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Author Ives, Burl, 1909-1995.

Title The Burl Ives songbook : American song in historical perspective / song versions by Burl Ives ; text by Burl Ives ; arr. for the piano by Albert Hague ; illus. by Lamartine Le Goullon and Robert J. Lee.

Publication Info. New York : Ballantine Books, [1953]
©1953

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1629 .I9 B8 1953b  1953    Available  ---
 Talbott Miniature Scores  M1629 Iv3b    Available  ---
Description 275 pages, 1 unnumbered page: illustrations ; 19 cm
score
Note For voice with piano accompaniment; includes guitar chords.
Contents Colonial America, 1620-1775. seven joys of Mary ; The Indian Christmas carol ; Mother goose nursery rhymes ; Mr. Froggie went a-courting ; The tailor and the mouse ; The fox ; The escape of old John Webb ; The hart he love the high wood ; Oh, Absalom, my son ; Let Simon's beard alone ; Greensleeves ; The riddle song ; The devil's nine questions ; Paper of pins ; The golden vanity ; Captain Kidd ; Henry Martin ; Edward ; Barbara Allen ; Brennan on the moor ; Lord Thomas and fair Elinore ; Lord Randall ; The foggy, foggy dew ; Pretty Polly ; Robin ; Why soldiers why? ; On springfield mountain ; The bold soldier ; Yankee Doodle --
Revolutionary America, 1775-1790. What a court hath old England ; Heart of oak ; The ballad of the tea party ; The Boston tea tax ; Free America ; Chester ; The rifleman's song at Bennington ; The Battle of Saratoga ; The Yankee Man-of-War ; Johnny has gone for a soldier ; How happy the soldier ; Sir Peter Parker ; Cornwallis country dance ; The world turned upside down ; My days have been so wondrous free --
The Growing Country: on the sea, 1790-1850. The maid of Amsterdam ; High barbaree ; The pirate song ; The Constitution and the Guerriere ; The Hornet and the Peacock ; Ye parliaments of England ; The patriotic diggers ; Miss Bailey's ghost ; Blow the man down ; Away, Rio ; Shenandoah ; The drunken sailor ; Hullabaloo belay ; Haul away Joe ; Sacramento ; Rolling home ; Blow ye winds ; The whale ; Song of the fishes ; The Dreadnought ; The crocodile song --
Religious, professional, and folk singing, 1800-1850. The wayfaring stranger ; Nearer my God to thee ; Wondrous love ; The turtle dove ; Billy boy ; The divil and the farmer ; Aunt Rhody ; The wee copper o'Fife ; A Bonnie, wee lassie ; Old blue ; Sourwood mountain ; Down in the valley ; Lolly too dum ; I'm sad and I'm lonely ; Careless love ; Skip to my Lou ; Turkey in the straw ; Grandfather's clock ; Old Dan Tucker ; Kemo-Kimo ; The blue-tail fly ; Buffalo gals ; The Abolitionist hymn ; Nicodemus --
The frontiers of America, 1800-1850. The young man who wouldn't hoe corn ; The sow took the measles ; The grey goose ; Peter gray ; The Erie Canal ; The praties they grow small ; Patrick on the railroad ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; The ox-driving song ; Joe Bowers ; What was your name in the States? ; The Sioux Indians ; The hand-cart song ; Old Rosin the beau ; Ben Bolt ; The little old sod shanty ; I've got no use for women ; When I was single ; Poor boy ; The Utah iron horse ; The cowboy's lament.
Note "List of Burl Ives recordings": pages 270-274.
"About Burl Ives": pages 275-[276]
Subject Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
Ives, Burl, 1909-1995 -- Discography.
Ives, Burl, 1909-1995.
Genre/Form Discographies.
Folk music.
Folk music.
Notated music.
Notated music.
Discographies.
Added Author Hague, Albert, 1920-2001.
Music No. F295K Ballantine Books.