Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage UseRobert X. Leeds Epic Publishing Company, Inc, 1999 - 332 pages A rare collection of 195 barroom story-poems including over 150 that have not been published in over 100 years. Most were recited by minstrels who traveled the old West and performed them on kerosine lit tavern stages. These poems were gathered from all over the world. No profanity. |
Contents
A Chip On His Shoulder Unknown | 11 |
A Little Angel Linda Robertson | 17 |
A Tale Of Conscious Virtue Unknown | 26 |
All Of One Size Unknown | 32 |
Ballad Of Christmas Present Jerry Betts | 38 |
Buying Loyalty Anne Campbell | 44 |
Casey Twenty Years Later S P McDonald | 48 |
Dogs For Disposal Margaret M Mackay | 56 |
The Betrothed Rudyard Kipling | 179 |
The Clink Of The Ice Eugene Field | 185 |
The Dancer Faith Frances Berlin | 194 |
The Defective Mirror Michele S Kurlander | 201 |
The Female Of The Species Rudyard Kipling | 209 |
The Great Provider Bill Foster | 216 |
The Homecoming Royal L Craig | 222 |
The Raven Edgar Allen Poe 247 | 225 |
Gunga Din Kipling | 67 |
High Flight John Gillespie Magee | 73 |
Am The Tears Sherry Sharp | 81 |
Jim Bludso Col John Hay | 88 |
Light Shining Out of Darkness William Cowper | 94 |
Lonely Walker 75 | 100 |
McCaffery Unknown | 103 |
My Dog Burr McIntosh 85 | 109 |
Our Lips And Ears Unknown 149 | 122 |
Paw Marks W J Hickmott Jr | 129 |
Rags Edmund Vance Cooke | 136 |
She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured William B Gray | 143 |
That Cocker Spaniel Mutt Bo Tandy Magruder | 150 |
The Ballad Of Me And Sourdough Dan James Ploss | 156 |
The Last Of The Light Brigade Rudyard Kipling 183 | 228 |
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 217 | 234 |
The Nuisance Margaret Mackprang Mackay 151 | 240 |
The Rodeo Clown James Ploss | 269 |
The SeaWife Rudyard Kipling | 275 |
The Vagabond And His Dog Robert X Leeds 8 | 281 |
The Womans Resolution Edward L Wier | 287 |
The Young British Soldier Rudyard Kipling | 294 |
TurnAbout W Williams 203 | 300 |
Who Shared Her View Douglas Kruger | 308 |
Wits End Linda Robertson | 314 |
Woman Linda Robertson 215 | 328 |
Common terms and phrases
ain't angels Annabel Lee Author Unknown beauty Bill Foster Billy Bowlegs bird Blue Velvet Band bottle of rum called captain captain's gig Casey Casey's Christmas cold cried dead dear Devil door dreams drink eyes face Fame fear floor Gelett Burgess Gunga Gunga Din hair hand head hear heard heart Heaven hell hound Jake James Whitcomb Riley knew land laugh Linda Robertson little Meg live look Lord mighty Casey never Nevermore night o'er passed poems pray prison Robert Service Robert X round Rudyard Kipling sailed Santa seemed ship Sieve sigh sight silence sing sleigh smile Snuggles soldier song soul Sourdough stood sweet tears tell thee There's thing thought told took turned Twas voice walk watched wedding wife wind woman wonder word Yo-ho-ho
References to this book
Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities Simon J. Bronner No preview available - 2005 |