[Transcriber's notes:
-Page vii: The word following "view of what Owen" was unclear,and may not be the "Writes" which has been chosen.
We've made every effort to match the original, except for the followingformatting changes and corrections:
1. The music system layout in these pieces is sometimes odd(e.g. bars broken off in the middle), so the system layout has beennormalized where necessary.
2. Text in small-caps could not be reproduced -- all-caps has been used instead.
3. Obvious musical errors in the original have been corrected, as follows:
Days of Forty-Nine: bar 9, beat 3, piano left hand -corrected quarter note to dotted quarter note; bar 11, beat 1, piano left hand -corrected bottom note from F to G.
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo: bar 6, beat 4, piano right hand -corrected next-to-last chord from A-B-D (which sounds very wrong) to F-G-D(to match chord in bar 9, beat 4); in lyrics, corrected "Its" to "It's" in bar 15.
Little Joe, The Wrangler: repeat barline moved to correct place at end.
Prisoner for Life: third to last bar, piano left hand,bottom note corrected from C to B.
The Dying Ranger: in bar 4, voice part, corrected dottedquarter to dotted eighth.
Fuller and Warren: in bar 14, piano right hand, the D-sharpin the last chord was corrected to D-natural.]
What keeps the herd from running, (p. ii)
Stampeding far and wide?
The cowboy's long, low whistle,
And singing by their side.
COLLECTED BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
SHELDON FELLOW FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF AMERICAN BALLADS,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
BARRETT WENDELL
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1929
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1910, 1916, (p. iv)
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1910. ReprintedApril, 1911; January, 1915.
New Edition with additions, March, 1916; April, 1917; December,1918; July, 1919.
Reissued January, 1927. Reprinted February, 1929.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
BY BERWICK & SMITH CO.
To (p. v)
MR. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WHO WHILE PRESIDENT WAS NOT TOO BUSY TO
TURN ASIDE—CHEERFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY—AND
AID WORKERS IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN
BALLADRY, THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY
DEDICATED
Cheyenne
Aug 28th 1910
Dear Mr. Lomax,
You have done a work emphatically worth doing and one which shouldappeal to the people of all our country, but particularly to thepeople of the west and southwest. Your subject is not only exceedinglyinteresting to the student of literature, but also to the student ofthe general history of the west. There is something very curious inthe reproduction here on this new continent of essentially theconditions of ballad-growth which obtained in mediæval Englan