This box contains the following items:
Disk 1a: If Brother Jack Were Here [2:48] / 1b: The Little 'Dobie Shack [2:16]
Folk songs performed by Daniel Jeffus, Lovelady, [TX] [1938]
Owens 61/62
[note: side b fair condition; both songs included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 2a: The Two Orphans [2:10] / 2b: The Cruel War [2:45]
Folk songs sung unaccompanied by Lemuel Jeffus of Lovelady, TX [1938]
Owens 57/58
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 3a: The Butcher's Boy [2:57] / 3b: Goodbye Little Bonnie Blue Eyes [2:34]
Folk ballads performed by May Kennedy McCord of Springfield, Missouri, June 5th, 1939.
Owens 55/56
[note: side b fair condition; both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 4a: The Orphan Girl [1:49] / 4b: The Irish Girl [1:37]
Folk songs sung by Daniel Jeffus of Lovelady, Texas. [1938]
Owens 53/54
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 5a: Claude's Wife [2:51] / 5b: O Girls Mind Who You Slight [2:46]
Folk songs performed by Lemuel Jeffus, Lovelady, Texas. [1938]
Owens 51/52
[note: song 5a included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 6a: Rolly Troodum [2:36]
Folk song sung by May Kennedy McCoy of Springfield, MO, [n.d.]
Owens 50
[note: fair condition, multiple skips; song included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 7a: Old Jay Bird [0:37] / 7b: Go To Sleep, Baby [0:28]
Play-party song and lullaby sung by Mrs. Imogene Hyde of Calvert, [TX], [n.d.]
Owens 49
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 8a: The Bright Sherman Valley [2:19] / 8b: Kitty Wells [2:41]
Folk songs sung by unidentified male with guitar accompaniment. [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 38/39
[note: side b fair condition, skips; both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 9a: Green Corn [with history of Ben Thompson's banjo] [2:27] / 9b: I Got Mine [2:17]
Folk songs sung and played on banjo by J. D. Dillingham of Austin, TX, [n.d.]
Owens 45/46
[note: song on side 9a included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 10a: I Went Out A-Sparkin' [1:37] / 10b: John Dobber [1:44]
Folk songs sung by Maidy Kelly of the Soda community near Livingston, TX, [n.d.]
Owens 30/31
[side b fair condition, skips; both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disc 11a: The Boston Burglar [2:40] / 11b: How Come That Blood [On Your Shirt Sleeve] [1:29]
Folk songs sung by Mrs. T. H. [or C. H.] Burke of Silsbee, Texas, [n.d.]
Owens 32/33
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 12a: Broken Engagement [2:39] / 12b: Dying Girl's Message [2:52]
Folk songs sung by Mrs. Irvin Thompson at Silsbee, TX, [n.d.]
Owens 71/72
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 13a: Dry Bones [1:59] / 13b: [Old Ship o'] Zion [2:34]
13a: Gospel song sung by The Uplifted Four [African American quartet], Hearne, TX, 1938.
13b: Gospel hymn sung by an unidentified female, [n.p.], [1938]
Owens 179/180
[both songs included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 14a: The Little Sparrow [2:14], 06/05/1939
Folk song performed by May Kennedy McCord, [Springfield, MO] on June 5th, 1939.
Owens 37
[note: alternate title given "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies"; song included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 15a: By and By [2:55]
Gospel song sung by unidentified African American female with piano accompaniment at Old Elam Baptist Church, Hearne, TX [1938]
Owens 111
[note: song included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disc 16a: Singing Tonight [1:41] / 16b: By and By [1:57]
16a: Gospel hymn sung by unidentified choir with piano accompaniment [n.p] [n.d.]
16b: Gospel song sung by unidentified male with piano accompaniment [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 183/184
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Disk 17a: My Shepherd's Gone and Left Me [1:53] / 17b: Ride On King Jesus [1:47]
Gospel songs sung by The Silsbee Four [African American quartet] [Silsbee, TX] [n.d.]
Owens 148/149
[note: song 17a mentioned in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 18a: Swing Low [2:12] / 18b: By and By [2:49]
18a: Gospel song sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
18b: Gospel hymn sung by unidentified choir [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 156/157
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Disk 19a: Two Wings [2:18] / 19b: By and By [2:47]
19a: Gospel song sung by unidentified African American quartet.
19b: Gospel song sung by an unidentified female with piano accompaniment.
Owens 171/172
[note: both songs included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 20a: Little Joe the Wrangler [part 1] [2:56] / 20b-1: Little Joe the Wrangler [part2] [0:25]; 20b-2: Going to Leave Old Texas [1:40]
20a: Folk song sung by unidentified male with guitar accompaniment. [n.p.] [n.d.]
20b: Fragment of folk song sung by unidentified male; Folk song sung by Mildred Webb with guitar accompaniment, Austin, TX, March 4th, 1939.
Owens 93
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Disk 21a: The Massa's Runned Away [2:33] / 21b: Joe Bowers [1:45]
Folk songs sung by Lemuel Jeffus, Lovelady, TX [n.d.]
Owens 59/60
[note: 21b included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 22a: The Bastard King of England [2:38] / 22b: Diamond Joe [The Chisholm Trail] [2:27]
22a: Folk song sung by unidentified male with guitar accompaniment, Austin, TX, March 1939.
22b: Folk song sung by unidentified male with banjo accompaniment, [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 88/89
[note: song 22b alternate title given "The Chisholm Trail" included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 23a: The Zebra Dun [Part 1] [2:48] / 23b: The Zebra Dun [Part 2] [1:20], 02/19/1939
Cowboy song sung and played on guitar by Brownie McNeill at Austin, TX, February 19, 1939.
Owens 81
[note: included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
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Disk 24a: The Hangman's Tree [2:30] / 24b: Barbara Allen [2:28]
English ballads sung by Mrs. I. L. Stowe of Silsbee, TX [n.d.]
Owens 1/2
[note: song 24a included as "The Hangman's Rope" in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 25a: Flirtation [1:50] / Mohea [alternate title "Little Mohea"] [2:30]
25a: Folk song sung by Mrs. Irvin Thompson of Silsbee, TX [n.d.]
25b: Folk ballad sung by Mrs. C. H. Burke of Silsbee, TX [n.d.]
Owens 34/35
[note: song order is reversed on CD; both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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Disk 26a: The House Carpenter [2:45] / 26b: Ti Risslety Rosslety [1:43]
26a: English ballad sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
26b: Folk song sung by Colonel Denoon of Springfield, MO [n.d.]
Owens 7/8
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
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