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Sheet Music

The Great American song book : piano-organ-guitar, all the songs we know and love to sing.

Call Number

  • R 784.4 G786 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Dayton, OH : Lorenz Press, c1976.

Physical Description

176 p. : ill., music ; 31 cm.

Contents

  • After the ball is over
  • Amazing grace
  • America (my country 'tis of thee)
  • America, the beautiful
  • Angels we have heard on high
  • Auld lang syne
  • Away in a manger
  • Battle hymn of the republic
  • Beautiful dreamer
  • Beautiful isle of somewhere
  • Bill Bailey (won't you please come home?)
  • The birthday of a King
  • Boola, boola (Football song)
  • Brahms' lullaby (Cradle song)
  • The caisson song (U.S. Field Artillery march)
  • Christ the Lord is risen today
  • Christmas is coming!
  • Come, ye thankful people, come
  • Evening prayer (from "Hansel and Gretel").
  • Continued: Fairest Lord Jesus
  • The first Noel
  • For the beauty of the Earth
  • Gentle Annie
  • Give my regards to Broadway
  • Go, tell it on the mountain
  • Good night, ladies!
  • Gypsy love song
  • Hail, hail, the gang's all here!
  • Hail to the victors valiant!
  • Hark! the herald angels sing
  • He is born
  • Hello, my baby
  • Home on the range
  • (There'll be a) hot time in the old town tonight --How can I leave thee
  • I ain't gonna grieve my Lord no more
  • I heard the bells on Christmas Day
  • I love you truly
  • I would be true
  • Ida, sweet as apple cider
  • I'm a yankee doodle dandy
  • In the evening by the moonlight.
  • Continued: In the good old summer time
  • In the shade of the old apple tree
  • It came upon the midnight clear
  • I've got six-pence (Song ofthe R.A.F.)
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Jingle, bells!
  • Jolly old Saint Nicholas
  • Joy to the world
  • Just a closer walk with thee
  • The King of love my Shepherd is
  • The last rose of summer
  • The little brown church in the vale (The church in the wildwood)
  • Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
  • Lonesome valley
  • The Lord bless you and keep you
  • Love's old sweet song (Just a song at twilight)
  • Lullaby, Jesus
  • The man on the flying trapeze
  • Maple leaf rag ("ragtime" organ solo).
  • Continued: Marche (from the "Nutcracker Suite")
  • Medley (a) I've been workin' on the railroad (b) Dinah, won't you blow? (c) Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah (d) Fee-fie, fid-dle-dee-I-O
  • Meet me in St. Louis, Louis
  • The more we get together
  • My bonnie lies over the ocean
  • My gal Sal
  • My task
  • Navy hymn (Eternal Father, strong to save)
  • Nobody knows
  • Now thank we all our God
  • O holy night (Cantique de Noel)
  • O little town of Bethlehem
  • O perfect love
  • O promise me
  • On the banks of the Wabash
  • On top of Old Smoky
  • Open the gates of the temple
  • Over the river and through the woods.
  • Continued: Pomp and circumstance (Graduation processional)
  • Prayer for our country
  • Rise up, Shepherd, and follow
  • Rock of ages, let our song
  • She's only a bird in a gilded cage
  • Silver threads among the gold
  • Sleep, baby, sleep
  • The snow lay on the ground
  • A song of peace
  • St. Patrick's Day medley (1) Where the River Shannon flows (2) My wild Irish rose
  • Starlight, star bright (from "The Wizard of the Nile")
  • Stars and stripes forever
  • The Star-spangled banner
  • Sweet Adeline
  • Sweet Rosie O'Grady
  • Sweet summer breeze.
  • Ta-ra-ra- boom-dee-ay!
  • Tell me why
  • A Thanksgiving prayer
  • There's a song in the air!
  • Toyland
  • The toy parade (Parade of the wooden soldiers)
  • 'Twas the night before Christmas ("Christmas chopsticks")
  • The twelve days of Christmas
  • Wait till the sun shines, Nellie
  • We gather together (Netherlands hymn of Thanksgiving)
  • We wish you a merry Christmas
  • Wedding march (Bridal chorus)
  • Wedding march (from Mendelssohn's "A midsummer night's dream")
  • What a friend we have in Jesus
  • When the saints go marching in
  • When you were sweet sixteen
  • While strolling through the park one day
  • Whispering hope
  • Work, for the night is coming
  • You're a grand old flag.