Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications

Subject: Songbook Indexing; Oak Publications
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 10:34 PM

Some of my favorite songbooks were published (mostly in the 1960s) by Oak Publications. I'm not sure of the history of Oak Publications. Their songbooks all seem to have a similar format, and that format is also used in songbooks from People's Songs and from Sing Out! Magazine. If you can post information about the history of Oak Publications, I'll incorporate it into the second message in this thread.

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I think this (click) is a pretty good index of Oak Publications still in print

(although it does not include Oak books that have been republished by other companies)

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This is an edited PermaThread® for indexes of songbooks published by Oak Publications. This thread will be edited by Joe Offer. Feel free to post to this thread, but remember that all messages posted here are subject to editing or deletion.
-Joe Offer-

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How to use Songbook Indexes

Use [CTRL-F] to find the you want, and then post a request for the song at the bottom of the thread. We'll contact the songbook owner and obtain the lyrics, and we'll post an answer or a link in your request message.

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The assumption is that people who post indexes have the books or have access to them - and they're willing to post any of the songs listed.
To search this page, hit [CTRL-F] on your keyboard.

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Susan of DT sent me a list of all Oak publications, compiled sometime in the very early 1970s:

NUMBER	TITLE	AUTHOR
Instruction Manuals
1	Art of the Folk Blues Guitar	Silverman
2	Beginning the Folk Guitar	Silverman
3	Blues Harp	Glover
4	Chord-Player's Encyclopedia	Silverman
5	Country Blues Guitar	Grossman
6	The Dulcimer Book	Ritchie
7	Finger Picking Styles for Guitar	Traum
8	Flat-Picker's Guitar Guide	Silverman
9	Folksinger's Guitar Guide	Silverman
10	Folksinger's Guitar Guide, Vol 2	Silverman
11	A Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar	Lester & Seeger
12	Folk Style Autoharp	Taussig
13	How to Play the Five-String Banjo	Seeger
14	Note-Reading and Music theory for Folk Guitarista	Silverman
15	Recorder Guide	Nitka & Kulbach
16	Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong	Seeger
American and Contemporary
17	American Favorite Ballads	Seeger
18	American Folksong	Guthrie
19	American Square Dance	Mayo
20	Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti	Guthrie
21	Broadside, Vol. 1	Cunningham
22	California to the New York Island	Lampell
23	Coffee House Songbook	Edwards
24	Drums of the Americas	Howard
25	Ewan MacColl-Peggy Seeger Songbook	MacColl & Seeger
26	Fiddle Book	Thede
27	Folksongs of Peggy Seeger	Seeger
28	Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians	Ritchie
29	Freedom is a Constant Struggle	Carawan
30	Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hitting People	Lomax, Guthrie & Seeger
31	Leadbelly Songbook	Asch & Lomax
32	Lift Every Voice	Silber
33	Little Boxes and Other Homemade Songs	Reynolds
34	Muse of Parker Street	Reynolds
35	New Lost City Ramblers Songbook	Wood
36	900 Miles	Houston
37	101 Plus 5 Folk Songs for Camp	Cohen
38	The Panic is On	Silverman
39	People's Songbook	Hille
40	Ramblin' Boy and Other Songs	Paxton
41	Reprints from Sing Out, Vols. 1-10
42	Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin, 1946-1949	Silber
43	Soldier Songs and Home Front Ballads of the Civil War	Silber
44	Songs for Peace	Seeger
45	Songs for Swinging Housemothers	Lynn
46	Songs of American Sailormen	Colcord
47	Songs of Joe Hill	Stavis & Harmon
48	Songs of Phil Ochs	Ochs
49	To Hell With Skiing	Cohen
50	We Shall Overcome	Carawan
Folk Songs of Many Lands
51	Bells of Rhymney	Seeger
52	Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Songbook	Clancy
53	Egyptian Folk Songs	Rasheed
54	Favorite French Folk Songs	Mills
55	Favorite Spanish Folksongs	Paz
56	Folk Song and Ballads of Scotland	MacColl
57	Folk Songs of Europe	Karpeles
58	Folk Songs of France	Scott
59	Folk Songs of the Americas	Lloyd
60	Irish Songs of Resistance	Galvin
61	Jewish Folk Songs	Rubin
62	New English Broadsides	Joseph & Winter
63	Russian songs	Silverman
64	Songs From Shakespeare's Plays	Kines
65	Songs of Bertolt Brecht and Hans Eisler	Bentley
66	I'm a Freeborn Man	MacColl & Seeger
Blues and Jazz
67	The Bluesmen	Charters
68	Jazz: New Orleans 1885-1963	Charters
69	Poetry of the Blues	Charters
70	Ragtime Songbook	Charters
71	They All Played Ragtime	Blesh & Janis
Children
72	Ella Jenkins Song Book	Jenkins
73	This is Rhythm	Jenkins
Miscellaneous
74	Studies in Ethnomusicology, Vol 1	Kurath et al
75	Studies in Ethnomusicology, Vol 2	Kolinski
76	Slave Songs of the United States	Allen et al
New Publications
77	Folk Blues	Silverman
78	Broadside, Vol. 2	Cunningham
79	German Folk Songs	Kevess
80	Sitar Book	Keesee
81	Folk Songs of Greece	Alevizos
82	Old-Time Mountain Banjo	Rosenbaum
83	Instrumental Techniques of American Folk Guitar	Taussig
84	Masters of Instrumental Blues Guitar	Garwood
85	Grass Roots Harmony	Raim
86	Blue Ridge Mountain Songs	Shellans
87	Reprints From Sing Out, Vols. 11
88	Delta Blues Guitar	Grossman
89	Jazz on Record: The First 50 Years 1917-1967	McCarthy et al
90	Erotic Muse	Cray
91	Folk Lullabies	Cass-Beggs
92	Blues Records 1943-1966	Leadbitter & Slavin
93	American Folk Music Occasional	Strachwitz & Welding
94	Old-Time Banjo Styles	Polacheck
95	story of Australian Folksong	Anderson
96	Traditional and Contemporary Finger-Picking Styles	Traum
97	Songs that Children Sing	Chroman
98	Teach Yourself to Play Guitar	Taussig
99	Aspects of the Blues Tradition	Oliver

