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Sheet Music

Best loved American folk songs : [Folk song: U.S.A.]

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L83.3 (CEN)

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Edition

3d ed.

Publication Information

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1947.

Physical Description

407 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes

Includes music.

Contents

  • Ain' no mo' Cane on dis brazis
  • All the pretty little horses
  • Almost done
  • Amazing Grace
  • Another man done gone
  • The bigler
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains
  • Black, black
  • Black-eye Susie
  • Blow, ye winds in the morning
  • Blue mountain lake
  • The boll weevil
  • Bound for the Promised Land
  • Brave Wolfe
  • Buckeye Jim
  • Buffalo gals
  • Buffalo skinners
  • Bury me not on the Lone Prairie
  • Can'cha line 'em
  • Careless love
  • Casey Jones (I)
  • Casey Jones (II)
  • Chisholm trail
  • Cindy
  • Coffee grows on White Oak Trees
  • Come all you fair and tender ladies.
  • (cont.) Cowboy's dream
  • Crawdad song
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Days of '49
  • Dink's song
  • Down, down, down
  • Down in the valley
  • Down in the willow garden
  • Durant jail
  • Easy rider
  • The E-R-I-E
  • Frankie and Albert
  • Gee, but I want to go home
  • Git along little dogies
  • Go down, Moses
  • Go tell Aunt Nancy
  • Goin' down the road feeling' bad
  • Great gittin' up mornin'
  • Grey Goose
  • Ground Hog
  • Home on the range
  • I was born about ten thousand years ago
  • Jam on Gerry's Rocks
  • John Brown's body
  • John Hardy
  • John Henry (I)
  • John Henry (II)
  • Johnny has gone for a soldier
  • Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
  • Keep your hand on the plow
  • Leatherwing bat
  • Lolly-too-dum
  • Lonesome valley
  • Lowlands
  • Lumberman in town
  • Mademoiselle from armentieres
  • Midnight special.
  • (cont.) Mister rabbit
  • Never said a mumblin' word
  • Nine hundred miles
  • O freedom
  • O, Lula!
  • Old blue
  • The Old Chisholm Trail (I)
  • The Old Chisholm Trail (II)
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Old paint (I)
  • Old paint (II)
  • Old settler's song
  • Old Smoky
  • Once more a-lumb'ring go
  • Paddy works on the Erie
  • Pick a bale of cotton
  • Po' Laz'us
  • Po' lil' Jesus
  • Pretty Polly
  • Raise a rukus
  • Red river valley
  • Rock about my Saro Jane
  • Round and round Hitler's grave
  • Sacramento
  • Sam Bass
  • Santy Anno
  • Set down servant
  • Shenandoah
  • Shoot the buffalo
  • Shorty George
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
  • Soon one mornin' Sourwood mountain
  • Sportingbachelors
  • Springfield mountain-- Starving to death on a government claim
  • State of Arkansas
  • Streets of Laredo.
  • (cont.) Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Sugar babe
  • Sweet thing
  • Take a whiff on me
  • Take this hammer
  • Texian boys
  • Tom Dooley
  • Wayfaring stranger
  • When I was single (I)
  • When I was single (II)
  • When my blood runs chilly an' col'
  • When you go a-courtin'
  • Whoa buck
  • Wondrous love
  • Young man who whouldn't hoe corn.

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