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Song in America; our musical heritage. Arrangements by Albert Hague.

Author

Burl Ives

Call Number

  • R 784.4 I95.2 (CEN)

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Edition

[1st. ed.]

Publication Information

New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1962]

Physical Description

312 p. 29 cm.

Notes

Folk and patriotic songs arr. for voice and piano.

Contents

  • Our song inheritance
  • The tailor and the mouse
  • Three jolly huntsmen
  • Pretty Polly
  • The sailor's return
  • Brennan on the moor
  • Waly, waly (cockle shells)
  • Turkish revery
  • Lily Munro
  • The foggy, foggy dew
  • Greensleeves
  • I know my love
  • Billy boy (english)
  • Billy boy (Irish)
  • Raggle-taggle gypsies
  • How could you use a poor maiden so?
  • Two maidens went milking
  • Keys to canterbury
  • Barb'ry Allen
  • Edward
  • I know where I'm going.
  • (cont.) Croodin doo
  • The swap song
  • The bestiary
  • Mr. Froggie went a-courting
  • The crocodile song
  • Paddy and the whale
  • Song of the fishes
  • The golden vanity
  • Haul away Joe
  • Rolling home
  • The maid of amsterdam
  • Bobby Shafto
  • Blow the wind southerly
  • Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket
  • The whale
  • Hullabaloo belay
  • Red, red roses
  • Leave her, Johnny, leave her
  • Ben Backstay
  • Songs of america growing
  • The indian christmas carol
  • On springfield mountain
  • The dreadnought
  • Blow the man down
  • Stormalong
  • The sailor's grave.
  • (cont.) Skip to my Lou
  • Pool little turtle dove
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Leather-winged bat
  • My old 'coon dog
  • Old Blue
  • Ground hog
  • Let's go a-hunting
  • Mister rabbit
  • The grey goose
  • Careless love
  • Darlin' Cory
  • Sweet kitty klover
  • Jennie Jenkins
  • Down in the valley
  • Lolly too-dum day
  • Sourwood mountain
  • cotton-eye Joe
  • Go way from my window
  • Missouri mule
  • Hush little baby
  • Oh, you New York girls
  • The pirate song
  • Turkey in the straw (zip coon)
  • Buckeye Jim
  • All day on the prairie (the cowboy)
  • The young man who wouldn't hoe corn
  • The little old sod shanty (the western settler)
  • Greer county bachelor
  • Dreary black hills
  • Patrick on the railroad
  • Drill ye tarriers.
  • The dying hogger
  • Joe Bowers
  • Sioux indians
  • The hand cart song
  • The Utah iron horse
  • A ripping trip (air-"pop goes the weasel")
  • Acres of clams (air-"rosin the bow")
  • The blue tail fly
  • Come yourselves and see (air-"Ben Bolt")
  • Shenandoah
  • Santy Anna
  • Jesse James
  • Tom Dooley
  • Billy the Kid
  • Git along, little doggies
  • Cowboy's dream
  • Old paint
  • Lavender cowboy
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The old chisholm trail
  • Red river valley
  • Midnight special
  • Frankie and Johnnie.
  • Fare thee well, O honey (sad man's song)
  • Ballad of John Henry
  • Big rock candy mountain
  • St. John's river
  • Crawdad song
  • Wanderin'
  • I'm going down the road
  • The wabash cannon ball (the cannon ball to heaven)
  • News stories in song
  • How happy athe soldier (why soldier why)
  • The liberty song
  • The battle song of Saratoga
  • Ballard of the tea party
  • The Boston tea tax
  • Free america
  • Chester
  • The riflemen's song at Bennington
  • Yankee man o'war
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier
  • The battle of the kegs (tune-yankee doodle)
  • Cornwallis country dance
  • Sir Peter Parker
  • Hail, Columbia
  • The constitution of the Guerriere
  • Ye parliaments of england
  • Patriotic diggers
  • The hunters of Kentucky
  • The hornet and the peacock
  • The abolitionist hymn.
  • (cont.) John Brown
  • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
  • Battle cry of freedom (rallying song)
  • The battle cry of freedom (civil war battle song)
  • The battle cry of freedom (civil war parody: Mary had a little lamb)
  • The bonnie blue flag
  • Goober peas
  • All quiet along the Potomac
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • The battle of bull run (southern version) (northern version)
  • America the beautiful.