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Manuscript/Mixed Material Song Transcriptions by Pearl R. Nye Song title: On the Banks of Salee / Song title: We'll Outshine the Sun / Song title: Riding on the Elevated Railroad / Song title: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter / Song title: Between Me and the Wall / Song title: Pretty Sally / Song title: Dandy Jim of Caroline / Song title: Early in the Spring / Song title: Who Killed Cock Robin / Song title: In a Storm at Sea / Song title: The Cumberland Crew / Song title: The World Was Made in Six Days / Song title: The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin / Song title: The Lessons that I learned at Mother's Knee / Song title: A Package of Old Letters / Song title: Left Alone / Song title: Canal Ball / Song title: Don't be Angry with Me Darling / Song title: My Dad's Dinner Pail / Song title: Log Cabin by the Stream / Song title: Kissing / Song title: Sauerkraut / Song title: Branagan's Pup / Song title: Things I Don't Like to See / Song title: Love / Song title: Sweet Violets / Song title: Rock-A-Bye Baby / Song title: The Pretty Mohee / Song title: Shortening Bread / Song title: I'm Hiding / Song title: I'm Gwine Back to Dixie / Song title: De Royal Line

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Title

  • Song Transcriptions by Pearl R. Nye

Other Title

  • Song title: On the Banks of Salee
  • Song title: We'll Outshine the Sun
  • Song title: Riding on the Elevated Railroad
  • Song title: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
  • Song title: Between Me and the Wall
  • Song title: Pretty Sally
  • Song title: Dandy Jim of Caroline
  • Song title: Early in the Spring
  • Song title: Who Killed Cock Robin
  • Song title: In a Storm at Sea
  • Song title: The Cumberland Crew
  • Song title: The World Was Made in Six Days
  • Song title: The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin
  • Song title: The Lessons that I learned at Mother's Knee
  • Song title: A Package of Old Letters
  • Song title: Left Alone
  • Song title: Canal Ball
  • Song title: Don't be Angry with Me Darling
  • Song title: My Dad's Dinner Pail
  • Song title: Log Cabin by the Stream
  • Song title: Kissing
  • Song title: Sauerkraut
  • Song title: Branagan's Pup
  • Song title: Things I Don't Like to See
  • Song title: Love
  • Song title: Sweet Violets
  • Song title: Rock-A-Bye Baby
  • Song title: The Pretty Mohee
  • Song title: Shortening Bread
  • Song title: I'm Hiding
  • Song title: I'm Gwine Back to Dixie
  • Song title: De Royal Line

Names

  • Nye, Pearl R., 1872-1950 (Author)

Created / Published

  • Unknown

Headings

  • -  Popular music
  • -  Folk songs, English
  • -  Ballads, English
  • -  Lullabies, English
  • -  Canals--Ohio--Songs and music
  • -  Folk songs, English--Ohio
  • -  Songs, English
  • -  Murder--Songs and music
  • -  Minstrel music
  • -  Nye, Pearl R., 1872-1950
  • -  Song lyrics handwritten by Pearl R. Nye
  • -  Manuscripts
  • -  Transcriptions
  • -  Song texts

Genre

  • Manuscripts
  • Transcriptions
  • Song texts

Notes

  • -  Transcriptions written on several sheets of paper taped together. Length is approximately 120 inches.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1937/002: Folder 14/ Subfolder A

Source Collection

  • Captain Pearl R. Nye collection (AFC 1937/002)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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