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