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Sheet Music

The people's song book

Call Number

  • R 784.4 H65B (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Oak Publications, c1961.

Physical Description

128 p. ; 26 cm.

Contents

  • Acres of clams
  • Ah, poor bird
  • A-roving
  • Beans, bacon and gravy
  • The blue tail fly
  • Careless love
  • Cindy
  • The dodger song
  • East Virginia
  • The farmer is the man
  • Go down, Moses
  • Goin' down the road
  • Haul away, Joe
  • Hey ho, nobody home
  • The holly and the ivy
  • I'm on my way
  • Jefferson and liberty
  • Joe Hill
  • John Brown's body
  • John Henry
  • Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
  • Midnight special
  • Oh, freedom
  • Oh Mary, don't you weep
  • On top of old Smoky
  • Paddy works on the railway
  • The ploughboy
  • The rich man and the poor man
  • Slavery's chain
  • So long, it's been good to know you
  • Soup song
  • Take this hammer
  • Tarrier's song
  • Wanderin'
  • Worried man blues
  • Abe Lincoln
  • Beloved comrade
  • Chee Lai!
  • Come, fellow workers
  • Dinky die
  • Domovina
  • Freiheit
  • Hey! Zhankoye.
  • (Con't.) Kevin Barry
  • La Marseillaise
  • Lift every voice and sing
  • Los cuatro generales
  • Meadowland
  • Peat bog soldiers
  • Reuben James
  • Song of the French partisan
  • Star spangled banner
  • United front
  • United Nations
  • Viva la Quince Brigada
  • Zum, gali, gali
  • The farmer-labor train
  • Get thee behind me, Satan
  • He's a fool
  • Hold the fort
  • The horse with a union label
  • I don't want your millions, mister
  • It's my union
  • Picket line Priscilla
  • Roll the union on
  • 'Round and 'round the picket line
  • The scabs crawl in
  • Solidarity
  • Talking union
  • Union maid
  • The union man
  • The union train
  • The union way
  • We got to all get together
  • We shall not be moved
  • Which side are you on?
  • The whole wide world around
  • You gotta go down.
  • (Con't.) A dollar ain't a dollar anymore
  • Black, brown and white blues
  • Everything is higher
  • Hallelujah, I'm a travelin'
  • Hard travelin'
  • Ballad of Harry Bridges
  • I'm a-looking for a home
  • The investigator's song
  • Jim Crow
  • Listen, Mister Bilbo
  • Mister congressman
  • Newspapermen
  • Oh, joy upon the earth
  • Pity the downtrodden landlord
  • Poor Mister Morgan
  • Put it on the ground
  • Schwab, Schwab
  • Song of the pennies
  • Strange fruit
  • Talking atomic blues
  • There are three brothers
  • Walk in peace.

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