America is clearly a land of song! In this fine collection, prolific Mel Bay author Jerry Silverman explores the dusty archives of songdom to rediscover golden treasures of bygone days. The book offers over 50 captivating American songs loosely classified as related to Home, Home Runs, and Heartbreak. All selections are arranged for piano and voice with complete lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Includes a historical essay by Russell Baker plus an introduction and commentary on many of the individual songs by the author.

A Good Exercise      
A Present From Yourself      
Answer the first Rap      
Base Ball Fever      
Ben Bolt      
Do They Miss Me At Home?      
Doan' Yo' Lis'n      
First Ask Yourself      
From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water      
Hard Times, Come Again No More      
Home, Sweet Home      
How To Find Success      
Hurrah For Our National Game      
In the Good Old Summertime      
Jockey Hat and Feather      
Keep Awake      
Lily Bell      
Long, Long Ago      
Lula Is Gone      
Making the Best Of It      
Mr. & Mrs. Brown      
Nelly Was A Lady      
New Friends, True Friends      
Now and Then      
Old Dog Tray      
On The Road to Mandalay      
Over the Garden Wall      
Over the Mountain      
Pilgrim Stranger      
Rock Me To Sleep, Mother      
Rocked In the Cradle Of the Deep      
Rosalie, The Prairie Flower      
School Days      
Ship On Fire      
Slide, Kelly, Slide!      
Some Folks      
Take Me Out To The Ball Game      
Tally One For Me      
The Dying Nun      
The Horticultural Wife      
The Old Oaken Bucket      
The Pleasure of Giving      
The Songs of the Olden Days      
The Stranger Man      
The Voices That Are Gone      
There's Music in the Air      
To Understand      
Too Late For Love      
Twenty Years Ago      
Under the Willow She's Sleeping      
What Care I?      
What Shall I Offer Thee?      
When They Say Unkind Things      
Willie, We Have Missed You      
You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married