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"Goodbye Old Paint" is a traditional Western song that was created by black cowboy Charley Willis. [1] The song was first collected by songwriter N. Howard "Jack" Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. [2] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]
Most songs of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods originated in England, Scotland and Ireland and were brought over by early settlers. According to ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, American folk music is notable because it "At its roots is an English folk song tradition that has been modified to suit the specific requirements of America."
"Lily of the West" is a traditional British and Irish folk song, best known today as an American folk song, [1] [2] listed as number 957 in the Roud Folk Song Index.The American version is about a man who travels to Louisville and falls in love with a woman named Mary, Flora or Molly, the eponymous Lily of the West. [3]
"Rattlesnake Mountain" is a traditional American folk song derived from one of the earliest known American ballads, "On Springfield Mountain". [1] It is based on the events surrounding the death by snakebite of Timothy Merrick (or Mirick) on August 7, 1761.
"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river's federal hydroelectric facilities (primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam).
The results of Campbell and Sharp's respective work were ultimately made publicly available in a groundbreaking 1917 publication "English Folk Songs from Southern Appalachia" [12] which exposed for the first time the persistence of such folk songs, of Scotch-Irish origin, in the repertoires of the residents of the remote Appalachian mountains ...
Folk music [1] is one of the major divisions of music, now often divided into traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. There are many styles of folk music, all of which can be classified into various traditions, generally based around some combination of ethnic, religious, tribal, political or geographic boundaries.