Americans and their songs.

Author/creator Luther, Frank
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoNew York : Harper & brothers, [©1942]
Descriptionxiv pages, 1 ., 323 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Psalm 3 -- Old hundred -- Psalm 5 -- Trip a trop a tronjes -- Saint Nicholaes goed heilig man -- En roulant ma boule -- Voyager's song -- Corn grinding song -- Barbara Allen -- The house-carpenter -- Hobble and bobble -- Fair Margaret and sweet William -- Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor -- My days have been so wondrous free -- The battle of the kegs -- Come swallow your bumpers, ye tories -- Come out, ye Continentalers -- Chester -- Free America -- The world turn'd upside down -- To Anacreon in heaven -- My horses ain't hungry -- Confession -- The wayfaring stranger -- Skip to my Lou -- Sour-wood Mountain -- Billy boy -- Butcher's boy -- I wish I was single again -- Hand me down my walking cane -- Down in the valley -- Thomas Jefferson -- The female auctioneer -- Hey, Betty Martin -- Parliament of England -- Patriotic diggers -- The star-spangled banner -- The hunters of Kentucky -- The Yankee girls -- Oft in the stilly night -- Home sweet home -- Last week I took a wife -- Fifteen years on the Erie Canal -- The hammock -- Adelita -- The night is serene -- Linen clothes -- Bells of the Rosario -- Cielito Lindo -- The white hawk -- For the fourth of July -- Sparking and bright -- There's nothing true but heaven -- Adam and Eve -- Rock of ages -- Jump Jim Crow -- Shenandoah -- Blow the man down -- Turkey in the straw -- Weeping Saviour -- Distress -- War -- In the morning -- Hebrew children -- Social band -- Christian prospect -- The Indian's petition -- The cork leg -- Will you come to the bower? -- Remember the Alamo -- The death of Crockett -- Santa Anna -- Nearer my God to thee -- Woodman, spare that tree -- Backside of Albany -- New York, oh what a charming city -- The monkey's wedding -- Railroad chorus -- Benny Havens oh -- Rocked in the cradle of the deep -- Sam Slick the pedlar -- Jim along Josey -- Tippecanoe and Tyler too -- Niagara Falls -- Johnny Sands -- Long, long ago -- Columbia, the gem of the ocean -- Dixie's land -- Old Dan Tucker -- The blue Juanita -- Clay parody on Yankee Doodle -- New Yankee Doodle -- Open thy lattice, love -- Rhymes and chimes -- Uncle Sam's song to Miss Texas -- Uncle Sam and Mexico -- Taylor, the fine old southern gentleman -- Buena vista -- Oh! Susanna -- Come, come, ye saints -- The banks of the Sacramento -- Sailing for San Francisco -- Joe Bowers -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Seein' the elephant -- Great grandma -- Great grandad -- Hangtown gals -- Jackson -- Zachary Taylor -- Camptown races -- Crossing the Grand Sierras -- Michael Roy -- Wait for the wagon -- Old folks at home -- Oh boys, carry me 'long -- Mother, thou'rt faithful to me -- Home again -- Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming -- Massa's in de cold ground -- Arkansas traveler -- Walking down Broadway -- Not for Joe -- My old Kentucky home -- There's music in the air -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Twinkling stars are laughing, love -- Hard times, come again no more -- E pluribus unum -- The last cake of supper -- War song of the Texas Rangers -- The tempest -- The origin of Yankee Doodle -- The three bells -- Lilly Dale -- The flag of our union -- Joe Hardy -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Stars of the summer night -- Flee as a bird -- My grandma's advice -- Jingle bells -- Won't you come along? -- On the lake where drooped the willow -- Bonnie Eloise -- John Brown's body -- Yankee Doodle for Lincoln -- Balm of Gilead -- Maryland, my Maryland -- The vacant chair -- Battle hymn of the republic -- The bonnie blue flag -- Lorena -- Hard crackers, come again no more -- Marching along -- We are coming, father Abra'am -- Song of all songs -- The battle-cry of freedom -- Just before the battle, mother -- Weeping, sad and lonely -- Beautiful dreamer -- Tenting on the old camp-ground -- Work, for the night is coming -- The little brown church in the vale -- Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching -- Come home, father -- The ship that never returned -- Army blue -- Beautiful isle of the sea -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- We're marching to Zion -- The old Chisholm Trail -- The big corral -- Oh bury me not on the lone prairie -- Red River Valley -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Green grow the Lilacs -- Cowboy's meditation -- Roll out, cowboy -- Git along little dogies -- Lay down, dogies -- Sam Bass -- When the work's all done this fall -- Abe Lincoln -- The cowboy's lament -- Little old shod shanty on the plain -- The bronco buster -- Home on the range -- Captain Jinks -- Whispering hope -- The man on the flying trapeze -- Grant -- Sweet Genevieve -- Keller's American hymn -- Number twenty-nine -- Go down, Moses -- De gospel train -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Steal away -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Deep river -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- My Lord, what a morning -- Were you there? -- Old Grimes -- Jim Fisk -- I need thee every hour -- Nobody's darling -- Grant national campaign song -- Goodbye, Liza Jane -- Broadway opera and bowery crawl -- Silver threads among the cold -- The big sunflower -- The boatman's dance -- The Mulligan guard -- Patrick's Day parade -- Grandfather's clock -- I'll take you home again, Kathleen -- The ninety and nine -- The boys in blue will see it through -- Where is my wand'ring boy tonight? -- Major Gilfeather -- Where was Moses when the light was out? -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- Corn shucking -- Little Billy Woodcock -- Little widow Dunn -- Oh dem golden slippers -- Charles Guiteau -- Gypsy song -- Oh how, how oh -- Oh de Red Sea -- Aura Lee -- When the bees are in the hive -- Just a song at twilight -- Menagerie song -- I've been working on the railroad -- The meerschaum pipe -- Polly Wolly Doodle -- Today is Monday -- Prairie flower -- Bohunkus -- The animal fair -- Reuben and Rachel -- Old MacDonald -- Down in a coal mine -- Noah's ark -- Abdul Abulbul Amir -- Rosalie -- Dear Evalina -- In the gloaming -- Aunt Dinah's quilting party -- My Bonnie lies over the ocean -- Mandy Lee -- In the evening by the moonlight -- Comrades -- Limericks -- The old oaken bucket -- Goodnight, ladies -- My dad's dinner pail -- The trail to Mexico -- White wings -- Can I sleep in your barn tonight, mister? -- Boll weevil blues -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill! -- The march to victory -- Grandfather's hat -- Down went McGinty -- Throw him down McCloskey -- My Nelly's blue eyes -- The man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo -- The Bowery -- Daisy Bell -- After the ball -- Happy birthday to you -- America the beautiful -- I don't want to play in your yard -- Clementine -- Oh, Fred, tell him to stop -- Abalone -- The band played on -- I guess I'll have to telegraph my baby -- The rosary -- Aloha oe -- Little Ah Sid -- Reveille -- Co ca che lunk -- Mess call -- A life on the Vicksburg Bluff -- Sick call -- Grafted into the army -- Stable call -- Stonewall Jackson's way -- Fatigue call -- The faded coat of blue -- Taps -- Filipino hombre -- Raw recruit -- McKinley protection -- McKinley marches on -- The Governor-General of a hobo -- Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes
General noteIncludes 75 songs with piano accompaniment and 50 unaccompanied melodies.
General note"The songs of America (1620-1900) [a chronological list]": p. [297]-311.
LCCN 43001261

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