Ray Wood was born in Girard, Kansas on September 20, 1889 and died February 5, 1964 in Houston, Texas. His career included teaching, government employment and journalism. He first worked in Oklahoma and Arkansas but from 1946 until his death he worked for the Houston Chronicle. Wood specialized in folklore and published two books on the subject: "Mother Goose in the Ozarks" and "Mother Goose in Texas."
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The Ray Wood Collection. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston
Public Library.
Processed by: Patrick J. Gilpin, completed August 4, 1976.
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Verses
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| Box | Folder |
| 14 | 1 | | "Adam and Eve" through "Across the Purpling Hilltops" |
| 2 | | "After the Ball" through "Ain't We Crazy" |
| 3 | | "Alabama Bound" through "Alice Blue Gown" |
| 4 | | "All-Alone" |
| 5 | | "All By My Self" through "Always Take a Girl Named Daisy" |
| 6 | | "America, the Beautiful" through "The American Flag" |
| 7 | | "Anchored" through "Annie and Willies Prayers" |
| 8 | | "Annie Vardeen" through "Around the Corner" |
| 9 | | "As Goes America" through "At Sundown" |
| 10 | | "Auld Lang Syne" through "Await in the Chair" |
| 11 | | "Babes" through "The Baldheaded End of the Broom" |
| 12 | | "Ballad of the Brook" through "The Barnyard Song" |
| 13 | | "A Banjo Song" through "Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
| 14 | | "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" through "Because You're You from the Red Mill" |
| Box | Folder |
| 15 | 1 | | "Bedouin Love Song" through "The Belle of Mohawk Vale" |
| 2 | | "The Bethlehem Babe" through "Beyond the Sunset" |
| 3 | | "The Bible Cake" through "Bingen on the Rhine" |
| 4 | | "The Bird with the Broken Wing" through "Birthdays" |
| 5 | | "Black is the Color of My Truelove's Hair" through "The Blind Boy" |
| 6 | | "The Blind Child" |
| 7 | | "The Blind Men and the Elephant" through "blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" |
| 8 | | "Blue Again" through "Blue Moon" |
| 9 | | "Bob White" through "A Boy to His Stomach" |
| 10 | | "De Bratmen's Dance" through "Brennan on the Mold" |
| 11 | | "Brian O'Lin" through "Bring Your Roses to Your Mother" |
| 12 | | "The Broken Hearted Man" through "Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue?" |
| 13 | | "Budwiser's a Friend of Mine" through "The Burial of Moses" |
| 14 | | "Bury Me on the Prairie" through "Bye Bye Blackbird" |
| Box | Folder |
| 16 | 1 | | "Cabin in the Cotton" through "Calling the Prodigal" |
| 2 | | "Camille" through "Casey at Bat" |
| 3 | | "Cast Aside" through "The Child in the Garden" |
| 4 | | "The Child of the Railroad Engineer" through "Clouds Hide the Gloom" |
| 5 | | "Cod Liver Ile" through "Come on Board" |
| 6 | | "Come Right In, Sit Right Down, Make Yourself at Home" through "Conscience" |
| 7 | | "Contentment" through "Courtin These Texas Boys" |
| 8 | | "The Cow and the Pig and the Hen" through "Crazy People" |
| 9 | | "The Cremation of Sam McGee" |
| 10 | | "The Cross was His Own" through "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" |
| 11 | | "Daddy's Gone Away" through "Darwin's Theory Exploded" |
| 12 | | "Dasies Won't Tell" through "The Death of Jimmie Rogers" |
| 13 | | "Debt" through "Diamond Joe" |
| 14 | | "Diamonds in the Rough" |
| 15 | | "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" through "The Donkey Serenade" |
| 16 | | "Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You" through "Don't Go Tommy" |
| Box | Folder |
| 17 | 1 | | "Don't Judge Too Harshly" through "don't Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve" |
| 2 | | "Douglas" through "Down Where the cotton Blossoms Grow" |
| 3 | | "A Dream" through "The Duel" |
| 4 | | "Duncan and Brady" through "The Dying Cowboy" |
| 5 | | "Earth to Air" through "Entertaining Her Big Sister's Beau" |
| 6 | | "Ephriam" through "Express Office" |
| 7 | | "The Face Upon the Floor" through "The Fairies of the Caldon Law" |
| 8 | | "Fairy Bell" through "The Fata Wedding" |
| 9 | | "Father and Mother too" through "The Foggy Dew" |
