waltz (8/2002)
- Three Men Went A-Hunting
by Lyle Lofgren (9/2002)
- Jack Haggerty (Laws C25)
by Bob Waltz (10/2002)
- Gideon's Band by Lyle
Lofgren (11/2002)
- Remember O Thou Man by Bob
Waltz (12/2002)
- My Wife and Baby Run Away by
Lyle Lofgren (1/2003)
- Springfield Mountain
by Bob Waltz (2/2003)
- The Gypsy's Warning by
Lyle Lofgren (3/2003)
- Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover
by Bob Waltz (4/2003)
- Rose Connoley (Laws F6) by
Lyle Lofgren (5/2003) [New information: 2/25/2007]
- Tom Dooley by Bob Waltz
(6/2003)
- I'm Going to the West by
Lyle Lofgren (7/2003)
- Zeb Turney's Gal (Laws E18)
by Bob Waltz (8/2003)
- Nottamun Town by Lyle Lofgren
(9/2003) [Corrections: 7/18/2011]
- When the World's On Fire by
Bob Waltz (10/2003)
- When the Moon Drips Away Into
Blood by Lyle Lofgren (11/2003)
- Joseph Dearest by Bob
Waltz (12/2003)
- Frankie Silvers (Laws
E13) by Lyle Lofgren (1/2004)
- Row Us Over the Tide by Bob
Waltz (2/2004)
- The Cat's Got the Measles
and the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough by Lyle Lofgren
(3/2004)
- The Life of Geordie (Child
#209) by Bob Waltz (4/2004)
- Angeline The Baker by
Lyle Lofgren (5/2004)
- When This Cruel War Is Over
by Bob Waltz (6/2004)
- Harvey Logan (Laws E21) by
Lyle Lofgren (7/2004) [New information: 10/15/2012]
- Oh Mary Don't You Weep by Bob
Waltz (8/2004)
- Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
by Lyle Lofgren (9/2004)
- Richmond Is a Hard Road to
Travel by Bob Waltz (10/2004)
- The Palace Grand by Lyle
Lofgren (11/2004)
- The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
by Bob Waltz (12/2004)
- Dear Companion by Lyle
Lofgren (1/2005)
- Banker Brown by Bob Waltz
(2/2005)
- The Blackest Crow by Lyle
Lofgren (3/2005) [Correction: 10/1/2008]
- [No article was published in the April 2005 issue]
- I've Always Been A
Rambler by Lyle Lofgren (5/2005)
- The Butcher Boy by Bob
Waltz (6/2005)
- The Baltimore Fire by
Lyle Lofgren (7/2005)
- Bloody Waterloo by Bob
Waltz (8/2005)
- New Prisoner's Song by
Lyle Lofgren (9/2005)
- Botany Bay by Bob Waltz
(10/2005)
- Bolakins(Child #93) by Lyle
Lofgren (11/2005)
- The Corpus Christi Carol
by Bob Waltz (12/2005)
- Swannanoa Tunnel by Lyle
Lofgren (1/2006)
- Lady Franklin's Lament
(Laws K9) by Bob Waltz (2/2006)
- Shut Up in the Mine of Coal
Creek by Lyle Lofgren (3/2006)
- The Ship that Never Returned
(Laws D27) by Bob Waltz (4/2006)
- Kenny Wagner's Surrender
(Laws E8) by Lyle Lofgren (5/2006) [New Information:
12/10/2010]
- Last Winter Was a Hard One
by Bob Waltz (6/2006)
- Hard Times in the Mill
(Cotton Mill Blues) (Laws E8) by Lyle Lofgren (7/2006)
- The Farmer Is the Man by Bob
Waltz (8/2006)
- Penny's Farm by Lyle
Lofgren (9/2006) [New Information: 12/22/2009]
- The Banks Of
Newfoundland by Bob Waltz (10/2006)
- The Poor Tramp Has To Live
by Lyle Lofgren (11/2006)
- What Was His Name? by
Bob Waltz (12/2006)
- The Golden Vanity (Child
# 286) by Lyle Lofgren (1/2007)
- Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
by Bob Waltz (2/2007)
- On The Dixie Bee Line (In
That Henry Of Mine) by Lyle Lofgren (3/2007)
- Seeing the Elephant by
Bob Waltz (4/2007)
- Last Payday at Coal Creek
by Lyle Lofgren (5/2007)
