Silverman, Jerry – Guitarist’s Treasury Of Song, A

Description

This huge collection of traditional and folk tunes includes song catergories such as love songs, songs of the sea, fun songs, train songs, sentimental songs, and songs based on historic events. Written in simple leadsheet format with complete lyrics and chord symbols, this collection is perfect for gatherings around the campfire or as a general sourcebook. Author/compiler Jerry Silverman contributes program notes for the more obscure tunes in this exhaustive anthology of American song.

Contents

1. ‘Round The Bay of Mexico
2. A Bird in a Gilded Cage
3. A Horse Named Bill
4. A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff
5. A Railroader for Me
6. A-Roving
7. Abdullah Bulbul Amir
8. Abraham’s Daughter
9. Acres of Clams
10. After the Ball
11. All Night Long
12. An Invitation to North America
13. At the Foot of Yonder Mountain
14. Aura Lee
15. Away with Rum
16. Backwater Blues
17. Baltimore Fire
18. Banks of the Sacramento
19. Base Ball Fever
20. Beans, Bacon and Gravy
21. Beautiful Dreamer
22. Ben Bolt
23. Bill McCandless’ Ride
24. Billy Boy
25. Billy the Kid
26. Black Is the Color
27. Blow the Man Down
28. Blow, Ye Winds, In the Morning
29. Blow, Ye Winds, Westerly
30. Boatman Dance
31. Bread and Roses
32. Buddy, Won’t You Roll Down the Line?
33. C.C. Rider
34. Can’t You Dance the Polka?
35. Can’t You Hear Me Callin’, Caroline
36. Cannonball Blues
37. Cape Ann
38. Captain Kidd
39. Casey Jones
40. Clear the Track
41. Cod Liver Oil
42. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Girls
43. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
44. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
45. Cripple Creek
46. Custer’s Last Charge
47. Dakota Land
48. Danville Girl
49. Darling Nellie Gray
50. Deep Blue Sea
51. Deep River Blues
52. Depression Blues
53. Dixie’s Land
54. Do They Miss Me At Home?
55. Don’t Sing Love Songs
56. Down in Dear Old Greenwich Village
57. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
58. Drink it Down
59. Dry Weather Houses
60. Duncan and Brady
61. Dunderbeck
62. East Virginia
63. Ellen Bayne
64. Engine 143
65. Equinoxial and Phoebe
66. Foolish Questions
67. For Me and My Gal
68. Four Nights Drunk
69. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again
70. Free At Last
71. From Boston Harbor We Set Sail
72. Gentle Annie
73. George Washington Bridge
74. Get On Board, Little Children
75. Get Up, Jack
76. Give My Regards to Broadway
77. Go ‘Way From My Window
78. Go Down, Moses
79. Goober Peas
80. Good Morning, Mister Railroadman
81. Good-bye, Old Paint
82. Grandfather Clock
83. Green Grow the Lilacs
84. Greenland Fisheries
85. Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
86. Hard Times in Dixie
87. Hard Times, Come Again No More
88. He’s Gone Away
89. Henry Martin
90. High Barbary
91. Hobo Bill
92. Home, Sweet Home
93. Hudson River Steamboat
94. Hurrah for Our National Game
95. I Took Her to the Ball
96. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
97. I Won’t Be a Nun
98. I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
99. I’m Alabama Bound
100. I’m Sad and I’m Lonely
101. If I Had Wings
102. In Good Old Colony Times
103. In the Gloaming
104. In the Good Old Summertime
105. In the Pines (I)
106. In the Pines (II)
107. Irish Astronomy
108. Jay Gould’s Daughter
109. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
110. Jefferson and Liberty
111. Jenny June
112. Jockey Hat and Feather
113. Joe Turner
114. John Hardy
115. John Henry
116. John Riley
117. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
118. Johnny Is My Darling
119. Juanita
120. Just Before the Battle, Mother
121. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
122. Let Us All Speak Our Minds
123. Life in California
124. Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad
125. Lilly Bell
126. Lincoln and Liberty
127. Linstead Market
128. Little Annie Rooney
129. Little Mohee
130. Little Old Sod Shanty on the Plain
131. Lolly Too Dum
132. Long, Long Ago
133. Lorena
134. Love Is Pleasing
135. Love’s Old Sweet Song
136. Low Bridge! – Everybody Down
137. Lula is Gone
138. Maids, When You’re Young, Never Wed an Old Man
139. Many Thousand Gone
140. Marching Through Georgia
141. Marryin’ Blue Yodel
142. Mary-Anne
143. Maryland, My Maryland
144. Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
145. Michael Roy
146. Michigan Water Blues
147. Mobile Bay
148. Molly Durkin
149. Mule Skinner Blues
150. Must I Go Bound?
151. My Blushing Rosie
152. My Father, How Long?
153. My Melancholy Babe
154. My Mother’s Old Red Shawl
155. My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon
156. Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life
157. Nelly Was a Lady
158. New Friends, True Friends
159. New River Train
160. Nine Hundred Miles
161. Number Twelve Train
162. Oh, Freedom
163. Oh, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
164. Oh, My Little Darling
165. Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness
166. Old Dog Tray
167. Old King Cole
168. On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away
