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The Abelard folk song book : more than 101 ballads to sing
Title:
The Abelard folk song book : more than 101 ballads to sing
Author:
Cazden, Norman, 1914-1980, editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Abelard Schuman, [1958]

©1958
Physical Description:
1 score (iv, 127 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Summary:
With historical notes and musical instructions.
General Note:
For voice and piano, with chord symbols.

"All the songs were collected on the scene in the Catskill Mountain area of New York State."

Includes historical notes and musical instructions.
Language:
English
Contents:
Songs for every day. Awake, awake ; I walked the road again ; Jam at Gerry's rock ; Cutting down the pines ; Shantyman's life ; Woodmen's alphabet ; Cordwood Cutter ; Paul Jones ; Bright Sunny South ; 'Cumberland' crew ; Bonny laboring boy ; Banks of sweet Dundee ; Fair Julian Bond ; A-walkin' and a-talkin' ; Johnny Riley ; Foggy Dew ; Rainbow ; Friends and neighbors ; Dens of yarrow ; Bold soldier ; Wild Americay ; Bold Trellitee ; Fare you well ; She perished in the snow ; Rock Island Line ; Will you go out west? ; Rolling stone ; Ship of Zion ; Puttin' on the style ; Plains of Illinois ; Newburgh Jail ; Last winter was a hard one ; Poor and foreign stranger ; Resurrection ; Brennan on the Moor ; Betsy ; Jacket so blue ; Old spotted cow ; Mule song ; Ship's carpenter -- My love is like a dewdrop ; Erin's green shores ; Bright Phoebe ; Missie mouse ; Jolly thrasher ; Hills of Glenshee ; Knickerbocker Line ; Lather and shave ; Petticoat lane ; Jolly stage driver ; John Whipple's mill -- Songs for Saturday night. Rolling in the dew ; I know my love ; What can the matter be? ; Maid on the shore ; Little scotch girl ; Trooper and the tailor ; Little sparrow ; Let's have another round ; Captain Walker's courtship ; I wonder when I shall be married ; A-roving ; Billy boy ; Katey Morey ; My pretty little maid ; Jennifer gently ; Unfortunate Miss Bailey ; Poor countryman ; Seventeen come Sunday ; Island of Jamaica ; Early one morning ; Brats of Jeremiah ; Lolly too-dum ; Blow the man down ; Leather-winged bat ; Devilish Mary ; Jackie Rover ; Wagoner's lad ; West Virginia boys ; Maid on the mountain's brow ; Hi ho, Jerum ; Wife who was dumb ; Devil and the farmer's wife ; Willie the weaver ; Won't you sit with me awhile? ; Michael Finnigan ; Jolly boatswain ; I was there ; Simple little Nancy Brown ; I wish I was a single girl ; Lavender's blue ; Kate and her horns ; Bold grenadier ; My ducksie has fled ; Old maid's lament ; Roving pedlar ; Flat river raftsman ; I wish I was single again ; Down by the Greenwood Shady ; Little cabin boy ; Black is the color ; Bible stories.
Format :
Musical Score