28 records matched your query       

Author:

Silber, Irwin, 1925- ed.

Title:

Songs of the great American West, Compiled and edited by Irwin Silber. Music annotated, edited and arr. by Earl Robinson.

Publisher:

Macmillan

Copyright Date:

1967

Description:

xvi, 334 p. illus. 28 cm.

Subject:

Ballads, English--West (U.S.)
Folk songs, English--West (U.S.)
Ballads, English--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
Folk songs, English--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.

Notes:

In part for voice and piano; in part unacc.; with guitar symbols.

Contents:

Root hog, or die -- Ho! for California -- Sacramento -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Joe Bowers -- Crossing the plains -- Coming around the horn -- We'll give 'em Jessie -- Sioux Indians -- A la ru -- Song of happiness -- The Pacific railroad -- Remember the Alamo! -- Green grow the lilacs -- Santy Anno -- The maid of Monterey -- Buena Vista -- Mustang grey -- Clarín de Campaña -- El tecolote -- Come, come, ye saints -- Sea gulls and crickets -- The Mountain Meadows Massacre -- The handcart song -- Brigham Young -- Echo Canyon -- The days of forty-nine -- The good old days of '50, '1, and '2 -- When I went off to prospect -- Life in California -- Seeing the elephant -- I often think of writing home -- California as it is -- The lousy miner -- Poker Jim -- Hangtown girls -- Humbug steamship companies -- California stage company -- We are all a-panning -- Corrido de Joaquin Murieta -- Twelve hundred more -- Root hog, or die --
Corrido de Heraclio Bernal -- The dreary black hills -- The old settler's song -- I ride an old paint -- The old Chisholm trail -- The buffalo skinners -- Git along, little dogies -- Cowboy's gettin'-up holler -- Good-bye Old Paint -- Corrido de Kansas -- Doney gal -- The trail to Mexico -- Cowboy's life is a dreary, dreary life -- The gal I left behind -- Utah carroll -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- Spanish is the loving tongue -- Little Joe, the wrangler -- The homestead of the free -- Uncle Sam's farm -- The little old sod shanty on my claim -- Western home -- The Lane County bachelor -- Kansas boys -- The Wyoming nester -- Dakota land -- The Kansas fool -- The farmer is the man -- The hayseed -- The independent man -- The people's jubilee -- Jessie James -- Sam Bass -- Billy the kid -- The zebra dun -- El toro moro -- Corrido de Heraclio Bernal --
Roll on, Columbia. Roy Bean -- The streets of Laredo -- Tying knots in the devil's tail -- The big rock candy mountain -- The Ludlow Massacre -- The preacher and the slave -- The commonwealth of toil -- Too ree ama -- The frozen logger -- Fifty thousand lumberjacks -- When the ice worms nest again -- Roll on, Columbia.

LCCN:

66018205

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

JDPC145 -- Manning Public Library (Manning)

CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)