Product Number:
95489
Format:
Book
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Pages:
352
Binding:
Perfect Binding
Size:
8.5 x 11
ISBN:
0-7866-0555-3
UPC:
796279025751
ISBN13:
978-07866-0555-2
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
3/27/1998
This huge collection of traditional and folk tunes includes song categories such as love songs, songs of the sea, fun songs, train songs, sentimental songs, and songs based on historic events. Written in simple lead sheet format with complete lyrics and chord symbols, this collection is perfect for gatherings around the campfire or as a general sourcebook. Author/compiler Jerry Silverman contributes program notes for the more obscure tunes in this exhaustive anthology of American song.
'Round The Bay of Mexico
A Bird in a Gilded Cage
A Horse Named Bill
A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff
A Railroader for Me
A-Roving
Abdullah Bulbul Amir
Abraham's Daughter
Acres of Clams
After the Ball
All Night Long
An Invitation to North America
At the Foot of Yonder Mountain
Aura Lee
Away with Rum
Backwater Blues
Baltimore Fire
Banks of the Sacramento
Base Ball Fever
Beans, Bacon and Gravy
Beautiful Dreamer
Ben Bolt
Bill McCandless' Ride
Billy Boy
Billy the Kid
Black Is the Color
Blow the Man Down
Blow, Ye Winds, In the Morning
Blow, Ye Winds, Westerly
Boatman Dance
Bread and Roses
Buddy, Won't You Roll Down the Line?
C.C. Rider
Can't You Dance the Polka?
Can't You Hear Me Callin', Caroline
Cannonball Blues
Cape Ann
Captain Kidd
Casey Jones
Clear the Track
Cod Liver Oil
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Girls
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Cripple Creek
Custer's Last Charge
Dakota Land
Danville Girl
Darling Nellie Gray
Deep Blue Sea
Deep River Blues
Depression Blues
Dixie's Land
Do They Miss Me At Home?
Don't Sing Love Songs
Down in Dear Old Greenwich Village
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
Drink it Down
Dry Weather Houses
Duncan and Brady
Dunderbeck
East Virginia
Ellen Bayne
Engine 143
Equinoxial and Phoebe
Foolish Questions
For Me and My Gal
Four Nights Drunk
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
Free At Last
From Boston Harbor We Set Sail
Gentle Annie
George Washington Bridge
Get On Board, Little Children
Get Up, Jack
Give My Regards to Broadway
Go 'Way From My Window
Go Down, Moses
Goober Peas
Good Morning, Mister Railroadman
Good-bye, Old Paint
Grandfather Clock
Green Grow the Lilacs
Greenland Fisheries
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Hard Times in Dixie
Hard Times, Come Again No More
He's Gone Away
Henry Martin
High Barbary
Hobo Bill
Home, Sweet Home
Hudson River Steamboat
Hurrah for Our National Game
I Took Her to the Ball
I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
I Won't Be a Nun
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
I'm Alabama Bound
I'm Sad and I'm Lonely
If I Had Wings
In Good Old Colony Times
In the Gloaming
In the Good Old Summertime
In the Pines (I)
In the Pines (II)
Irish Astronomy
Jay Gould's Daughter
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Jefferson and Liberty
Jenny June
Jockey Hat and Feather
Joe Turner
John Hardy
John Henry
John Riley
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Johnny Is My Darling
Juanita
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Let Us All Speak Our Minds
Life in California
Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad
Lilly Bell
Lincoln and Liberty
Linstead Market
Little Annie Rooney
Little Mohee
Little Old Sod Shanty on the Plain
Lolly Too Dum
Long, Long Ago
Lorena
Love Is Pleasing
Love's Old Sweet Song
Low Bridge! - Everybody Down
Lula is Gone
Maids, When You're Young, Never Wed an Old Man
Many Thousand Gone
Marching Through Georgia
Marryin' Blue Yodel
Mary-Anne
Maryland, My Maryland
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Michael Roy
Michigan Water Blues
Mobile Bay
Molly Durkin
Mule Skinner Blues
Must I Go Bound?
My Blushing Rosie
My Father, How Long?
