The Burl Ives song book : American song in historical perspective
Publication Information
New York : Ballantine Books, c1953.
Physical Description
[276] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Notes
"Originals, 48"
"Burl Ives recordings": p. 270-274.
"About Burl Ives": p. 275-[276].
Contents
- Abolitionist hymn
- Aunt Rhody
- Away, Rio
- Ballad of the Tea Party
- Barb'ry Allen
- Battle of Saratoga
- Ben Bolt
- Billy boy (English)
- Billy boy (Irish)
- Blow the man down
- Blow ye winds
- Blue tail fly
- Bold soldier
- Bonnie, wee lassie
- Boston tea tax
- Brennan on the motor
- Buffalo gals
- Captain Kidd
- Careless love
- Chester
- Confess Jehovah
- Constitution and the guerriere
- Cornwallas country dance
- Cowboy's lament
- Crocodile song
- Devil's nine questions
- Divil and the farmer
- Down in the valley
- Dreadnought --
- Drunken sailor
- Edward
- Erie Canal
- Escape of Old John Webb
- Fiddle-de-dee
- Foggy,foggy dew
- The fox
- Free america
- Golden vanity
- Grandfather's clock
- Grey goose
- Greensleeves
- Hand-cart song
- Hart he loves the high wood
- Haul away Joe
- Heart of oak
- Henry Martin
- Hey diddle diddle
- High barbaree
- Hornet and the peacock
- How happy the soldier
- Hullabaloo belay
- I'm sad and I'm lonely
- Indian Christmas carol
- I've got no use for women
- Johnny has gone for a soldier
- Joe Bowers
- Kemo-kimo
- Lete Simon's beard alone
- Little Mohee
- Little old sod shanty
- Lolly too dum
- Lord Randall
- Lord Thomas and fair elinore - Maid of Amsterdam
- Miss Bailey's ghost
- Mr. Froggie went-a-courting
- Mother Goose nursey rhymes
- My days have been so wondrous free
- Nearer my God to thee
- Nicodemus
- Oh, Absalom, my son
- Old blue
- Old Dan Tucker
- Old hundred
- Old Rosin the beau
- Ol Springfield Mountain
- Ox-driving song
- Paper of pins
- Patrick on the railroad
- Patriotic diggers
- Peter Gray
- Pirate song
- Poor boy
- Praties they grow small
- Pretty Polly
- Psalm three
- Riddle song --
- Robin
- Rolling home
- Seven joys of Mary
- Sacramento
- Shenandoah
- Sioux Indians
- Sir Peter Parker
- Skip to my Lou --Song of the fishes
- Sourwood Mountain
- Sow took the measles
- Sweet Betsy from Pike
- Tailor and the mouse
- Tobacco's but an Indian weed
- Turkey in the straw
- Turtle Dove
- Utah Iron Horse
- Wayfaring stranger
- Wee Cooper o' Fife
- The whale
- What a court hath old england
- What was your name in the states?
- When I was single
- Why, soldiers, why?
- Wondrous love
- World turned upside down
- Yankee doodle
- Yankee man-of-war
- Ye parliaments of England
- Young man who wouldn't hoe corn.