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing; Oak Publications
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 10:35 PM

reserved for the history of Oak Publications

Subject: Index: 101 plus 5 Songs for Camp (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 10:38 PM

I got my start singing at campfires, so I've always loved camp songs. Years ago, I heard of an Oak Publications book called 101 Plus Five Songs for Camp [compiled and edited with notes by Mike Cohen on the use of folk songs in a camp music program, 1966]. From that day on, I coveted that book. I dated a woman in the mid-1990s, and I found out she had a copy of THAT book. It almost kept the relationship alive long after it should have died. Later, I was able to find my own copy, so I have no regrets about ending that relationship. Now that I look at the book, I see that most of the songs are far too sophisticated for the style of campfire singing that works for me - but they're good songs. Still, how can you think of camp songs without "The Hole In the Bottom of the Sea" and "The Deacon Went Down"?
-Joe-

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Here's the index:

101 Plus 5 Songs for Camp
Sea Chanties, Story Ballads, Work Songs, Animal Songs, Spirituals, Songs for Fun and Nonsense
compiled and edited with notes by Mike Cohen on the use of folk songs in a camp music program
first printing, 1966 - price: $3.95

Across the Fields (Round)
Ah Poor Bird (Round)
Angel Band
Arkansas Traveler
The Banks of the Verigo
Barbara Allen
Battle of Saratoga
Beware, Oh, Take Care
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Bill Grogin’s Goat
Bog In The Valley-O
Bold Fisherman
Boothbay Whale
Border Trail
Border Trail - Winter Version
Bound For Glory
Buffalo Boy
Bulldog and the Bullfrog
By and By
Canoe Song (Round)
The Card Song
The Cat Came Back
The Chair at Tremblant
The Chivalrous Shark
Colony Times
Come Follow (Round)
Cornball Matching Test
Deep Blue Sea
Delia’s Gone
Dem Bones Gonna Rise Again
Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
Dona Nobis (Round)
Drill Ye Tarriers
Dunderbeck
Erie Canal
Escape of John Webb
Father’s Whiskers
Foolish Questions
Golden Vanity
Gory, Gory
Green Grow the Rushes-Ho
Greenland Fisheries
Groundhog
Haul Away Joe
Haul On the Bowline
Hava Na Shira (Round)
Hey, Betty Martin (Hiking Song)
Hi-Ro Jerum
Home Deary Home
Ilkla Moor Baht Hat
I'll Fly Away
I’m On My Way
Jenny Jenkins
John Henry
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (Round)
Johnson’s Ale
The Keeper
Kilgary Mountain
Kookaburra (Round)
Looky, Looky Yonder
Long John
Mammy Don’t ‘Low
Marching to Pretoria
Men Into Plowshares (Round)
The Mermaid
Michael Finnigin (Round)
Mountain Dew
Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder
My Dame Had a Lame Tame Crane (Round)
New Bedford Whaler
Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer (Hiking Song)
Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening (Round)
Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep
Old Arm Chair
Old Lord of Northern Sea
The Old Miller’s Will
Old Rattler
Oleana
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Pod Huger Times
Pretty Polly
Putting On the Style
Putting On the Style - Ski Version
The Rifleman At Bennington
Roll Jordan, Roll
Roll Over
Rose, Rose (Round)
Russian Lullaby (Round)
Sail Away Ladies
Sarasponda (Round)
Scotland’s Burning (Round)
Springfield Mountain
Sweet the Evening Air of May (Round)
Take This Hammer
Tea Ships
Three-Four Go Left, Right (Hiking Song)
Three Li'l Piggies
The Titanic
Tune the Old Cow Died On
We Hunted and We Hallowed
We’ll Rant and We’ll Roar
White Coral Bells (Round)
White Sand and Grey Sand (Round)
Who Did Swallow Jonah
Why Shouldn’t My Goose (Round)
Yea Ho, Little Fish

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 11:03 PM

I first started dabbling in guitar tunings using Stefan Grossman's Guitar tuning book, first published by Oak. He also had a country blues guide out by Oak. Broadside magazine did some "best of" publications, which I think also came out on Oak.

Subject: Index: Songs for Swinging Housemothers (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 11:21 PM

This one may be my favorite: Songs for Swinging Housemothers (Frank Lynn - revised edition, 1961 & 1963). I think this one was first published by another firm. By the way, the price on my copy is $2.95. I had an earlier (Pre-Oak) edition, but I gave it to my sister last week.

Songs for Swinging Housemothers
by Frank Lynn
revised edition copyright 1961 & 1963, by James Leisy Music
Oak Publications edition, $2.95, published by Fearon Publishers, San Francisco.

