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The Burl Ives song book : American song in historical perspective

Author

Burl Ives

Call Number

  • R 784.4 I95 (CEN)

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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.