"go on his bail."

LAST NIGHT AS I LAY SLEEPING, 3abcb, 6: A prisoner in the Knoxville
[Tenn.] jail dreams of his home and sweetheart, but is rudely awakened
by the turnkey to hear his death-sentence passed.

EDWARD HAWKINS, 4abcb, 9ca: Under sentence of death for murder, he warns
his comrades by his example, welcomes death bravely, and invites them to
see his execution twenty-eight days hence.

ROWDY BOYS, metre as below, 5: A "rowdy" youth scorns his mother's
warning, serves a term in the Frankfort State Prison for homicide, and
comes back home still a "rowdy." The first stanza is:

I heard my mother talking; I took it all for fun.
She said I would ride the Frankfort train, before I was twenty-one.

VIII.

_The songs of this group are epic; rather than lyric as are those in
VII, above. They are recitals of local tragedies--murders,
assassinations, feudal battles, and disasters._

THE CAUSE AND KILLING OF JESSE ADAMS, ii, 3abcb, 25: A detailed recital
of a domestic tragedy on the Brushy Fork of Blaine: Adams, overhearing
his wife and her paramour, shoots her and attempts suicide.

FLOYD FRAZIER, 3abcb, 16: A recital of Frazier's murder of Ellen
Flannery: he hides her body under a pile of stones; later, is arrested,
makes confession, and is placed in Pineville, Ky., jail to await
execution.

TALT HALL, ii, 3abcb, 8: A recital of Hall's murder of Frank Salyers,
his arrest in Tennessee, his confinement in the Gladeville, Va., jail,
and his execution in Richmond, Va.

WILLIAM BAKER, 3abcb, 12: A recital of Baker's murder of one Prewitt in
Clay County, Ky.: he hides the body in the woods and tells Prewitt's
wife that her husband had deserted her.

POOR GOENS, 4aabb, 5: A recital of the betrayal and murder of Goens for
the purpose of robbery, on Black-spur Mountain.

THE ROWAN COUNTY TRAGEDY, ii, 3abcb, 26: A detailed account of a feudal
battle in Morehead, Ky., on election day, and of the succeeding events
connected with the arrest of the participants.

JOHN T. PARKER, 4aabb, 12: An account of the drowning of Parker in the
Kentucky River one winter night, as, with three companions, he essays to
cross, but their boat is capsized in the wash from the steamboat Blue
Wings.

[JEEMS BRAGGS], 4a3b4c3b, 8: A protest against the Governor's pardon of
Braggs, upon the eve of his execution, for the murder of one Prewitt.

THE ASSASSINATION OF J. B. MARCUM, 3aa6b3cc6b and 3aa6b3cc6b, 13: A
detailed recital of the s