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The songs we sang : a treasury of American popular music

Call Number

  • R 784.8 R217 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Castle Books, c1964.

Physical Description

406 p. ; 29 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • After the ball
  • All through the night
  • America the beautiful
  • Annie Laurie
  • Auld lang syne
  • Aura Lee
  • The band played on --- Barbara Allen
  • Beautiful dreamer
  • Because
  • Believe me if all those endearing young charms
  • Bell bottom trousers
  • Bicycle built for two (Daisy Bell) (Daisy Daisy)
  • Bill Baily, won't you please come home
  • Billy boy
  • Blow the man down - Blue bell of Scotland
  • Blue tail fly (Jimmy crack corn)
  • Bring back my bonnie tome (My bonnie lies over the ocean)
  • Buffalo gals
  • Campbells are coming
  • Camptown races
  • Careless love
  • Carry me back to old Virginny
  • Charlie is my darling
  • Cindy - Clementine
  • Daisy bell (Daisy Daisy) (Bicycle built for two)
  • Dear old girl
  • Down in Egypt land (Go down Moses) (Let my people go)
  • (cont.) Girl I left behind
  • Give my regards to broadway
  • Go down Moses (Let my people go) (Down in Egypt land)
  • Greensleeves
  • Hail Columbia
  • Hello! Ma baby
  • He's got the whole world in his hand
  • Hinky dinky parlay-voo (Madamoiselle from armentiers)
  • Home on the range
  • Ida
  • I gave my love a cherry (The riddle)
  • I'll take you home again Kathleen
  • I love you truly
  • In my merry oldsmobile
  • In the good old summertime
  • I've been working on the railroad
  • Jimmy crack corn (Blue tail fly)
  • John Peel
  • Let my people go (Go down Moses) (Down in egypt land)
  • Listen to the mocking bird
  • Little Brown Jug
  • Longn long ago
  • Love's old sweet song
  • Mademoselle from armentiers (Hinky dinky parlay-voo)
  • Man on the flying trapeze
  • The marines hymn
  • Mary's a grand old name
  • Meet in St. Louis, Louis
  • Mighty lak' a rose
  • My bonnie lies over the ocean (Bring back my Bonnie to me)
  • (cont.) My gal Sal (They called her frivolous Sal)
  • My old Kentucky home
  • My wild irish rose
  • Oh dear what can the matter be
  • Oh, dem golden slippers
  • Oh promise me
  • Oh Susanna.
  • (cont.) Down in the valley
  • Drink to me only with thine eyes
  • Drunken sailor
  • East side, west side (Sidewalks of New York)
  • Flow gently sweet Afton
  • Foggy foggy dew
  • Frog went a-courting
  • On the banks of the Wabash
  • On top of Old Smoky
  • Polly Wolly Doodle
  • Pop goes the weasel
  • Prayer of thanksgiving (Thanksgiving prayer)
  • Red River Valley
  • Riddle, the (I gave my love a cherry)
  • The rosary
  • Round her neck she wore a yellow ribbon
  • St. Patrick's day
  • She-ll be comin' 'round the mountain
  • Shenandoah
  • Sidewalks of New York (East side, west side)
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Sweet betsy from Pike
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • Thanksgiving prayer (Prayer of thanksgiving)
  • There is a tavern in the town
  • They called her frivolous Sal (My gal Sal)
  • Tom Dooley
  • Twinkle twinkle little star
  • Vive la compagnie (Vive L'amour)
  • Vive L'amour (Vive la compagnie)
  • (cont.) Wabash cannon ball
  • Wait for the wagon
  • Wait till the sun shines Nellie
  • Wayfaring stranger
  • Wearing of the green
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • When the saints go marching in
  • When you and I were young, Maggie
  • Where did you get that hat
  • While strolling through the park
  • Yankee doodle
  • Yankee doodle boy
  • Yellow rose of Texas
  • You're a grand old flag.