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I hear America singing! : great folk songs from the Revolution to rock / Hazel Arnett ; [music arrangements, Carl Miller ; wood carvings, Al Pisano ; line drawings, Paul Steinberg]

Contributor(s): Material type: ScoreScorePublication details: New York : Praeger Publishers, 1975.Description: 266 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0275536904 (cloth)
  • 027563910X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.4/973
LOC classification:
  • M1629 .I17
Contents:
Birth of American song. Old colony times -- Revolutionary tea -- The young man who wouldn't hoe corn -- Jenny Jenkins -- The spinning wheel -- Free America / words by Joseph Warren -- Smithfield Mountain -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son -- Yankee doodle -- The lucky escape. One nation, land of liberty. Cumberland Gap -- Wayfaring stranger -- A blessing on brandy and beer -- The hunters of Kentucky -- The hobbies -- Foggy foggy dew -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Pop goes the weasel -- The riddle song -- Jefferson and liberty -- Shenandoah. Expansion, by land and by sea. Blow the man down! -- Erie Canal -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Buffalo gals -- Single girl -- Skip to my Lou -- Hush, little baby -- Follow the drinkin' gourd -- Wade in the water -- Nelly Bly! / Stephen C. Foster -- Jim crack corn : blue-tail fly. The blue and the gray. Dixie / Don Emmett -- The homespun dress -- Song of the freedmen -- Goober peas -- Many thousand go -- John Brown's body -- Tenting tonight / Walter Kittredge -- When this cruel war is over / Charles C. Sawyer, Henry Tucker -- Lorena / words by H.D.L. Webster, music by J.P. Webster -- The ship that never returned / Henry C. Work -- Little old sod shanty -- Shoot the buffalo -- Hangtown gals -- I am bound for the Promised Land. New beginnings. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- John Henry -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill! -- Jay Gould's daughter -- Big Rock Candy Mountain -- The little eau pleine -- The farmer is the man -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Red River Valley -- The old Chisholm Trail -- Git along, little dogies -- My sweetheart's the mule in the mines / music by James Thornton -- Down in the coal mine / J.B. Geehegan -- When Johnny comes marching home. World power. Boll weevil -- Midnight special -- No more cane on this brazos -- Hard times in the mill -- Pie in the sky / words by Joe Hill -- Frankie and Johnny -- Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon -- The poor working girl -- Hinky dinky parlay-voo! -- When the saints go marching in. Depression to D-Day. So long, it's been good to know yuh / Woody Guthrie -- Roll on, Columbia / words by Woody Guthrie -- Whoa, back, buck! / Huddie Ledbetter, edited with new material by John A. and Alan Lomax -- Beans, bacon, and gravy -- The TVA -- Darlin' Corrie -- I am a union woman / Molly Jackson -- Joe Hill / words by Alfred Hayes, music by Earl Robinson -- Git back blues : black, brown, and white blues / William Broonzy. Atomic age to space age. Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy -- Tom Dooley / collected, adapted, and arranged by Frank Warner, John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax -- Little boxes / Malvina Reynolds -- Automation / Joe Glazer -- The ballad of Ira Hayes / Peter LaFarge -- If I had a hammer : the hammer song / words by Lee Hayes, music by Pete Seeger -- Freedom rider / words by Marilyn Eisenberg -- Old man atom : a talking atomic blues / text by Vern Partlow, music by Irving Bito -- What have they done to the rain? / Malvina Reynolds -- Society's child / Janis Ian -- The cities are burning / Frederich Douglas Kirkpatrick -- Fire and rain / James Taylor -- Now that the buffalo's gone / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- I ain't marchin' any more / Phil Ochs -- Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger, verses 4 & 5 by Joe Hickson -- Pinkville helicopter / Tom Parrott -- We shall overcome / new words and music adaptiation by Zilphia Horton [and others] -- Garbage! / Bill Steele -- My ramblin' boy / Tom Paxton -- Spacey Jones / words by Don Jacobs, music by Eddie Newton -- Kisses sweeter than wine / words by Paul Campbell, music by Joel Newman.
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Birth of American song. Old colony times -- Revolutionary tea -- The young man who wouldn't hoe corn -- Jenny Jenkins -- The spinning wheel -- Free America / words by Joseph Warren -- Smithfield Mountain -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son -- Yankee doodle -- The lucky escape. One nation, land of liberty. Cumberland Gap -- Wayfaring stranger -- A blessing on brandy and beer -- The hunters of Kentucky -- The hobbies -- Foggy foggy dew -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Pop goes the weasel -- The riddle song -- Jefferson and liberty -- Shenandoah. Expansion, by land and by sea. Blow the man down! -- Erie Canal -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Buffalo gals -- Single girl -- Skip to my Lou -- Hush, little baby -- Follow the drinkin' gourd -- Wade in the water -- Nelly Bly! / Stephen C. Foster -- Jim crack corn : blue-tail fly. The blue and the gray. Dixie / Don Emmett -- The homespun dress -- Song of the freedmen -- Goober peas -- Many thousand go -- John Brown's body -- Tenting tonight / Walter Kittredge -- When this cruel war is over / Charles C. Sawyer, Henry Tucker -- Lorena / words by H.D.L. Webster, music by J.P. Webster -- The ship that never returned / Henry C. Work -- Little old sod shanty -- Shoot the buffalo -- Hangtown gals -- I am bound for the Promised Land. New beginnings. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- John Henry -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill! -- Jay Gould's daughter -- Big Rock Candy Mountain -- The little eau pleine -- The farmer is the man -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Red River Valley -- The old Chisholm Trail -- Git along, little dogies -- My sweetheart's the mule in the mines / music by James Thornton -- Down in the coal mine / J.B. Geehegan -- When Johnny comes marching home. World power. Boll weevil -- Midnight special -- No more cane on this brazos -- Hard times in the mill -- Pie in the sky / words by Joe Hill -- Frankie and Johnny -- Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon -- The poor working girl -- Hinky dinky parlay-voo! -- When the saints go marching in. Depression to D-Day. So long, it's been good to know yuh / Woody Guthrie -- Roll on, Columbia / words by Woody Guthrie -- Whoa, back, buck! / Huddie Ledbetter, edited with new material by John A. and Alan Lomax -- Beans, bacon, and gravy -- The TVA -- Darlin' Corrie -- I am a union woman / Molly Jackson -- Joe Hill / words by Alfred Hayes, music by Earl Robinson -- Git back blues : black, brown, and white blues / William Broonzy. Atomic age to space age. Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy -- Tom Dooley / collected, adapted, and arranged by Frank Warner, John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax -- Little boxes / Malvina Reynolds -- Automation / Joe Glazer -- The ballad of Ira Hayes / Peter LaFarge -- If I had a hammer : the hammer song / words by Lee Hayes, music by Pete Seeger -- Freedom rider / words by Marilyn Eisenberg -- Old man atom : a talking atomic blues / text by Vern Partlow, music by Irving Bito -- What have they done to the rain? / Malvina Reynolds -- Society's child / Janis Ian -- The cities are burning / Frederich Douglas Kirkpatrick -- Fire and rain / James Taylor -- Now that the buffalo's gone / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- I ain't marchin' any more / Phil Ochs -- Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger, verses 4 & 5 by Joe Hickson -- Pinkville helicopter / Tom Parrott -- We shall overcome / new words and music adaptiation by Zilphia Horton [and others] -- Garbage! / Bill Steele -- My ramblin' boy / Tom Paxton -- Spacey Jones / words by Don Jacobs, music by Eddie Newton -- Kisses sweeter than wine / words by Paul Campbell, music by Joel Newman.