About the Year of One B.C., 278
Ach du Lieber Augustine, 135
Adam, 136
Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More, 332
Alcoholic Baby, 81
All God's Chillen Got Shoes, 313
All My Trials, 325
All Through the Night, 149
Alli Alli Illium (See Poor and the Rich, The)
Alouette, 101
Amici, 146
And When I Die, 89
Annie Laurie, 154
Arlberg Ski School, The, 93
Around Her Hair She Wore a Purple Ribbon, 42
A-roving, 263
Asteroid Light, The, 273
At the Boarding House, 55
Au Clair de la Lume, 104
Auld Lang Syne, 156
Aupres de Ma Blonde, 103
Aura Lee, 145
Australia, 286
A-Workin' On the Railroad, 165
Banks of the Ohio, 169
Barbara Allen, 223
Barkeep, Barkeep, 134
Battle Hymn of the Republic, The, 211
Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends, 130
Beer, Beer, 89
Beer Bottle (See Old Beer Bottle, An)
Bell-bottomed Trousers, 265
Betty and Dupree, 249
Bible Stories, 132
Bile the Cabbage Down, 195
Billboard Song, The, 19
Billie Magee Magaw, 189
Billy Boy, 193
Birmingham Jail, The (See Down in the Valley)
Black-eyed Susie, 196
Blest Be the Tie That Binds, 141
Blood Red Roses, 269
Blow the Candles Out, 241
Blow the Man Down, 287
Blue Tail Fly, The, 187
Blues Ain't Nothin' but a Good Man Feelin' Bad, The, 248
Bohemia Hall, 81
Boll Weevil, The, 214
Bonhomme, 102
Bound for the Promised Land, 330
Bring Out the Old Silver Goblet, 78
Buffalo Boy, 180
Buffalo Gals, 203
Bulldog on the Bank, The, 24
Burglar and the Old Maid, The, 34
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, 294
C.C. Rider, 247
Call Out the Army and the Navy, 21
Camptown Baces, The, 192
Cannibal King, A, 50
Cannibal King Medley, 50
Capital Ship, A, 276
Captain Kidd, 171
Careless Love, 182
Cat and the Mouse, The, 6
Chandler's Wife, The, 225
Cherry in a Manhattan, A, 57
Cherry Tree Carol, The, 234
Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, 104
Clementine, 175
Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue, 160
Cocaine Lil, 159
Cockles and Mussels, 232
Come, Follow, 117
Copper Kettle, 53
Corena, 254
Cottage Next to Mine, The, 47
Cowboy's Dream, The, 303
Cowboy's Lament, The (See Streets of Laredo, The)
Crawdad Song, The, 174
Danville Girl, The, 215
Darby Ram, The, 137
Deep River, 317
Desperado, The, 301
Die Lorelei, 113
Do Your Ears Hang Low?, 30
Don't Cry, Lady, 35
Down by the Riverside (See I Ain't Gonna Study War Mo More)
Down in the Valley, 179
Drill, To Tarriers, Drill, 163
Drink 'er Down (See Here's to Good Old Beer)
Drink to Me Only with Good Hard Cider, 153
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, 153
Drinking Medley, 82
Drunk Last Night, 82
Drunkard's Doom, The, 71
Drunken Sailor, The, 266
Du, Du Liegst Mir im Herzen, 111
Dutch Coupany, The, 83
Dying Hobo, The, 179
East Virginia, 260
Eating Goober Peas, 209
Ee-Lee-Ay-Lee-Oh, 280
Eight Bells, 271
Er—i—e Canal, The, 270
Erie Canal, The, 274
Everybody Loves Saturday Night, 204
Eyes of Texas, The, 11
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, 314
Far Above Cayuga's Waters, 146
Farmer Who Went Out for Beer, The, 112
Father Put the Cow Out, 123
Fire Ship, The, 264
Foggy, Foggy Dew, The, 183
Four Hairy Apes, 52
Four Maries, The, 239
Four Nights Drunk, 138
Fox, The, 226
Frankie and Johnny, 157
Frere Jacques, 117
Frozen Lover, The, 516
Garbage Man's Daughter, The, 63
Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo, 237
Girl of My Dreams, The, 9
Girls Can Never Change Their Nature, 43
Give Me That Old Time Religion, 308
Glorious (See Drunk Last Night)
Glorious Beer, 79
Go Down, Moses, 320
Go Tell Aunt Rhody, 181
Go Tell It on the Mountain, 307
Golden Slippers, 198
Good—bye, My Lover, Good—bye, 290
Goodnight, Ladies, 131
Gory, Gory, 99
Granmaw's in the Cellar, 30
Grandfather's Clock, 4
Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, 3
Green Grow the Lilacs, 181
Green Grow the Rushes, 233
Greenback Dollar, 260
Greensleeves, l48
Grün, Grün, Grün, 114
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, 205
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, 200
Hangman, Hangman, 224
Haul Away, Joe, 279
He Didn't Have a Bend in His Knees, 98
He That Will an Ale House Keep, 115
Hearse Song, The, 60
Heaven Is So High, 323
Hell-bound Train, The, 208
Her Mother Never Told Her, 72
Here's to Good Old Beer, 86
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, 321
Hey, Ho, Nobody Home, 115
High Barbaree, 275
Hokey Pokey, The, 122
Hol—la—hi! Hol-la—ho!, 109
Home in that Rock, 324
Home on the Range, 300
Horses Run Around, The, 127
House Carpenter, The, 282
How We Love To See Our Dear Old Mother Work, 57
Hygiene Song, The, 16
I Ain't Gonna Study War No More, 311
I Am a Pilgrim, 328
I Gave My Love a Cherry (See Riddle Song, The)
I Had a Little Duck, 90
I Know Where I'm Goin', 219
I Ride an Old Paint, 293
I Shot a Sneeze into the Air, 33
I Took My Sweetie for a Sleigh Ride, 60
I Want a Beer, 77
I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago, 134
I Was Born in Jersey City, 126
I Wish I Was Single Again, 217
Ich Bin der Musikant, 106
I'll He Ready When the Great Day Comes, 318
I'm a Man That's Done Wrong to My Parents, 68
I'm Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger, 329
In the Cellar of Timberline Lodge, 94
In the Evening by the Moonlight, 26
In the Pines, 245
In the Store, 77
Insist on a Warranty Deed, 222
Irish Wake, The, 128
It Ain't My Baby, 20
It Pays to Advertise, 47
It's Always Fair Weather, 84
It's the Syme the Whole World Over, 61
I've Been Workin' on the Railroad, 10
I've Got No Use for the Women, 304
Jack Is Every Inch a Sailor, 269
Jack O'Diamonds, 80
Jacob's Ladder, 310
Jesse James, 168
Jimmie Crack Corn (See Blue Tail fly, The)
Jne Turner, 253
John S. Sails, The, 266
John Brown's Baby, 211
John Brown's Body, 210
John Hardy, 166
John Henry, 161
John Jacob Jingleheiner Schmidt, 121
John Peel, 227
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier, 207
Jcbnny Vorbeck, 27
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, 315
Juanita, 151
Just a Closer Walk with Thee, 322
Keeper of the Eddystone Light, The, 272
Keeper of the London Zoo, The, 273
Keeper Would A—hunting Go, The, 228
King's Navy, The, 77
Kookaburra, 119
Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl, 75
Lanky Lucy Lister, 17
Lavender Cowboy, The, 144
