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Death and Dying

• Streets of Larado, Arlo Guthrie. See also:
• Streets of Larado (The Cowboy's Lament), Digital Tradition Mirror
• St. James Infirmary, Digital Tradition Mirror
• The Cowboy's Lament, Cuala Press Broadside Collection, Villanova University Digital Library
• Dying Ranger, Wolf Folklore Collection
• Unfortunate Rake, Digital Tradition Mirror
• Bard of Armagh, Contemplator
• Cowboy Celtic, Rob Gibson, Living Tradition, Issue 27, June-July 1998

Ghosts / Hauntings

• Bluestone Mountain, Mark "Brink" Brinkman
• Jacob's Dream, Alison Krauss. See also:
• Lost Children of the Alleghenies
• Silver Ghost

Good Dogs (Especially Hounds)

• "Good dog": The stories we tell about our canine companions and what they mean for humans and other animals, Karla Armbruster, Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2002
• Joe, Trey Hensley, Dixie Hall and Tom T. Hall
• Echo Mountain, James King, Billy Smith and Mac Elliott. See also:
• On St. Guinefort: De Supersticione, Stephen de Bourbon (d. 1262), Medieval Sourcebook
• Gelert, myths and legends, Wales, BBC
• Old Blue, Digital Tradition Mirror. See also:
• Old Blue, Gordon Lightfoot
• Old Blue, Cisco Houston
• Deep Blue Sea, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• I Think I am Gonna Kill Myself, Waylon Jennings
• Old [Ole] Rattler, Grandpa Jones
• Here, Rattler, Here, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Heaven's Rescue and Reward

• The Old Ship of Zion, The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition. See also:
• The Old ship of Zion, J. L. Gregg, [1876], Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, American Memory
• 125. The Old Ship of Zion, Slave Songs of the United States, William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds., New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867
• Africanisms in the "Old Ship of Zion": What Are Their Forms and Why Do They Persist?, Audrey Brown, Places of Cultural Memory: African Reflections on the American Landscape. Conference Proceedings, May 9–12, 2001. Atlanta, GA, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service

Memorable People

• Elvis on Velvet, Monroe on Grass, Gary Brewer
• John Henry, Present at the Creation, NPR, 2 September 2002. See also:
• Joan Henry, Michelle Nixon and Drive, Dixie Hall and Tom T. Hall
• Martha White Theme, Flatt and Scruggs
• Uncle Pen, Bill Monroe
• Catfish John, Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds

Murder

• The Knoxville Boy, Larry Stephenson Band, Dixie and Tom T. Hall. See also:
• Knoxville Girl, Louvin Brothers
• Pretty Polly, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• Wexford Girl, Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics
• Banks of the Ohio, Traditional Music Library On Line Tunebook - Bluegrass Volume (Shareware Version)
• Little Mary Phagan, Rosa Lee Carson, Documenting the American South, UNC. See also:
• Little Mary Fagan
• Leo Frank Case, The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Leo Frank Lynching: Leo Frank Atlanta trial and lynching in Marietta, GA, Atlanta Nation
• Murder of Sarah Vail, Digital Tradition Mirror. See also:
• The Black River Road Tragedy: Full reports of the coroner's inquest and the trial of John A. Munro for the murder of Sarah Margaret Vail and Ella May Munroe, Saint John, N.B.: s.n., 1869
• Poor Ellen Smith, Digital Traditional Mirror
• Tom Dooley, Doc Watson. See also:
• Tom Dula Dooley
• Tom Dooley, Kingston Trio
• Willie Taylor, Uncle Earl. See also:
• Chapter 3: Marmaduke Merry: A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days, William H. G. Kingston, Project Gutenberg EBook
• William Taylor, folkinfo
• William Taylor, Ballads Catalogue: Harding B 25(2069), Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford

