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     Transylvania University Studies in English

     II




     A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs

     By

     HUBERT G. SHEARIN, A. M. Ph. D.
     Professor of English Philology in Transylvania University

     and

     JOSIAH H. COMBS, A. B.
     Editor of The Transylvanian

     Transylvania Printing Company
     Lexington, Kentucky
     1911




     TO

     R. M. S.




INTRODUCTION


This syllabus, or finding-list, is offered to lovers of folk-literature
in the hope that it may not be without interest and value to them for
purposes of comparison and identification. It includes 333 items,
exclusive of 114 variants, and embraces all popular songs that have so
far come to hand as having been "learned by ear instead of by eye," as
existing through oral transmission--song-ballads, love-songs,
number-songs, dance-songs, play-songs, child-songs