| 10 | | "Folks that Put on Airs" through "Forsake Love" |
| 11 | | "Forty Years Ago" through "From Love Too Young" |
| 12 | | "Gambler's Blues" through "Get Out and Get Under" |
| 13 | | "The Girl I Left Behind" through "The Glowworm" |
| 14 | | "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" through "God is Calling Prodigal" |
| 15 | | "God Keep and Guide Our Men" through "Goodnight Irene" |
| 16 | | "Goodnight Little Girl Good Night" through "The Great Judgement Morning" |
| Box | Folder |
| 18 | 1 | | "The Great Speckled Bird" through "Griggsby's Station" |
| 2 | | "Gripes" through "The Gypsy's Warning" |
| 3 | | "H-a-double R-I-G-A-N Spells Harrigan" through "He Came to this World as a Baby" |
| 4 | | "He is so Precious to Me" through "He Worried About It" |
| 5 | | "Head Long Granny" through "Hell in Texas" |
| 6 | | "Hello Central" through "He Me Pal" |
| 7 | | "Hey Rube or A Day at the Circus" through "The High Cost of Loving " |
| 8 | | "High Flight" through "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" |
| 9 | | "Hohenlinden" through "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide" |
| 10 | | "Holy Train" through "Home, Sweet Home" |
| 11 | | "Honey, Don't I Love So Well" through "How Long Has It Been" |
| 12 | | "How Old Are You?" through "Hunting the Wren" |
| 13 | | "I Ain't Seen No Messinger Boy" through "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" |
| 14 | | "I Don't Want to Walk With You" through "I Get the Blues When It Rains" |
| 15 | | "I Guess I'm Just a Little Old Fashion" through "I Remember You" |
| 16 | | "I Shall Not Pass This Way Again" through "I Wish I Was a Mile in the Ground" |
| 17 | | "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" through "If" |
| Box | Folder |
| 19 | 1 | | "If a Star Should Wed a Flower" through "If the Wind Had Only Blown the Other Way" |
| 2 | | "If You Had Retreated from God" through "I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again" |
| 3 | | "I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again" |
| 4 | | "I'm Fine" through "I'm Walking Behind You" |
| 5 | | "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" through "In the Paths of Righteousness" |
| 6 | | "In School Days" through "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" |
| 7 | | "In the Shadow of the Pines" |
| 8 | | "Invictus" through "It Came Upon the Midnight" |
| 9 | | "It Couldn't Be Done" through "I've Go a Feeling For You" |
| 10 | | "I've a Longing in my Heart For You, Louise" through "Ivory Places" |
| 11 | | "Jack and Joe" through "Jennie Jenkins" |
| 12 | | "Jenny Kissed Me" through "Jesus Took My Burden" |
| 13 | | "Jimmy Butler and the Owl" through "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" |
| 14 | | "The Jolly Wagoner Lad" through "Just Break the News to Mother" |
| 15 | | "Just a Cottage Small" through "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" |
| Box | Folder |
| 20 | 1 | | "Kate Ketchem" through "Keep Your Head Down" |
| 2 | | "The King of Love" through "The King's Breakfast" |
| 3 | | "The King of Love" through "The King's Business""Kingdom Come the Knoxville Girl" |
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| 5 | | "Kingdom Come " through "The Knoxville Girl""Labor" through "Land of Promise" |
| 6 | | "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" through "Lasca" |
| 7 | | "The Lass of Rock Royal" through "Laugh Clown Laugh" |
| 8 | | "The Law of the Jungle" through "The Legend of
Gethsemane" |
| 9 | | "Leisure" through "Let Us Pass Over the River" |
| 10 | | "A Letter" through "A Letter Edged in Black" |
| 11 | | "A Letter to Santa" through "A Life on the Ocean Wave" |
| 12 | | "Life's Railway to Heaven" through "The Lightning Express" |
| 13 | | "Lillibullero" through "A Little Bit of Heaven: Shure They Call It
Ireland" |
| 14 | | "Little Black Me" through "The Little Half Worn Shoe" |
| 15 | | "Little Hindu Girl" through "The Little Mohee" |
| 16 | | "Little Moses" through "Little Orphan Annie" |
| 17 | | "Little Pearl Honey Dew" through "Little Scotch-ee" |
| Box | Folder |
| 21 | 1 | | "Little Sir Echo" through "Louisville Lou" |
| 2 | | "Love" through "Love Walked In" |
