6aabb(?), 7: A Scotch laddie, MacDonald, falls
in love with "Irish Molly." Scorned by her parents, he wanders about,
signifying his intention to die for her, and suggests an appropriate
inscription for his tombstone. (See an Old World variant in Brooke and
Rolleston's Treasury of Irish Poetry, p. 15, Macmillan, 1905.)

WILLIAM RILEY, 6aabb, 7: Eloping with Polly Ann, he is brought back to
trial by her irate father, is defended by an aged lawyer, is
transported, and departs wearing the maiden's ring. (See an Old World
variant in the volume just named, p. 6.)

ROVING IRISH BOY, 4a3b4c3b, 12: He lands in Philadelphia and "makes a
hit" with the ladies. Then he visits "other parts"--among the Dutch of
Bucks County, he meets an inn-keeper's daughter, and leaves off
rambling.

THE WAXFORD GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 6: A youth murders his sweetheart and throws
her into a stream. He tells his mother, who sees the blood on his
clothes, that his nose has been bleeding. He is haunted by the ghost of
the dead girl. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and Miller-boy, page 28.)

PATTY ON THE CANAL, 3abcb and 3abcb, 9: Pat lands in "Sweet Philadelphy"
and soon "makes himself handy" on the canal, likewise among the girls,
whose mothers become anxious. He is a "Jackson man up to the handle."

MOLLY, 6aabb, 4: An Irish lad comes to America, courts Molly, but
against her parents' will. He goes to serve a foreign king for seven
years, returns, and finds that Molly has died of grief.

JOHNNIE CAME FROM SEA, 6aa, 10: Irish Johnnie escapes a shipwreck and
lands in America. Thinking him penniless, a landlord refuses him his
daughter's hand. Johnnie "draws out handfuls of gold" and departs, to
drink "good brandy."

IRISH GIRL, a fragment, as follows:

So costly were the robes of silk
The Irish girl did wear--
Her hair was as black as a raven,
Her eyes were black as a crow,
Her cheeks were red as roses
That in the garden grow.

V.

_The songs of this group are based upon incidents or events of the Civil
War._

BOUNTY JUMPERS, 3abcb, 9: Sam Downey, a soldier, "jumps his bounty," and
is apprehended in Baltimore. Refusing to return the money, he is shot by
the military authorities.

HIRAM HUBBERT, 3abcb, 9: Hiram Hubbert is taken by the Rebels in the
guerrilla warfare in the Cumberland Mountains, tried, tied to a tree and
shot. He leaves a last letter of farewell to his family.

THE GUERRILLA MAN, 3a3b4c3b, 5: A