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Title The American songbag / [compiled by] Carl Sandburg.

Publication Info. New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1927]
©1927

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1629 .S213 A5    Withdrawn  ---
 Moore Stacks  M1629 .S213 A5    Withdrawn  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1629 .Sa56    Available  ---
Description 1 score (xxiii, 495 pages) : illustrations ; 27 cm
score
Note Piano accompaniment
Bibliography "An American bookshelf of song": pages xii-xiii.
Contents Dramas and portraits. He's gone away ; Boll weevil song ; Moanish lady! ; I ride an old paint ; Foggy, foggy dew ; Waillie, waillie! ; Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon ; Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie ; Careless love ; The John B. Sails ; John Henry ; Midnight special ; Alice B. ; Po' boy -- The ould sod. As I was walkin' down Wexford street ; Sh-ta-ra-dah-dey ; She said the same to me ; Who's the pretty girl milkin' the cow? ; Give me three grains of corn, mother ; Kevin Barry ; The son of a gambolier -- Minstrel songs. I wish I was single again ; Walky-talky Jenny ; Hayseed ; Good-by Liza Jane ; Wizard oil -- Tarnished love tales or colonial and revolutionary antiques. Barbra Allen ; The frozen girl ; Pretty Polly ; Common Bill ; Little scotch-ee ; The house carpenter ; A pretty fair maid ; Lord lovel ; The Quaker's wooing ; The maid freed from the gallows -- Frankie and her man. Frankie and Albert -- Frankie and Johnny ; Frankie blues ; Josie ; Sadie --
Pioneer memories. The little old sod shanty ; Where O where is old Elijah? ; Turkey in the straw ; Who will shoe your pretty little foot? ; The true lover's farewell ; Ten thousand miles away ; Old gray mare ; The drunkard's doom ; What was your name in the states? ; Sweet Betsy from pike ; California ; The banks of Sacramento ; Money ; The monkey's wedding ; Rosie Nell ; Chicken reel ; Hanging out the linen clothes ; Down, down derry down ; The lane county bachelor -- Kentucky blazing star. Sourwood mountain ; The lover's lament ; Hello, girls ; Kansas boys ; Red river valley ; Liza Jane ; Mountain top ; Negro reel ; One morning in May ; The troubled soldier ; Pot-rail song ; Hammer man ; Love somebody ; Ain't gonna rain ; Kentucky moonshiner ; Mister frog went a-courting ; Kind miss ; Goin' down to town ; The ship that never returned ; Down in the valley ; I dreamed last ngith of my true love ; Drivin' steel -- The Lincolns and hankses. The Missouri harmony ; Windsor ; Greenfields ; Worthington ; Highbridge ; Legacy ; The brown girl or fair Eleanor ; Hey Betty Martin ; Old brass wagon ; Cuckoo waltz ; Weevily wheat ; El-a-noy ; Hoosen Johnny ; My pretty little pink ; Lincoln and liberty ; Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness --
Great Lakes and Erie Canal. The Erie Canal ; Bigerlow ; Red iron ore ; Raging canawl ; The e-ri-e -- Hobo sons. Shovellin' iron ore ; Hallelujah, I'm a bum! ; Tramp, tramp,tramp, keep on a-tramping ; The dying hogger ; Wanderin' ; A.r.u. ; We are four bums -- The big brutal city. The poor working girl ; Roll the chariot ; Brady ; On to the morgue ; It's the syme the whole world over ; In the days of old Ramses ; The good boy ; Willy the weeper ; Cocaine Lil ; She promised she'd meet me ; No more booze ; Lydia Pinkham -- Prison and jail songs. Bird in the cage ; Yonder comes the high sheriff ; Portland county jail ; Moonlight ; Midnight special ; Seven long years in state prison ; When I was young and foolish ; Been in the pen so long ; The preacher and the slave -- Blues, mellows, ballets. Levee moan ; Those gambler's blues ; Got dem blues ; De blues ain' nothin' ; When a woman blue ; Coo-coo ; Great gawd, I'm feelin' bad ; O my honey, take me back ; What kin' o'pants does the gambler wear? ; Joe Turner ; Times gettin' hard, boys ; I'm sad and I'm lonely ; C.C. rider ; You fight on ; Satan's a liah ; Ballet of de bool weevil ; De Titanic --
