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Subject: American Songbag, Sandburg, online From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 18 Jun 10 - 10:49 PM The complete volume is online. Zoom, page flip, print capacity, and very clear scan. The next best thing to having your own volume. Osmania University did the work. http://www.archive.org/details/americansongbag029895mpb American Songbag I have trouble with links; remove the unnecessary if the link works. |
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Subject: RE: American Songbag, Sandberg, online From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 18 Jun 10 - 10:51 PM I done tole ya so. |
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Subject: RE: American Songbag, Sandburg, online From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 19 Jun 10 - 03:58 PM Thanks, Joe, for fixing the link. |
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Subject: RE: American Songbag, Sandburg, online From: Deckman Date: 19 Jun 10 - 04:02 PM This is quite amazing ... thanks to everyone involved. Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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Subject: Index: The American Songbag (Carl Sandburg) From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jun 10 - 09:13 PM I know that American Songbag is available online at Archive.org, but I'd like to make sure the entire contents of the songbook are also available here at Mudcat because I think it's the most significant American songbook ever published. I'll post the index here, and gradually turn it into links as I find the songs. Excuse the ALLCAPS. The book was printed that way, so that's the way the scan came out...and I'm not willing to retype it. -Joe- THE AMERICAN SONGBAG(Carl Sandburg, 1927) TABLE OF CONTENTS DRAMAS AND PORTRAITS
BOLL WEEVIL SONG 8 MOANISH LADY! 11 I RIDE AN OLD PAINT 12 FOGGY, FOGGY DEW 14 WAILLIE, WAILLIE! 16 DIS MORNIN', DIS EVENIN', SO SOON 18 (in the Digital Tradition as "Tell Old Bill") OH, BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE 20 CARELESS LOVE 21 THE JOHN B. SAILS 22 JOHN HENRY 24 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 26 ALICE B. 28 PO' BOY 30 THE OULD SOD
SH-TA-RA-DAH-DEY (IRISH LULLABY) 36 SHE SAID THE SAME TO ME 38 WHO'S THE PRETTY GIRL MILKIN' THE COW? 40 GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF CORN, MOTHER 41 KEVIN BARRY 42 THE SON OF A GAMBOLIER 44 MINSTREL SONGS I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN 47 WALKY-TALKY JENNY 48 HAYSEED 50 GOOD-BY LIZA JANE 51 WIZARD OIL 52 TARNISHED LOVE TALES OR COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY ANTIQUES
THE FROZEN GIRL 58 PRETTY POLLY 60 COMMON BILL 62 LITTLE SCOTCH-EE 64 THE HOUSE CARPENTER 66 A PRETTY FAIR MAID 68 LORD LOVEL 70 THE QUAKER'S WOOING 71 THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS 72 FRANKIE AND HER MAN PIONEER MEMORIES
WHERE O WHERE IS OLD ELIJAH? 92 TURKEY IN THE STRAW 94 WHO WILL SHOE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FOOT? 98 THE TRUE LOVER'S FAREWELL 98 FAIR ANNIE OF LOCHYRAN 99 TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY 100 OLD GRAY MARE 102 THE DRUNKARD'S DOOM 104 WHAT WAS YOUR NAME IN THE STATES? 106 SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE 107 CALIFORNIA 110 THE BANKS OF SACRAMENTO 112 MONEY 112 THE MONKEY'S WEDDING 113 ROSIE NELL 114 CHICKEN REEL 116 HANGING OUT THE LINEN CLOTHES 117 DOWN, DOWN DERRY DOWN 118 THE LANE COUNTY BACHELOR 120 KENTUCKY BLAZING STAR
