The Island Song Book : being a small collection of our favorite ballads, anthems, lullabies and dirges of this particular section of the Bahama Islands and also such other ditties as have seemed befitting by reason of their piratical, nautical or sentimental appeal. Together with several local and topical lays relating only to Treasure Island. To which is prefix'd an explanatory and historical introduction. To which is added a number of sketches and photographs illustrative of same. Foreword by John and Evelyn McCutcheon Privately Printed at The Chicago Tribune Tower, Jan. 15, 1927 Canopus Too Late But Nevermind The John B. Sails When the Saints Go Marching Home Here We Go, Baby Spare Me One More Year, O Lord Old Uncle Sam Delia Gone Don't You Grieve After Me I Don't Want To Be a Gambler Down on Your Bendings Ballymena Do Aunt Nannie Rocking Six Babies to Sleep Titi Lend Me Your Pigeon Gremore Breezy Hill Mister Mosely My Baby Come Home Gonling Want to Go to London Nassau Boy So Sorry I Ride O'er the Hills That Old Time Religion Don't Let the Devil Fool You Bid You Good Night I Got a Robe Standing in the Need of Prayer Alice, Where Art Thou? That Little Green Isle in the Sea Treasure Island Nassau The Watch Tower We're On the Island Now Whaler's Chantey The Coasts of High Barbary Nancy Lee His 'Eart Was True to Poll 'Neath the South Sea Moon If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between My Love Works in a Greenhouse Rolling Down to Rio The Bold Fisherman The Indifferent Mariner The Time and the Place and the Girl Never Take the Door Knob From the Door Susie O Sole Mio Do You Here Me Calling? A Wild, Wild Rose The Slumber Boat Mister Duncan MacIntosh A Wee Deoch-an-Doris In Einem Kuelen Grunde Molly Dear I've Lost My Pal To the Debutantes of 1908 The Ballad of Abdullah Bulbul Ameer My Gal Irene Love's Sweet Old Song My Word! The Microbe's Serenade The American Girl Are We Almost There? Aloha Oe Don't Be Afraid to Come Home Note (See also: 06 Feb 16 - 01:23 AM, above): This index includes titles from the insert, single-sided pages (pp. 14a-c) not found in all editions. "Canopus," "The Watch Tower," the famous "The John B. Sails" and a few other tunes are an homage to recently departed father(-in-law) Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926,) a much loved and respected artist in Nassau and Chicago of that day.
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