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‘New Song Made on the Intended Invasion of the Spaniards’ in Ballads and Songs 26: The Youth has now lost heart and head For ah! his brave Smock-Hero’s fled.at smock hunter (n.) under smock, n.1
‘New Song Made on the Intended Invasion of the Spaniards’ in Ballads and Songs 26: The Youth has now lost heart and head For ah! his brave Smock-Hero’s fled. ‘Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) 494: In some rum-shop they’ll let him stop, / At eight bells he’s turned out.at bell, n.1
‘Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!’ Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) 493: When Jack and Joe palavers, O.at palaver, v.
‘Jimmie Jones’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 38: Dead an’ gone, dead an’ gone, / Kase he’s been on de cholly* so long. [*‘On de cholly’ is equivalent to ‘out on the hog,’ or ‘on the bum’].at on the charley under charley, n.
‘The Wreck of the Six-Wheel Driver’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 40: Please, Mr. Conductor, won’t you save us all? / For I’ve been on the Charley so long.at on the charley under charley, n.
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‘The Buccaneers’ Seven Seas Sept. in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) n.p.: And there they lay, all good, dead men, / Like break o’ day in a boozin’ ken.at bousing-ken, n.
‘The Buccaneers’ Seven Seas Sept. in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) n.p.: The mate was fixed by the bo’sun’s pike [...] And the cookie’s throat was marked belike.at cookee, n.
‘Buccaneers’ Seven Seas Sept. in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) n.p.: The skipper lay with his nob in gore, / Where the scullion’s ax his cheek had shore.at nob, n.1
‘Willie the Weeper’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 185: There was a young man named Willie the Weeper [...] Had the hop habit and had it bad.at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
‘Alabama-Bound’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 207: Make me drunk ag’in I’m a windin’ ball. [...] If you a married woman, you got no business here, / But if you are single, babe, / Let’s buy some bottled beer.at winding boy, n.
‘The Killer’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 403: I’m a ra’rin’, flarin’ bucko, not afraid to play my hand.at bucko, n.1
‘Hinky-Dinky’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 559: The cootie is the national bug of France, / The cootie’s found all over France.at cootie, n.
‘Darky Sunday School’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 351: Young folks, old folks, everybody come, / Join our darky Sunday School, and make yourself to hum.at darkie, adj.
‘Good Ol Mountain Dew’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 180: Beside a hill there is a still [...] You can always tell by the whiff and the smell, / That the liquor boys are nigh. / This mountain dew is made from grain, / And mixed with water pure.at mountain dew, n.
‘Hinky-Dinky’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 559: She might have been young for all we knew, / When Napoleon flopped at Waterloo.at flop, v.
‘Hinky-Dinky’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 560: My Froggie girl was true to me [...] She was true to the whole damn army, too.at Froggie, n.
‘Roy Bean’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 413: Bean, now hurry up, gol durn your eyes.at goldarn, v.
‘Hinky-Dinky’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 559: Our grease-ball is a goddam dirty bum, / He bails out swill and makes the slum.at greaseball, n.
in Lomax & Lomax Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 185: Went to the Chink’s joint the other night [...] He called in the Chink and ordered a toy of hop.at joint, n.
Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 612: Steal up to de back do’, / Den on to de bed, / Lawsy, Lawsy, mister, / Da’s ’nough said.at laws!, excl.
‘Darky Sunday School’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 353: Along came Goliath, just a-spoilin’ for a muss.at muss, n.
‘Cumberland Gap’ in Lomax & Lomax Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 275: I’ve got a woman in Cumberland Gap, / She’s got a boy that calls me ‘pap’.at pop, n.3
‘Sandy Lan’’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 237: Big fat possum up-a ’simmon tree, / Make a big supper fer you and me.at simmon, n.
‘The Company Cook’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 552: Well, along in the fall he stopped whistling at all, / Just sozzled around and cried.at sozzle, v.
‘Hinky-Dinky’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 559: Our grease-ball is a goddam dirty bum, / He bails out swill and makes the slum.at swill, n.
‘The Company Cook’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 559: The one we had was a regular cad [...] A cross betwixt a mule and a ’tarnal fool.at tarnal, adj.
‘Sandy Lan’ in Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 237: Big yam taters in de sandy lan’, / Sandy bottom, sandy lan’.at tater, n.
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