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Thread #103890 Message #2124073
Posted By: 12-stringer
12-Aug-07 - 01:04 AM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: Index: Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar
A Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly
by Julius Lester and Pete Seeger (internal evidence suggests that the book was written by Lester)
no copyright date or notice
Tablature only (no music), with lyrics; songs marked * are not from the Leadbelly repertoire but are presented as "Other Approaches" to the 12-string
Alabama Bound, 17
*Bells of Rhymney, 73
Black Girl [In the Pines], 21
Bottle Up and Go, 57
Cotton Song [Cotton Fields], 12
Duncan and Brady, 37
Easy Rider, 39
Fannin Street, 58
*Freight Train, 77
Gallis Pole, 61
Grey Goose, 18
Hitler Song, 31
In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun), 49 [a frequently requested piece of tab on the 'Cat, and here it is, but NB that Lester tabs just the first half of the guitar break, without mentioning that fact!]
John Hardy, 43
John Henry, 53
Julie Ann Johnson, 15
Midnight Special, 33
National Defense Blues, 29
Poor Howard, 67
Red Bird, 14
Relax Your Mind, 41
Roberta [in G], 45
Roberta [in F, guitar tab only], 48
Salty Dog, 35
Skip to My Lou, 9
So Easy When You Know How, 68
T B Blues, 65
There's a Man Goin' Round Takin' Names, 11
They Hung Him on a Cross, 25
*The Water is Wide, 74
We Shall Be Free, 13