Best loved songs of the American people

I. Old Colony Times And The New Nation. Old hundredth

Greensleeves

Froggie went a-courtin'

Over the hills and far away

Sally in our alley

Barb'ra Allen

Sweet is the budding Spring of love

The Liberty song

Yankee Doodle

Bunker Hill (The American hero)

Chester

Enraptured I gaze

The Women all tell me

Drink to me only with thine eyes

The Girl I left behind

Hail, Columbia (The President's march)

The lass of Richmond Hill

Coronation (All hail the power of Jesus' name)

Auld lang syne

The Star Spangled Banner

Old Colony Times

America (My country 'tis of thee)

The Hunters of Kentucky

Last week I took a wife (cobbler's song from "The Forty Thieves").

II. Pioneers

Minstrels

Parlor Pianists. Home, sweet home

Woodman, spare that tree

Springfield Mountain (The pesky sarpent)

Poor wayfaring stranger

Amazing grace

Wondrous love

Blow the man down

Shenandoah

Jump Jim Crow

Long tail blue

Turkey in the straw (Old zip coon)

Old Dan Tucker

The blue tail fly

For he's a jolly good fellow (We won't go home until morning) (The bear went over the mountain)

My faith looks up to thee

Rock of ages

Old rosin the beau (Acres of clams)

Cape Ann (from the repertory of The Hutchinson Family)

Long, long ago

Peter Gray

Buffalo gals

Gaily the troubadour

Ho! Westward Ho!

The old oaken bucket

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Hush little baby

Cindy

Wait for the wagon

There's music in the air

Little brown jug

Pop! Goes the weasel

Lilly Dale

Kiss me quick and go

Jingle bells

Rosalie, the prairie flower

Listen to the mocking bird

The Erie Canal

Darling Nelly Gray

Oh! Susanna

Old folks at home

My old Kentucky home

Jeanie with the light brown hair

Beautiful dreamer.

III. Battle Cries, Heart-Throbs and High-Jinks, Vaudeville Tunes, Spirituals, Rags. Dixie

The battle hymn of the Republic/John Brown's body

The bonnie blue flag

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!

Tenting tonight (Tenting on the old camp ground)

When Johnny comes marching home

Aura Lee

When you and I were young, Maggie

The big sunflower

Sweet Genevieve

You naughty, naughty men (from "The Black Crook")

Grandfather's clock

Kingdom coming (Year of Jubilo)

Champagne Charlie

Silver threads among the gold

In the gloaming

Captain jinks

The Mulligan guard

Carry me back to old Virginny

The man on the flying trapeze

Walking for that cake

Baby mine

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Swing low sweet chariot

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

The gospel train (Get on board, little children)

Look down that lonesome road

While strolling through the park

Love's old sweet song

There is a tavern in the town

Red River Valley

The Cowboy's lament (The streets of Laredo)

Home on the range

The yellow rose of Texas

Li'l Liza Jane

Frankie and Johnny

Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e

The flowers that bloom in the Spring (from "The Mikado")

Prayer of Thanksgiving

After the ball

The bully song

Clementine

Daisy Bell (A bicycle built for two)

The sidewalks of New York

The bank played on

There'll be a hot time

The sweetest story ever told

At a Georgia camp meeting

Maple leaf rag (song version).

IV. From Tin Pan Alley To Main Street, "Even Pop Can Play the Pianola". A bird in a gilded cage

On the banks of the Wabash, far away

The rosary

I love you truly

My wild Irish rose

Mighty Lak' a rose

My gal Sal

Under the bamboo tree

Bill Bailey, won't you please come home

Hello, ma baby

In the good old Summertime

Oh promise me

Because

Wait till the sun shines, Nellie

Ida, sweet as apple cider

Kiss me again (from "Mlle. Modiste")

Toyland (from "Babes in Toyland")

Because you're you (from "The Red Mill")

Glow worm

The Yankee Doodle boy (from "Little Johnny Jones")

Mary's a grand old name (from "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway")

At dawning

Give my regards to Broadway (from "Little Johnny Jones")

A perfect day

By the waters of Minnetonka

For me and my gal

Saint Louis blues

Short'nin' bread

The boll weevil song

You're in the army now

Mademoiselle from Armentieres (Hinky dinky, parlay-voo)

I've been working on the railroad

She'll be comin' round the mountain.

V. The Heyday of American Melody, The Great White Way, The Airwaves, Folkways. Tea for two (from "No No Nanette")

Ol' man river (from "Show Boat")

I love life

I can't give you anything but love

My heart stood still (from "A Connecticut Yankee")

Embraceable you (from "Girl Crazy")

Star dust

I've got the world on a string

Night and day (from "Gay Divorcee")

All the things you are (from "Very Warm for May")

God Bless America

The Marines' Hymn

The Caissons go rolling along

June is bustin' out all over (from "Carousel")

Once in love with Amy (from "Where's Charley?")

So in Love (from "Kiss Me, Kate")

Careless love

When the saints come marching in

On top of old Smoky

Down in the valley

Paper of pins

Tom Dooley

Seventy six trombones (from "The Music Man")

He's got the whole world in his hands

Michael, row the boat ashore

The riddle song (I gave my love a cherry)

Wabash cannonball

We shall overcome

Wildwood flower

Scarborough fair

The impossible dream (from "Man of La Mancha")

Notes on the songs

Index of titles

Index of first lines.