THE LOVER'S LAMENT 126 HELLO, GIRLS 128 KANSAS BOYS 129 RED RIVER VALLEY 130 LIZA JANE 1 32 MOUNTAIN TOP 133 NEGRO REEL 134 ONE MORNING IN MAY 136 THE TROUBLED SOLDIER 137 POST-RAIL SONG 138 HAMMER MAN 139 LOVE SOMEBODY, YES I DO 140 AIN'T GONNA RAIN 141 KENTUCKY MOONSHINER 142 MISTER FROG WENT A-COURTING 143 KIND MISS 144 GOIN' DOWN TO TOWN 145 THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED 146 DOWN IN THE VALLEY 148 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT OF MY TRUE LOVE 149 DRIVIN' STEEL 150 THE LINCOLNS AND HANKSES
WINDSOR 153 GREENFIELDS 154 WORTHINGTON 154 HIGHBRIDGE 155 LEGACY 155 THE BROWN GIRL OR FAIR ELEANOR 156 HEY BETTY MARTIN 158 OLD BRASS WAGON 159 CUCKOO WALTZ 160 WEEVILY WHEAT 161 EL-A-NOY 162 HOOSEN JOHNNY 164 MY PRETTY LITTLE PINK 166 LINCOLN AND LIBERTY 167 OLD ABE LINCOLN CAME OUT OF THE WILDERNESS 168 GREAT LAKES AND ERIE CANAL
BIGERLOW 174 RED IRON ORE 176 RAGING CANAWL 178 THE E-RI-E 180 HOBO SONGS
HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM! 184 TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, KEEP ON A-TRAMPING 186 THE DYING HOGGER 186 WANDERIN' 188 A. R. U. 190 WE ARE FOUR BUMS 192 THE BIG BRUTAL CITY
ROLL THE CHARIOT 196 BRADY 198 ON TO THE MORGUE 199 IT'S THE SYME THE WHOLE WORLD OVER 200 IN THE DAYS OF OLD RAMESES 202 THE GOOD BOY 203 WILLY THE WEEPER 204 COCAINE LIL 206 SHE PROMISED SHE'D MEET ME 207 NO MORE BOOZE (FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD) 208 LYDIA PINKHAM 210 PRISON AND JAIL SONGS
YONDER COMES THE HIGH SHERIFF 213 PORTLAND COUNTY JAIL 214 MOONLIGHT 216 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (2) 217 SEVEN LONG YEARS IN STATE PRISON 218 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND FOOLISH 219 BEEN IN THE PEN SO LONG 220 THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE 222 BLUES, MELLOWS, BALLETS
THOSE GAMBLER'S BLUES 228 GOT DEM BLUES 232 DE BLUES AIN' NOTHIN' 234 WHEN A WOMAN BLUE 236 COO-COO (PEACOCK SONG) 237 GREAT GAWD, I'M FEELIN' BAD 238 O MY HONEY, TAKE ME BACK 239 WHAT KIN' O' PANTS DOES THE GAMBLER WEAR? 240 JOE TURNER 241 TIMES GETTIN' HARD, BOYS 242 I'M SAD AND I'M LONELY 243 C. C. RIDER 246 YOU FIGHT ON 248 SATAN'S A LIAH 250 BALLET OF DE BOLL WEEVIL 252 DE TITANIC 254 THE GREAT OPEN SPACES
WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL 260 AS I WALKED OUT IN THE STREETS OF LAREDO 263 THE DREARY BLACK HILLS 264 THE LONE STAR TRAIL 266 WHOOPEE TI YI YO, GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES 268 THE BUFFALO SKINNERS 270 POOR LONESOME COWBOY 273 THE TENDERFOOT 274 LITTLE AH SID 276 THE KINKAIDERS 278 DAKOTA LAND 280 THE FARMER 282 RABBLE SOLDIER 284 THE TRAIL TO MEXICO 285 MEXICAN BORDER SONGS
MANANITAS (DE JALISCO) 292 LO QUE DIGO 294 EL ABANDONADO 295 CIELITO LINDO 298 ADELITA 300 VERSOS DE MONTALGO 302 SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS
LIZA IN THE SUMMER TIME (SHE DIED ON THE TRAIN) 308 COON CAN (POOR BOY) 310 GYPSY DAVY 311 THE ROVING GAMBLER 312 YONDER COMES MY PRETTY LITTLE GIRL 313 THE GAMBOLING MAN 313 BURY ME BENEATH THE WILLOW 314 MAG'S SONG 316 THE ORPHAN GIRL OR NO BREAD FOR THE POOR 319 I GOT A GAL AT THE HEAD OF THE HOLLER 320 LONESOME ROAD 322 FOND AFFECTION 323 GO BRING ME BACK MY BLUE-EYED BOY 324 LONDON CITY 324 THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN 325 I DON'T LIKE NO RAILROAD MAN 326 PICNIC AND HAYRACK FOLLIES, CLOSE HARMONY, AND DARN FOOL DITTIES
