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The Burl Ives sing-along song book : a treasury of American folk songs & ballads
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- Creator
- illustrations by Peter Bryt
- Included Titles
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- Cockel shells
- On Springfield Mountain
- Streets of Loredo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [New York?] : F. Watts, [1963]
- ©1963
- Physical Details
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- 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
- OCLC
- ocm01358412
- Words only, with brief critical notes, of the songs recorded by the compiler on his America's musical heritage.
- Tales for singing: Our English inheritance. The gallows tree ; The keys of Canterbury ; Billy Boy ; My boy Willie ; The Wee Cooper o' Fife ; Three crows ; Barb'ry Allen ; Sweet Kitty Klover ; Mr. Froggie went a-courtin' ; Edward ; Waly, waly (Cockle shells) ; Gypsy's wedding day ; Lily Munro ; Widdicomb Fair ; How happy the soldier ; One morning in May ; Two maids went milking -- News ballads: Reporting the American Revolution & The War of 1812. Captain Kidd ; The escape of Old John Webb ; Free America ; The Boston Tea Party ; The ballad of the Tea Party ; Johnny has gone for a soldier ; The rifleman's song at Bennington ; The Battle of Saratoga ; Sir Peter Parker ; Cornwallis country dance ; The Yankee Man-O-War ; High Barbaree ; The Constitution and the Guerriere ; The Hornet and the Peacock ; Ye parliaments of England ; Patriotic diggers ; Hunters of Kentucky -- Traveling songs: Sailing free & Adventuring west. Home boys home ; Shenandoah ; Song of the fishes ; Blow ye winds ; Greenland fisheries ; Rollin' home ; Blow the man down ; Sacramento ; A ripping trip ; Ox-driver's song ; The hand cart song ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; Come yourselves and see ; The shady old camp ; Joe Bowers --
- (cont.) Heart songs: American folk creations. Lolly tu dum ; Down in the valley ; The sow took the measles ; Old Bangam ; Mr. Rabbit ; Hush little baby ; Sourwood Mountain ; Old Blue ; Poor little turtle dove ; Careless love ; John Henry ; Buckeye Jim ; The leather-winged bat ; Cotton-Eyed Joe ; Darlin' Cory ; Turkey in the straw ; I'm goin' away ; Needles eye ; Go in and out the window ; Saturday night and Sunday too ; Frankie and Johnny -- Popular songs: Music hall & Battlefield, 1800-1865. Unfortunate Miss Bailey ; The pesky sarpaint (On Springfield Mountain) ; Long, long ago ; Ben Bolt ; Oh you New York girls ; The blue tail fly ; Uncle Ned ; Darlin' Nellie Gray ; Wake Nicodemus ; The abolitionist hymn ; Nobody knows the trouble I've seen ; John Brown ; The battle cry of freedom ; Just before the battle mother ; Tramp, tramp, tramp ; When Johnny comes marching home ; All quiet along the Potomac ; Goober peas ; The bonnie blue flag ; The Battle of Bull Run ; Little brown jug ; Grandfather's clock -- The big country: Cowboys, Indians, badmen & settlers. The roving gambler ; Billy the Kid ; Jesse James ; John Hardy ; Midnight Special ; Sioux Indians ; Patrick on the railroad ; The Utah iron horse ; What was your name in the states? ; The lavender cowboy ; The cowboy's lament (Streets of Loredo) ; The Old Chisholm Trail ; Old paint ; Git along little dogies ; Oh! Susanna ; Green grow the lilacs ; Little old sod shanty ; The young man who wouldn't hoe corn ; Home on the range ; Red River Valley ; Big Rock Candy Mountain ; Goin' down the road