Lessons in Love, 35
Let Her Go, 37
Let Her Sleep Under the Bar (See Her Mother Never Told Her)
Let My Little Light Shine, 334
Letter Edged in Black, The, 66
Little Brown Jug, 90
Little Phoebe, 142
Little Tom Tinker, 119
Logger Lover (See Frozen Lover, The)
Lolly—Too-Dun,T6
Lonesome Valley, 327
Lord Randall, 220
Lola Belle Black, 45
Mama Have You Heard the News?, 70
Man on the New Pair of Skis, The, 93
Man Without a Woman, A, S
Marianina, 40
Mary Ann McCarty, 212
Mary Had a William Goat, 39
Meetin' at the Buildin', 335
Men of Harlech, 240
Mermaid, The, 281
Merrily We Roll the Keg, 136
Michael Finnigin, 121
Midnight on the Ocean, 55
Midnight Special, The, 252
Mimi, the College Widow, 1
M-I-N-E, 51
Miss Bailey, 231
Mister Froggie Went A-courtin' , 185
Mister Reilly, 122
Mountain Dew (See Old Mountain Dew)
Mountaineer's Courtship, The, (See Buffalo Boy)
Mrs. Murphy's Chowder, 36
Mushrooms, 41
Muss I Denn, 110
My Bonnie, 176
My Cross-eyed Girl, 143
My God, How the Money Rolls In, 177
My Name Is Yon Yonson, 120
Nancy Brown (See West Virgiany Hill, The)
New River Train, i8
Night Herding Song, 306
Nine Hundred Miles, 255
Nine Men Slept in a Boarding House Bed, 120
Nine Pound Hammer, 257
Ninety Pounds of Rucksack, 96
No Hidin' Place, 331
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, 320
Oh, How He Lied, 31
Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening, 116
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep, 312
Oh, No, John, 177
Oh, Susanna, 191
Oh, Won't That Be Joyful (See Peanuts)
Old Ark's A-Moverin', The, 316
Old Beer Bottle, An, 14
Old Chisholm Trail, The, 296
Old Folks at Home, 194
Old King Cole, 129
Old Maid, The, 11
Old Man Who Lived Near Hell, The, 218
Old Mountain Dew, 88
Old Stormalong, 283
Old Texas, 294
Old Time Religion (See Give Me That Old Time Religion)
Omelette, 101
Omie Wise, 73
On Mules We Find Two Legs Behind, 37
On the Farm, 76
On Top of a Mountain, 99
On Top of Old Baldy, 178
On Top of Old Smoky, 178
Once There Were Three Fishermen, 131
One Fish Ball, 13
One More River to Cross, 356
Original Talking Blues, The, 250
Out in the Great Northwest, 597
Paddy Murphy, 78
Paper of Pins, 184
Pat Works on the Railroad (See A-workin' on the Railroad)
Patsy Ory-Ory—Aye (See A-workin' on the Railroad)
Peanuts, 4
Persian Kitten, The, 41
Personal Friend of Mine, A, 48
Pick a Bale of Cotton, 164
Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away, The, 87
Pink Pajamas, 212
Polly Wolly Doodle, 190
Poor and the Rich, The, 135
Poor Babes in the Woods, 63
Poor Boy, 173
Poor Lil, 15
Poor Old Slave, The, 124
Poor Working Girl, The, 69
Pope, The, 85
Puttin' on the Style, 202
Quartermaster Corps, The (See On the Farm)
Railroad Bill, 242
Rattin Family, The, 59
Red River Valley, 180
Reuben Ranzo, 285
Rex, the Piddling Pup, 44
Riddle Song, The, 150
Rio Grande, The, 284
Rock About, My Saro Jane, 291
Roll on the Ground, Boys, 261
Rolling Down the Mountain (See West Virginny Hills, The)
Rosewood Casket, 259
Round the Corner, 123
Roving Gambler, The, 206
Roving Kind, The (See Fire Ship, The)
Row, Row, Row Your Boat, 118
Rye Whiskey, 80
Sailor Is a Sailor, A, 22
Sally Carter, 61
Samuel Hall, 170
Santy Anno, 292
S-A-V-E-D, 43
Schnitzelbank, 108
Scotland's Burning, 117
Shackles of Shame, 67
She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured, 64
She Promised to Meet Me When the Clock Struck Seventeen, 125
She'll Be Skiing Down the Mountain, 96
Shenandoah, 288
Ship That Never Returned, The, 62
Ship Titanic, The (See Titanic, The)
Short'nin' Bread, 197
Shorty George, 256
Show Me the Easy Way Down, 100
Shussing Down the Sherman, 95
Silver Dagger, 188
Silver Dollar, 3
Sipping Cider Through a Straw, 49
Sixpence, 53
Ski, Ski, Ski, 94
Ski Slow, You Ski Patrol, 100
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, 333
Son of a Gambolier, The, 199
Son of a Gun for Beer, 133
Souse Family, The (See Dutch Company, The)
South Australia (See Australia)
Spanish Is the Loving Tongue, 153
Spanish Ladies, 289
St. James Infirmary, The, 244
Standing in the Need of Prayer, 322
Steal Away, 319
Strawberry Roan, The, 298
Streets of Laredo, The, 295
Strolling Through Norfolk, 267
Student and the Tunnel, The, 25
Suicide Song, The, 58
Susan MacGoozan, 126
Sven, 97
Swanee River (See Old Folks at Home)
Sweet and Low, 150
Sweet Eveline, 84
Sweet Violets, 28
Sweetly Sings the Donkey, 119
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, 308
Take the Leg from Some Old Table, 31
Take This Hammer, 162
Taps, 136
Tell Me Why, 147
That Old Mountain Dew (See Old Mountain Dew)
That's Where My Money Goes, 32
That's Why I Do Like I Do, 7
There Is a Tavern in the Town, 201
There's a Hole in My Bucket, 140
There's Nothing the Matter with My Girl, 46
These Bones Gonna Rise Again, 309
They Had to Carry Harry to the Ferry, 83
Things Women Do, 2
Three Blind Mice, 116
Three Jolly Coachmen (See Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl)
Titanic, The, 12
Told My Captain, 246
Tom Dooley, 167
Trail to Mexico, The, 305
Twelve Days of Christmas, The, 235
Two Boarda upon Cold Powder Snow, 92
Two Maids West A—Milking One Day, 221
Underneath the Takeoff, 91
Unfortunate Miss Bailey (See Miss Bailey)
Upidee, 33
Vassar Hygiene Song (See Hygiene Song)
Vicar of Bray, The, 230
Villain and the Maiden, The (See Oh, How He Lied)
Vive l'Amour, 29
Waltz Her to a Corner, 152
Wanderin', 251
Was Ist Das?, 107
Water Is Wide, The, 236
Wee Cooper O'Fife, The, 238
We'll Build a Bungalow, 51
West Virginny Hills, The, 8
When I Went to College, 133
When the Saints Go Marching In, 317
Where Are You Goin', My Good Old Man?, 56
White Coral Bells, 118
Who Did?, 130
Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?, 38
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, 302
Why Shouldn't My Goose, 118
Wide Missouri, The (See Shenandoah)
Wildwood Flower, 262
Willow Tree, The, 172
Willy the Weeper, 158
Workin' on the Railroad (See I've Been Workin' On the Rai1road)
Worried Man Blues, 243
Wraggle—Taggle Gypsies, The, 229
Wreck of the F.F.V., 258
Yellow Rose of Texas, The, 213
You Can Dig My Grave, 327
You Can't Get to Heaven (See Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More)
Yuazuray (See Poor and the Rich, The)
Zulu King, The (See Cannibal King, A)
Zum Gali Gali, 114

