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Author Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948.

Title Best loved American folk songs : [Folk song: U.S.A.] / collected, adapted and arranged by John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax ; music arrangements by Charles Seeger & Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Publication Info. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [1947]
©1947

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1629 .L83 1947    Lost and Paid  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1629 .B47 L6    Available  ---
Edition 3d ed.
Description 407 pages ; 28 cm
score
Note Includes music.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 379-401.
Contents Critters and chillun'. Buckeye Jim ; All the pretty little horses ; Go tell Aunt Nancy ; Leatherwing bat ; Grey goose ; Mister rabbit ; Old blue ; Ground hog ; Springfield mountain ; I was born about ten thousand years ago -- When you go a-courtin'. When you go a- coutin' ; Lolly-too-dum ; When I was single ; The sporting bachelors ; Jennie Jenkins ; Black, black ; Come all you fair and tender ladies ; Old smoky ; Down in the v; Careless love ; Dink's song ; Easy rider ; Shorty George -- Swing your partner. Sourwood mountain ; Old Joe Clark ; Raise a rukus ; Old Dan Tucker ; Cindy ; Black-eyed Susie ; Skip to my lou ; Coffee grows on white oak trees ; Shoot the buffalo ; Buffalo gals ; Sweet thing -- Johnny has gone for a soldier. Johnny has gone for a soldier ; Brave wolfe ; John Brown's body ; Mademoiselle from Armentieres ; Gee, but I want to go home -- Blow, boys, blow. Shanty anno ; Shenandoah ; Sacramento ; Lowlands ; Blow, ye winds in the morning ; The e-ri-e ; The bigler ; Rock about my Saro Jane -- Once more a-lumb'ring go ; Blue mountain lake ; The jam on Gerry's rock ; A lumberman in town ; The buffalo skinners ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; The days of '49 ; The old settler's song ; Down, down, down -- Git along, little dogies. The old Chisholm trail ; Git along, little dogies ; The streets of Laredo ; Bury me not on the lone praire ; The cowboy's dream ; Home on the range ; Old paint ; Rye whiskey ; Red River Valley -- The farmer is the man. The young man who wouldn't hoe corn ; Whoa, buck! ; Pick a bale of cotton ; The boll weevil ; Starving to death on a government claim ; The state of Arkansas ; Goin' down the road feelin' bad -- Lonesome whistles. Nine hundred miles ; John Henry ; Casey Jones ; Paddy works on the erie ; O, Lula! ; Can'cha line 'em ; The big rock candy mountains -- Heroes and hard cases. Jesse James ; Sam Bass ; Tom Dooley ; Down in the willow garden ; Pretty Polly ; Po' Laz'us ; Darlin' Corey ; Frankie and Albert ; Take a whiff on me ; The durant jail ; De midnight special ; Ain' no mo' cane on dis Brazis ; Take this hammer ; Almost done ; Another man done gone -- Deep river. Amazing grace ; Poor wayfaring stranger ; Wondrous love ; Bound for the promised land ; Lonesome valley ; Po' Li'l' Jesus ; Never said a mumbalin' word ; Soon one mornin' When my blood runs chilly and col' ; Set down, servant ; Great gittin' up mornin' ; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ; Freedom ; Go down, Moses ; Joshua fit the battle of Jericho ; Keep you hand on the plow.
Subject Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
Genre/Form Scores.
Scores.
Added Author Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979.