169. On the Road to Mandalay
170. Once I Had a Sweetheart
171. Original Talking Blues
172. Over the Garden Wall
173. Over the Mountain
174. Paddy Works on the Railway
175. Pay Day at Coal Creek
176. Pay Me My Money Down
177. Pretty Peggy-O
178. Pretty Saro
179. Putting on the Style
180. Quantrell
181. Railroad Bill
182. Red Iron Ore
183. Remember the Alamo
184. Reuben’s Train
185. Revolutionary Tea
186. Rio Grande
187. Rock About, My Saro Jane
188. Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
189. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
190. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
191. Roll, Alabama, Roll
192. Rolling Down to Old Miami
193. Root, Hog or Die
194. Rosalie, the Prairie Flower
195. Run Come See Jerusalem
196. Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea
197. Sam Bass
198. Santy Anno
199. School Days
200. Seeing Nellie Home
201. She is More to be Pitied Than Censured
202. She’s Like a Swallow
203. She’s the Sweetest of Them All
204. Shenandoah
205. Shootin’ with Rasputin
206. Shorty George
207. Silver Threads Among the Gold
208. Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last
209. Slide, Kelly, Slide
210. Solidarity Forever
211. Some Folks
212. Somebody’s Coming to See Me Tonight
213. Somebody’s Darling
214. St. Louis Blues
215. Steal Away
216. Stonewall Jackson’s Way
217. Streets of Cairo
218. Stung Right
219. Swannanoa Tunnel
220. Sweet Rosie O’Grady
221. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
222. Tally One For Me
223. Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
224. The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
225. The Band Played On
226. The Battle Cry of Freedom
227. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
228. The Battle of New Orleans
229. The Battle of Trenton
230. The Battleship of Maine
231. The Bigler
232. The Blue and the Gray
233. The Blues Ain’t Nothin’
234. The Bold Fisherman
235. The Bonnie Blue Flag
236. The Boothbay Whale
237. The Bowery
238. The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train
239. The Constitution and the Guerriere
240. The Desperado
241. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
242. The Dodger Song
243. The Dom Pedro
244. The Dreary Black Hills
245. The Drunkard’s Doom
246. The E-ri-e Canal
247. The Eddystone Light
248. The Factory Girl
249. The Fall of Charleston
250. The Farmer is the Man
251. The Fireship
252. The Gal That Got Stuck On Everything She Saw
253. The Galveston Flood
254. The Golden Vanity
255. The Grant Pill
256. The Great American Bum
257. The Handsome Cabin Boy
258. The Hell-Bound Train
259. The House of the Rising Sun
260. The Hunters of Kentucky
261. The Intoxicated Rat
262. The Jam on Gerry’s Rock
263. The Jamestown Homeward Bound
264. The Johnstown Flood
265. The Klondike Gold Rush
266. The Leatherman
267. The Liberty Song
268. The Lily of the West
269. The Little Orphan Girl
270. The Man Who Waters The Workers’ Beer
271. The Maple Leaf Rag Song
272. The Memphis Blues
273. The Mermaid
274. The Midnight Special
275. The New Bully Song
276. The Old Oaken Bucket
277. The Ox-Driving Song
278. The Panic is On
279. The Parting Glass
280. The Persia’s Crew
281. The Popular Wobbly
282. The Preacher and the Slave
283. The Queen of Hearts
284. The Rambler
285. The Rich Man and the Poor Man
286. The Rifleman of Bennington
287. The Rose of Tralee
288. The Roving Pedlar
289. The Ship That Never Returned
290. The Sloop John B.
291. The Soldier and the Sailor
292. The Sweetest Story Ever Told
293. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
294. The Titantic
295. The Turtle Dove
296. The Voices That Are Gone
297. The Wabash Cannonball
298. The Water Is Wide
299. The Worried Man Blues
300. The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven
301. The Yankee Doodle Boy
302. The Yellow Rose of Texas
303. The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn
304. There’s a Long, Long Trail
305. There’s Music in the Air
306. This Train
307. Told My Captain
308. Too Late for Love
309. Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
310. Trouble Down at Homestead
311. Twenty Years Ago
312. Two-Nineteen Took My Babe Away
313. Under the Willow She’s Sleeping
314. Union Train
315. Vilikins and His Dinah
316. Wait for the Wagon
317. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
318. Wanderin’
319. Weeping Sad and Lonely
320. What Care I?
321. What Shall I Offer Thee?
322. What Shall we Do with the Drunken Sailor?
323. When I Lay Down
324. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
325. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
326. While Strolling Through the Park
327. White House Blues
328. Who Will Care for Mother Now?
329. Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
330. Will You Love Me in December
331. Willie, We Have Missed You
332. Winning the Vote
333. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
334. With All Her Faults I Love Her Still
335. Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom
336. Ye Parliament of England
337. You Naughty, Naughty Men
338. You’re the Flower of My Heart