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Sheet Music

The fireside book of favorite American songs

Call Number

  • R 784.8 B71 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Simon and Schuster, c1952.

Physical Description

359 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes

A Fireside book.

For voice and piano.

Contents

  • Daisy Bell (A bicycle built for two)
  • Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-e
  • Mother was a lady
  • There'll be a hot time
  • After the ball
  • Break the news to Mother
  • At a Georgia camp meeting
  • The little lost child
  • She was bred in old Kentucky
  • It's the syme the whole world over
  • Take back your gold
  • Oh promise me
  • Frankie and Johnnie
  • Under the bamboo tree
  • Glow worm
  • In the good old summertime
  • Ballet of the boll weevil
  • Lazy moon
  • Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
  • Midnight special
  • Ida, sweet as apple cider
  • Eleven-cent cotton
  • I wonder who's kissing her now?
  • The crawdad
  • Ol' Texas
  • La cucaracha (The cockroach)
  • Big rock candy mountain
  • Kevin Barry
  • St. Louis blues
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Jacob's ladder
  • Darling Nelly Gray
  • My old Kentucky home
  • Nelly Bly
  • Old Abe Lincoln.
  • (Contents con't.) The bonnie blue flag
  • Battle hymn of the Republic
  • Tramp! tramp! tramp!
  • Tenting tonight
  • Just before the battle, Mother
  • Listen to the mocking bird
  • Shoo fly, don't bother me
  • Wake Nicodemus
  • Little brown church in the vale
  • Oh, freedom
  • We three kings
  • Where is my boy tonight?
  • Nearer,my God, to thee
  • In the sweet by and by
  • The old oaken bucket
  • The quilting party
  • When you and I were young, Maggie
  • Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me?
  • March of the men of Harlech
  • The man on the flying trapeze
  • O tannenbaum
  • Little brown jug
  • Tiritomba
  • The big sunflower
  • Oh, dem golden slippers!
  • The Wabash cannon ball
  • Take this hammer
  • The streets of Laredo
  • Eight hours
  • The old Chisholm trail
  • The jam on Gerry's rocks
  • Jesse James
  • White wings.
  • (Contents con't.) Silver threads among the gold
  • The liberty song
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Chester
  • Enraptured I gaze
  • Whisky Johnnie
  • Botany Bay
  • The oxen song
  • Mister Banjo (Monsieur Bainjo)
  • Old colony times
  • The pesky sarpent
  • Bound for the promised land
  • Juanita
  • Roll, Jordan, roll
  • Old ship of Zion
  • Were you there?
  • Hail, Columbia
  • Ye parliament of England
  • The star spangled banner
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Buckeye Jim
  • Pretty Saro
  • Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
  • The E-ri-e
  • Ye banks and braes
  • Wearin' of the green
  • Santy Anna
  • Jump Jim Crow
  • Over there
  • The ole grey goose
  • Shuckin' of the corn
  • El-a-noy
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • Pop! goes the weasel
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Sacramento
  • What was your name in the states?
  • Old hundredth
  • Pilgrims' melody.
  • (Contents con't.) York
  • Windsor
  • Barb'ry Ellen
  • Go from my window
  • See my wagon, it's full-laden
  • Little hypocrite
  • The evening bells
  • A mighty fortress is our God
  • Joseph, dearest Joseph
  • In dulci jubilo
  • Spanish ladies
  • Captain Kidd
  • O God, our help in ages past
  • Jesus, lover of my soul
  • All through the night
  • We're singing our praises, or prayer of Thanksgiving
  • Auprès de ma blonde (Near to my fair one)
  • Robin Adair
  • Shule agra
  • Malbrouck
  • Come, saints and sinners
  • Wondrous love
  • How firm a foundation
  • Greenfields.

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