The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Negro Folk Rhymes
by Thomas Washington Talley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Talley, Thomas Washington
- Title
- Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
- Credits
- Produced by Audrey Longhurst, S.D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- African Americans -- Poetry
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27195
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27195
- Release Date
- November 7, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NEGRO FOLK RHYMES — Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.PART I NEGRO FOLK RHYMES — Dance Rhyme Section — Dance Rhyme Song Section — Play Rhyme Section — Pastime Rhyme Section — Love Rhyme Section — Love Song Rhyme Section — Courtship Rhyme Section — Courtship Song Rhyme Section — Marriage Rhyme Section — Married Life Rhyme Section — Nursery Rhyme Section — BLESSINGS — Wise Saying Section — Foreign Section — African Rhymes — Jamaica Rhyme — Venezuelan Negro Rhymes — Trinidad Negro Rhymes — Philippine Island Rhyme
- 4.PART II A Study in Negro Folk Rhymes
- 5.GENERAL INDEX — Part I — Foreign Section Index — Part II
- 6.COMPARATIVE STUDY INDEX — Love Songs — Dance Songs — Animal and Nature Lore — Nursery Rhymes — Charms and Superstitions — Hunting Songs — Drinking Songs — Wise and Gnomic Sayings — Harvest Songs — Biblical and Religious Themes — Play Songs — Miscellaneous
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