Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads / collected, adapted and arr. by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax, editor, Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editors.

Author/creator Lomax, John A.
Other author Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Other author Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979.
Other author Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoNew York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [©1947]
Descriptionxvi, 407 pages ; 28 cm
Subjects

Contents 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' (The Texian boys, II) -- Lolly-too-dum -- When I was single (I and II) -- The sporting bachelors -- Jennie Jenkins -- Black, black -- Come all you fair and tender ladies -- Old smoky -- Down in the valley -- Careless love -- Dink's song -- Easy rider (See, see, rider) -- Shorty George -- Sourwood mountain -- Old Joe Clark (Round and round Hitler's grave) -- Raise a ruckus -- 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 -- Brave Wolfe -- John Brown's body -- Mademoiselle from Armentières -- Gee, but I want to go home -- Santy 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 rocks -- A lumberman in town -- The buffalo skinners -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- The days of '49 -- The old settler's song -- Down, down, down - The old Chisholm trail (I and II) -- Git along, little dogies -- The streets of Laredo -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- The cowboy's dream -- Home on the range -- Old paint (I and II) -- Rye whiskey -- Red river valley -- 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 -- Nine hundred miles -- John Henry (I and II) -- Casey Jones (I and II) -- Paddy works on the Erie -- O, Lula! -- Can'cha line 'em -- The big rock candy mountain -- Jesse James -- Sam Bass -- Tom Dooley -- Down in the willow garden -- Pretty Polly -- John Hardy -- Po' Laz'us -- Darlin' Corey -- Frankie and Albert -- Take a whiff on me -- The Durant jail (Hard times, poor boy) -- De midnight special -- Ain' no mo' cane on dis Brazis -- Take this hammer -- Almost done - Another man done gone -- 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 -- Go down, Moses -- Joshua fit the battle of Jericho -- Keep your hand on the plow.
General noteMelodies arr. by John and Alan Lomax, piano acc. arr. by Charles and Ruth Seeger.
General noteAppendices (p. 379-401): 1. Sources and references. -- 2. Selected list of books. -- 3. Selected list of records.
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