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Listen to the mockingbird : American folksongs and popular music lyrics of the 19th century / edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli.
Format
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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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
M1629 .L55 2005
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Folk songs
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Ballads, American
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Popular music
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United States
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19th century
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Messerli, Douglas, 1947-
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Series
Green integer ; 130.
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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.
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ISBN
1892295202 ((paperback))
9781892295200 ((paperback))
OCLC
62240637
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