Sheet Music
Fireside book of folk songs
Publication Information
[New York] Simon and Schuster [1947]
Physical Description
323 p. col. illus. 29 cm.
Contents
- Skye boat song (Scottish)
- Bendemeer's stream (Irish)
- Cockles and mussels (Irish)
- Bonnie George Campbell (Scottish)
- The riddle (American)
- Scarborough fair (English)
- Bold Brennan on the moor (Irish)
- Santa Lucia (Italian)
- The foggy, foggy dew (American)
- I am a poor wayfaring stranger (American)
- The young voyageur (Canadian)
- The Erie canal (American)
- Oh, Susanna! (American)
- On top of old smoky (American).
- (cont.) Funiculi, funicula (a merry life) (Italian)
- Careless love (American)
- Joe Hill (American)
- Widdecombe fair (English)
- Home sweet home (English)
- Willy, the weeper (American)
- Peter Gray (American)
- Arkansas Traveler (American)
- The blue bells of Scotland (Scottish)
- Sweet Betsy from Pike (American)
- De Camptown races (American)
- Turkey in the straw (American)
- Johnny has gone for a soldier (American)
- The wraggle-taggle gypsies, O! (English).
- (cont.) The blue-tail fly (American)
- Au Clair de la lune (By the pale moonlight) (French)
- Auld lang syne (Scottish)
- La Jesucita (Mexican)
- Loch Lomond (Scottish)
- Clementine (American)
- Carry me back to old Virginny (American)
- Old folks at home (American)
- My gentle harp (Irish)
- Drink to me only with thine eyes (English)
- John Peel (English)
- The three ravens (English)
- Lord Lovel (American)
- Down in the valley (American)
- Jeanie with the light brown hair (American).
- (cont.) Hallelujah! I'm a bum (American)
- Barbara Allen (English)
- Flow gently, sweet Afton (Scottish)
- La Vidalita (Uruguayan)
- Annie Laurie (Scottish)
- Muss I' Denn? (Must I then?) (German)
- Nur du (Thou only) (German)
- Lonesome road (American)
- Green grow the rushes-ho! (English)
- Every night when the sun goes in (American)
- El Cuando (O When, O when?) (South American)
- Alouette (Canadian)
- Robin M'aime (Robin loves me) (French).
- (cont.) Lowlands
- Yeo, Heave ho!
- Shenandoah
- Drill, ye tarriers, drill!
- The Rio Grande
- Casey Jones
- Haul away, Joe
- Red river valley
- I been wukkin' on de railroad
- Paddy works on the Erie
- Blow the man down
- Boston come-all-ye
- She'll be comin' round the mountain
- One more day
- Can't you dance the polka?
- Whoopee, ti-yi-yo
- Home on the range
- Coasts of high barbary
- A-roving
- John Henry
- The golden vanity
- Green grow the lilacs
- The drunken sailor.
- (cont.) The star spangled banner (American)
- Many thousan' gone (American)
- Marche Lorraine (French)
- Dixie (American)
- Hatikvah (The hope) (Hebrew)
- When Johnny comes marching home (American)
- British grenadiers (English)
- Meadowlands (Russian)
- Lili Marlene (German)
- Song of the great wall (Chinese)
- Moscow (Russian)
- God save the king (English)
- Freiheit (Salute to Freedom) (German)
- The peat-bog soldiers (German)
- Tachanka (Russian)
- Waltzing Matilda (Australian)
- Los cuatro generales (Four generals) (Spanish).
- (cont.) Battle hymn of the republic (American)
- John Brown's body (American)
- La marseillaise (French)
- The minstrel boy (Irish)
- Come, fellow workers (Chinese)
- Angels we have heard on high (French)
- O little town of Bethlehem (American)
- What child is this? (English)
- Good Christian men, rejoice (German)
- Jeannette, Isabella (French)
- Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful) (Portuguese)
- Good King Wenceslas (English)
- Twelve days of Christmas (English)
- Coventry carol (English)
- O Sanctissima (O thou joyful day) (Sicilian)
- Deck the halls (Welsh)
- The first nowell (English).
- (cont.) Joy to the world (English)
- God rest you merry, gentlemen (English)
- Seven joys of Mary (English)
- Hark! the herald angels sing (English)
- Rise up, shepherd, an foller (American)
- Silent night (German)
- Masters in this hall (English)
- Wassail song (English)
- A mighty fortress is our God (Ein' Feste Burg)
- Who can retell?
- My faith looks up to thee (Olivet)
- All hail the power of Jesus' Name (Old coronation)
- Glee reigns in Gailee
- Guide me, o thou great Jehovah
- Old hundredth
- Day is dying in the west
- Fairest Lord Jesus (Crusaders' hymn)
- Stand up, stand up for Jesus
- Jesus, Saviour, pilot me
- Hanukkah song
- All glory, laud and honor
- Who is the man.
- (cont.) Rock of ages
- Shall we gather at the river?
- Steal away
- Now let me fly
- Nobody knows de trouble I see
- Joshua fit de battle ob Jerico
- Oh, a-rock-a my soul
- One more river
- Swing low, sweet chariot
- Sit down, sister
- My lord, what a morning
- Go down, Moses.