The article examines Masonic folklore in the United States in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on song texts and musical publications included in the works of Thomas S. Webb, The Freemason’s Monitor (1797, 1808), and Jeremy L. Cross, The True Masonic Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor (1826). The study analyzes 31 compositions associated with various degrees of the York Rite—from the symbolic lodge degrees to the Royal Arch and Knights Templar.
