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Sheet Music

Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads, collected, adapted and arr. by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax, editor, Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editors.

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L83.1 (CEN)

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Edition

[1st ed.]

Publication Information

New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [c1947]

Physical Description

xvi, 407 p. 28 cm.

Contents

  • Buckeye Jim
  • All the pretty little horses
  • Go tell Aunt Nancy
  • Leatherwing bat
  • Grey goose
  • Mister Rabbit
  • Old Blue
  • Ground hog
  • Springfield Mountain
  • I was born about ten thousand years ago
  • When you go a-courtin' (The Texian Boys, II)
  • Lolly-too-dum
  • When I was single (I and II)
  • The sporting bachelors
  • Jennie Jenkins
  • Black, black
  • Come all you fair and tender ladies
  • Old Smoky
  • Down in the valley
  • Careless love
  • Dink's song
  • Easy rider (See, see, rider)
  • Shorty George
  • Sourwood Mountain
  • Old Joe Clark (Round and round Hitler's grave)
  • Raise a rukus
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Cindy
  • Black-eyed Susie
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Coffee grows on white oak trees
  • Shoot the buffalo
  • Buffalo gals
  • Sweet thing
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier - Brave Wolfe
  • John Brown's body
  • Mademoiselle from Armentières
  • Gee, but I want to go home.
  • (Contents con't.) Santy Anno
  • Shenandoah
  • Sacramento
  • Lowlands
  • Blow, ye winds in the morning
  • The E-ri-e
  • The bigler
  • Rock about my Saro Jane
  • Once more a-lumb'ring go
  • Blue Mountain Lake
  • The jam on Gerry's rocks
  • A lumberman in town
  • The buffalo skinners
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • The days of '49
  • The old settler's song
  • Down, down, down
  • The old Chisholm Trail (I and II)
  • Git along, little dogies
  • The streets of Laredo
  • Bury me not on the lone prairie
  • The cowboy's dream
  • Home on the range
  • Old Paint (I and II)
  • Rye whiskey
  • Red River Valley
  • The young man who wouldn't hoe corn
  • Whoa, Buck!
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • The boll weevil
  • Starving to death on a government claim
  • The state of Arkansas
  • Goin' down the road feelin' bad
  • Nine hundred miles
  • John Henry (I and II)
  • Casey Jones (I and II)
  • Paddy works on the Erie
  • O, Lula!
  • Can'cha line 'em
  • The big rock candy mountains.
  • Contents con't.) Jesse James
  • Sam Bass
  • Tom Dooley
  • Down in the willow garden
  • Pretty Polly
  • John Hardy
  • Po' Laz'us
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Frankie and Albert
  • Take a whiff on me
  • The durant jail (Hard times, poor boy)
  • De midnight special
  • Ain' no mo' cane on dis Brazis
  • Take this hammer
  • Almost done
  • Another man done gone
  • Amazing Grace
  • Poor wayfaring stranger
  • Wondrous love
  • Bound for the promised land
  • Lonesome Valley
  • Po' li'l' Jesus
  • Never said a mumbalin' word
  • Soon one mornin'
  • When my blood runs chilly and col'
  • Set down, servant
  • Great gittin' up mornin'
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
  • Freedom
  • Go down, Moses
  • Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho
  • Keep your hand on the plow.

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