Redemption, Salvation, and Sacrifice

• Legend of the Dogwood Tree, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection. See also:
• Three Rusty Nails [and an old dogwood tree], Ronnie Bowman
• The Fourth Man, Statler Brothers, Arthur Smith. See also:
• Daniel 3, Holy Bible, King James Version
• God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Ralph Stanley. See also:
• God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Carter Family
• God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, Abbott Family, Mountain Music for Everyone
• I Got a Home in That Rock, negrospirituals.com
• Two writers sharing: Sterling A. Brown, Robert Frost, and "In Dives' Dive", John Edgar Tidwell, African American Review, Fall 1997, see especially, page 8 et seq.
• He Will Set Your Fields on Fire, Bill Monroe. See also:
• He Will Set Your Fields on Fire, Kitty Wells
• He Will Set Your Fields on Fire, EZFolk
• 2 Samuel 14, verses 30-31, Holy Bible, King James Version
• I am the Man, Thomas, Stanley Brothers
• Just as the Sun Went Down [2], James King. See also:
• Just as the Sun Went Down [1]
• Just as the Sun Went Down, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• The Man in the Middle [Three Men on the Mountain], Digital Tradition Mirror. See also:
• Man in the Middle, Stanley Brothers
• Master's Call, Marty Robbins. See also:
• The Hound of Heaven, Francis Thompson, Representative Poetry Online
• Penance, Power, and Pursuit: On the Trail of the Wild Hunt, Ari Berk and William Spytma, Realms of Fantasy, 2002
• On the Rock Where Moses Stood, Carter Family. See also:
• Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord, Flatt and Scruggs
• Bowed My Head Cried Holy, Gene Clark
• Cryin' Holy Unto My Lord, Bill Monroe
• Rank Stranger, Ricky Skaggs. See also:
• Rank Stranger, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Songs about the Music

• Goin' Back to Harlan, Emmy Lou Harris
• Grandma's Songs, The Boohers, Dixie Hall and Tom T. Hall
• Jimmy Martin Songs for Dinner, Ryan Holladay, Dixie Hall and Tom T. Hall
• I've Got Bluegrass on My Mind

True Love ... Lost

• Barbara Allen, Cisco Houston. See also:
• Bonny Barbara Allen, Lyrical Legacy, Library of Congress
• Barbara Allen (Bonny Barbara Allen), Wolf Folklore Collection
• Bonny Barbara Allan, Traditional Ballads, English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray, The Harvard Classics, 1909-14
• Barbara Allen's Cruelty, Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Representative Poetry Online
• Bonny Barbara Allen, The Child Ballads, no. 84A
• [Barbara Allen], Catalogue of Ballads, Harding B 25(115), Harding B 11(730), et al., Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford
• Footprints In The Snow, Bill Monroe. See also:
• Footprints in the Snow, Abbott Family Music Lyrics
• Footprints in the Snow, Ballads Catalogue: Johnson Ballads 2837, Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford
• Long Black Veil, Lefty Frizzell, Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin. See also:
• Long Black Veil, Bob Dylan
• Peter Viney on "Long Black Veil", The Band
• The Songs of Johnny Cash, Kathryn Slusher, Prairie Home Companion, October 23, 2003
• God Walks These Hills with Me, Eddy Arnold, Vic McAlpin and Marvin Hughes
• My Boy Willie, 20,000 Volkslieder, German and other Folk Songs ... . See also:
• Willie Taylor
• A Sailor's Life, Reinhard Zierke
• Wagoner's Lad, Digital Tradition Mirror. See also:
• Someday Soon, Judy Collins, Ian Tyson
• My Horses Ain't Hungry, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• Pretty Mary, Peter, Paul and Mary

True Love ... Rejected

• The Brown Girl, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection. See also:
• Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, Contemplator
• Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, Copper Family Song Book
• Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, Traditional Ballads, English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray, The Harvard Classics, 1909–14
• Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, Ballads Catalogue: Johnson Ballads 225, Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford
• Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor, with the downfal of the brown girl, Ballads Catalogue: Harding B 37(38), Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford
• I Never Will Marry, Songs of the Carter Family, bluegrasslyrics.com. See also:
• Damsel's Lament (I never will marry), Brothers Four
• Lover's Lament for Her Sailor, Ballads Catalogue, Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford

War

• Cruel War, Contemplator. See also:
• Johnny, O Johnny, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• Banks of the Nile, Bodleian Library Broadsides, Oxford
• Jacket so Blue (The Bonnet o' Blue), Traditional Ballad Index Supplement, Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle
• Just as the Sun Went Down [1], Broadside Ballads, National Library of Scotland. See also:
• Just as the Sun Went Down [2]
• Just as the Sun Went Down: a pathetic incident of war time, Lyn Udall
• Just as the Sun Went Down, Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
• America's Battle Cry and Other New War Songs Set to Old Familiar Tunes, Bettie Freshwater Pool, Elizabeth City, N.C.: The Author, 1918, Documenting the American South, UNC
• War Songs of the South, William G. Shepperson, Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862, Documenting the American South, UNC

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