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From the introduction by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives: "The twenty-one songs printed in this little volume are a representative sample of the songs I collected on Prince Edward Island during the summers of 1957, 1958, and 1963. ... As a matter of fact, I wasn't even "collecting songs" in the usual sense of that term; I was very specifically looking for songs by Larry Gorman and for biographical. Information about him, and when L wasn't asking about Larry Gorman I was asking about Joe Scott. Thus the present collection is neither the result of my general acquaintance with the traditions of the whole Island nor of intensive research in a limited area. It is made up mostly of the songs people sang me while I was looking for something else."

Table of Contents:

Edmund Doucette, Miminegash

  • John Ladner
  • Johnny Doyle
  • The Old Beggar Man (Hind Horn)
  • Dan Curry
  • Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare
  • The Ghostly Fishermen
  • Mantle So Green
  • The Shepherd

Joseph Doucette, Miminegash

  • The Miramichi Fire
  • The Lost Babes of Halifax

Mary Cousins, Campbellton

  • The Millman and Tuplin Song
  • Uncle Dan

Charles Gorman, Burton

  • Drive Dull Care Away
  • The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine

Angus Enman, Spring Hill

  • Benjamin Deane
  • When the Battle It Was Won

Wesley Smith, Victoria West

  • Guy Reed
  • The Lumberman in Town
  • The Maid of the Mountain Brow
  • The Silvery Tide
  • There Was an Old Woman in Our Town

Publication Date

1963

Publisher

The Northeast Folklore Society, Department of English, University of Maine

City

Orono

Keywords

Northeast Folklore, Maine Folklife Center, folk songs, Prince Edward Island

Disciplines

Folklore | Music | Oral History

Northeast Folklore volume 5: Twenty-One Folksongs From Prince Edward Island

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