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A prairie home companion folk song book

Call Number

  • M 784.4 P8981 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, 1988.

Physical Description

316 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Contents

  • After Ach, Du Lieber Augustine
  • After Auld Lang Syne
  • After Glow worm
  • Ain't it great to be crazy
  • Ain't we crazy
  • Alaska: Home on the snow
  • All the pretty little horses
  • Anybody seen my kitty
  • At the boarding house where I live
  • At the jail
  • Away with rum
  • Babes in the woods
  • The bathtub song
  • Be kind to your web-footed friends
  • The bear went over the mountain
  • Beecham's pills
  • Beer, beer for old
  • Beer was spilled on the barroom floor
  • Beetles
  • Biblical baseball game
  • The billboard song
  • Billy boy
  • Bingo
  • Birmingham's my home
  • Black socks
  • Blest be the tie that binds
  • Books of the New testament.
  • (cont.) Bosco
  • Boys can whistle, girls can sing
  • Bring back my neighbors to me
  • Bringing in the cows
  • Brother John
  • Bugs go wild, simple wild, over me
  • Bugs marched down the aisle
  • Bulldog and the bullfrog
  • The butcher's legs
  • Bye, baby, bye
  • Bye, bye, Longjohns
  • Camptown races
  • Cape cod girls
  • Casey Jones the rooster
  • Casey's coffins
  • Cat that chewed my new shoes
  • Catalina magdalena
  • Charlie won't you rock the cradle
  • Chaucer's the canterbury tales
  • Cherries are ripe
  • Chew, maiden, chew
  • Chicken sandwich
  • Clementine
  • Coffee
  • Collard greens
  • Come up dear dinner come up
  • Comet
  • Coming through the rye
  • Crawdad
  • Dakotaland
  • The Danube's not blue
  • Davenport
  • Deck the halls
  • Deck the halls with Lefse slices
  • Did you ever think
  • Do your ears hang low
  • Dogsology
  • Dolly and Teddy.
  • (cont.) Donkey riding
  • Don't swat your mother, boys
  • Don't you call me sweetheart
  • Down at the station
  • Down by the old garbage slough
  • Down in the valley
  • Dreidel song
  • Dunk dunk dunk
  • East side, west side
  • Edgar Allan Poe's "The Ravens"
  • Eight feet tall, what a doll
  • Elbows
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Farther along
  • Fleischmann's yeast
  • Floatin' down the Delaware
  • Found a peanut
  • Four little angels
  • Frenchman's cow
  • Froggie he am a queer bird
  • Froggie went a-courting
  • From the halls of school's dark prison
  • Garbageman's daughter
  • Glory, glory, how peculiar
  • Glory, glory, pork superior
  • Glub, glub, glub your boat
  • Go tell Aunt Rhody
  • Go to sleepy, little baby
  • God save the king
  • Golly ain't that queer
  • Goober peas
  • Good King Wences
  • Goodbye, old paint.
  • (cont.) Gooseberry pie
  • Granny's in the cellar
  • Greasy grimy gopher guts
  • Great American eagle
  • Groundhog
  • Groundhog medley
  • Guess I'll eat some worms
  • Hang your head over
  • Have you ever seen
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Excelsior
  • Ho-Hum nobody's home
  • A Horse named Bill
  • How do you like to go up in a swing
  • How pleasant that would be
  • Hymn for Syttende Mai: Ole, Ole, Ole
  • Hymn to cheeses
  • I ain't gonna grieve my lord no more
  • I ain't got no money
  • I don't give a darn for the whole state of Iowa
  • I eat my peas with honey
  • I have a little dog
  • I love to do my homework
  • I love to go a-gorging
  • I saw Esau
  • I shot my poor teacher
  • I want a beer just like the beer
  • I was born about ten thousand years ago.
  • (cont.) I was born one night one morn
  • I went to Cincinnati
  • I wish I was single again
  • I won't marry
  • If I were as high
  • I'm a villain
  • I'm chiquita banana
  • I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
  • I'm looking under a pile of lumber
  • I'm screaming at a white sheep dog
  • In the blue ridge mountains
  • In the cellar of Murphys saloon
  • Indicate the way
  • It's a long way from amphioxus
  • It's raining, it's pouring
  • Jesse James
  • Jiggs the dog
  • Joe's got a head like a ping pong ball
  • John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
  • Johnny Macree
  • Jump rope rhyme
  • Junior Birdman
  • Just when I'm ready to start on my ears
  • King of the Cannibal Island
  • Leave the dishes in the sink
  • Lefse
  • Let me call you Lizzie
  • Let me call you sweetheart
  • Let your whiskers grow
  • Leiws Carroll's Jabberwocky
  • Life is but a melancholy flower.
  • (cont.) Little brown jug
  • Little furry caterpillar
  • The little ole
  • Little Willie I
  • Little Willie II
  • Lollipop song
  • Long long ago
