A folk song history of America : America through its songs / Samuel L. Forcucci.

Author/creator Forcucci, Samuel L.
Format Book
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, ©1984.
Descriptionxii, 260 pages : music ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents After the ball -- All the pretty little horses -- Amazing grace -- America -- America the beautiful -- A-roving -- The ballad of the boll weevil -- Balm in Gilead -- The band played on -- Barbara Allen -- The battle cry of freedom -- The battle hymn of the republic -- A bicycle built for two -- Big rock candy mountain -- Billy boy -- Black is the color of my true loves heart -- Blowin' in the wind -- Blow the man down -- Blow ye winds -- Bonnie blue flag -- The bowery -- Bowery gals -- Bridge over troubled water -- Bridget Maguire -- British grenadiers -- Buffalo boy -- Buffalo gals -- The buffalo skinner -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- Camptown races -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- Casey Jones -- Chester -- Clementine -- Coal black rose -- Cod'ine -- The cowboy's lament -- Daisy bell -- The deaf woman's courtship -- The death of general Wolfe -- De boatman's dance -- Devilish Mary -- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? -- Dinah -- Dixie -- Doney gal -- Drill ye tarriers drill -- The dying cowboy -- East side, west side -- E-R-I-E -- Erie canal -- The farmer's curst wife -- Flag of the free -- Frankie and Johnny -- Get on board -- Glendy burk -- Go down Moses -- God save the thirteen states -- Golden slippers -- Goober peas -- Goodnight Irene -- Hand me down my walking cane -- Haul away Joe -- Haul on the bowline -- Hello my baby -- The homespun dress -- Hot cross buns -- A hot time in the old town tonight -- Hush little baby -- Hushaby -- I ain't marching anymore -- If I had a hammer -- I'm just a rebel soldier -- I never shall marry -- In the days of '76 -- In the evening by the moonlight -- In the good old colony days -- In the good old summertime -- I ride an old paint -- I've been working on the leeve -- I've been working on the railroad -- I wonder as I wander -- Jennie Jenkins -- Jesse James -- Jim along Josie -- Jim Crow -- Joe Bowers -- John Brown's Body -- John Henry -- Johnny has gone for a soldier -- Johnson boys -- Just before the battle, mother -- Kalamazoo to Timbuktu -- Kisses sweeter than wine -- L'il Liza Jane -- Lincoln -- Little boxes -- Little David -- Liza Jane -- London Bridge -- Lone star trail -- Long trail blue -- Lord Cornwallis surrender -- Lowlands -- Luby fan -- The maid on the shore -- The man on the flying trapeze -- Michael row the boat ashore -- Mooje moccasin -- Mr. tambourine man -- My sweetheart's the man in the moon -- My wild Irish rose -- Na na he na ha ha -- New Massachusetts liberty song -- 900 miles -- Nobody knows the trouble 'ob seen -- Now that the buffalo's gone -- Oh California -- Oh Susanna -- Old black Joe -- The old Chisholm trail -- Old Dan Tucker -- Old folks at home (way down upon the Swanee river) -- Old hundredth -- Old Joe Clark -- The old settler's song -- Ole zip coon -- On top of old Smokey -- Orphan blues -- O wondrous love -- Paper of pins -- Pat works on the railway -- Pick a bale of cotton -- Poor wayfaring stranger -- Pretty boy Floyd -- The prisoner's hope -- Psalm -- Puff the magic dragon -- A railroader for me -- Real old mountain dew -- Red iron ore -- Riddle song -- The riflemen of Bennington -- Ring, ring the banjo -- Rock of ages -- Rye whiskey -- Scarborough fair -- Set down servant -- She'll be coming 'round the mountain -- Shenandoah -- Shortnin' bread -- The sidewalks of New York -- The Sioux Indians -- Skip to my Lou -- Soldier will you marry me -- So long, it's been good to know yuh -- Sounds of silence -- Sourwood mountain -- The southern girls reply -- Southern volunteers -- The star spangled banner -- Steal away -- Streets of Laredo -- The star spangled banner -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Sweetheart of sigma chi -- Sweet Rosie O'Grady -- Talkin' Vietnam blues -- Ta ra ra boom te aye -- Tell me why -- Tenting tonight -- This land is your land -- This 'ole hammer.
Abstract Describes the historical background of more than eighty American folk songs, and explains their musical structure and evolution.
Local noteLittle-248704
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 83024610
ISBN0133231305
ISBN9780133231304
ISBN0133231224 (pbk.)

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