The great family songbook : a treasury of favorite folk songs, popular tunes, children's melodies, international songs, hymns, holiday jingles, and more : for piano and guitar / [compiled by] Dan Fox and Dick Weissman ; illustrated by Sarah Wilkins.
International folk songs. Barbara Allen. The caisson song (The caissons go rolling along) ; The star-spangled banner ; Dixie ; America, the beautiful ; Yankee Doodle ; When Johnny comes marching home ; Anchors aweigh ; You're a grand old flag ; Over there ; Marines' hymn ; This land is your land ; America (My country 'tis of thee) -- Western, cowboy, & hoedown songs. Red River Valley ; Buffalo gals ; The farmer is the man ; Git along little dogies ; The old Chisholm trail ; Home on the range ; Oh! Susanna ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; She'll be comin' round the mountain ; Clementine ; Turkey in the straw ; Jesse James -- Children's songs. Hush little baby ; Twinkle, twinkle, little star ; The wheels on the bus ; This old man ; Old MacDonald ; Eency weency spider ; B-I-N-G-O ; All the pretty little horses ; If you're happy and you know it ; The noble Duke of York ; Skip to my Lou ; Brahms's lullaby -- Blues, jazz, & ragtime. Careless love ; Alexander's ragtime band ; House of the rising sun ; Bill Bailey ; Frankie and Johnny ; St. Louis blues ; Pretty baby ; Swanee ; Put your arms around me, honey ; Lonesome road -- Film & show tunes. Meet me in St. Louis -- Give my regards to Broadway ; The aba daba honeymoon ; Ain't we got fun ; Look for the silver lining ; Alice blue gown ; I'm just wild about Harry ; For me and my gal ; As time goes by ; When Irish eyes are smiling ; You made me love you -- Barbershop & sing-along songs. After the ball ; A bicycle built for two (Daisy Bell) ; The band played on ; By the light of the silvery moon ; Carry me back to old Virginny ; Paper doll ; Moonlight Bay ; In the good old summertime ; My bonnie lies over the ocean ; Down by the old mill stream ; Sweet Adeline ; When you were sweet sixteen ; Take me out to the ball game ; It ain't gonna rain no mo' -- Hymns, gospel songs, & spirituals. Jacob's ladder ; Amazing grace ; He's got the whole world in his hands ; Nobody knows the trouble I see ; All my trials ; Simple gifts ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Shall we gather at the river ; Joshua fit the battle ; This little light of mine ; When the saints go marching in ; Gimme that old time religion ; Rock of ages -- Christmas & other holiday songs. The first Noël ; Adeste fideles ; Silent night ; Deck the hall ; Joy to the world ; We three kings ; Jingle bells ; God rest ye merry, gentlemen ; The twelve days of Christmas ; We gather together ; O little town of Bethlehem ; The dreidel song -- American folk songs. Aura Lea ; Shortnin' bread ; The blue-tail fly (Jimmie crack corn) ; Shenandoah ; Buttermilk Hill ; I've been working on the railroad ; Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah ; On top of Old Smoky ; Down in the valley ; Poor wayfaring stranger ; Camptown races ; Old folks at home (Way down upon the Swanee River) ; Erie Canal ; Banks of the Ohio ; The yellow rose of Texas ; If I had a hammer (The hammer song) ; Tom Dooley ; Goodnight, Irene ; Oh, them golden slippers! ; The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ; Bottle of wine ; Blowin' in the wind -- International folk songs. Ach! du lieber Augustin ; Black is the color ; Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone) ; All through the night ; Alouette ; Mary Anne ; Blow the man down ; Auld lang syne ; Greensleeves ; Danny Boy ; La cucharacha ; Hava nagilah ; Loch Lomond ; I know where I'm going ; Drunken sailor ; Scarborough Fair ; The John B. sails ; Those were the days ; Michael, row the boat ashore ; Kum ba ya ; Barbara Allen.
Summary:
Perfectly designed for family singalongs, this compendium is for accomplished musicians and beginning players alike. From "Danny Boy" to "Alexanders Ragtime Band, these are the classic and memorable songs learned around the campfire, at school, from friends, and from listening to the radio.
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