Warde Ford performing Anglo-American songs,
1938-1939

Manuscripts: In English.

Comprises a group of field materials documenting Warde Ford performing Anglo-American songs on December 25, 26, and 27, 1938, and September 4, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California.

December 25, 1938:
The Lowlands low
Comments about Warde Ford and family members in California
Andrew Batan
Beneath the old oak tree
WPA announcement and comments about the Ford family recordings
WPA announcement and comments about the Ford family recorded in California and Wisconsin
Alonzo the brave
The Bishop of Canterbury
Many questions
McCallister

December 26, 1938:
Oxford merchant
As the dew flies over the green valley
Cole younger
Nightingales of spring
There is a land of pleasure
Milwaukee fire
Buffalo, buffalo
Jinnie Jenkins
The Lass of Glen Shee
The Mermaid
Comments regarding the testing of a needle on an acetate disc being recorded
Custer's last charge
Johnny
India's burning sands
A-nutting we will go
Sergeant Tally-ho
The Mowing of the hay
Putting on the agony [fragment]
Putting on the agony [Our goodman]
My mother was a lady
The Green fields of Virginia
The Fair captive

December 27, 1938:
James Bird
John Brown
Proud Dacus and Captain Hull
The Flying cloud
The Shanty boy
The Cumberland crew
Fair Charlotte
Lamanda
Granny, does your dog bite
The Tailor boy
Barney McShane
The Soldier's sweetheart (sung with Pat Ford)
The Fair captive
Lady Leroy
John Hopper's hill
I ain't gonna be treated this a-way
Texas Canyon

September 4, 1939:
My bonny black Bess
The Tune the old cow died on
Finnegan's wake
Jimmie Lanigan
The Battle of Antietam Creek
The Little brown bulls
Foreman Monroe
The last fierce charge
The Farmer's boy
The Derby ram
Jerry will you ile that car
Bill Bailey
The Cruel hiss

Alonzo the brave
Barney McShane
As the dew flies over the green valley
Beneath the old oak tree
The Bishop of Canterbury
Buffalo, buffalo
Captain Hull and proud Dacus
Cole Younger
The Cumberland crew
Custer's last charge
The Mermaid
Fair Charlotte
The Fair captive
The Flying cloud
I'm going down this road feelin' bad
The Green fields of Virginia
Jinnie Jenkins
John Brown
Johnny
Lady Leroy
Lamanda
The Lass of Glen Shee
The Last fierce charge
Lousy miner
Many questions
The Milwaukee fire
The Mowing of the hay
My mother was a lady
Our goodman
Putting on the agony
Sergeant Tally-ho
The Shanty boy
The Soldier's sweetheart
The Tailor boy
Texas Canyon

"Sung by 'Boney' (Warde) Ford."

For other recordings and materials documenting sessions of Warde, Pat, and Bogue Ford performing together, see: Warde, Pat, and Bogue Ford performing Anglo-American songs, September 3, 1939

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