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Aug 07 - 11:57 PM

SWH list missing a couple- I'll wait to see it edited.
I have Ritchie and Peggy Seeger if you want them.

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 12:46 AM

Go ahead and post Ritchie and Peggy Seeger and any others you have, Q.
Thanks a lot.
-Joe-

Subject: Index: Singing Cowboy (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:18 AM

"Singing Cowboy" collected and edited by Margaret Larkin, originally published by Alfred Knopf 1931, reissued in paperback by Oak 1963.

Singing Cowboy: A Book of Western Songs
Collected and edited by Margaret Larkin
Published originally by Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1931
Oak Publications Edition, 1963 - price: $2.95

Billy Venero
Black Tail Range, The
Brown-Eyed Lee
Buffalo Skinners
California Joe
Chisholm Trail, two versions
Cowboy, The
Cowboy's Heaven, The
Cowboy's Lament
Dreary Black Hills
Dreary Life, The
Fair Lady of the Plains
Fuller and Warren
Git Along Little Dogies, two versions
Goodbye, Old Paint
Great Grand-dad
Home on the Range
I Ride an Old Paint
I'm Bound to Follow the Long Horn Cow
Jesse James
Jim the Roper
Little Joe, the Wrangler
My Love is a Rider
Night Herding Song
On the Lake of the Poncho Plains
Plantonio
Poor Lonesome Cowboy
Rusty Jiggs and Sandy Sam
Sam Bass
Ten Thousand Cattle
Texas Cowboy, The
Trail to Mexico
Utah Carroll
Walking John
Wandering Cowboy
Way Out in Idyho
Windy Bill
Young Companions
Zebra Dun

Subject: Index: Bells of Rhymney (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:40 AM

The Bells of Rhymney and Other Songs and Stories from the Singing of Pete Seeger
published in 1964.

Abiyoyo
Aimee McPherson
Another Man Done Goner
Banks of Marble
Bells of Rhymney
Black Fly, The
Brandy, Leave Me Alone
Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
Danville Girl
Declaration of Independence
Didn't Old John
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Djankoye
East Virginia
El Dia De Tu Santo
Equinoxial
Farther Along
Foolish Frog, The
Furusato
Get Up and Go
Groundhog
Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Harry Simms
He Lies in the American Land
Here's to the Couple
Hey Li Lee Lo
Hey, You Little brand New Baby
Hieland Laddie
How Can I Keep from Singing
I Can See
I'm On My Way
I've Got to Know
I Never Will Marry
In the Evening
Jam on Gerry's Rock
Jay Gould's Daughter
Jefferson and Liberty
Johnny Riley
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
Lady Margaret
Little Birdie
Little Boxes
Living in the Country
Money Is King
My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines
No Irish Need Apply
Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, The
One Grain of Sand
One Man's Hands
Over the Hills
Pastures of Plenty
Pay Day at Coal Creek
Peat Bog Soldiers
Pretty Saro
River of My People
Roll On, Columbia
Sally, My Dear
Shalom Chaverim
Suiram
Sweet Potatoes
Talking Atom
Talking Union
Texian Boys
T for Texas
There Was a Man and He Was Mad
This Little Light of Mine
To My Old Brown Earth
Tumbalalaika
Turn, Turn, Turn
Un Canadien Errant
United Nations Make a Chain
Union Maid
Viv la Quince Brigada
Wasn't That a Time
Way Out There
We Shall Overcome
What Month Was My Jesus Born In
Where Have All the Flowers Gone ?
Wimoweh
Windy Old Weather
Woody's Rag
Won't You Go Down, Old Hannah
Worried Man Blues

