Product Overview
Published by Mel Bay. The songs and ballads in this book include a rich selection of favorite American folk songs, patriotic songs, sentimental songs from the past, and songs from other lands. They have been arranged in the keys that are most suitable for singing, and can be played in a variety of styles using only the words and the accompanying chords. In cases where there are two versions of a particular tune, both have been included. If one version is not well known, however, the most widely used melody is selected. Songs inluded: • A Hole In the Bucket • Amazing Grace • Aura Lee • America • America the Beautiful • All Through the Night • Alouette • Annie Laurie • The Ash Grove • At the Gate of Heaven • Auld Lang Syne • Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms • The Blue Bells of Scotland • The Band Played On • Beautiful Dreamer • Bicycle Built for Two • Battle Hymn of the Republic • The Bonnie Blue Flag • Big Rock Candy Mountain • Black-Eyed Susie • Blow the Man Down • Buffalo Gals • Careless Love • Cindy • The Cruel War • The Caisson Song • Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean • Camptown Races • Carry Me Back to Old Virginny • Came A-Riding • Cockles and Mussels • Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes • Dixie • Down in the Valley • Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill! • The Erie Canal • Everybody Loves Saturday Night • Finniculi, Finnicula • Follow the Drinkin' Gourd • For He's a Jolly Good Fellow • Foggy, Foggy Dew • Frankie and Johnny • Goin' to Boston • Good Night Ladies • Grandfather's Clock • Greensleeves • Home on the Range • I've Been Workin' on the Railroad • In the Evening by the Moonlight • Juanita • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair • John Henry • John Brown's Body • Little Brown Jug • Little Liza Jane • Lonesome Road • Lilttle Annie Rooney • Long, Long Ago • Love's Old Sweet Song • The Last Rose of Summer • Lock Lomond • Mary Ann • My Bonnie • The Man on the Flying Trapeze • Merrily We Roll Along • My Old Kentucky Home • Michael, Row the Boat Ashore • Nelly Bly • O Hanukkah • Over the Meadow • Oh! Susanna • Old Folks at Home • Old Joe Clark • On Top of Old Smoky • Polly-Wolly Doodle • Pretty Saro • Paddy Works on the Railway • The Riddle Song • Rock Island Line • Scarborough Fair • Shenandoah • Sourwood Mountain • Sweet Betsy from Pike • The Star Spangled Banner • The Sidewalks of New York • Sweet Rosie O'Grady • Sakura • The Sloop "John B" • Sur le Pont D'Avignon • Swiss Walking Song • The Turtle Dove • Tell Me Why • There Is a Tavern in the the Town • Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp • Tom Dooley • Vive L'Amour • Walking at Night • When the Saints Go Marching In • When You and I Were Young, Maggie • Wildwood Flower • When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Yellow Roswe of Texas • Yankee Doodle • Zum Gali, Gali.
