| Contents |
The colonial period. The British heritage. Bawbee Allen ; I will give my love an apple ; The keys of Canterbury ; The sycamore tree ; The trees they grow so high (west of England) ; The bonny boy (Eire) ; The bonny lass o' Fyvie ; Lord Ronald ; Sir Patrick Spens ; Psalm 100 (a psalm of praise) -- Colonial songs and ballads. Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me? ; Siubhail a Gradh ; Come, my love (Eire) ; Johnny has gone for a soldier (Hudson valley) ; The death of General Wolfe ; Sweet William ; The old man who lived in the woods ; Springfield Mountain ; The young man who couldn't hoe corn (the lazy man) ; Jenny Jenkins ; Katie Cruel -- The American Revolution. Young ladies in town ; The rich lady over the sea ; The folks on t'other side the wave ; Sir Peter Parker ; Nathan Hale ; The dying redcoat ; The battle of Trenton ; The fate of John Burgoyne ; The battle of the kegs ; Paul Jone's victory (poor Richard and the Serapis and alliance) ; The ballad of Major André ; Lord Cornwallis's surrender -- The early national period. Caitilin Ni Uailachain (Cathaleen Ni Houlihan) ; Green grows the rushes ; Jefferson and liberty ; Napoleon Bonaparte ; The bonny bunch of roses ; The constitution and Guerrière ; The Chesapeake and the Shannon ; The hunters of Kentucky ; Johnny bull, my Jo, John ; Mrs. McGrath -- Jacksonian America. Sea and immigration. Haul on the bowline ; Blood-red roses ; Leave her, Johnny, leave her ; The golden vanity ; Off to sea once more ; The Greenland whale fishery ; The banks of Newfoundland ; The praties they grow small ; Across the Western Ocean ; The farmer's curst wife (the devil and the farmer) ; The castle of Dromore (Caislean Droim an Oir) ; The pesky sarpent -- The westward movement. The Wisconsin emigrant ; Hush, little baby ; Let's go a-huntin' ; Skip to my Lou ; When I was single ; The single girl ; The lumberman's alphabet ; The jam on Gerry's rock ; Sioux Indians ; The fools of forty-nine ; Santy Anno ; The dying Californian -- Slavery days. Roll, Jordan, roll ; Sail, o believer ; Poor Rosy ; Bound to go ; Hushabye (all the pretty little horses) ; Sold off to Georgy ; Hangman, slack on the line ; Lay this body down ; Jimmy Rose ; T'ain't gonna rain no mo' ; The rose of Alabama -- The Civil War. The Northern Bonny blue flag ; The Bonny blue flag (Southern) ; Song of the Southern volunteers ; Flag of the free ; The Yankee man o' war ; The homespun dress ; On to Richmond! ; General Lee's wooing ; What gives the wheat fields blades of steel? -- Freedom songs. Many thousand gone ; Oh, freedom! ; Song of the freedmen ; A plaint ; Roll, Alabama, roll ; Sherman's march to the sea ; The Southern girl's reply -- Between the Civil War and the first world war. Farmers and workers. I ride an old paint ; The Colorado trail ; Goodbye, old paint ; Brennan on the moor ; The farmer is the man ; Peter Emberley ; Hard times in the mill ; The shoofly ; The Ludlow massacre ; Solidarity forever -- Immigrants. Ot Azoy Neyt a Shnayder (weary days are a tailor's) ; Schlof Mayn Kind (sleep, my child) ; Mayn Yingele (my little son) ; Papir iz Doch Vays (silver is the daylight) ; Son Petit Jupon (the little dress of gray) ; Isabeau S'y Promène (Isabel) -- The Negro people. Pick a bale o' cotton ; No more cane on this brazos ; Another man done gone ; Godamighty drag ; No more, my Lord ; Settin' side that road ; The ballad of the boll weevil ; Ragged and dirty blues ; Yonder come day -- Between two world wars. When Johnny comes marching home ; Johnny, I hardly knew you ; Mademoiselle from Armentières ; Pack up your troubles ; Wandering ; Raggedy ; The mouse's courting song ; Which side are you on? ; We shall not be moved ; Goin' down the road ; Roll on, Columbia ; Discrimination blues ; We shall overcome ; Die Moorsoldaten (Peat-Bog soldiers) ; Ot Kraya i Do Kraya (from frontier to frontier) ; D-day dodgers ; Partizaner Lid (The Partisan) -- Since the war. Plane wreck at Los Gatos ; In contempt ; Bull Conner's jail ; Keep on a-walkin' ; One man's hands ; Little boxes. |
| Abstract |
This book is an attempt to show the story of America through its songs. It provides a musical introduction to this national heritage, and indicates its extent, variety and beauty, and the lives of the people who were, and are a part of it. This book includes the words and music to more than 125 historic songs, many with guitar chords. |
