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Songs of man : the international book of folk songs

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L929 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [1965]

Physical Description

368 p. : col. ill., plates ; 28 cm.

Notes

For voice and piano, with chord symbols.

Notes on the guitar and chord chart: p. [355-367].

Contents

  • All my trials
  • Amen
  • As I me walked
  • Ballad of the boll weevil
  • Baliff's daughter of Islington
  • Barb'ra Ellen
  • Beyond the mountain
  • Billy McGee McGaw
  • The blaydon races
  • Blow away the morning dew
  • Bonnie Earl of Murray
  • Boston come-all-ye
  • Buffalo skinners
  • Bury me beneath the willow
  • Caller herrin'
  • Can ye sew cushion?
  • A capital ship
  • Captain Jinks
  • Carmen Carmela
  • Chairs to mend
  • Christ child's lullaby
  • Clear the track
  • Click go the shears
  • Collier laddie
  • Colorado Trail
  • Come all ye fair and tender ladies
  • Cowboy's prayer
  • Crawdad song
  • Cruise of the Bigaler
  • The cuckoo (U.S.)
  • Cuckoo's advice
  • Cuckoo is a pretty bird
  • Cuckoo's spring song.
  • (Contents con't.) Cuckoo's welcome
  • Dance to your daddy
  • Dark eyed sailor
  • Dashing away with the smoothing iron
  • Delia's gone
  • Devil and the farmer's wife
  • Dona nobis pacem
  • Down in a coal mine
  • Down by the Salley Gardens
  • Down by the Embarras
  • Edward
  • Everybody loves Saturday night
  • Farmer is the man
  • Fairy's love song
  • Farewell to Liverpool
  • Four Mary's
  • The fox
  • Frog went a-courting
  • Gaudeamus igitur
  • Geordie
  • Gipsum Davy
  • Go to sleep
  • Goober peas
  • Great silkie
  • Oh, green grow the rushes
  • Greenland whale fishery
  • Gypsy rover
  • Hal far biss
  • Hallelujah
  • Hangman
  • He's gone away
  • Hop up and jump up
  • Housewife's lament
  • I know my love.
  • (Contents con't.) I know where I'm going
  • I love my rooster
  • I never will marry
  • If you want to write to me
  • Ilkley moor baht hat
  • I'm a stranger here
  • I've got no use for the women
  • John Henry
  • Johnny, I hardly knew yuh
  • Keeper would a-hunting go
  • Kemo, kimo
  • Kum ba yah
  • Kum bachur atzel
  • La firolera
  • The leprechaun
  • Lift a glass
  • Lincolnshire poacher
  • Little Billee
  • Little bird at my window
  • Little Moses
  • Little wee croodin doo
  • Looby loo
  • Look Mister Cuckoo
  • Lord is my shepherd
  • Lord Rendall
  • Lovely moon
  • Lover's cuckoo
  • Lydia Pinkham
  • Mariani
  • Mary Ann
  • Meadowland
  • Meadows green
  • Merry golden tree
  • Metamorphosis
  • Mi caballo blanco
  • Milking croon I
  • Milking croon II
  • Miller's will
  • Mister Rabbit.
  • (Contents con't.) Molly Brannigan
  • Murdered brother
  • My boy Willie
  • My dame hath a lame tame crane
  • My Lagan love
  • My little Mohee
  • My pigeon house
  • New oysters
  • Nick nack paddy whack
  • Nine hundred miles
  • No more auction block
  • Oh dear mama, I'm feeling so badly
  • Oh, Sally, my dear
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old grumble
  • Old time religion
  • Old Vermeland
  • One man shall mow my meadow
  • One more day
  • Over in the meadow
  • Peat bog soldiers
  • Poor lonesome cowboy
  • Poor old horse
  • Poor young girl
  • Poor young man
  • Rakes of mallow
  • Ransomed soldier
  • Red iron ore
  • Road to the Isles
  • Robin Hood and the tanner
  • Sakura
  • Searching for lambs
  • Seeds of love
  • Shoo-fly
  • Single girl
  • Simple gifts
  • Sir Patrick Spens.
  • (Contents con't.) Softly calls the cuckoo
  • Speckled fish
  • Spin, spin
  • Stranger
  • Suliram
  • Summer is a comin' in
  • Tanz Fraylach - Ten thousand cattle
  • Tender love
  • That's a lie
  • There was a man and he was mad
  • This little light of mine
  • Three horseman
  • Three ravens
  • Three tailors
  • The Titanic
  • Trees they do grow high
  • Twelve gates to the city
  • Two magicians
  • Two sisters
  • Un deux trois
  • Valencianita
  • Valiant marine
  • Vicar of Bray
  • Vigolin
  • Virgin Mary had one son
  • Vive la compagnie
  • Wanderin'
  • Wark of the weavers
  • Water is wide
  • Wee drappie o't
  • When Jesus wept
  • Whiskey, Johnny
  • Whistle, daughter, whistle
  • White coral bells
  • Who built the ark.
  • (Contents con't.) Who did?
  • Will ye go lassie?
  • Willow tree
  • Wine testers
  • Winter's night
  • Wondrous love
  • Wren boys.

Added Authors

Win Stracke