| 3 | | "Lovely Willie" through "The Lover's Litany" |
| 4 | | "Loves Old Sweet Song" through "Lullaby" |
| 5 | | "M-m-m Maimie" through "Aren't You Ashamey" |
| 6 | | "Marguerette" through "Mehitable's Prayer" |
| 7 | | "Meet Me in St. Louis" through "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" |
| 8 | | "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" through "Miss Jimmy A. Jones" |
| 9 | | "Mister Dooley" through "The Moth and the Flame" |
| 10 | | "Mother" through "Mother Shipton's Prophecy" |
| 11 | | "Mother's Old Red Shawl" through "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" |
| 12 | | "My Cabin of Dreams" through "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" |
| 13 | | "My Gal Irene" through "My Lady Low" |
| 14 | | "My Last Cigar" through "My Mother's Bible" |
| 15 | | "My Mother's Hand" through "My Sweetheart Went Down With the Maine" |
| Box | Folder |
| 22 | 1 | | "A Name in the Sand" through "The New Yankee Doodle" |
| 2 | | "The Night Before Christmas" through "No Sects in Heaven" |
| 3 | | "No Sir" through "A Nurse's Prayer" |
| 4 | | "O Lord, I Will Praise Thee" through "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go" |
| 5 | | "Oala" through "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep No More" |
| 6 | | "Oh Never Alone" through "Old Black Mt. Trail" |
| 7 | | "Old Dan Tucker" |
| 8 | | "The Old Familiar Faces" through "Old Joe Clark" |
| 9 | | "The Old Kitchen Kettle" through "Old Paint" |
| 10 | | "Old Rosin In the Bow" through "On a Sunday Afternoon" |
| 11 | | "One Has My Name" through "Opportunity" |
| 12 | | "The Orphan Girl" through "Our Good Man" |
| 13 | | "Our Guide Man" through "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" |
| Box | Folder |
| 23 | 1 | | "Package of Seeds" through "Pat Malone" |
| 2 | | "Peace In the Valley" through "Peggy O'Weill" |
| 3 | | "The Penny Candy Store" through "The Pert Chicken" |
| 4 | | "The Pessimist" through "A Plea For the Prodigal Girl" |
| 5 | | "Please Let Me Sleep" through "The Poppyland Express" |
| 6 | | "Pour Prendre Conge" through "A Prayer for Everyday" |
| 7 | | "The Preacher and the Bear" |
| 8 | | "Precious Book" through "Pretty Polly" |
| 9 | | "The Prime of Life" through "Progress" |
| 10 | | "A Psalm of Life" through "The Puzzled
Dutchman" |
| 11 | | "Rabbi Ben Ezra" through "The Raven" |
| 12 | | "The Reaper and the Flower" through "Red River Valley" |
| 13 | | "Red Wing" through "Retribution" |
| 14 | | "The Revel" through "Robert of Lincoln" |
| 15 | | "Rock of Ages" through "Rock Me to Sleep" |
| 16 | | "The Romish Lady" through "Rover Goes to Church" |
| 17 | | "Ruaiyat of Omar Khayyam" through "Running Around in Circles" |
| Box | Folder |
| 24 | 1 | | "The Sad Lover" through "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" |
| 2 | | "Saviour of the World" through "Sea Fever" |
| 3 | | "Second Best" through "Shall I Pray On?" |
| 4 | | "Shanty Town" through "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky" |
| 5 | | "She Was Happy Until She Met You" through "The Ship That Never Returned" |
| 6 | | "Shows On Your Face" through "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" |
| 7 | | "Side By Side" through "Sinking of the Titanic" |
| 8 | | "Sinner Kneel and Pray" through "The Soldier Boy" |
| 9 | | "A Soldier Explains the Wonders of a Pack of Cards" through "Someone Said" |
| 10 | | "Something Got a Hold of Me" |
| 11 | | "Sometimes I'm Happy" through "Sonnet to a Bluebonnet" |
| 12 | | "The Southern Cross" through "The Spider and the Fly" |
| 13 | | "The Spite Fence" through "Stay in Your Own Backyard" |
| 14 | | "Steamboat Bill" through "A Story For a Child" |
| 15 | | "Story of Raindrops" through "The Strength of the Bring" |
| 16 | | "Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone" through "Suppose" |
| 17 | | "Sweet Adeline" through "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" |
| 18 | | "Sweet By and By" through "Sweet Fern" |
| 19 | | "Sweet and Low" through "Sweeter Than the Flowers" |
| Box | Folder |
| 25 | 1 | | "Taffy" through "Tell Mother I'll Be There" |
| 2 | | "Te Wearie Waffarer" through "Texas Rangers" |
| 3 | | "Texas Our Texas" through "Thanatopsis" |
