The Coffee House Songbook
Collected and edited by Jay Edwards
Music transcribed and edited by Charles Sens
Drawings from the sketchbooks by Irwin Rosenhouse
1966
1966 price: $3.95

I. Songs of Love
I Saw Her As She Came and Went
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Don't Sing Love Songs
Mary Ann
Fare Thee Well
Once I Had a Sweetheart
Ibby Damsel
The Dear Companion
Lass from the Low Country
Black is the Color
The Queen of Hearts
Alberta
If You Will Weave Me
My Love Loves the Sun
She's Like a Swallow
I Never Will Marry
Banks of the Roses
Locks and Bolts
Cruel War
Wild Mountain Thyme
Shule Aroon
Buttermilk Hill
The Water is Wide
Waly Waly
Rue
Sprig of Thyme
The Next Market Day
Blow the Candles Out
I Know You Rider
Ramblin' Gambler
The Wagoner's Lad
Wildwood Flower
West Virginia Boys
Pretty Saro
Lady Margaret
Pretty Peggy-O
Bonnie Lass of Fyvie
Geordie
The Foggy Dew
Daily Growing
Katharine Jaffray
Lord Bateman
The Trooper and the Maid
The Cambric Shirt
Butcher's Boy
Down by the Seaside

II. Talkin' Critters and Fragment Songs
Whippoorwill
Buckeye Jim
Leatherwing Bat
The Cuckoo
Bowling Green
Red Apple Juice
Katy Cruel
Cotton-Eyed Joe

III. Songs of Vocation and Avocation
1. The Pleasures of Life
Moonshiner
Whiskey Johnny
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum
The Salvation Army Song (Away with Rum)
Whiskey You're the Devil
The Cruiskeen Lawn (The Full Jug)
The Calton Weaver
The Parting Glass
Hello Susan Brown
A Jug of Punch

2. Work Songs
Timber (Jerry)
Old Settler's Song (Acres of Clams)
Springhill Mining Disaster
The Rackets Around the Blue Mountain Lake
Red Iron Ore
Byker Hill

3. Hammer Chants
Take This Hammer
Bald Mountain
Darlin'
Roll On Buddy

4. Railroad Songs
Black Smoke A-risin'
Swannanoa Tunnel
The Wabash Cannonball
Jay Gould's Daughter
Cosher Bailey
Freight Train
Nine Hundred Miles

5. Songs of the Sea
Farewell to Tarwaithe
Venezuela
Row, Bullies, Row
The Coast of Peru
Greenland Whale Fishery
Don't Go to Sea Once More
John Riley
John Riley
The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
The Eclipse
We'll Rant and We'll Roar

IV. Songs Concerning Religion
The Virgin Mary Had a One Son
Sinner Man
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
This Train
Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad
The Great Speckled Bird
Shaker Song
We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus
It's G-L-O-R-Y to Know I'm S-A-V-E-D
Plastic Jesus
Old Gospel Ship

V. Songs of Various Nations
1. The West Indies
Run Come See
Delia

2. Ireland
Erin Go Braugh
Star of the County Down
The Foggy Dew

3. Scotland
The Bonnie Earl of Murray
Gin I Were
Bobby Campbell
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
Bonnie George Campbell

4. Israel
Shalom Chaverim
Hinneh Mah Tov
Hava Netze B'Machol

5. Yiddish Songs
Hey Zhankoye
Shir Finjan

6. Australia
Nine Miles from Gundagai
The Drover's Dream
Five Miles from Gundagai
Bold Jack Donahue
The Wild Colonial Boy
The Castlereagh River

VI. Songs of Protest
1. Songs of War
Drums and Guns (Johnny Comes Marching Home)
The Kerry Recruit
War

2. Songs of Social Protest
Tim Evans (Go Down You Murderer)
Ballad of the Carpenter
The Klan
Jim Crow
Portland County Jail
Old Bill

3. Songs of Personal Discontent
Man of Constant Sorrow
Lonesome Road
Times Are Getting Hard
Abilene
Evil-Hearted Man
Jelly Roll Blues
Hesitation Blues
Rabbit Blues
Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos
Rainbow
Long Time Man
House of the Rising Sun
Solid Gone
Lonely Walk through Sorrow
Walk the Road Again
Rolling Stone
Come Home Wild Jill
The Unreconstructed Rebel
Climber's Lullaby
Black Mountain
My Children
Nottamun Town

4. Songs of Crime and Outlaws
Pretty Polly
Gilgarry Mountain
Pretty Boy Floyd
Johnson
Railroad Bill
Sam Hall
Miller's Cave