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The American heritage songbook / by the editors of American heritage ; Songs compiled and arranged by Ruth and Norman Lloyd.

by Lloyd, Ruth, compiler.

New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., [1969]

Songs, English -- United States.

Folk songs, English -- United States.

Folk music -- United States.

Hymns, English -- United States.

Spirituals (Songs)

223 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm

pt. 1, Songs of early America. Old Hundredth ; When Jesus wept ; Katy Cruel ; The liberty song ; Revolutionary tea ; Chester ; Yankee Doodle ; The toast ; Johnny has gone for a soldier ; Enraptured I gaze ; Hail, Columbia ; Adams and liberty ; Old colony times ; All hail the power of Jesus' name -- pt. 2, Frontier songs of work and play. The hunters of Kentucky ; Song of the Kansas emigrant ; Sweet Betsey from Pike ; Shanadoah ; Tommy's gone to Hilo ; The banks of the Little Eau Pleine ; Hey, Betty Martin ; Johnny, git your gun ; Chippy, get your hair cut ; Pop! goes the weasel ; The farmer in the dell ; Goin' to Boston ; Quilting party ; The pesky sarpent ; Old Rosin the beau ; The Washington badge ; Lincoln and liberty ; Kentucky moonshiner -- pt. 3, Folk hymns and love songs. Greenfields ; From Greenland's icy mountains ; Amazing grace ; Wondrous love ; The heavenly march ; Sinner-man ; Simple gifts ; War department ; Down came an angel ; I wonder when I shall be married ; The single girl ; Mammy loves ; Barbara Allen ; Green grow the lilacs ; Jimmy Randal ; Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me? ; Shady grove ; Pretty Saro ; The bird song ; The cuckoo ; The lonesome grove -- pt. 4, Songs of the minstrel stage. Old Zip Coon ; Sich a gitting up stairs ; Old Dan Tucker ; Lubly Fan, will you cum out tonight? ; My old Kentucky home ; Camptown races ; Angelina Baker ; Oh, Susanna! ; The ole grey goose -- pt. 5, Songs for the parlor piano. Home, sweet home ; Noah's dove ; New York, or, Oh, what a charming city ; Woodman, spare that tree ; Uncle Sam's farm ; Lilly Dale ; Gentle Annie ; Tippecanoe and Tyler too ; The maid of Monterey ; Columbia, the gem of the ocean ; America -- pt. 6, Songs of the Civil War. Dixie's Land ; The battle cry of freedom ; The Bonnie Blue Flag ; The battle hymn of the republic ; Goober peas ; Marching through Georgia ; All quiet along the Potomac tonight ; When Johnny comes marching home -- pt. 7, Songs of the American Negro. Bound to go ; Nobody knows de trouble I've had ; Oh, freedom! ; Free at last ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Deep river ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Little wheel a-turnin' in my heart ; Mary wore three links of chain ; When the saints go marching in ; By and by ; Lolotte ; Musieu bainjo -- pt. 8, Songs across the continent. I ride an old paint ; By'm by ; St. James Hospital ; Jesse James ; Oh, dem golden slippers! ; The Wabash Cannon Ball ; Shall we gather at the river? ; Old-time religion ; Bringing in the sheaves ; Sweet Genevieve ; I'll take you home again, Kathleen ; Out of work ; Come home, Father ; The Mulligan Guard ; You naughty, naughty men ; Up in a balloon -- pt. 9, Songs of the turning century. Streets of Cairo ; The sidewalks of New York ; A hot time in the old town ; Hello, ma baby! ; On the banks of the Wabash, far away ; Sweet Adeline ; In my merry Oldsmobile ; She was happy till she met you ; Wait till the sun shines, Nellie ; The Yankee Doodle boy ; America the beautiful.

One hundred and twenty American songs from 1620 to the twentieth century, icluding historical notes and anecdotes.

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