DID YOU EVER, EVER, EVER? 329 I WAS BORN ALMOST TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO 330 GO GET THE AX 332 ABALONE 333 IN DE VINTER TIME 334 CIGARETTES WILL SPOIL YER LIFE 335 MARY HAD A WILLIAM GOAT 336 I WISH I WAS A LITTLE BIRD 338 OLD ADAM 339 THE HORSE NAMED BILL 340 CRAZY SONG TO THE AIR OF "DIXIE" 342 A BOY HE HAD AN AUGER 343 ABDUL, THE BULBUL AMEER 344 GREENS 347 ANIMAL FAIR 348 CALLIOPE 349 SI HUBBARD 350 RAILROAD AND WORK GANGS
POOR PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY 356 THE RAILROAD CARS ARE COMING 358 JERRY, GO AN' ILE THAT CAR 360 IF I DIE A RAILROAD MAN 362 CAP'N I BELIEVE 3G3 JAY GOULD'S DAUGHTER AND ON THE CHARLIE SO LONG 364 CASEY JONES 366 MAMA HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? 368 DON' LET YO' WATCH RUN DOWN 370 THERE'S MANY A MAN KILLED ON THE RAILROAD 371 SHE'LL BE COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN 372 I WENT DOWN TO THE DEPOT 374 EVER SINCE UNCLE JOHN HENRY BEEN DEAD 376 GO 'WAY F'OM MAH WINDOW 377 MY LULU 378 THE WIND IT BLEW UP THE RAILROAD TRACK 379 HOG-EYE 380 MY SISTER SHE WORKS IN A LAUNDRY 381 I FOUND A HORSE SHOE 382 RAILROAD HILL 384 HANGMAN 385 TIMBER 386 LUMBERJACKS, LOGGERS, SHANTY-BOYS
THE SHANTY-MAN'S LIFE 390 FLAT RIVER GIRL 392 THE JAM ON GERRY'S ROCK 394 DRIVING SAW-LOGS ON THE PLOVER 396 MORRISSEY AND THE RUSSIAN SAILOR 398 MULE SKINNER'S SONG 400 SAILORMAN
BLOW THE MAN DOWN 404 THE DEAD HORSE 406 HEAVE AWAY 407 THE WIDE MIZZOURA 408 I CATCH-A DA PLENTY OF FEESH 409 THE HOG-EYE MAN 410 LEAVE HER, BULLIES, LEAVE HER 412 ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN 412 BANDIT BIOGRAPHIES
JESSE JAMES 420 SAM BASS 422 FIVE WARS
JACKSON 430 POOR KITTY POPCORN 431 THERE WAS AN OLD SOLDIER 432 A FILIPINO HOMBRE 434 THE SERGEANT, HE IS THE WORST OF ALL 435 WRAP ME UP IN MY TARPAULIN JACKET AND THE HANDSOME YOUNG AIRMAN 436 A WAR BIRD'S BURLESQUE 438 HINKY DINKY, PARLEE-VOO 44 WHERE THEY WERE 442 THE HEARSE SONG 444 LOVELY PEOPLE
ALL NIGHT LONG 448 ZEK'L WEEP 449 I KNOW MOONLIGHT 451 BLIND MAN LAY BESIDE THE WAY 452 BY'M BY 453 GO TO SLEEPY 454 JUNGLE MAMMY SONG 455 TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM HOME 456 MY OLD HAMMAH 457 CHAHCOAL MAN 459 THE WEAVER 460 THE COLORADO TRAIL 462 I MET HER IN THE GARDEN WHERE THE PRATIES GROW 463 SOMEBODY 464 I DON'T WANT TO BE A GAMBLER 465 WHEN POOR MARY CAME WANDERING HOME 466 ROAD TO HEAVEN
DESE BONES GWINE TO RISE AGAIN 470 TWO WHITE HORSES 472 WAY OVER IN THE NEW BURYIN' GROUN' 473 MARY WORE THREE LINKS OF CHAIN 474 PHARAOH'S ARMY GOT DROWNDED 476 GOOD-BYE, BROTHER 477 GOD'S GOIN' TO SET THIS WORLD ON FIRE 478 AIN' GO'N TO STUDY WAR NO MO' 480 THINGS I USED TO DO 482 IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE 483 STANDIN' ON THE WALLS OF ZION 484 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO 485 YOU GOT TO CROSS IT FOH YOHSELF 486 I GOT A LETTER FROM JESUS 487 EZEKIEL, YOU AND ME 488 |
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Subject: RE: American Songbag, Sandburg, online From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jun 10 - 09:34 PM Folk Alliance Newsletter Performers Column by Joel Mabus written March 2002 http://www.joelmabus.com/songbag.htm Sandburg's Songbag Joel Mabus The year 2002 brings with it a milestone anniversary in folk music. Seventy-five years ago, in 1927, Carl Sandburg published his massive collection of folk songs, The American Songbag. I've been poring over my copy recently, and have come to a renewed admiration for this ambitious, audacious, rambling, flawed