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Sheet Music

Mel Bay's immigrant songbook

Call Number

  • R 784.4 S58.5 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Pacific, Mo. : M. Bay Publications, c1992.

Physical Description

1 score (416 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.

Notes

For voice and piano with chord symbols.

Polyglot edition, showing both English and the original language.

Words in the original languages and English.

Contents

  • Hey, my dear friends
  • The migrant to the crane
  • Tell me, white cloud
  • The exile
  • Nostalgia
  • Poor Cambodia
  • The sergeant
  • A wandering Canadian
  • The life of a California gold seeker
  • The lumber camps in the United States
  • Weaving in the United States
  • I like the States better than Alberta
  • Dig for the gold
  • Immigration lament
  • The wandering Chinaman
  • My dear homeland
  • Miami
  • Street vendors
  • Brightly shine, o golden sunshine
  • Pretty America
  • The hills of Shiner
  • Danish flag and starry banner
  • American humbug
  • California
  • New song from the emigrants
  • Safely with safety
  • An invitation to North America
  • The distressed damsel
  • A New England ballad
  • Across the western ocean
  • The leaving of Liverpool
  • Verses from here and there
  • In the course of life
  • Song of a wanderer to America.
  • A song of an American immigrant
  • The Mississippi
  • La Fayette in America
  • Farewell, I'm bound for America
  • I'm getting ready to depart
  • The hour of parting now is near
  • We cannot remain here
  • We are traveling to America
  • Mississippi song
  • Hail to thee, Columbus
  • When I first came to this land
  • Now is the parting hour
  • On board the Cimbria
  • The old American
  • I'm leaving now
  • I saw my dear Ksanthoula --The West
  • The emigrants
  • Song of the Holland Americans
  • Hans and Katrina
  • Who is sailing off to America?
  • Curaçao
  • My love has gone to America
  • I left my nice country
  • I am leaving
  • Now I leave
  • Big Joe Magarac
  • Molly Durkin
  • Paddy works on the railway
  • Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade
  • The seven Irishmen
  • The loss of the Atlantic steamship
  • No Irish need apply
  • The emigrant's swallow
  • When from Italy we did take our leave
  • The Sirio --Mama, please give me a hundred lire
  • Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • Send a ticket
  • Ellis Island
  • Letter from America
  • Only one thing I ask
  • Columbus, I give you the first prize
  • Long life to Columbus
  • The greenhorn cousin
  • Only one song
  • On the other side of the Atlantic
  • Walking, standing, lying, rising
  • Recall that morning
  • God punishes him who goes first
  • Corrido about Joaquín Murieta
  • Kansas corrido
  • Deportees
  • The migratory workers
  • Oleana
  • America song
  • I have finished packing
  • America fever
  • It is very sad at midnight
  • I am a Filipino
  • Philippines, my native land
  • It's hard to live
  • A Pole was traveling
  • America I was leaving
  • The mountaineer crossed himself
  • Wilno boys
  • The emigrant
  • How sad is the life of a sailor
  • A peasant in New York
  • Social problem
  • Lord, I left my home
  • Song of America
  • Farewell, Russia
  • America-Russia.
  • A ballad of New Scotland
  • Here's good health to the heroes
  • The land of the trees
  • So far away
  • When I go to America
  • The lonely miner of Wilkes-Barre
  • I lie in the American land
  • Hymn of the American Slovaks
  • I'm a labor man
  • The evening bell
  • To the morning star
  • On foreign soil
  • Seventeen seventy-seven
  • For the emigrant
  • Good-bye rivers, good-bye fountains
  • America song
  • Pelle's Yankee Doodle
  • Greet them at home
  • Chicago, Chicago
  • Lincoln song
  • The Obersimmentaler in America
  • Havre is a pretty city
  • To an emigrant
  • Soon is the time
  • The emigrant
  • We got on board the ship and sailed away
  • Workers' appeal
  • American beauty
  • What brought me to America?
  • What a most delightful life
  • It's good in America
  • In America's a golden portal
  • My mother is at home
  • To come to America
  • Uncle Sam's farm
  • The new colossus.

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