The great open spaces. When the curtains of night are pinned back ; When the work's all done this fall ; As I walked out in the streets of Laredo ; The dreary black hills ; The lone star trail ; Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little doggies ; The buffalo skinners ; Poor lonesome cowboy ; The tenderfoot ; Little ah sid ; The kinkaiders ; Dakota land ; The farmer ; Rabble soldier ; The trail to Mexico -- Mexican border songs. La cucaracha ; Mananitas ; Lo que digo ; El abandonado ; Cielito lindo ; Adelita ; Versos de montalgo -- Southern mountains. Way up on clinch mountain ; Liza in the summer time ; Gypsy Davy ; The roving gambler ; Yonder comes my pretty little girl ; The gamboling man ; O bury me beneath the willow ; Mag's song ; The orphan girl or no bread for the poor ; I got a gal at the head of the holler lonesome road ; Fond affection ; Go bring me back my blue-eyed boy ; The midnight train ; I don't like no railroad man -- Picnic and hayrack follies, close harmony, and darn fool ditties. Sucking cider through a straw ; Did you ever, ever, ever? ; I was born almost then thousand years ago ; Go get the ax ; Abalone ; In de vinter time ; Cigarettes will spoil yer life ; Mary had a William goat ; I wish I was a little bird ; Old Adam ; The horse named bill ; Crazy song to the air of " Dixie" ; Abdul, the bulbul ameer ; Greens ; Animal fair ; Calliope ; Si hubbard --
Railroad and work gangs. Bolsum Brown ; Poor paddy works on the railway ; The railroad cars are coming ; Jerry, go an' ile that car ; If I die a railroad man ; Cap'n I believe ; Jay Gould's daughter and on the Charlie so long ; Casey Jones ; Mama have you heard the news? ; Don' let yo' watch run down ; There's many a man killed on the railroad ; She'll be comin' round the mountain ; I went down to the depot ; Ever since uncle John Henry been dead ; Go'way f'om mah window ; My Lulu ; The wind it blew up the railroad track ; Hog-eye ; My sister she works in a laundry ; I found a horse shoe ; Railroad Bill ; Hangman ; Timber -- Lumberjacks, loggers, shanty boys. James Whaland ; The shanty-man's life ; Flat river girl ; The jam on Gerry's rock ; Driving saw-logs on the plover ; Morrissey and the Russian sailor -- Sailorman. Whisky Johhny ; Blow the man down ; The dean horse ; Heave away ; The wide Mizzoura ; I catch-a da plenty of feesh ; The hog-eye man ; Leave her, bullies, leave her ; Across the western ocean --
Bandit biographies. Jim Fisk ; Jessie James ; Sam Bass -- Five wars. The hunters of Kentucky or half horse and half alligator ; Jackson ; Poor kitty popcorn ; There was an old soldier ; A Filipino hombre ; The sergeant, he is the worst of all ; Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket ; The handsome young airman ; A war bird's burlesque ; Kinky dinky, parlee-voo ; Where they were ; The hearse song -- Lovely people. Man goin' roun' ; All night long ; Zek'l weep ; I know moonlight ; Blind man lay beside the way ; By'm by ; Go to sleepy ; Jungle mammy song ; Then thousand miles awya from home ; My old hammah ; Chahcoal man ; The weaver ; The Colorado trail ; I met her in the garden where the parties grow ; Somebody ; I don't want to be a gambler ; When poor Mary came wandering home -- Road to heaven. Jesus, won't you come b'm-by? ; Dese bones gwine to rise again ; Two white horses ; Way over in the new buryin' groun' ; Mary wore three links of chain ; Pharaoh's army got frowned ; Good-bye, brother ; God's goin' to set this world on fire ; Ain' go'n' to study war no mo' ; Things I used to do ; In my father's hoStandinSandin' on the walls of Zion ; A hundred years ago ; You got to cross it foh yohself ; I got a letter from Jesus ; Ezekiel, you and me.
Subject Songs, English -- United States.
Songs, English.
United States.
Ballads, English -- United States.
Ballads, English.
Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
Folk music -- United States.
Folk music.
Genre/Form Scores.
Scores.