Subject: Index: 900 Miles/Houston (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:01 AM

900 Miles, the Ballads, Blues and Folksongs of Cisco Houston
Edited for Publication by Moses Asch and Irwin Silber
Musical Transcriptions by Jerry Silverman
Duets Transcribed by Ethel Raim
Additional transcriptions by Happy Traum
Production: Ethel Raim and Paul Nelson
Cover and Title Page drawings by Ben Shahn

Letter to Cisco (Moses Asch)
Cisco Houston Obituary (NY Times 30 April 1961)
Cisco (Woody Guthrie)
Singing on the Ships (Cisco Houston)
Cisco's Legacy (Lee Hays)
Fare Thee Well, Cisco (Tom Paxton)
Blues for Cisco Houston (Tom McGrath)
The Songs I Sing (Cisco Houston)

Beans, Bacon and Gravy
Beautiful Brown Eyes
Brave Engineer, The
Cat Came Back, The
Crawdad
Cryderville Jail
Danville Girl
Diamond Joe
Dink's Song
Dollar Down, A
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
Dying Cowboy, The
East Virginia
E-ri-e Canal
Fire Down Below
Frozen Logger
Get Along Little Dogies
Gettin' Up Holler
Girl in the Wood, The
Great American Bum, The
Great July Jones
Gypsy Dave
Hard, Ain't It Hard
Hard Traveling
Hobo Bill
Hobo's Lullaby
Hound Dog
I Don't Mind Marrying
I'm Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Intoxicated Rat, The
I Ride an Old Paint
John B. Sails, The
John Hardy
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
Killer, The
Little Joe the Wrangler
Make My Pallet Down on Your Floor
Midnight Special
Mole in the Ground
Mule Skinner Blues
Mysteries of a Hobo's Life
Night Herding Song
Nune Hundred Miles
Old Blue
Old Chisholm Trail
Old Howard
Old Reilly
On Top of Old Smoky
Pat Works on the Railway
Pie in the Sky
Railroad Bill
Rambler, The
Rambling Gambling Man
Roamer, The
St. James Infirmary
Soup Song
Stagolee
Stewball
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Take a Whiff on Me
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Travel On
True Love on My Mind
Turtle Dove
Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
Worrid Man Blues
Wreck of the 97
Zebra Dun

Subject: Index: American Favorite Ballads (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:15 AM

American Favorite Ballads, Tunes and Songs as Sung by Pete Seeger
Edited for Publication by Irwin Silber and Ethel Raim
Oak Publications, 1961

Alabama Bound
Aunt Rhody
Barbara Allen
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Blow the Man Down
Blue-Tail Fly
Buffalo Gals
Buffalo Skinners
Camptown Races
Careless Love
Cielito Lindo
Cindy
Clementine
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Crawdad
Cumberland Gap
Darling Corey
Deep Blue Sea
Devil and the Farmer's Wife
Devilish Mary
Dink's Song
Down in the Valley
Erie Canal;
Farmer Is the Man, The
Fillimeeooreay
Four Nights Drunk
Fox, The
Frankie and Johnny
Froggie Went A-Courting
Hammer Song
Hard Traveling
Hold the Fort
Home on the Range
House of the Rising Sun
I Never Will Marry
I Ride an Old Paint
Irene, Goodnight
Jesse James
Joe Bowers
John Brown's Body
John Henry
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Keeper, The
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Little Girl
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Midnight Special
My Horses Ain't Hungry
New River Train
Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
Oh Susanna
Old Dan Tucker
Old Joe Clark
On Top of Old Smoky
Passing Through
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Puttin On the Style
Que Bonita Bandera
Reuben James
Riddle Song
Rye Whiskey
Sally Ann
Shenandoah
Skip to My Lou
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
Solidarity Forever
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Stagolee
Strange Dream
Streets of Laredo
Study War No More
Swanee River
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
This Land Is Your Land
Twelve Gates to the City
Wabash Cannonball
Water Is Wide, The
Wayfaring Stranger
We Shall Not Be Moved
When I First Came to This Land
Which Side Are You On ?
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot ?
Yankee Doodle
Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

---

My copy of the 22nd printing, August, 1970 - price: $1.95. Still in print - $12.89 at Amazon.
-Joe-

Subject: Index: Songs of Joe Hill (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:31 AM

Songs of Joe Hill
edited by Barrie Stavis and Frank Harmon, originally published by Peoples Artists Inc., 1955
Oak Publication 1960.

Bronco Buster Flynn
Casey Jones - The Union Scab
Don't Take My Papa From Me
Everybody's Joining It
It's a Long Way Down to the Breadline
It's a Long Way Down to the Soupline
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike
Let Bill Do It
Mister Block
My Last Will
Preacher and the Slave, The
Rebel Girl, The
Scissor Bill
Should I Ever Be a Soldier
Stung Right
Ta-ra-ra Boom De-ay !
There Is Power
Tramp, The
We Will Sing One Song
What We Want
Where the Fraser River Flows
White Slave, The
Workers of the World, Awaken !

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Susan of DT
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 08:58 AM

Oak once published an index to all of its publications as of that point. I'll dig it out and post details.

