The American songbag / Carl Sandburg.

Record ID: 
310781
Accession number: 
Fuld
Creator: 
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, compiler.
Title: 
The American songbag / Carl Sandburg.
Published: 
New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., c1927.
Credit Line: 
James Fuld Collection.
Inscription/Markings: 

"1st ed.; Contains, among other things, at p. 141 the 'folk song' 'Ain't gonna rain''--pencil inscription on front flyleaf by James Fuld.

Contents: 

Dramas and portraits. He's gone away -- Boll weevil song -- Moanish lady! -- I ride an old Paint -- Foggy, foggy dew -- Waillie, waillie! -- Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon -- Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie -- Careless love -- The John B. sails -- John Henry -- Midnight Special -- Alice B. -- Po' boy -- The ould sod. As I was walkin' down Wexford Street -- Sh-ta-ra-dah-dey (Irish lullaby) -- She said the same to me -- Who's the pretty girl milkin' the cow? -- Give me three grains of corn, Mother -- Kevin Barry -- The son of a gambolier -- Minstrel songs. I wish I was single again -- Walky-talky Jenny -- Hayseed -- Good-by Liza Jane -- Wizard Oil.
Tarnished love tales or Colonial and Revolutionary antiques. Barbra Allen -- The frozen girl -- Pretty Polly -- Common Bill -- Little Scotch-ee -- The house carpenter -- A pretty fair maid -- Lord Lovel -- The Quaker's wooing -- The maid freed from the gallows -- Frankie and her man. Frankie and Albert -- Frankie and Johnny -- Frankie blues -- Josie -- Sadie.
Pioneer memories. The little old sod shanty -- Where o where is old Elijah? -- Turkey in the straw -- Who will shoe your pretty little foot? -- The true lover's farewell -- Fair Annie of Lochyran -- Ten thousand miles away -- Old gray mare -- The Drunkard's doom -- What was your name in the states? -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- California -- The banks of Sacramento -- Money -- The monkey's wedding -- Rosie Nell -- Chicken reel -- Hanging out the linen clothes -- Down, Down Derry Down -- The Lane County bachelor.
Kentucky blazing star. Sourwood Mountain -- The lover's lament -- Hello, girls -- Kansas boys -- Red River Valley -- Liza Jane -- Mountain top -- Negro reel -- One morning in May -- The troubled soldier -- Post-rail song -- Hammer man -- Love somebody, yes I do -- Ain't gonna rain -- Kentucky moonshiner -- Mister Frog went a-courting -- Kind Miss -- Goin' down to town -- The ship that never returned -- Down in the valley -- I dreamed last night of my true love -- Drivin' steel -- The Lincolns and the Hankses. The Missouri harmony -- Windsor -- Greenfields -- Worthington -- Highbridge -- Legacy -- Brown Girl or Fair Eleanor -- Hey Betty Martin -- Old brass wagon -- Cuckoo waltz -- Weevily wheat -- El-a-noy -- Hoosen Johnny -- My pretty little Pink -- Lincoln and liberty -- Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness.
Great Lakes and Erie Canal. The Erie Canal -- Bigerlow -- Red iron ore -- Raging canawl -- The E-ri-e -- Hobo songs. Shovellin' iron ore -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum! -- Tramp, tramp, tramp, keep on a-tramping -- The dying hogger -- Wanderin' -- A. R. U. -- We are four bums -- The big brutal city. The poor working girl -- Roll the chariot -- Brady -- On to the morgue -- It's the syme the whole world over -- In the days of old Rameses -- The good boy -- Willy the weeper -- Cocaine Lil -- She promised she'd meet me -- No more booze (Fireman save my child) -- Lydia Pinkham -- Prison and jail songs. Bird in a cage -- Yonder comes the high sheriff -- Portland County Jail -- Moonlight -- Midnight Special -- Seven long years in state prison -- When I was young and foolish -- Been in the pen so long -- The preacher and the slave.
Blues, mellows, ballets. Levee moan -- Those gambler's blues -- Got dem blues -- De blues ain' nothin' -- When a woman blue -- Coo-coo (Peacock song) -- Great Gawd, I'm feelin' bad -- O my honey, take me back -- What kin' o' pants does the gambler wear? -- Joe Turner -- Times gettin' hard, boys -- I'm sad and I'm lonely -- C. C. Rider -- You fight on -- Satan's a liah -- Ballet of de boll weevil -- De Titanic -- The great open spaces. When the curtains of night are pinned back -- When the work's all done this fall -- As I walked out in the streets of Laredo -- The dreary Black Hills -- The Lone Star Trail -- Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little doggies -- The buffalo skinners -- Poor lonesome cowboy -- The tenderfoot (p.274) -- Little Ah Sid -- The Kinkaiders -- Dakota land -- The farmer -- Rabble soldier -- The trail to Mexico.
