FOREWORD (by Roger D. Abrahams)
I have known Dorothy Scarborough's wonderful song collections for nearly as long as I have been interested in folksong, but until called upon to write this foreword I knew less about her than about any other folksong collector of similar stature.

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ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO
FOLK-SONGS
Folk-songs are shy, elusive things. If you with to capture them, you have to steal up behind them, unbeknownst, and sprinkle salt on their tails.