A treasury of American song / text by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister; music arranged by Elie Siegmeister.

Author/creator Downes, Olin
Other author Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991.
Format Musical Score
Edition2d ed., rev. and enl., with a new introduction.
Publication InfoNew York : A. A. Knopf, [1943]
Description408 pages ; 32 cm
Subjects

Contents Who is the man? -- Confess Jehovah -- Rosa -- Lowly Bethlehem -- Barbara Allen -- Tom Bolynn -- Springfield Mountain -- Captain Kidd -- Locks and bolts -- Hangsaman -- My days have been so wondrous free -- When Jesus wept -- Brave Wolfe -- The liberty song -- What a court hath old England -- Yankee Doodle -- Chester -- Bunker Hill -- Paul Jones' victory -- Ode to the fourth of July -- Ode on Science -- David's lamentation -- Putney hymn -- The bee -- Jefferson and liberty -- Blow, boys, blow -- Cape Cod girls -- Blow the man down -- The Boston come-all-ye -- Lowlands -- Shenandoah -- Rio Grande -- A dollar and a half a day -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Star of Columbia -- El-a-noy -- The unconstant lover -- Way down the Ohio -- The jolly wagoner -- Poor wayfaring stranger -- When Adam was created -- The promised land -- The saint's delight -- Wondrous love -- Through all the world -- Weevily wheat -- Shoot the buffalo -- Skip to my Lou -- Swing on the corner -- Welcome every guest -- Old Dan Tucker -- Lubly Fan -- Old Zip Coon -- Walk, jaw-bone -- The Burman lover -- Alabado -- Sacramento -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Joe Bowers -- The dying Californian -- Oh Susanna! -- My old Kentucky home -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Heave away -- Gwine to Alabamy -- Abolitionist hymn -- Link o'day -- Lincoln and liberty -- Battle hymn of the republic -- Dixie -- Abraham's daughter -- Tenting to-night -- When Johnny comes marching home --All quiet on the Potomac -- Weeping sad and lonely -- Slav'ry chain -- Year of Jubilo -- Go down Moses -- Didn' my Lord deliver Daniel? -- Deep river -- The Gospel Train -- Never said a mumbalin' word -- Little David -- This is a sin-trying world -- Blind man -- The chickens are a-crowing -- When boys go a-courting -- I must and I will get married -- If you want to go a-courting -- He's gone away -- I'm sad and I'm lonely -- The lonesome grove -- Dandoo -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- The single girl -- Go to sleepy -- Itiskit itaskit -- Little Sally Sand -- It's raining it's pouring -- Bye, baby bunting -- Here come three merchants a-riding -- Old woman all skin and bone -- The birds' courting song -- Barnyard song -- Frog went a-courtin' -- Sourwood Mountain -- Old Joe Clarke -- Cindy -- Darling Cora -- Ground hog -- Careless love -- Way up on old Smoky -- Kentucky moonshiner -- Rye whiskey -- Everybody's welcome -- Oh death -- Cowboy's gettin' up holler -- The Chisholm Trail -- Night-herding song -- I ride an old Paint -- The railroad corral -- Good-bye, old Paint -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- The Shantyman's Life -- The jolly lumbermen -- Pat works on the railway -- State of Arkansas -- Look over yonder -- Farmer comes to town -- The ballad of the Boll Weevil -- Teamster's song -- Goin' up the river -- I lived in a town -- The Erie Canal -- Barber's cry -- Charcoal man -- The shoemaker -- Shine on -- Old Abe Lincoln -- John Henry -- Johnny Appleseed -- John Hardy -- Jesse James -- Red River Valley -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Listen to the mocking bird -- Go get the axe -- Little brown jug -- It's the syme the whole world over -- The elephant and the flea -- No more booze -- Frankie and Johnny -- Willie the Weeper -- The roving gambler -- Salangadou -- Rémon -- La cucaracha -- De Mexico ha venido -- Schlof, bobbeli -- Me Johnny Mitchell man -- I catcha da plenty of feesh -- On Meesh-e-gan -- Finnegan's wake -- The blues ain't nothin' -- Joe Turner blues -- Friendless blues -- Gambler's blues -- Po' boy -- Chilly winds -- Every night when the sun goes in -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum -- The preacher and the slave -- Hinky dinky -- Ah'm broke an' hungry -- Upon de mountain -- Sistern and brethren -- Ku Kluck Klan -- The T.V.A. -- I'm goin' down this road feeling bad -- Tom Joad -- A new wind a-blowin'.
General note"The music in this book was reproduced from handwritten originals ... The book was printed in photo-offset."
General notePiano accompaniment.
LCCN 43007587

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