A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs

This syllabus gathers 333 vernacular songs (with 114 variants) learned and transmitted orally across central and eastern Kentucky, compiled from casual field collecting over several years. Entries cover ballads, love-songs, dance and play songs, lullabies, counting-out rhymes, jigs, nonsense verses and ditties, often with brief textual notes, classification codes, refrains, and occasional variant references. Material is grouped thematically and regionally, accompanied by an index and introductory remarks on provenance, transmission, and the local contexts that shaped these folk traditions.