Field Recordings, Mr. and Mrs. James York
Listed below are the ballad song variants performed by Mr. and Mrs. James York for Dr. W. Amos Abrams, now presented as part of the Dr. W. Amos Abrams Collection. Many of these folk songs were recorded during a recording session at the Bland Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, December 7, 1940. For some variants, Mr. and Mrs. York perform together; other times, they perform alone, with Mrs. James York providing the majority of these variants.
"Away in the North Country" - Mr. and Mrs. York
"Black Jack Davy" - Mrs. James York
"Bold Robin" - Mrs. James York
"Come All You Young Ladies" - Mrs. James York
"Drowsy Sleeper" - Mrs. James York
"Early, Early in the Spring" - James York
"Farmer's Curst Wife" - Mrs. James York
"Froggie's Courtin'" - James York
"Froggie's Courtin'" - Evonna York and Mrs. James York
"Froggy Went Courting" - Mrs. James York
"Get Up and Bar the Door" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
"Golden Willow Tree" - Mrs. James York
"Goldilocks" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
"Green Growing Tree" - Mrs. James York
"Green Grows the Green Laurel" - Mrs. James York
"Hard Times, Boys" - Mrs. James York
"He Courted Her in the Month of June" - Mrs. James York
"I Wouldn't Have Him" - Miss Evona York
"The Lady and the Sailor" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
"Little Emily" - Mrs. James York
"Little Matty Graves" - James York
"Little Willie Weaver" - Mrs. James York
"Lord Randall" - Mrs. James York
"Lord Ullin's Daughter" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
"Maid Freed From the Gallows" - Mrs. James York
"Married Me a Wife" - Mrs. James York
"Old English Hunting Song" - James York
"Over Hills and Over Dells" - James York
"Poor Jack's a-Gone a-Sailin" - James York
"Pretty Fair Maid" - Mrs. James York
"Pretty Polly" - Mr. James York
"Pretty Polly" - Mrs. James York
"The Rake and Rambling Boy" - Mrs. James York
"The Seventh King's Daughter" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
"The Silver Dagger" - Mrs. James York
"When I was a Little Boy" - Mrs. James York
"Young Beichan" - Mr. and Mrs. James York
