Title: The Library of Congress - Archive of Folk Culture - USA Folk music from Wisconsin
A companion to "Songs and Ballads of the Antracite Miners", this album of mining songs, documented in 1940 by "folklorist of the coal fields" George Korson, presents the performances of bituminous miners, from the time before automation drastically changed the way their work was done.
Titles
1. Pompey is dead and laid in his grave 2. How Happy is the sportsman 3. Lord Love 4. Awake, Arise, You drowsy sleeper 5. I'll sell my hat 6. Once i courted a charming beaty bright 7. Brennan on the moor 8. The pinery boy 9. The swamper's revenge on the windfall 10. The couderay Jig 11. Lumberjack dance tune 12. Pig Schottishe 13. Shantyman's Life 14. The bold Mcintyres 15. The little brown bulls 16. Young Johnny 17. Billy Vanero 18. Cranberry song 19. On the lakes of Ponchartrain 20. The Milwaukee fire 21. Reuben wright and phoebe brown
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