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Irish folk-songs in particular, has installed a small organ.

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They all sang La Marseillaise and there were French folk-songs, too.

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Although she sings with all the traditional embellishments of the three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs.

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Old Mr. Lewisohn made his servants tiptoe through the halls, kept mousey quiet himself, not once attempting to entertain his ever-so-important guest with the German folk-songs he dearly loves to sing.

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While all contributions to the total of negro folk-songs have been very valuable, still it is true that they have been too long neglected and the studies made have been too partial.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.