- By The Hush by Bob Waltz
(6/2007)
- Old Shoes and Leggings by
Lyle Lofgren (7/2007)
- The Warranty Deed (Laws
H24) by Bob Waltz (8/2007)
- Bandit Cole Younger (Laws
E3) by Lyle Lofgren (9/2007)
- Jefferson and Liberty
by Bob Waltz (10/2007)
- The Newmarket Wreck by Lyle
Lofgren (11/2007)
- The Harry Hayward Song by
Bob Waltz (12/2007)
- Bill Mason by Lyle Lofgren
(1/2008)
- Marching Through Georgia
by Bob Waltz (2/2008)
- Goodbye Mary Dear by Lyle
Lofgren (3/2008)
- Sweet Bessie From Pike
(Laws B9) by Bob Waltz (4/2008)
- Those Cruel Slavery Days
by Lyle Lofgren (5/2008)
- The Jam on Gerry's Rocks
(Laws C1) by Bob Waltz (6/2008)
- Rolling Mills are Burning
Down by Lyle Lofgren (7/2008)
- Billie Johnson of Lundy's Lane
by Bob Waltz (8/2008)
- From Jerusalem to Jericho
by Lyle Lofgren (9/2008)
- [No article was published in the October 2008 issue]
- Say, Darling, Say by
Lyle Lofgren (11/2008)
- Personent Hodie by Bob
Waltz (12/2008) [Correction: 12/25/2011]
- Billy Grimes, the Rover by
Lyle Lofgren (1/2009)
- In Good Old Colony Days
by Bob Waltz (2/2009) [New Information: 2/12/2012]
- Dry Bones by Lyle Lofgren
(3/2009)
- Mary Phagan (Laws F20) by
Bob Waltz (4/2009)
- The Old Miller's Will (Laws
Q21) by Lyle Lofgren (5/2009)
- The Swapping Song by Bob
Waltz (6/2009)
- Little Moses by Lyle
Lofgren (7/2009)
- The Red River Valley by
Bob Waltz (8/2009)
- Step Stone by Lyle Lofgren
(9/2009)
- Some Little Bug by Bob
Waltz (10/2009)
- The Man Who Wrote the Home
Sweet Home by Lyle Lofgren (11/2009) [Correction:
7/15/2010]
- [No article was published in the December 2009 issue]
- The Georgia Hobo (Laws H2)
by Lyle Lofgren (1/2010)
- The Broom of Cowdenknows
(dance tune) by Bob Waltz (2/2010)
- Hold That Woodpile Down
by Lyle Lofgren (3/2010)
- The Little Busy Bee by Bob
Waltz (4/2010)
- Rock About My Saro Jane
by Lyle Lofgren (5/2010) [New Information: 6/7/2013]
- [No article was published in the June 2010 issue]
- Diamond Joe by Lyle Lofgren
(7/2010)
- A Dollar Down and a Dollar a
Week by Bob Waltz (8/2010)
- Blues in a Bottle by
Lyle Lofgren (9/2010)
- [No article was published in the October 2010 issue]
- The House Carpenter
(Child 243) by Lyle Lofgren (11/2010)
- The Story of Christmas
Carols by Bob Waltz (12/2010)
- Ginseng Blues by Lyle
Lofgren (1/2011)
- [No article was published in the February 2011 issue]
- Buddy, Won't You Roll Down The
Line by Lyle Lofgren (3/2011)
- [No article was published in the April 2011 issue]
- Henry Clay Beattie by
Lyle Lofgren (5/2011)
- [No article was published in the June 2011 issue]
- Johnny Grey by Lyle Lofgren
(7/2011)
- [No article was published in the August 2011 issue]
- Black is the Color of My True
Love's Hair (Laws K12) by Lyle Lofgren (9/2011)
- [No article was published in the October 2011 issue]
- Have A Feast Here Tonight
(Rabbit in the Log) by Lyle Lofgren (11/2011)
- [No article was published in the December 2011 issue]
- Long John Green (Lost John)
by Lyle Lofgren (1/2012)
- [The series was discontinued after the January 2012 issue of Inside
Bluegrass.]
- Fare Thee, Titanic, Fare
Thee Well by Bob Waltz (4/2012). Special article in
observance of the centenary of her sinking.
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