Listen to the mockingbird : American folksongs and popular music lyrics of the 19th century / edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributed in US by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2005.
Description
223 pages ; 15 cm.

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    Series
    Green integer ; 130. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Douglas Messerli has collected 78 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some such as the African-American spirituals, the chanteys, and the cowboy songs, are beautiful paeans to the American way of living. But the majority, especially the minstrel songs and Civil War ballads, are often perverse in their racial humor and sexual undertones.
    Contents
    • All God's chillun got wings
    • Bought me a cat
    • Carry me back to green pastures
    • Coming 'round the mountain
    • The drunken sailor
    • Ezekiel's wheel
    • Go down, Moses
    • I've been working on the railroad
    • Joshua fit de battle ob Jericho
    • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
    • The old Chisholm trail
    • Polly wolly doodle
    • Red river valley
    • Roll Jordon, roll
    • Shenandoah
    • Short'nin bread
    • Swing low, sweet chariot
    • America
    • Zip coon (Turkey in the straw)
    • Rocked in the cradle of the deep
    • We won't go home till morning
    • Buffalo gals
    • Jim crack corn
    • Simple gifts
    • Susanna (Oh! Susanna)
    • Old folks at home (Swanee River)
    • Wait for the wagon
    • My old Kentucky home, good night
    • Hard times come again no more
    • Listen to the mockingbird
    • Some folks
    • Jingle bells, or The one horse open sleigh
    • The yellow rose of Texas
    • Dixie
    • Old Black Joe
    • Aura Lee
    • The battle cry of freedom
    • Battle hymn of the republic.
    • Grafted into the army
    • Beautiful dreamer
    • Just before the battle, mother
    • Kingdom coming (Year of jubilo)
    • Tenting tonight on the old camp ground
    • All quiet along the Potomac
    • The Arkansas traveler
    • Kissing in the dark
    • My wife is a most knowing woman
    • There are plenty of fish in the sea
    • When Johnny comes marching home
    • Der Deitcher's dog
    • Shall we gather at the river? (Beautiful river)
    • Tramp! tramp! tramp!
    • Jeff in petticoats
    • Marching through Georgia
    • Goober peas
    • The little brown jug
    • Shew fly don't bother me --Sweet Genevieve
    • Reuben and Rachel
    • Silver threads among the gold
    • Bringing in the sheaves
    • Grandfather's clock
    • Carry me back to old Virginny
    • Oh, dem golden slippers!
    • In the evening by the moonlight
    • Ring dem heavenly bells
    • My thoughts are of thee
    • Clementine
    • Johnny get your gun
    • There is a tavern in the town
    • After the ball
    • Daisy Bell (A bicycle built for two)
    • The sidewalks of New York
    • The band played on
    • A hot time in the old town
    • Sweet Rosie O'Grady
    • I'll marry the man I love.
    ISBN
    • 1892295202 ((paperback))
    • 9781892295200 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    62240637
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