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Folklore--Humor and fun

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 281

Scope and Contents

Contents: She's the Queen of the Tonga Islands -- My bonnie lies over the ocean -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Girls get a home of your own -- The Never Even's Sang -- Bob Ingersoll -- The man that wouldn't hoe corn -- Little brown jug -- Skip to Maloo -- My brother -- I bought a wife the tenth of June -- Coo Coo -- Shew Li -- I went down town -- Old Rosin the beau -- Oh babe, my home is on the bayou -- Just kiss yourself goodby -- Nelly Bly -- Song and rhymes -- The squirrel is a handsome bird -- Sam's sad fate -- The aged man -- Saws -- Pharaoh's daughter on the bank -- Physicians of the highest rank -- There is somebody waiting -- Chawing chewing gum -- Broke -- Billy Barlow -- Temperance song (Teetotalers are coming) -- Father Grumble -- London Bridge -- Old Joe Finley -- Way down on the Bingo Farm -- Two brown heads -- Little bown jug -- Poor babes in the woods -- Kind Wiliams -- Billy Boy -- Little Moses -- Caroline of Edinboro Town -- Guy Fawkes -- Billy Grimes -- Maid of the dismal swamp -- There's many a ship -- Old Bangham -- Brian-O-Leonard -- The huntsman -- My good old man -- Calomel -- Counting your chickens before they are hatched -- Richard and Robin -- Mr. Grumble -- Billy Boy -- Charming Billy -- Babes in the woods -- Poor Johnny -- Old Robin -- Old Rover -- What will you give me if I get up -- Three roguish chaps -- (no title) Nickety nackety -- He split the door in pieces four -- Three little kittens -- Ten little Injuns -- There was a frog lived in the well -- Frog's courtship -- One more river to cross -- The animal fair -- Pussy's in the well -- Marching Song -- The needle's eye -- King William -- The two sisters -- It rained all night, it rained all day -- Salmungundi -- Sleighing with the girls -- Putting on the style -- The one horse shay -- Listen to my tale of woe -- Sucking cider through a straw -- Twenty froggies went to school -- The bed bug -- Jerry go oil the car -- A naughty boy a beetle caught -- Went down town -- Hipany Pipany Cruny Crow -- Lucy Locket lost her pocket -- Why those tears on thy cheeky-chike-choky -- Went out to de chicken house -- I fell just like a Gawk -- Singing game -- We revel in song -- The rich merchant of London -- A knight he came from the north countree (Fragment) -- Old Betty Preese's donkey's dead -- Little more cider too -- Teddy O'Graw -- Spanish cavalier -- Happy days at Old Ben Johnsons -- Hunting song -- Did he ever come back -- Geordie -- A little old man lived in the West -- A going, a going to land -- Love, I am homely -- The cobbler -- Another cobbler song -- Fragments -- The Irish washwoman -- The bald-headed end of the broom -- The merriest girl that's out -- A song without a name -- Skip to Miloo -- If I were the president of the United States (Fragment) -- Down in the diving bell (Fragment) -- We'll hang Jeff Davis (Fragment) -- Oh where has my little dog gone (Fragment) -- Come Along Lets Go to Boston (Fragment) -- Come again (Fragment) -- No more -- Hot time in the old town -- Chewing gum -- Oh, Johnny dear, why did you go?

Dates

  • Creation: 1908-1953

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public use.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Louise Pound folklore collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the Special Collections Board of Curators.

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository.

Other Finding Aids

File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS281.xml

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

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