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A treasury of American song / text by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister; music arranged by Elie Siegmeister.

Author/creator Downes, Olin, 1886-1955
Other author/creatorSiegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991.
Format Musical Score and Print
Edition2d ed., rev. and enl., with a new introduction.
Publication InfoNew York : A. A. Knopf, [1943]
Description408 pages ; 32 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Who is the man? -- Confess Jehovah -- Rosa -- Lowly Bethlehem -- Barbara Allen -- Tom Bolynn -- Springfield Mountain -- Captain Kidd -- Locks and bolts -- Hangsaman -- My days have been so wondrous free -- When Jesus wept -- Brave Wolfe -- The liberty song -- What a court hath old England -- Yankee Doodle -- Chester -- Bunker Hill -- Paul Jones<U+2019> victory -- Ode to the fourth of July -- Ode on Science -- David<U+2019>s lamentation -- Putney hymn -- The bee -- Jefferson and liberty -- Blow, boys, blow -- Cape Cod girls -- Blow the man down -- The Boston come-all-ye -- Lowlands -- Shenandoah -- Rio Grande -- A dollar and a half a day -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Star of Columbia -- El-a-noy -- The unconstant lover -- Way down the Ohio -- The jolly wagoner -- Poor wayfaring stranger -- When Adam was created -- The promised land -- The saint<U+2019>s delight -- Wondrous love -- Through all the world -- Weevily wheat -- Shoot the buffalo -- Skip to my Lou -- Swing on the corner -- Welcome every guest -- Old Dan Tucker -- Lubly Fan -- Old Zip Coon -- Walk, jaw-bone -- The Burman lover -- Alabado -- Sacramento -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Joe Bowers -- The dying Californian -- Oh Susanna! -- My old Kentucky home -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Heave away -- Gwine to Alabamy -- Abolitionist hymn -- Link o<U+2019>day -- Lincoln and liberty -- Battle hymn of the republic -- Dixie -- Abraham<U+2019>s daughter -- Tenting to-night -- When Johnny comes marching home --All quiet on the Potomac -- Weeping sad and lonely -- Slav<U+2019>ry chain -- Year of Jubilo -- Go down Moses -- Didn<U+2019> my Lord deliver Daniel? -- Deep river -- The Gospel Train -- Never said a mumbalin<U+2019> word -- Little David -- This is a sin-trying world -- Blind man -- The chickens are a-crowing -- When boys go a-courting -- I must and I will get married -- If you want to go a-courting -- He<U+2019>s gone away -- I<U+2019>m sad and I<U+2019>m lonely -- The lonesome grove -- Dandoo -- The devil and the farmer<U+2019>s wife -- The single girl -- Go to sleepy -- Itiskit itaskit -- Little Sally Sand -- It<U+2019>s raining it<U+2019>s pouring -- Bye, baby bunting -- Here come three merchants a-riding -- Old woman all skin and bone -- The birds<U+2019> courting song -- Barnyard song -- Frog went a-courtin<U+2019> -- Sourwood Mountain -- Old Joe Clarke -- Cindy -- Darling Cora -- Ground hog -- Careless love -- Way up on old Smoky -- Kentucky moonshiner -- Rye whiskey -- Everybody<U+2019>s welcome -- Oh death -- Cowboy<U+2019>s gettin<U+2019> up holler -- The Chisholm Trail -- Night-herding song -- I ride an old Paint -- The railroad corral -- Good-bye, old Paint -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- The Shantyman<U+2019>s Life -- The jolly lumbermen -- Pat works on the railway -- State of Arkansas -- Look over yonder -- Farmer comes to town -- The ballad of the Boll Weevil -- Teamster<U+2019>s song -- Goin<U+2019> up the river -- I lived in a town -- The Erie Canal -- Barber<U+2019>s cry -- Charcoal man -- The shoemaker -- Shine on -- Old Abe Lincoln -- John Henry -- Johnny Appleseed -- John Hardy -- Jesse James -- Red River Valley -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Listen to the mocking bird -- Go get the axe -- Little brown jug -- It<U+2019>s the syme the whole world over -- The elephant and the flea -- No more booze -- Frankie and Johnny -- Willie the Weeper -- The roving gambler -- Salangadou -- RĂ©mon -- La cucaracha -- De Mexico ha venido -- Schlof, bobbeli -- Me Johnny Mitchell man -- I catcha da plenty of feesh -- On Meesh-e-gan -- Finnegan<U+2019>s wake -- The blues ain<U+2019>t nothin<U+2019> -- Joe Turner blues -- Friendless blues -- Gambler<U+2019>s blues -- Po<U+2019> boy -- Chilly winds -- Every night when the sun goes in -- Hallelujah, I<U+2019>m a bum -- The preacher and the slave -- Hinky dinky -- Ah<U+2019>m broke an<U+2019> hungry -- Upon de mountain -- Sistern and brethren -- Ku Kluck Klan -- The T.V.A. -- I<U+2019>m goin<U+2019> down this road feeling bad -- Tom Joad -- A new wind a-blowin<U+2019>.
General note"The music in this book was reproduced from handwritten originals ... The book was printed in photo-offset."
General notePiano accompaniment.
LCCN 43007587

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