| Other author/creator | Lingenfelter, Richard E., editor. |
| Other author/creator | Dwyer, Richard A., editor. |
| Other author/creator | Cohen, David, 1942 April 26- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Johnson, Steven M., illustrator. |
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To the West. To the West / Henry Russell, C. McKay -- To the West: a parody -- Hell in Texas -- Ho! for California! / D. D. Emmett, J. Hutchinson -- I'm off for California / S. C. Foster -- The rolling stone -- Westward ho -- Coming around the horn. Coming around the horn / L. V. H. Crosby, John A. Stone -- The fools of '49 / [words by] John A. Stone -- Oh, California / S. C. Foster, J. Nichols -- A ripping trip -- Humbug steamship companies / [words by] John A. Stone -- Sacramento -- The dying Californian / Ball and Drinkard -- Crossing the plains. Crossing the plains / [words by] John A. Stone -- O if I was at home again / [words by] John P. Grantham -- Sweet Betsey from Pike / [words by] John A. Stone -- Emigrant from Pike / [words by] John A. Stone -- Arrival of the greenhorn / [words by] John A. Stone -- Johnny's dead -- The pioneer stage driver. The pioneer stage driver / [words by] Charley Rhoades -- California stage company / J. R. Myers, John A. Stone -- The overland stage driver / [words by] Nat Stein -- The bull-whacker -- Bill Peters, the stage driver -- Pete Orman / [words by] Asher -- Freighting from Wilcox to Globe -- The railroad cars are coming. The railroad cars are coming / [words by] Robert Snell -- Subsidy: a Goat Island ballad -- The iron horse / "Ieuan" -- Echo Canyon -- Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer / [words by] S. L. Samson -- Way out in Idaho -- The wandering laborer's song -- The Peninsula Pike / [words by] Charley L. Grant -- Casey Jones, the union scab / [words by] Joe Hill -- Seeing the elephant. Seeing the elephant / D. D. Emmett, D. G. Robinson -- Hunting after gold / [words by] John A. Stone -- The gold digger's lament -- Prospecting dream / S. C. Foster, John A. Stone -- California ball / G. P. Knauff, John A. Stone -- Joe Bowers / J. E. Johnson, John Woodward -- The lousy miner / [words by] John A. Stone -- California as it is / [words by] Thaddeus W. Meighan -- California bloomer / W. Whitlock, John A. Stone -- California Joe / Hector A. Stuart -- When I went off to prospect. When I went off to prospect / J. Brougham, John A. Stone -- San Juan / [words by] Barney Riley -- Cherry Creek emigrant's song / D. D. Emmett -- A hit at the times / [words by] A. O. McGrew -- In the summer of sixty -- A trip to Salmon / D. D. Emmett, Max Irwin -- Idaho / Frank French -- The dreary Black Hills / [words by] Dick Brown -- A trip to Rapid River / [words by] Hannibal F. Johnson -- Just from Dawson -- The Apex boarding house. The Apex boarding house -- An honest miner / S. Lover, John A. Stone -- The happy miner / [words by] John A. Stone -- A miners' meeting / [words by] John A. Stone -- I want to make the riffle -- We came to Tamichi / [words by] Scott Judy and Doc Hammond -- The seven devil mines / [words by] H. F. Johnson -- Colorado home -- When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner. When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner -- Casey Jones, the miner -- The broken-hearted leaser / [words by] Charles E. Winter -- The Belmont Stopes -- I wandered today up the hill, Maggie / J. A. Butterfield -- The rustling song -- Bisbee's queen -- Cousin Jack -- I once was a carman in the Big Mountain con -- Drill, ye miners, drill! / Thomas F. Casey -- Only a miner killed in the breast -- Stand by your union. Stand by your union -- The copper strike of '17 / [words by] Joe Kennedy -- The miner / [words by] Scottie -- The scab's lament / Charles K. Harris -- A scabby cousin Jack / [words by] Joe Kennedy -- Strike breaker's lament -- Solidarity forever / [words by] Scottie -- Come, come, ye saints. Come, come, ye saints / J. T. White, William Clayton -- There is a people in the West / [words by] William Willes -- Upper California / Edward J. Loder, John Taylor -- Deseret / Henry Russell, William Willes -- They cry 'deluded Mormons' / [words by] William Willes -- A church without a prophet / Edward L. Loder -- In the hive of Deseret / John Davy, William Willes -- The handcarts. The handcarts, I / [words by] William Hobbs -- The handcarts, II / A. Hart -- The handcarts, III / S. C. Foster, Philip Margetts -- Early this spring we'll leave Nauvoo -- In 1864 / [words by] Barnard White -- The way they emigrate / [words by] William Willes -- Wish I was a Mormonite. Wish I was a Mormonite -- Brigham Young, I / [words by] J. W. Conner -- Brigham Young, II -- The Mormon king / [words by] G. W. Anderson -- The Mormon creed / [words by] William Willes -- Mormon love serenade / S. Riggs, Alfred Norton -- My wife has