but seminal collection. In 1927, Burl Ives was a senior in high school in Jasper County, Illinois. Woody Guthrie was 15 years old and still in Oklahoma, and Pete Seeger was yet a boy in short pants. It was the year Ralph Peer would head to Bristol and discover The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers, but these artists and their repertoires were as yet unknown to the public. Leadbelly wouldn't be discovered for another seven years. Radio was still a novelty -- the Grand Ole Opry and the WLS Barn Dance were not yet hitting their stride. Today, in 2002, we are as removed from Sandburg's publication date as he was then from Stephen Foster and the heyday of black-face minstrels. In 1927, blues and ragtime had been on the scene some scant thirty years, and the new sounds of hot jazz were filling the speakeasies of Sandburg's beloved Chicago. John Lomax and Cecil Sharp had been published, and Sandburg drew upon them both as source material. But there were many other sources too – some well documented and others not so well. Many of Sandburg's songs were of his own collecting from source singers in his travels on the lecture circuit pre WWI – or from the neighborhoods of Chicago and Milwaukee. My 1990 Harvest Books edition (still available in print) has an excellent forward by Garrison Keillor, who points out the strengths and a not a few weaknesses of the Songbag as a folk music resource. He also speaks to many biographical details, some quite pertinent, such as Sandburg's use of guitar & folksongs to punch up his early lecture career circa 1914. (Other details not so pertinent to the collection, such as Sandburg "gentrifying" his name for a while to "Charles" are perhaps more interesting to "Gary" Keillor than to the rest of us.) Keillor takes Sandburg to task for not including any Scandinavian songs -- an understandable criticism considering Sandburg's ethnicity and Keillor's career theme. But the Songbag was not intended as a scholarly text -- at least not primarily so. Today we remember Sandburg as the populist poet and Lincoln biographer, but he was also a folk song performer. One of the first to do so professionally outside of barrooms and barrel houses. Early on in his career of giving public readings of his poetry, he discovered that nothing drew -- or pleased -- the crowds more than singing a few old songs with his guitar. The Songbag was in many ways, just that – Sandburg's bag of songs, many of which he was known to hold forth in recital. Some years after the publication of the book, he did, in fact, record many of his favorites in an accompanying album of 78 rpm discs. There was also a sequel – The New American Songbag (1950) now out of print. My first acquaintance with The American Songbag was as a schoolboy in the early '60's. I used to check this book, along with the Burl Ives Song Book and Lomax's Cowboy Songs, out of our hometown Carnegie library and look up lyrics to the songs I had some knowledge of. It was simply a reference text for me then. Now, I am more drawn to the quirks, the fragments of songs and the alternate versions of old chestnuts that are included. Of course, some of the chestnuts weren't quite as old in 1927. Sandburg gives us an entire chapter of songs relating to the story of Frankie and Albert (or Johnnie). While these were not "new" in 1927, they were not more than a generation away from their origins – when Frankie actually shot Albert. Similarly, Sandburg's two versions of "Brady" predate Leadbelly's recording