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Sheet Music

Songs of the great American West

Call Number

  • R 784.4 S572 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Macmillan, c1967.

Physical Description

xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents

  • The race to California
  • Ho! for California
  • Sacramento
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Joe Bowers
  • Crossing the Plains
  • Coming around the horn
  • We'll give 'em Jessie
  • Sioux Indians
  • A La Ru
  • Song of happiness
  • The Pacific railroad
  • Remember the Alamo!
  • Green grow the lilacs
  • Santy Anno
  • The maid of Monterey
  • Buena Vista
  • Mustang Gray
  • Clarín de Campaña
  • El Tecolote
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • Sea gulls and crickets
  • The mountain meadows massacre
  • The handcart song
  • Brigham Young
  • Echo Canyon
  • The days of Forty-nine
  • The good old days of '50, '1, and '2
  • When I went off to prospect
  • Life in California
  • Seeing the elephant
  • I often think of writing home
  • California as it is
  • The lousy miner
  • Poker Jim
  • Hangtown gals
  • Humbug steamship companies
  • California stage company
  • We are all a-panning
  • Corrido de Joaquin Murieta.
  • (Con't.) Twelve hundred more
  • Root hog, or die
  • I'm off to Boise City
  • The dreary Black Hills
  • The old settler's song
  • I ride an old paint
  • The old Chisholm Trail
  • The buffalo skinners
  • Git along, little dogies
  • Cowboy's gettin'-up holler
  • Good-bye Old Paint
  • Corrido de Kansas
  • Doney gal
  • The trail to Mexico
  • Cowboy's life is a dreary, dreary life
  • The gal I left behind me
  • Utah carroll
  • Bury me not on the lone prairie
  • Spanish is the loving tongue
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • The homestead of the free
  • Uncle Sam's farm
  • The little old sod shanty on my claim
  • Western home
  • The Lane County bachelor
  • Kansas boys
  • The Wyoming nester
  • Dakota land
  • The Kansas fool
  • The farmer is the man
  • The hayseed
  • The independent man
  • The people's jubilee
  • Jesse James
  • Sam Bass
  • Billy the Kid
  • The zebra dun
  • El toro moro
  • Corrido de Heraclio Bernal.
  • (Con't.) Custer's last charge
  • Roy Bean
  • The streets of Laredo
  • Tying ten knots in the devil's tail
  • The big rock candy mountain
  • The Ludlow massacre
  • The preacher and the slave
  • The commonwealth of Toil
  • Too ree ama
  • The frozen logger
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks
  • When the ice worms nest again
  • Roll on, Columbia.

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