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: MMario
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:02 AM

Now - who's gonna link the titles to the songs already in the DT and forum? *grin*

Subject: Index: New Lost City Ramblers Songbook
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:31 AM

The New Lost City Ramblers Songbook
edited by John Cohen and Mike Seeger, musical transcriptions by Hally Wood, Oak Publications, 1964

Across the Rocky Mountains
Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves
Ain't No Bugs on Me
Arkansas Traveler
Baby, All Night Long
Back to Mexico
Baltimore Fire
Banks of the Ohio
Battleship of Maine
Beware, Take Care
Big Ball's Town
Billy Grimes, the Rover
Brown's Ferry Blues
Buddy, Won't You Roll Down the Line
Cannonball, The
Charley, He's a Good Ol' Man
Chewing Gum
Coney Isle
Coo Coo Bird, The
Crossed Old Jordan's Stream
Crow, Black Chicken
Davy
Deep Water
Didn't He Ramble
Dollar Down and Dollar a Week
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
East Virginia Blues
Everyday Dirt
Fiddling Soldier
Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss
Fod
Foggy Mountain Top
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
Freight Train
Gambler's Dying Words
George Collins
Girl I Left Behind, The
Girl on the Greenbrier Shore, The
Handsome Molly
Hog-eye
Hold That Woodpile Down
Hop High, Ladies, the Cake's All Dough
Hopalong Peter
Hot Corn
Hungry Hash House
I Truly Understand
If I Lose, I Don't Care
I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
I'll Tell You What I Saw Last Night
It's a Shame to Whip Your Wife on Sunday
John Hardy
Johnny and Jane
Johnny Booker
Johnny, Get Your Gun
Johnson Boys
Knoxville Girl
Lady of Carlisle
Late Last Night When Willie Came Home
Leaving Home
Likes Likker Better Than Me
Little Maggie
Little Moses
Lord Thomas
Louisville Burglar
MacAfee's Confession
Man of Constant Sorrow
Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man, The
Mighty Mississippi
Miller's Will, The
More Pretty Girls Than One
My Long Journey Home
Nine-Pound Hammer
No Depression in Heaven
Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie
Old Bell Cow
Old Fish Song, The
Old Molly Hair
Other Side of Jordan
Over the Road I'm Bound
Poor Ellen Smith
Rabbit Chase
Railroad Bill
Railroad Blues
Rambling Blues
Rambling Boy, The
Red Rocking Chair
Run Mountain
Sad and Lonely Day
Sail Away Ladies
Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea
Sal's Got a Meatskin
Salty Dog Blues
Serves Them Fine
Shady Grove
Silly Bill
Single Girl, Married Girl
Snow Dove
Storms Are On the Ocean, The
Story the Crow Told Me, The
Sugar Hill
Sweet Willie
Take a Drink on Me
Talking Hard Luck
Texas Rangers
That Crazy War
There'll Be No Distinction There
Three Men Went A-Hunting
Tom Cat Blues
Tom Dooley
Tragic Romance
True and Trembling Brakeman
Walking Boss
Waves on the Sea
Way Down the Old Plank Road
Weave Room Blues
Weaver's Life
What'll I Do With the Baby-o ?
When First to This Country
White House Blues
Ehoop 'Em Up, Cindy
Who's That Knocking at My Window ?
Wild Bill Jones
Wildwood Flowerr
Willie Moore
Willy, Poor Boy

---

Currently in print as Old-Time String Band Songbook, Oak Publications, a division of Embassy Music Corporation. Price: $21.95
Published in UK by Music Sales, Limited.
-Joe-

Subject: Index: California to the New York Island (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:41 AM

California to the New York Island
Being a pocketfull of Brags, Blues, Bad-Men Ballads, Love Songs, Okie Laments and Children's Catcalls by Woody Guthrie
Published by The Guthrie Children's Trust Fund, New York City, Lou Gordon, Harole Leventhat, Peter Seeger, Trustees.
Sole selling agent and distributors: Oak Publications, copyright 1958 and 1960 by The Guthrie Children's Trust Fund.
Edited for publication by Irwin Silber. Music Editors: Pete Seeger, Jerry Silverman

Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done, The
Curly-Headed Baby
Do-Re-Mi
Go to Sleep My Little Hobo
Going Down This Dusty Old Road
Grand Coulee Dam
Gypsy Davy
Hard Traveling
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
Jackhammer John
John Hardy
Oklahoma Hills
Pastures of Plenty
Philadelphia Lawyer
Put Your Finger in the Air
Pretty Boy Floyd
Reuben James
Roll On Columbia
Round, Round Hitler's Grave
Sleep Eye
So Long It's Been Good to Know You
Talking Dust Bowl
This Land Is Your Land
This Train Is Bound for Glory
Union Maid
Vigilante Man
Wake Up
Way Up in the Northwest

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 01:33 PM

Re FolkieDave- Please, no one post Folksingers' Wordbook!

Subject: Index: Folk Songs of Southern Appalachians (Oak)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 02:05 PM

Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians
Jean Ritchie, 1965,
Foreward Alan Lomax, Transcriptions by Melinda Zacuto and Jerry Silverman. Oak Publications, NY.
Note- Oak also published Jean Ritchie, "Singing Family of the Cumberlands."

Index- with index to recordings of all songs.