Mexican border songs. La cucaracha (Mexican cockroach song) -- Mañanitas (De Jalisco) -- Lo que digo -- El abandonado -- Cielito Lindo -- Adelita -- Versos de Montalgo -- Southern mountains. Way up on Clinch Mountain -- Liza in the summer time (She died on the train) -- Coon can (Poor boy) -- Gypsy Davy -- Roving gambler -- Yonder comes my pretty little girl -- The gamboling man -- O bury me beneath the willow -- Mag's song -- The orphan girl or no bread for the poor -- I got a gal at the head of the holler -- Lonesome road -- Fond affection -- Go bring me back my blue-eyed boy -- London City -- The midnight train -- I don't like no railroad man
Picnic and hayrack follies, close harmony, and darn fool ditties. Sucking cider through a straw -- Did you ever,ever, ever? -- I was born almost ten thousand years ago -- Go get the ax -- Abalone -- In de vinter time -- Cigarettes will spoil yer life -- Mary had a William goat -- I wish I was a little bird -- Old Adam -- The horse named Bill -- Crazy song to the air of "Dixie" -- A boy he had an auger -- Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer -- Greens -- Animal fair -- Calliope -- Si Hubbard -- Railroad and work gangs. Bolsum Brown -- Poor Paddy works on the railway -- The railroad cars are coming -- Jerry, go an' ile that car -- If I die a railroad man -- Cap'n I believe -- Jay Gould's daughter and On the Charlie so long -- Casey Jones -- Mama have you heard the news? -- Don' let yo' watch run down -- There's many a man killed on the railroad -- She'll be comin' round the mountain -- I went down to the depot -- Ever since Uncle John Henry been dead -- Go 'way f'om mah window -- My Lulu -- The wind it blew up the railroad track -- Hog-eye -- My sister she works in a laundry -- I found a horse shoe -- Railroad Bill -- Hangman -- Timber.
Lumberjacks, loggers, shanty-boys. James Whaland -- The shanty-man's life -- Flat River girl -- The mjm on Gerry's Rock -- Driving saw-logs on the Plover -- Morrissey and the Russian sailor -- Mule skinner's song -- Sailorman. Whisky Johnny -- Blow the man down -- The dead horse -- Heave away -- The wide Mizzoura -- I catch-a da plenty of feesh -- The hog-eye man -- Leave her, bullies, leave her -- Across the western ocean -- Bandit biographies. Jim Fisk -- Jesse James -- Sam Bass.
Five wars. The hunters of Kentucky or Half horse and half alligator -- Jackson -- Poor Kitty Popcorn -- There was an old soldier -- A Filipino hombre -- The sergeant, he is the worst of all -- Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket and The handsome young airman -- A war bird's burlesque -- Hinky dinky, parlee-voo -- Where they were -- The hearse song -- Lovely people. Man goin' roun' -- All night long -- Zek'l weep -- I know moonlight -- Blind man lay beside the way -- By'm by -- Go to sleepy -- Jungle mammy song -- Ten thousand miles away from home -- My old hammah -- Charcoal man -- The weaver -- The Colorado Trail -- I met her in the garden where the praties grow -- Somebody -- I don't want to be a gambler -- When poor Mary came wandering home -- Road to heaven. Jesus, won't you come by'm-by? -- Dese bones gwine to rise again -- Two white horses -- Way over in the new buryin' groun' -- Mary wore three links of chain -- Pharaoh's army got drownded -- Good-bye, Brother -- God's goin' to set this world on fire -- Ain'go'n' to study war no mo' -- Things I used to do -- In my father's house -- Standin' on the walls of Zion -- A hundred years ago -- You got to cross it foh yohself -- I got a letter from Jesus -- Ezekiel, you and me.

Notes: 

Melodies and lyrics of American songs, folk-songs, and ballads; many include accompaniment arranged for piano.
Includes commentary.

Provenance: 

James Fuld.

Associated names: 

Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.
Hall, Wendell W. (Wendell Woods), 1896-1969. It ain't gonna rain no mo'.

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