of "Duncan & Brady" by twenty years, and were two years in print before Wilmer Watts' version was recorded as "Been on the Job Too Long." Again, about 30 years from the day that Duncan shot Brady in a St. Louis barroom. There are a number of familiar folk standards given in an earlier, non-standard version. For example, "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" is printed, but with a melody very different – and less "arranged" -- than the one handed down to us by Pete Seeger and others in the post WWII era. For the student of history or a lover of folk song, The American Songbag is full of these glimpses into a pre-broadcast era of folk music. To be fair, as a collector, Sandburg undoubtedly edited these songs somewhat to fit his esthetics as poet and performer. And yes, Sandburg handed his vocal & guitar versions of these songs over to an array of arrangers to make them piano-friendly, who in doing so surely altered them even more than he himself must have. And his penchant for prairie-town hyperbole is as present in his prose as in his early poetry. Given all that, the aggressively populist Songbag still stands as an impressive collection of the songs of the American people of the first quarter of the 20th century, and a great resource for the modern folk performer. "A small friend weighing less than a newborn infant, ever responsive to all sincere efforts aimed at mutual respect, depth of affection or love gone off the deep end." --The Guitar, from Some Definitions by Carl Sandburg |
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Subject: Index: The NEW American Songbag (Carl Sandburg) From: cetmst Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:30 AM Carl Sandburg's New American Songbag, Broadcast Music Inc., New York: Abalone Ain't Gonna Rain Alaska Hahves'Moon Another Man Done Gone Baby in a Guinea-Blue Gown Bonny Eloise Bring Me On My Supper, Boys By'm Bye Cigarettes Will Spoil Your Life Cold Rainy Day Colorado Trail, The Death, Ain't You Got No Shame? I Could Not Find My Baby O! (Welsh Ballad) I Don't Like No Railroad Man I Don't Wan' to Be Buried in De Stawm I Got a Letter From Jesus If I Had Wings Like Nora's Dove In De Vinter Time Get the Money God Save the People God's Goin' Set This World On Fire He Came From His Palace Grand He's Gone Away Horse Named Bill, The John Adkin's Farewell John B. Sails, The Lily of the West, The Lincoln Campaign Song Love Somebody Maid Freed From the Gallows, The Mary Wore Three Links of Chain Money New York, O What a Charming City Now, There Once Was a Young Girl (An Irish Come-All-Ye) Nurse Pinched the Baby, The Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness O.P.A. Ditty Our God, Our Help Picayune Butler Poor Lonesome Cowboy Poor Wayfaring Stranger Rabble Soldier Raggle-Taggle Rolly Trudum Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Past Sister, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely Somebody Sweet Violets Telephone Book Tell Irene Hello The Wide Mizzoura Twenty Years Ago Wanderin' Way Up On Clinch Mountain When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back Where Shall I Be? Will the United Nations Sing? Won't It Be Wonderful After the War? Yah-Nah-Nee (Indian Song) |
