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Mel Bay presents the American history songbook
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- Summary
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Some of the songs are accompanied by historical annotations.
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- Creator
- [compiled] by Jerry Silverman
- Format
- Music Scores
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Pacific, MO. : M. Bay, [1992]
- ©1992
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (232 pages) : illustrations ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 1562223127, 9781562223120
- OCLC
- ocm29911661
- For voice and piano; includes chord symbols.
- Includes index.
- Colonial America, 17th and 18th centuries. An invitaation to North America -- The distressed damsel -- A New England ballad -- In good old colony times. The Revolutionary War, 1775-1781. Revolutionary tea -- Free America -- The liberty song -- Johnny has gone for a soldier. The War of 1812. The constitution and the guerrière -- Ye parliament of England -- The patriotic diggers -- The battle of New Orleans. Texas and Mexico, 1836-1848. Remember the Alamo -- The song of Texas -- Green glow the lilacs -- Santy Anno. The Gold rush, 1849-1850s. Banks of the Sacramento -- Molly Durkin -- California -- Days of forty-nine. Settling the West, 1850-1875. The homestead of the free -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Acres of clams -- Little old sod shanty on the plain. The cowboy, 1870-1890. The old chisholm trail -- Git along, little dogies -- I ride an old paint -- The tenderfoot. Negro spirituals. Go down, Moses -- Steal away -- Wade in the water -- Slavery chain done broke at last. Abolition, 1840-1861 Clear the track -- We wait beneath the furnace blast -- The old granite state -- Free soil chorus. The Civil War, 1861-1865. The battle cry of freedom -- The battle hymn of the republic -- John Brown's body -- Tenting on the old camp ground -- Roll, Alabama, roll -- When Johnny comes marching home. Transportation. The E-ri-e canal -- Hudson river steamboat -- The titanic -- The ox-driving song -- The Pacific railroad -- Bill McCandless' ride -- The bigler. Women's rights. Winning the vote -- Keep women in her sphere -- Let us all speak our minds -- Bread and roses. --
- The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1901. The battleship of Maine -- In Mindanao -- The carabao -- Stung right. World War I, 1914-1918. When I lay down -- Deep sea blues -- Coast artillery song -- That crazy war. The Labor movement, 1900-1935. Casey Jones, the union scab -- The death of Harry Simms -- Which side are you on? -- Solidarity forever. Work songs. Winnsboro cotton mills blues -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill -- John Henry -- The farmer is the man. The Great depression, 1930s. The panic is on -- Beans, bacon and gravy -- Depression blues -- White house blues. World War II, 1939-1945. Draftee's blues -- Gee, but I wanna go home -- 'round and around Hitler's grave -- United Nations make a chain. The Korean War, 1950-1953. Rotation blues -- The dying soldier -- The ghost army of Korea. The Vietnam War, 1964-1975. Taisau -- Every day. The civil rights movement, 1960s. Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom -- Freedom train a-comin' -- Free at last -- Freedom is a constant struggle. Campaigns and campaigners. Election - the people's right -- Jefferson and liberty -- Lincoln and liberty -- A-smoking his cigar -- Hooray for Bill McKinley and that brave rough rider, Ted -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's back again