Odum. Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes

Today's free book is Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard Odum (1911). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available in two parts published in the Journal of American Folklore in 1911: Part I and Part II (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

1. Don't Got a Hole in De Wall
2. Mule-song
3. The Negro and His Mule
4. Poor John
5. At the Ball
6. When He Gits Old - Old an' Gray
7. Ain't It Hard to Be a Nigger
8. Po' Boy Long Way From Home
9. On a Hog
10. Frisco Rag-time
11. Look'd Down De Road
12. If I Die in Arkansas
13. Got No Where to Lay My Weary Head
14. Baby, You Sho' Lookin' Warm
15. Take Your Time
16. 'tain't Nobody's Bizness but My Own
17. I'm Going 'way
18. O Babe!
19. Sweet Tennesee
20. I Ain't Bother Yet
21. I'm on My Last Go-round
22. Learn Me to Let All Women Alone
23. O My Babe! Won't You Come Home
24. Make Me a Palat on De Flo'
25. Can't Be Your Turtle Any Mo'
26. No More Good Time
27. Diamon' Joe
28. Baby, What Have I Done?
29. Things Ain't Same, Babe, Since I Went 'way
30. Baby, Let Me Bring My Clothes Back Home
31. Long and Tall an' Chocolate to the Bone
32. Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis, Tennessee
33. Started to Leave
34. I Couldn't Git in
35. What Stirrin', Babe
36. Hop Right
37. If You Want to Go a Courtin'
38. If You Want to Marry
39. Honey, Take a One on Me
40. Don't Hit That Woman
41. I Love That Man
42. Kelly's Love
43. My Love for You Is All I Knew
44. Thought I Heard That K. C.
45. Sweet, Forget Me Not
46. Stagolee
47. Stagolee
48. Railroad Bill
49. It's That Bad Railroad Bill
50. It's Lookin' for Railroad Bill
51. Right on Desperado Bill
52. Lookin' for That Bully of This Town
53. Eddy Jones
54. Joe Turner
55. Casey Jones
56. Joseph Mica
57. Brady
58. The Negro Bum
59. One Mo' Rounder Gone
60. Eastman
61. Bad-lan' Stone
62. You May Leave, but This Will Bring You Back
63. This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon
64. Brer Rabbit
65. Ev'rybody Bin Down on Me
66. Nobody's Bizness but Mine
67. I'm Goin' Back
68. Dat Fortune-teller Man
69. Cocaine Habit
70. Rollin'-mill
71. Julia Waters
72. Thought I Heard That K. C. Whistle Blow
73. K. C.
74. L. And N.
75. Knife-song
76. Break-down Song
77. Greasy Greens
78. Lost John
79. Ain't You Sorry
80. Lilly
81. Baby Let the Deal Go Down
82. Get That Money
83. Odd-fellows Hall
84. I Got Mine
85. Gamblin' Story
86. You Shall Be Free
87. Pans O' Biscuit
88. When the Band Begins to Play
89. "One-verse" Songs
90. She Roll Dem Two White Eyes
91. Honey, Take a One on Me
92. Don't You Hear Them Bells a-ringin'?
93. Carve 'im to De Heart
94. Cross-eyed Sallie
95. Well, She Ask Me in De Parlor
96. The Day I Lef' My Home
97. Early in De Mornin'
98. Grade-song
99. Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawdy!
100. Baby's in Memphis
101. Railroad Gang Song
102. Ja-gooze
103. Ho-ho
104. Baby Mine
105. Raise the Iron
106. Pick-and-shovel Song
107. Workmen's Song
108. Frank and Jesse James
109. Satisfied
110. "Fill-in" Song
111. "Ain't Goin' Be No Rine"
112. It's Movin' Day
113. Gang-songs
114. Heave-a-horas
115. H-o-l-d Songs