• On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs is a non-fiction book by Dorothy Scarborough. It was first published in 1925. The book, a survey of African American folk...
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  • Cotton-Eyed Joe (category American folk songs)
    1925 book On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs that several people remembered hearing the song before the war. Scarborough's account of the song came from...
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  • Dorothy Scarborough's 1925 On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs records a variant replacing "South Carolina" with "old Virginia". Songs of Ireland and Other Lands;...
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    Run, Nigger, Run (category American folk songs)
    the Trail of Negro Folk-songs, included two versions, collected from two different states, and in his book American Negro Folk-Songs (1928), Newman Ivey...
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  • folk songs throughout the American South and devoted four pages of her book On the Trail of Negro Folksongs (1925) to variations of this song, all of...
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    Dorothy; Gulledge, Ola Lee (1925). On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs. Harvard University Press. p. 269. In recounting the same story to Dorothy Scarborough...
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    Creole music (category American folk music)
    Dorothy Scarborough, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, Harvard University Press, 1925. S. Frederick Starr, Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk...
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  • "Kemo Kimo"/"Frog in the Well" family) Dorothy Scarborough, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (1925), pp. 46–48, "Frog Went a-Courtin'"; p. 48, (no title);...
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    Sea shanty (redirect from Shanty song)
    genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. The term...
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    On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01262-2. Retrieved 13 September 2018 – via Google Books. Sandburg, The American...
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