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American favorite ballads : tunes and songs

Call Number

  • R 784.4 S448 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Oak Publications, 1961.

Physical Description

95 p.

Notes

Unaccompanied, with chords for guitar.

Discography: p. 96.

Contents

  • Alabama bound
  • Aunt Rhody
  • Barbara Allen
  • Big rock candy mountain
  • Blow the man down
  • Blue-tail fly
  • Buffalo gals
  • Buffalo skinners
  • Camptown races
  • Carless love
  • Cielito lindo
  • Cindy
  • Clementine
  • Come all you fair and tender ladies
  • Crawdad
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Darling Corey
  • Deep blue sea
  • Devil and the farmer's wife
  • Devilish Mary
  • Dink's song
  • Down in the valley
  • Erie Canal
  • Farmer is the man
  • Fillimeeooreay
  • Four nights drunk
  • Fox
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Froggie went a-courtin'
  • Hammer song --- Hard traveling
  • Hold the fort
  • Home on the range
  • House of the rising sun
  • I never will marry
  • I ride an old paint
  • Irene goodnight
  • Jesse James
  • Joe Bowers
  • John Brown's body
  • John Henry
  • Joshua fought the battle of Jericho.
  • (Cont.) Keeper
  • Kisses sweeter than wine
  • Little girl
  • Michael row the boat ashore
  • Midnight special
  • My horses ain't hungry
  • New river train
  • Oh, Mary don't you weep
  • Oh Susanna
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old Joe Clark
  • On top of Old Smoky
  • Passing through
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Putting on the style
  • Que Bonita Bandera
  • Reuben James
  • Riddle song
  • Rye whiskey
  • Sally Ann
  • Shenandoah
  • Skip to my lou
  • So long, it's been good to know you
  • Solidarity
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
  • (Cont.) Stagolee
  • Strangest dream
  • Streets of Laredo
  • Study war no more
  • Swanee River
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • This land is your land
  • Twelve gates to the city
  • Wabash Cannonball
  • Water is wide
  • Wayfaring stranger
  • We shall not be moved
  • When I first came to this land
  • Which side are you on?
  • Who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot?
  • Yankee doodle
  • Young man who wouldn't hoe corn.