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  2. Category:English folk songs - Wikipedia

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    Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Stories & Recitations; John W. Chater; Chater's Annual; Cherry Ripe (song) Child Ballads; The Cliffs of Old Tynemouth; Cob coaling; Cock a doodle doo; Cock Robin; A Collection of original local songs; The Collier's Rant; Come Geordie ha'd the bairn; The Crabfish; Cresswell's Local and other Songs and Recitations ...

  3. Roud Folk Song Index - Wikipedia

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    The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5,000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources. (For example, the Roud Folk Song Index shows 22 sources for "Hind Etin" (Roud 33, Child 41), while the Traditional Ballad Index list only one source.) [14]

  4. List of folk songs by Roud number - Wikipedia

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    The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...

  5. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-American traditional music also includes a variety of broadside ballads, humorous stories and tall tales, and disaster songs regarding mining, shipwrecks and murder. [32] Folk songs may be classified by subject matter, such as: drinking songs, sporting songs, train songs, work songs, war songs, and ballads.

  6. Oral tradition - Wikipedia

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    A traditional Kyrgyz manaschi performing part of the Epic of Manas at a yurt camp in Karakol. Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

  7. Uncle Remus - Wikipedia

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    "Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore collected from Southern black Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and Jean de La Fontaine's stories.

  8. Category:American folk songs - Wikipedia

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    A&W (song) Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway; Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round; Alberta (blues) All About You (Hilary Duff song) All God's Chillun Got Wings (song) All My Trials; All the Pretty Little Horses; All-American Bitch; Amen (gospel song) American Life (song) Animal Fair (song) Apples and Bananas; Arcadia (Lana Del Rey song) The ...

  9. Richard Chase (folklorist) - Wikipedia

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    "American Folk Tales and Songs: with Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie singing and Richard Chase Telling Tales" September 4, 1956; Old Songs and Singing Games ISBN 0486228797; The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus ISBN 0618154299; American Folktales and Songs and other examples of English-American traditions as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains ...