| Description |
241 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Principally American folk songs. |
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For voice and piano, with chord symbols. |
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Includes notes on the folk singers by the compiler. |
| 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 Smoky.-- 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 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. |
| Subject |
Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Singers -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Okun, Milton. Something to sing about. New York, Macmillan Co. [1968] (OCoLC)649595682 |
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