Love-Songs of Childhood: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Love-Songs of Childhood, credited to Eugene Field, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Love-Songs of Childhood, by Eugene Field. Read by Squid Varilekova. This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics from "The Duel" to "The Delectable Ballad of Walter Lot," the author, a devout Christian, keeps his religious overtones to a minimum. When listening, please keep in mind that the text was originally written in the 1800s. (Summary by Squid Varilekova)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Love-Songs of Childhood
• Author credits: Eugene Field
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 1:35:40

Catalogue topics

• children
• poetry
• field

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 00 - Introduction — 1:39
2. 01 - The Rock-A-By Lady — 1:59
3. 02 - BOOH! — 2:03
4. 03 - Garden and Cradle — 1:31
5. 04 - The Night Wind — 2:30
6. 05 - Kissing Time — 1:51
7. 06 - Jest 'fore Christmas — 3:20
8. 07 - Beard and Baby — 1:51
9. 08 - The Dinkey Bird — 2:23
10. 09 - The Drum — 2:04
11. 10 - The Dead Babe — 1:42
12. 11 - The Happy Household — 2:21
13. 12 - So, So, Rock-A-By So — 1:58
14. 13 - The Song of Luddy-Dud — 1:48
15. 14 - The Duel — 2:06
16. 15 - Good-Children Street — 2:34
17. 16 - The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot — 5:15
18. 17 - The Stork — 2:01
19. 18 - The Bottle Tree — 1:44
20. 19 - Googly-Goo — 2:17
21. 20 - The Bench-Legged Fyce — 3:12
22. 21 - Little Miss Brag — 2:15
23. 22 - The Humming Top — 1:41
24. 23 - Lady Button-Eyes — 2:49

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