Southern Folk Ballads

McNeil, W. K. (Ed.)First edition pictorial hardcover.This book includes child ballads, broadsides, Mexican-American, Cajun French and native American ballads with text and melody transcription for each. It also devotes chapters to humorous ballads, murder ballads, ballads of tragedies and disasters and ballads of the supernatural. The author is the folklorist at the Ozark Folk Center.224 pages inclusive of full index