Something to sing about ; the personal choices of America's folk singers / Collected and arr. by Milton Okun.
| Author/creator | Okun, Milton |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | New York : Macmillan Co., [1968] |
| Description | 241 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Pretty boy Floyd -- Mollie Darling -- Johnny, I hardly knew you -- Come all ye fair and tender ladies -- Wildwood flower -- Candy man blues -- John Brown's body -- Barbary Ellen -- Things about goin' my way -- Johnny Doolan's cat -- The riddle song -- Pretty Polly -- Twelve gates to the city -- I ride an old paint -- The dodger song -- Careless love -- Farther along -- Raise a ruckus -- Bonavista harbor -- The day is past and gone -- Balm in Gilead -- John Henry -- Green grow the rashes, o! -- A picture from life's other side -- She moved through the fair -- Hard is the fortune (wagoner lad) -- Rock Island line -- I've been 'buked and I've been scorned -- The gallows pole -- Peat bog soldiers -- Midnight special -- Greensleeves -- Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight? -- Follow the drinking gourd -- Shenandoah -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill -- The wild colonial boy -- The bonny streets of fyvie-o -- The golden vanity -- The great silkie -- Tom Dooley -- Lady of Carlysle -- Arkansas sheik -- Rock about my Saro Jane -- Leatherwing bat -- See that my grave is kept clean -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Steal away -- On top of old Smokey -- The minstrel boy -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- John Hardy -- All my trials -- When first unto this country -- Handsome Molly -- The water is wide -- The cruel mother -- The big rock candy mountain -- Let me fly -- Must I go bound -- Sprig of thyme -- Nine hundred miles -- Turtle dove -- The fox -- Lang a'growing -- Off to the sea once more -- Jay Gould's daughter -- Harbour le cou -- The butcher boy -- Frankie and Johnny -- By and by -- The lily of the west -- Scarborough fair -- God bless' the child -- Old McDonald had a farm -- David's lamentation. |
| General note | Principally American folk songs. |
| General note | For voice and piano, with chord symbols. |
| General note | Includes notes on the folk singers by the compiler. |
| LCCN | 68054770 |
Availability
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