Cowboy Songs & other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax.

First published in 1910, now put out by Macmillan Publishing in a 1986 soft cover version with a new foreword by Alan Lomax.

The other one I can't find now, because it got relocated from the piano bench, but it was red and I think the title is Sing Out, America.

I've made a hobby of buying old school music books and giving them to my sister who is a music teacher, but I've kept a few. When I dig them out, I will post them. They really do show the depth and thinking of the times. Most seem to be more sophisticated in what they expect of children than what I know of now, I think because it was assumed that most children experienced a lot of music in their daily lives, as these are mostly from pre-tv times.

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