  • Louisiana lullaby
  • Louisiana rainstorm
  • Love to be a Copenhagen
  • Lutefisk, O Lutefisk
  • McDonald's McTavish is dead
  • The man behind
  • Michael Finnigan
  • Milkshake
  • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
  • Mine eyes have seen the horror of the ending of the term
  • Minnesota --Mockingbird
  • Mother's cookies
  • Mrs. Brown
  • The mule
  • The mushroom
  • My body has tuberculosis
  • My country's tired of me
  • My dame's crane
  • My freckle-faced consumptive Mary Ann
  • My grandmas advice
  • My hand of myself
  • My hat it has three corner
  • My high silk hat
  • My home's in Montana.
  • (cont.) My little owlet
  • My name is Solomon Levi
  • My pappy's whiskers
  • My pink pajamas
  • My wild Irish nose
  • National embalming school
  • 'Neath the crust of the old apple pie
  • Nero, my dog, has fleas
  • Never go camping on labor day
  • New Mexico, we love you
  • Next thanksgiving
  • No L
  • Nonsense rhymes
  • The north wind doth blow
  • The nose of Oklahoma smells you
  • Now I lay me down to study
  • Now we are marching
  • O Tom the toad
  • O'Brien O'Lin
  • O'Dooley's first five o'clock tea
  • Oh, ay liff in Minneapolis
  • Oh, I had a little chicken
  • Oh, I wish I was a
  • Oh my monster, Frankenstein
  • The old chevrolet
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old family toothbrush
  • Old farmer Brown
  • Old folks at home
  • Old grey mare
  • On top of my headache
  • On top of old baldy
  • On top of old smoky
  • Once I went in swimmin'
  • One bottle pop
  • One fish ball
  • Onions.
  • (cont.) Onward, christian bedbugs
  • Other day I met a bear
  • Over the river and through the woods
  • Over there
  • Overeducated nursery rhymes
  • Papa's Billy Goat
  • Parties banquets, and balls
  • Pepsi-cola hits the spot
  • Perfect posture
  • The pie dream
  • Pile of debris
  • Polly-wolly-doodle
  • Poor Nellie
  • The posture song
  • The preposition song
  • P.S.
  • The pumpkin on the vine
  • Pussy Willow
  • Put on your new blue bonnet
  • Questions
  • The red fox
  • Respect
  • Reuben, Reuben
  • Ring around the rosy
  • Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
  • Rock me to sleep
  • Rootie-toot-toot
  • Row, row, row your boat
  • Rummy dummy line
  • Rye whiskey
  • Sail, baby, sail
  • The rime of the ancient mariner
  • The scarlet bonnet
  • School days
  • See these young ducks at play
  • She, a Jersey cow.
  • (cont.) She sat on her hammock
  • She waded in the water
  • She'll be comin' 'round the mountain
  • She's a grand old cat
  • Shoo shoo shoo reparoo
  • Shovel
  • Side by side
  • Skinniest man I ever knew
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Smiles that are best of all
  • So I climbed up the old apple tree
  • The soldier's poor little boy
  • Somewhere overindulgence
  • Soup
  • South Dakota is the sunshine state
  • States song
  • Study oft on Sunday
  • Suffocation
  • Susie had a steamboat
  • Sweet and low
  • Sweet Dakotaland
  • Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay
  • Take it out, take it out, remove it
  • Tell me why
  • That sauage meat machine
  • That stepladder in the snow
  • There are germs
  • There are ships
  • There was a little rooster
  • There was a rich man who lived in Jerusalem
  • There was an old geezer
  • There's a long, long worm a-crawling
  • This is my Dolly's birthday
  • Thistle-sifting
  • The thousand-legged worm
  • Three Jolly fishermen.
  • (cont.) Tinkle, tinkle, little Pee
  • The Titantic
  • Today is
  • Too much of a name
  • Toys, beautiful toys
  • Turkey dinner
  • Turnip greens
  • Two auto songs
  • Ve got troubles
  • Vive la compagnie
  • Vive le Captain John
  • Wait for the wagon
  • Wait 'til we get 'em up in the air, boys
  • Waiter, waiter
  • Watermelon song
  • We come from St. Olaf
  • We sing of the polar bear
  • We three kings
  • We're from Kansas
  • We've enlisted in the navy
  • Whale song
  • What a long long tail
  • What do you do with a dirty family
  • When it's hogcalling time
  • When it's springtime in Alaska
  • When Pa was a little boy
  • When the work's all done this fall
  • When we went to Sunday school
  • When you come to the end of a lollipop
  • While looking out a window
  • While shepherds washed their socks
  • While the organ pealed potatoes.
  • (cont.) Whistle while you work
  • White coral bells
  • Whoa mule, whoa
  • Worm song
  • Year ago our baby died
  • Yield not a flirtation
  • You drove your buick
  • Young folks, old folks
  • Yuck cats
  • Zekey looked into the gas tank
  • Zip up your doo-dah.