My Melancholy Babe
My Mother's Old Red Shawl
My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon
Mysteries of a Hobo's Life
Nelly Was a Lady
New Friends, True Friends
New River Train
Nine Hundred Miles
Number Twelve Train
Oh, Freedom
Oh, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Oh, My Little Darling
Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness
Old Dog Tray
Old King Cole
On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away
On the Road to Mandalay
Once I Had a Sweetheart
Original Talking Blues
Over the Garden Wall
Over the Mountain
Paddy Works on the Railway
Pay Day at Coal Creek
Pay Me My Money Down
Pretty Peggy-O
Pretty Saro
Putting on the Style
Quantrell
Railroad Bill
Red Iron Ore
Remember the Alamo
Reuben's Train
Revolutionary Tea
Rio Grande
Rock About, My Saro Jane
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Rolling Down to Old Miami
Root, Hog or Die
Rosalie, the Prairie Flower
Run Come See Jerusalem
Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea
Sam Bass
Santy Anno
School Days
Seeing Nellie Home
She is More to be Pitied Than Censured
She's Like a Swallow
She's the Sweetest of Them All
Shenandoah
Shootin' with Rasputin
Shorty George
Silver Threads Among the Gold
Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Solidarity Forever
Some Folks
Somebody's Coming to See Me Tonight
Somebody's Darling
St. Louis Blues
Steal Away
Stonewall Jackson's Way
Streets of Cairo
Stung Right
Swannanoa Tunnel
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Tally One For Me
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
The Band Played On
The Battle Cry of Freedom
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of Trenton
The Battleship of Maine
The Bigler
The Blue and the Gray
The Blues Ain't Nothin'
The Bold Fisherman
The Bonnie Blue Flag
The Boothbay Whale
The Bowery
The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train
The Constitution and the Guerriere
The Desperado
The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
The Dodger Song
The Dom Pedro
The Dreary Black Hills
The Drunkard's Doom
The E-ri-e Canal
The Eddystone Light
The Factory Girl
The Fall of Charleston
The Farmer is the Man
The Fireship
The Gal That Got Stuck On Everything She Saw
The Galveston Flood
The Golden Vanity
The Grant Pill
The Great American Bum
The Handsome Cabin Boy
The Hell-Bound Train
The House of the Rising Sun
The Hunters of Kentucky
The Intoxicated Rat
The Jam on Gerry's Rock
The Jamestown Homeward Bound
The Johnstown Flood
The Klondike Gold Rush
The Leatherman
The Liberty Song
The Lily of the West
The Little Orphan Girl
The Man Who Waters The Workers' Beer
The Maple Leaf Rag Song
The Memphis Blues
The Mermaid
The Midnight Special
The New Bully Song
The Old Oaken Bucket
The Ox-Driving Song
The Panic is On
The Parting Glass
The Persia's Crew
The Popular Wobbly
The Preacher and the Slave
The Queen of Hearts
The Rambler
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
The Rifleman of Bennington
The Rose of Tralee
The Roving Pedlar
The Ship That Never Returned
The Sloop John B.
The Soldier and the Sailor
The Sweetest Story Ever Told
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
The Titantic
The Turtle Dove
The Voices That Are Gone
The Wabash Cannonball
The Water Is Wide
The Worried Man Blues
The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven
The Yankee Doodle Boy
The Yellow Rose of Texas
The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
There's a Long, Long Trail
There's Music in the Air
This Train
Told My Captain
Too Late for Love
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
Trouble Down at Homestead
Twenty Years Ago
Two-Nineteen Took My Babe Away
Under the Willow She's Sleeping
Union Train
Vilikins and His Dinah
Wait for the Wagon
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Wanderin'
Weeping Sad and Lonely
What Care I?
What Shall I Offer Thee?
What Shall we Do with the Drunken Sailor?
When I Lay Down
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When You Were Sweet Sixteen
While Strolling Through the Park
White House Blues
Who Will Care for Mother Now?
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
Will You Love Me in December
Willie, We Have Missed You
Winning the Vote
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
With All Her Faults I Love Her Still
Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom
Ye Parliament of England
You Naughty, Naughty Men
You're the Flower of My Heart
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