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Best loved songs of the American people
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Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
1975.
Language
English
Lexile measure
970L
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Table of Contents
From the Musical Score - First edition.
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.
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