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Subject: Index: Sweet Music (Helga Sandburg) From: cetmst Date: 21 Jun 10 - 08:23 AM Sweet Music, A Book of Family Reminiscence and Song, by Helga Sandburg, Preface by Carl Sandburg, Guitar Arrangements by Richard Harrison, The Dial Press, New York, 1963 Amazing Grace Ara-Go-On Away in a Manger Ballad Ballad of Sam Yudkin Barby Allen Battle Hymn of the Republic Bendermere Stream Bigerlow Billy Boy Bird in a Gilded Cage Birthday Song Black and White Black Is the Color Bonny Blue Flag, The Brady Bring Back My Market Bye and Bye Bye Baby Bye-Lo Came a Dove Through the Woodland Cherry Tree, The Colorado Trail, The Company Song, The Connecticut Eats the Nutmeg Dear Evalina Did You Ever, Ever, Ever? Dublin Bay Elsie Every Time I Come to Town Ezekiel Saw the Wheel Fare Thee Well Farmer Comes to Town, The Farmer in the Dell, The Flow Gently, Sweet Afton Forty Nine Bottles Four Marys, The Frankie and Johnny Free Amerikay Georgia Street Hotel Golden Bells Good Old North State, The Go Lay the Lily Low Go to Sleepy Great God, I'm Feeling Bad Greensleeves Hand Me Down My Walking Cane He Was the World to Me He Says What He Thinks Hold My Hand, Lord Jesus Hosana I Am Jesus'Little Lamb I Could Not Find My Baby, Oh! I Don't Want to Be Buried in the Storm I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls I Found a Horseshoe I Have Got Religion I'll Give to You Illinois I'm Sad and I'm Lonely In the Gloaming It Could Be a Wonderful World It's a Short Way I Won'tBe Reconstructed Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair Jennifer Jesus Christ Jesus Christ and St. Peter Jesus Loves Me Joe Hill John Brown's Body Kevin Barry Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad Life on the Ocean Wave Linderbaum, Der Lord, Build Me a Cabin Lover of the Lord Man Who Comes Around, The Man Who Has Plenty of Good Peanuts, The Mary Had a William Goat Michael Roy Michigan, My Michigan Mill was Made of Marble, The Money Mulberry Bush, The My sister She Works in the Laundry New York I New York II Nicodemus Nobody's Darling Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Oh Freedom Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone Old Codger, The Old Dan Tucker Old Dog Tray Old Hundred Old Noah Old Pine Tree, The On a Monday Morning One Morning In May Papa Loves Mama Paul and Silas Pharaoh's Army Pop! Goes the Weasel Portland Town Red IOron Ore Rich Man and the Orphan Girl, The Roaming Free As the Breeze Rosie Nell Seven Long Years Ship That Never Returned Shower of Dollars Sjoman Skip to My Lou Solidarity Forever Somebody's Tall and Handsome Spanish Cavalier, The Spanish Johnny Star in the East State of Illinois, The Steamboat Bill Strange Music Streetcar Song, The Sweet Music Take This Hammer Tale of Johnny Faulk, The Tell Old Bill Terribly Private Club, A Then It's a Hoo-raw Then You'll Remember Me There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding This Land Is Your Land Too Old to Work Traveling On True Lover's Farewell, The TVA Song Twelve Days of Marxmas, The Two White Horses Under the Willow She's Sleeping Wailie, Wailie Wandering We Are Building a Strong Union We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Shall Not Be Moved Where Did You Get That Hat? Whee Oh Where Is Old Elijah? Where the Praties Grow Which Side Are You On? Whisky Johnny Wish I Was In Tennessee World of Tomorrow, The Yonder Comes the High Sheriff You Can't Get to Heaven on Roller Skates You Put Your Right Foot In You Will Eat Bye and Bye |
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Subject: RE: American Songbag, Sandburg, online From: GUEST,Russ Date: 21 Jun 10 - 11:29 AM Great! Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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