become a Mormonite -- In the midst of these awful Mormons / [words by] William Willes -- The cohabs / [words by] George Hicks -- The Mormon question. The Mormon question -- The Mormons in the mountains / [words by] William Willes -- The Mormon du dah song / S. C. Foster -- All are talking of Utah / H. C. Work, "Ieuan" -- The mountain meadows massacre -- Uncle Sam and the Mormons / [words by] John J. Davies -- The Mormon bishop's lament -- The Mormon car / [words by] John Taylor -- The merry Mormons. The merry Mormons / [words by] Matthew Rowan -- Sea gulls and crickets -- Home manufactures / [words by] William Willes -- Once I lived in Cottonwood / [words by] George A. Hicks -- Early life in Dixie / [words by] Samuel Kenner -- St. George -- The boys of Sanpete County / G. F. Root -- Tittery-irie-aye -- |
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The Sioux Indians. The Sioux Indians -- The Indian ghost dance and war / [words by] W. H. Prather -- The ride of Paul Venarez / [words by] Eben E. Rexford -- Plantonio, the pride of the plain -- The Texas rangers -- The disheartened ranger / [words by] M. B. Smith -- The dying ranger -- A fair lady of the plains -- Custer's last charge -- The regular army, o! The regular army, o! / [words by] Ed Harrigan -- Mustang gray -- The Mormon battalion / [words by] Azariah Smith -- The desert route / [words by] Levi W. Hancock -- The Sonora filibusters / N. Kneass, John A. Stone -- Our leaky tents / George F. Root -- There is no work in the army -- Old Arizona again -- It's a long, long way to Capture Villa -- When we go marching home / H. C. Work -- John Chinaman. John Chinaman -- Josh, John -- John Chinaman, my Jo / J. Watson, J. W. Conner -- John Chinaman's appeal / [words by] Mart Taylor -- John Chinaman's marriage -- Hay sing, come from China -- Twelve hundred more -- Long John, Chineeman -- Since the Chinese ruint the thrade -- Get out, yellow-skins, get out! -- What was your name in the states? What was your name in the states? -- Quantrell -- Sam Bass -- Joaquin the horse-thief / [words by] John A. Stone -- Billy the kid -- Cole Younger -- Portland County jail -- Experience -- Pretty boy Floyd / [words by] Woody Guthrie -- The Texas cowboy. The Texas cowboy -- I want to be a cowboy / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- Yellowstone flat -- The captain of the cowboys -- Top hand -- The jolly vaquero -- The horse wrangler / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- Old time cowboy -- The cowboy, I / [words by] Allen McCandless -- The cowboy, II -- The cowboy's life. The cowboy's life -- The dreary, dreary life -- The cowboys' Christmas ball / [words by] Larry Chittenden -- A busted cowboy's Christmas / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- Windy Bill -- Bow-legged Ike -- Tying knots in the devil's tail / [words by] Gail I. Gardner -- High Chin Bob / [words by] Charles Badger Clark -- Git along, little dogies. Git along, little dogies -- The old Chisholm trail -- John Garner's trail herd -- The hills of Mexico -- Lone star trail -- The railroad corral / [words by] Joseph M. Hanson -- I ride an old paint -- Goodbye, old paint -- Night-herding song / [words by] Harry Stephens -- If your saddle is good and tight. If your saddle is good and tight -- Chopo / [words by] N. Howard Thorp -- The gal I left behind me -- The rambling cowboy -- The trail to Mexico -- Brown-eyed Lee -- Sky ball paint -- Speckles / [words by] N. Howard Thorp -- Bucking bronco -- The zebra dun -- A border affair / [words by] Charles Badger Clark -- The campfire has gone out. The campfire has gone out -- The Wyoming nester -- The old cowboy / [words by] Charlie Johnson -- The range of the buffalo -- The buffalo hunters -- Cowboy reverie / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- The invasion song -- Home, sweet home / Henry Bishop -- The dying cowboy. The dying cowboy -- Little Joe, the wrangler / Will S. Hays, N. Howard Thorp -- The cowboy's lament -- The cowboy's dream / H. J. Fuller -- Charlie Rutledge / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- When work is done this fall / [words by] D. J. O'Malley -- I've got no use for the women -- Utah Carroll -- Only a cowboy -- Blood on the saddle -- The Kansas emigrant. The Kansas emigrant / [words by] John Greenleaf Whittier -- Western home / Brewster Higley, Daniel E. Kelley -- Home on the range -- Immigration song -- The old bachelor / [words by] A. L. Stokesberry -- Kansas jayhawker / T. A. Metz -- Kansas boys -- In Kansas -- Starving to death on a government claim. Starving to death on a government claim / [words by] Frank Baker -- Nebraska land / [words by] John A. Dean -- Kansas land, I -- Kansas land, II -- The little old sod shanty on the claim, I / Will S. Hays -- Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim -- Answer to the answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim -- The little old sod shanty on the claim, II -- Little adobe casa / [words by] Tom Beasley -- The Kansas farmer's lament / [words by] Will Howell -- Comin' back to Kansas -- But the mortgage worked the hardest. But the mortgage worked the hardest / [words by] Will Carleton -- The Kansas fool / [words by] C. S. Whitney -- Dear prairie home / B. R. Hanby, Mrs. J. T. Kellie -- There comes a reckoning day / S. C. Foster -- Come, all ye toiling millions / H. C. Work, H. F. Johnson -- The hayseed -- The farmer -- Vote for me / Henry C. Work, Mrs. J. T. Kellie -- Harvest land. Harvest land -- The Swede from North Dakota -- Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay / [words by] Joe Hill -- Overalls and snuff -- The harvest war song / [words by] Pat Brennan -- Tom Joad / Woody Guthrie -- Pastures of plenty / Woody Guthrie -- Fifty thousand lumberjacks, I -- Fifty thousand lumberjacks, II -- The frozen logger / James Stevens -- The tragedy of sunset land / [words by] Loren Roberts -- Them days is gone forever / [words by] O. L. Ufavise -- A dollar a day without board. A dollar a day without board / [words by] Harry Norcross -- The San Francisco rag-picker / [words by] Fred Woodhull -- Ship out / [words by] Walquist -- The suckers sadly gather / [words by] Richard Brazier -- It's a long way down to the soup line / [words by] Joe Hill -- Go to sea no more -- The ballad of Bloody Thursday -- Hallelujah, on the bum. Hallelujah, on the bum / [words by] Harry McClintock -- The bum on the stem -- The great American bum -- The Big Rock Candy Mountains, I / [words by] Harry McClintock -- The Big Rock Candy Mountains, II -- Hard travelin' / Woody Guthrie -- The dying hobo -- The hobo's last ride -- Oh, you wobblies! Oh, you wobblies / [words by] Scottie -- The preacher and the slave / J. P. Webster, Joe Hill -- When you wear that button / [words by] Richard Brazier -- Scissor Bill / Leighton Bros., Joe Hill -- We're bound for San Diego -- Harry Orchard -- Joe Hillstrom / [words by] Woody Guthrie -- The old settler. The old settler / [words by] Francis D. Henry -- Great-grand-dad -- The days of '49 / arr. E. Zimmer, [words by] Charles Rhoades (Bensell) -- The good old days of '50, '1, and '2 / [words by] J. Riley Mains -- This is the place / [words by] Myron Crandall -- The little old sod shanty in the West / [words by] O. E. Murray -- When I was a cowboy / [words by] Leadbelly -- Do re mi / Woody Guthrie. |
| Abstract |
This collection of nearly 300 lyrical gists and piths--an expansion of The Songs of the Gold Rush--is offered to a variety of readers: for those who seek a more direct view of the nature of life in the West than that provided by meandering diaries, pedestrian journalism, outright propaganda, or weighty historical accounts; for those who would trace in the songs themselves the changes in theme and treatment accorded to that life over the hundred years from the first massive American penetration of the West in the 1840's to the Great Depression; and finally, for those who would recall, and perhaps sing for themselves, the popular music of former times. Traditional distinctions between folk songs, art songs, broadsides, and ballads have been ignored because of the importance given to songs about the West--and especially to those freighted with incisive details. In the commentaries accompanying the songs, the editors make a case of the invalidity of a simple oral versus printed transmission theory for many of these songs, some of which have been in and out of print and of the memories of semi-literate singers throughout the period covered here. The editors' commentary takes up briefly such other matters as the historical setting of topical songs; the role of parody in the continuous adaptation of a favored melody--such as "Beulah Land"--to the changing hardships of westering pioneers; and the lives of some of the known composers, and the fate of their songs. The texts and tunes are grouped according to the social types they sing of, and are arranged in the order in which those groups came to some kind of dominance in the West--miners, Mormons, freighters and railroaders, soldiers and Indians, cowboys, homesteaders, lumberjacks and hoboes, scabs and Wobblies. Accompanying each song is a bibliography citing all the printings known of each song presented. The music is set for guitar and has been rigorously edited for authenticity and playability. This volume of Americana should pique the interest of social and cultural historians as well as folklorists, musicians, and Western buffs. |
| General note | Unaccompanied melodies; includes chord symbols. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-584) and index. |
| Language | English words; words also printed as text following each melody. |
| LCCN | 67012220 |