| 4 | | "Thanksgiving Day" through "Then You'll Remember Me" |
| 5 | | "There Are Only Two Things to Worry About" through "There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)" |
| 6 | | "There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning" through "There's a Song in the Air" |
| 7 | | "These Modern Days" through "They go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me" |
| 8 | | "They Lie in France Where Lilies Bloom" through "Three O' Clock in the Morning" |
| 9 | | "The Three Scotch Robbers" through "Till We Meet Again" |
| 10 | | "Ti-Pi-Tin" through "Tolerance" |
| 11 | | "Tom Big-Bee River" through "The Touch of the Master's Hand" |
| 12 | | "Touch Not, Taste Not" through "Trees" |
| 13 | | "True Friends" through "The Twelve Days of Christmas" |
| 14 | | "Twelve Months Ago Tonight" through "Tying the Leaves" |
| Box | Folder |
| 26 | 1 | | "Ukulele Lady" through "Vilikinas and His
Dinah" |
| 2 | | "Wabash Moon" through "Was that the Human Thing To Do?" |
| 3 | | "The Watch on the Rhine" through "We Must Believe" |
| 4 | | "We Sat Beneath the Maple on the Hill" through "We're Marching to Zion" |
| 5 | | "West of the Rio Grande" through "When the Bees Are in the Hive" |
| 6 | | "When the Evening Breeze is Sighing Home" through "When I Met the Master" |
| 7 | | "When I Was One-and Twenty" through "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves Alabama" |
| 8 | | "When the Red Red Robin Come's a Bob-Bob-Bobbin'" through "When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold" |
| 9 | | "When the Swallows" through "Where Did You Get That Girl?" |
| 10 | | "Where Did You Get That Hat?" through "Where the Silvery Colorado Winds Its Way" |
| 11 | | "When Wilt Thou Save Thy People" through "Whispering Hope" |
| 12 | | "The White Magnolia Tree" through "The Wife of Usher's Well" |
| 13 | | "Wife Up a Tree" through "William Tremble Toe" |
| 14 | | "Willy Reilly" through "Without a Song" |
| 15 | | "The Wolf Girl of Devil's River" through "A Women's Question" |
| 16 | | "The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay'" through "Would god I Were the Tender Apple Blossom" |
| 17 | | "The Wreck of the Hersperus" |
| 18 | | "The Wreck of Number-Nine" through "Writin' Back to the Home Folks" |
| 19 | | "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula" through "You Can't Be True Dear" |
| 20 | | "You'd Better Ask Me" through "Young Charolottie" |
| 21 | | "Young Hunting" through "Yuazwiay" |
| Box | Folder |
| 27 | 1 | | "Adam Was the First Man Was Invented"; "At Three, or Four, or 5 O'Clock" |
| 2 | | "Be Kind To Your Web Footed Friends"; "By the Mill Wheel Set the Miller's Pretty Daughter" |
| 3 | | "Come All You Texas Rangers"; "The Drunken Sailor" |
| 4 | | "Eenie-Meenie-Mynnie-Mo"; "Hush Little Baby" |
| 5 | | "I Bargained With Life For a Penny"; "I Strolled Into a Courthouse" |
| 6 | | "I Thank Thee Lord"; "I've Taken My Beaux as I've Met Them" |
| 7 | | "January Brings Sugar"; The King of My Love" |
| 8 | | "Last Night After"; "Lyin in the Gutter Covered With Beer" |
| 9 | | "Madam"; "My Family Tree" |
| 10 | | "My Father Gave Me a Rooter"; "My Fortune is Small" |
| 11 | | "My Horses Ain't Hungry"; "Now Ladies if YouWill Listen, A Story I Will Relate" |
| 12 | | "O'come, My Love and Go With Me"; "Oh Lot of Young Fellows Last Night At a Club Were Telling of Sweethearts They'd Had" |
| 13 | | "Oh Mamma How Pretty the Moon Looks Tonight"; "Our Dream of Love is Over" |
| 14 | | "The Pal That I Love"; "Quoth a Woodpecker" |
| 15 | | "Take Back Your Gold"; Two Loves Have I" |
| 16 | | "Way down South"; "A Wise Old Bird Is the Pelican" |
| 17 | | "With My Knapsack On My Back"; "You Will Never Know the Pain You Brought Me" |
| Box | Folder |
| 28 | 1 | | Miscellaneous verses on cards. |
| 2 | | Miscellaneous verses arranged in alphabetical order |
| | | | "B" 29 verses |
| | | | "C" 18 verses; "D" 14 verses |
| | | | "E" 5 verses; "G" 7 verses; "H" 5 verses |
| | | | "I" 38 verses |
| | | | "J" 1 verse; "L" 18 verses |
| | | | "M" 6 verses; "N" 5 verses; "O" 7 verses |
| | | | "P" 2 verses; "R" 2 verses; "S" 7 verses; "T" 8 verses |
| | | | "V" 1 verse; "W" 8 verses; "Y" 1 verse |
