A collection of folk songs gathered by Cecil Sharp and Olive Campbell, and edited by Maud Karpeles, from the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Volume one contains 72 ballads. Volume two contains 135 songs, 5 hymns, 27 nursery songs, 15 jigs, and 20 play-party games.

First edition, "by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp," published in 1917.

v. 1. The elfin knight -- The false knight upon the road -- Lady Isabel and the elf knight -- Earl Brand -- The two sisters -- The cruel brother -- Lord Randal -- Edward -- Sir Lionel -- The cruel mother -- The three ravens -- The two brothers -- Young Beichan -- Lizzie Wan -- The cherry-tree carol -- Fair Annie -- Lady Maisry -- Young hunting -- Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor -- Fair Margaret and sweet William -- Lord Lovel -- The wife of Usher's well -- Little musgrave and lady Barnard -- Barbara Allen -- Giles Collins -- The lowlands of Holland -- Lamkin -- The maid freed from the gallows -- Johnie Scot -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- Sir Hugh -- The death of Queen Jane -- The gypsy laddie -- Geordie -- The daemon lover -- The grey cock -- The Suffolk miracle -- Our goodman -- The wife wrapt in wether's skin -- The farmer's curst wife -- The golden vanity -- The mermaid -- John of Hazelgreen -- The brown girl -- The trooper and the maid -- The blind beggar's daughter -- The babes in the wood -- In seaport town -- The cruel ship's carpenter -- Shooting of his dear -- The lady and the dragoon -- The boatsman and the chest -- The holly twig -- Polly Oliver -- The rich old lady -- Edwin in the lowlands low -- Awake! Awake! -- The green bed -- The simple ploughboy -- The three butchers -- William Taylor -- The golden glove -- Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth -- The silk merchant's daughter -- Jack went a-sailing -- The bold lieutenant -- The banks of sweet dundee -- The councillor's daughter -- Caroline of Edinboro' Town -- The clothier -- The miller's apprentice or The Oxford tragedy -- Still growing. v. 2. Married and single life -- Betsy -- If you want to go a-courting -- Pretty Saro -- My dearest dear -- I'm going to Georgia -- Macafee's confession or Harry Grey -- Locks and bolts -- William and Nancy -- George Reilly -- Johnny Doyle -- Lazarus -- Black is the colour -- The single girl -- John Hardy -- Betty Anne -- My boy Billy -- Soldier, won't you marry me? -- Swannanoa Town -- The keys of heaven -- Putman's hill -- The false young man -- Pretty Peggy O -- My parents treated me tenderly -- The Sheffield apprentice -- The broken token -- Wild Bill Jones -- The shoemaker -- The brisk young lover -- Seven long years -- Come all you young and handsome girls -- Loving Reilly -- The awful wedding -- Sweet William -- Good morning, my pretty little miss -- My mother bid me -- The rejected lvoer -- The lover's lament -- The dear companion -- The Rocky Mountain top -- The warfare is raging -- The true lover's farewell -- Katie Morey -- Rain and snow -- The wagoner's lad -- come all you fair and tender ladies -- Ibby Damsel -- Handsome Sally -- William and Polly -- Hick's farewell -- Poor Omie -- The Virginian lover -- Early, early in the spring -- Green bushes -- I'm Seventeen come Sunday -- I must and I will get married -- The lost babe -- The noble man. St. James's hospital -- Springfield mountain -- Tarry Trousers -- Whistle daughter -- Brennan on the moor -- The battle of Shiloh -- The foggy dew -- The bold privateer -- Waterloo -- The cuckoo -- The derby ram -- The green brier shore -- I'm going to get married next Sunday -- The riddle song -- The nightingale -- One cold winter's morning -- The lonesome grove -- The lily of the west -- Devilish Mary -- Ha, ha, ha -- Tom Bolynn -- The gambling man -- When boys go a-courting -- Will the weaver -- Sally and her lover or Lady Leroy -- Green grows the laurel -- The rebel soldier or The poor stranger -- No-e in the ark -- Sally Buck -- The horse's complaint -- The miller's wife -- The sons of liberty -- Loving Nancy -- The boy on the land -- The silver dagger -- Niagara Falls -- In old Virginny -- The saucy sailor -- The lonesome prairie -- Old Arkansas -- William Hall -- Farewell dear Rosanna -- Boney's defeat -- The fateful blow -- The slighted soldier -- Billy Grimes -- The courting case -- The deaf woman's courtship -- Come all ye southern soldiers -- The Irish girl -- Johnny German -- Harm link -- Old Joe Clarke -- The poor couple -- Susannah Clargy -- The sunny south -- True love from the Eastern shore -- The drummer and his wife -- Every night when the sun goes in -- I love my love -- In Nottamun Town -- Samuel Young -- When Adam was created -- Daniel in the lion's den -- Jesse Cole -- Barbara Buck -- Clay Morgan -- Way down the Ohio -- The crow-fish man -- Barber's cry -- Lulie -- A Monday was my courting day -- Black girl -- Harding's defeat -- Come my little roving sailor -- The tree in the wood -- The ten commandments -- The sinner-man -- Hold on -- Christ was born in Bethlehem -- 'Tis a wonder -- Jacob's ladder -- Cocky Robin -- The three huntsmen -- The bird song -- Sourwood Mountain -- The foolish boy -- The farmyard -- I whipped my horse -- A frog he went a-courting -- The frog in the well -- The carrion crow -- The old grey mare -- The bridle and saddle -- The squirrel -- The old black duck -- What are little boys made of? -- What'll we do with the baby? -- Poor old maid -- The good old man -- The ground hog -- Bye, bye, baby -- Mammy loves -- The mocking bird -- The old woman and the little pigee -- The old grey goose -- Phoebe in her petticoat -- Snake baked a hoe-cake -- The Tottenham toad -- Sally Anne -- Cripple creek -- the opossum -- Liza Anne -- Eliza Jane -- Sugar babe -- Give the fiddler a dram -- Gone to cripple creek -- Run, nigger, run -- Porto Rico -- The hog-eyed man -- The jackfish -- Marina girls -- O this door locked -- The shad -- Yonder stands young couple -- Old Doc Jones -- Up she rises -- Maria's gone -- Old Roger -- Will you wear red? -- Going to Boston -- Chase the Buffalo -- Sad condition -- Early Sunday morning -- Old bald eagle -- Philadelphia -- Charlie's sweet -- The higher up the cherry tree -- The chickens they are crowing -- Swing a lady -- Reap, boys, reap -- Soldier boy for me -- I wish I was a child again -- Some love Coffee.