With a new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox's understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.

Consists primarily of lyrics of folks songs, with notes about sources; also contains some music in the section titled "Folk tunes, edited by Miss Lydia I. Hinkel ..." (pages [519]-532).

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.