The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the Modern Folk Song

Brand, Oscar

Minerva Press

The folk song performer and impresario presents a rollicking account of the historical development and present-day status of an ancient art, including discussions of the contributions of various groups to the American songbag, the principle sources of the American repertory and style, and accounts of the major figures in the American folksong saga.

Arts & Photography

Music

Praeger

An illustrated version of Brand's well-known folksong about the immigrant pioneer whose labors, love of the land, and optimism grow stronger as the song's cumulative verses get longer

When I First Came to This Land

Burn, Doris

Children's Books

Putnam Pub. Group

<p>Illustrations and words to a traditional song describe the adventures of a pioneer who buys a farm and builds life for himself and his family.</p>

Ziefert, Harriet

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Putnam Juvenile

Songs of '76

M.Evans & Company

<p>. There are over 60 songs with words &amp; guitar accompaniment along with a delightfully personalized historic commentary. These songs were collected from old manuscripts, old newspapers &amp; from hundreds of accounts of the Revolution. There are three indexes included: index of titles, index of first lines, &amp; historical index. Titles: ? American taxation ? Granny Wales ? In freedom we're born ? Come shake your dull noodles ? Come swallow your bumpers ? Goody bull ? The wicked rebels ? The Boston massacre ? You simply Bostonians ? The tea party ? Begone, pernicious tea ? Gage's proclamation ? The Maryland resolves ? The revolutionary alphabet ? The green mountaineer ? Free Amerikay ? Bunker Hill ? The trip to Cambridge ? What a court ? To the troops in Boston ? Arnold is as brave a man ? Liberty tree ? Yankee doodle doodle Doo ? The burrowing Yankees ? Peter Parker ? Independence day ? The little sergent ? The banks of the Dee ? A parody of the banks of the Dee ? Hale in the bush ? Song of the heads ? Follow Washington ? The ballad of Trenton ? The old soldiers of the king ? Ye sons of North Britain ? The battle of the kegs ? The ballad of Jane McCrea ? Burgonyn's defeat ? Rouse, Britons ? Come out, ye continentalers ? The female patriots ? The farce ? The affair at Newport ? The Indian's over the border ? Indian war song ? The Yankee privateer ? An American frigate ? Anthony Wayne ? The Savannah song ? The Charleston song ? The cow chase ? The capture of Major Andre ? The bold volunteer ? Marion's men ? Chester ? The ballad of Sergent Champe ? Fare thee well, you sweethearts ? The Cornwallis country dance ? The world turned upside down ? Unhappy times ? Rivington's reflections ? Good bye to America ? Good save our states</p>

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