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The Penguin book of Canadian folk songs / selected and edited by Edith Fowke ; Music consultant Keith Macmillan.

Author/creator Fowke, Edith
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoHarmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin books, 1973.
Description224 pages : music ; 20 cm
Subject(s)
Contents A Fenian song.--Bold Wolfe.--The battle of the windmill.--Un Canadian errant.--Moody to the rescue.--By the hush, me boys.--An anti-confederation song.--Chanson de Louis Riel.--The sea.--The 'flying cloud'.--The loss of the Ellen Munn.--The banks of Newfoundland.--The Ryans and the Pittmans.--The petty harbour bait skiff.--The wreck of the Mary Summers.--The old Polina.--The ferryland sealer.--Hard, hard times.--Taking gair in the night.--Farewell to Nova Scotia.--The woods.--Hogan's lake.--The lake of the Caogama.--How we got up to the woods last year.--Dans les chantiers.--The Jones boys.--Jimmy Whelan.--Lost Jimmy Whelan.--Peter Emberley.--When the shantyboy comes down.--The Scarborough settler's lament.--The backwoodsman.--The honest working man.--L'habitant d' Saint-Barbe.--Life in a prairie shack.--The Alberta homesteader.--The Kelligrews soiree.--Bachelor's hall.--Feller from Fortune.--Duffy's hotel.--Alouette!.--Ah! Si mon moine voulait danser!.--I'se the b'y that builds the boat.--Who'll be king but Charlie?.--Viva la Canadienne!.--The star of Belle Isle.--The star of Logy Bay.--Mary Ann.--C'est l'aviron.--The 'H'emmer Jane.--The jolly raftsman o.--The Red River valley.--The young Spanish lass.--Young MacDonald.--A la claire fontaine.--Harbour le cou.--Lonesome scenes of winter.--The false young man.--Down by Sally's garden.--An old man he courted me.--The weaver.--Nellie coming home from the wake.--She's like the swallow.--The bonny bunch of rushes green.--The sailor 's return.--The plains of Waterloo.--Will O'Riley.--The green brier shore.--The bonny labouring boy.--The ship's carpenter.--Jamie Foyer.--The banks of the Nile.--Nine years a soldier.--The Enniskillen dragoon.--The farmer and the devil.--Seven gypsies on yon hill.--The dewy dells of Yarrow.--Willie drowned in Ero.--Jenny go gentle.--The footboy.--The house carpenter.--The green willow tree.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 220-222.
Bibliography noteDiscography: p. 223-224.
ISBN0140708421

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