Amazing Grace
Among the Little White Daisies
Bachelor's Hall
Bangum Rid By the Riverside
Barbry Ellen
Black Is the Color
Bow Your Bend to Me
Brandyrowe
Brightest and Best
Cambridgeshire May Song
Carol of the Cherry Tree
Cedar Swamp
Children Go Where I Send Thee
   (also listed as "Little Bitty Baby")
Cuckoo, The
Dance to Your Daddy
Darby Ram
Day Is Past and Gone, The
Dear Companion
Death of Cock Robin, The
Down Came An Angel
Edward
Fair and Tender Ladies
Fair Annie of the Lochroyan
False Sir John
Father Get Ready
Flower Carol, The
Gentle Fair Annie
God Bless the Moonshiners
Goin' to Boston
Golden Ring Around Susan Girl
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Gypsy Laddie, The
Hangman Song, The
Hiram Hubbard
Holly Bears the Berry, The
I Saw Three Ships
I Wonder When I Shall Be Married
I've Got a Mother Gone To Glory
Joe Bowers
Jubilee
Keep Your Garden Clean
Killy Kranky
Little Bitty Baby
   (also listed as "Children Go Where I Send Thee")
Little Cory
Little Devils, The
Little Mudgrave, The
   (also listed as "The Lyttle Musgrave")
London Bridge
Lonesome Sea
Lord Lovel
Lord Randal
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
Love Somebody, Yes I Do
Lyttle Musgrave, The
   (Also listed as "The Little Musgrave")
Mama Told Me
May Day Carol, The
Miracle of Usher's Well, The
My Little Carpenter
Nottamun Town
Oh, Love Is Teasin'
Old Betty Larkin
Old King Cole
Old Soap-Gourd, The
Old Virginny
Old Woman and the Pig, The
Over the River, Charlie
Pretty Saro
See the Waters A-Gilding
Shady Grove
Sister Phoebe
Skin and Bones
Somebody
Swapping Song, The
Sweet William and Lady Margaret
There Was a Pig Went Out To Dig
Turkish Lady, The
Twilight A-Stealing
Two Dukes A-Roving
Unquiet Grave, The
What'll I Do With the Baby-O?

---

Second Edition of Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians published by University Press of Kentucky, 1997

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 02:18 PM

Nice job, Charles! Keep 'em coming.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Susan of DT
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:19 PM

I found the index I was looking for. I have two skinny books, one called "Oak Catalog" and one called "Oak Publications". Oak Publications lists 99 books, without years, and has a list of song titles and which Oak publications the song can be found in, referencing the publication by number. The Oak Catalog lists 116 publications, also numbered, but no song index. The end of that is "New Books for Spring 1971". Problem: the numbers on the books do not match from one catalog to the other.

So, what is the best way to handle this? If I scan the 24 pages, where/how would I post them?

And, of course, this is 35+ years old.

Music Sales Corp acquired Oak before that 1971 date. I don't know whether Oak is still producing books [I suspect not] or when they stopped, if they stopped.

Sent to Joe

Subject: Index: Coffee House Songbook (Oak)
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:15 PM

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

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: cetmst
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:31 PM

Regarding the history of Oak Publications I'm having difficulty sorting out the relationships of a company called People's Artists Inc. which published The People's Song Book, Lift Every Voice (The Second People's Song Book) and the Songs of Joe Hill probably others) in the 1950's and to Sing Out! and to Folkways Records. The earliest Oak publication I have found is about 1961. Some names appear on the editorial staff of all of these - Moses Asch, Irwin Silber, Jerry Silverman, Pete Seeger. Does anyone know the history ? of these.

Subject: Index: Grass Roots Harmony (Oak)
From: Padre
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 10:01 PM

A Folksinger's Guide to Grass Roots Harmony
1968

Fathom the Bowl
Ring Them Charming Bells
A Maid Gone to Comber
Columus Stockade
The Broom of Cowdenknows
Amazing Grace
Belle Starr
Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know the Road
Paddy Doyle
Been All Around This World
Wild Goose Shanty
Blood Red Roses
Rabbit in the Log
Bowling Green
Doney Gal
Hey, Hey, Honey
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Way Down Town
You Got My Letter
Poor Ellen Smith
I'll Fly Away
East Virginia Blues
All In Down and Out Blues
Gambling Man
Jimmy Randall
Plains of Nebrasky-o
Rich and Rambling Boy
Your Lone Journey
Fair Ellender
Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train
The Frozen Girl
Bright Morning Stars
Mingulay Boat Song
The Soldier and the Lady
Lights in the Valley
What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul?
The Fields Have Turned Brown
Who's That Knocking?
Coal in the Stone
The Plains of Mexico
The Bold Fisherman
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: johnross
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:26 AM

According to Peter Goldsmith's book about Moe Asch and Folkways Records, "Making People's Music," here is the sequence of events relative to Oak Publications, Sing Out! and Folkways Records:

After Peoples' Artists (which owned Sing Out!) disbanded on 1957, Irwin Silber convinced Moe Asch of Folkways to purchase a 45% interest in Sing Out!, with Silber owning 45% and Pete Seeger holding the remaining 10%. Oak was started in 1960 as a publishing channel for the series of "Reprints From Sing Out!" books, but it quickly expanded its list to include instrumental instruction books, collections of folk and folk-related songs, and Guy Carawan's important collection of songs from the Civil Rights movement (aka "Freedom Songs"). Through the early 1960s, the profits from Oak were enough to sustain the magazine.

In 1967, Asch and Silber dissolved their partnership and sold Oak Publications to Music Sales, Inc. Shortly after that, the editorial board of Sing Out! bought the magazine, which no longer had the revenue from Oak to support it. As a result, Sing Out! went through some difficult times in the late 1960s.

Subject: Index: Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:33 AM

Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger
88 Traditional Ballads and Songs (Music for most songs)
Photographs by David Gahr; Photographis selection and layout by Moses Asch.
Production Editor: Ethel Raim
1964 Oak Publications BT 2027

A-Walking and A-Talking
Billy Barlow
Black Jack Davy
Black Sheep, Black Sheep
Brave Wolfe
Butcher's Boy, The
Carrion Crow, The
Cherry Tree Carol, The
Chickens They Are Crowing, The
Child of God
Cottage Door, The
Cruel Mother, The
Cruel War Is Raging, The
Daddy Shot a Bear*
Derby Ram, The
Do, Do Pity My Case*
Dreadful Ghost, The
Earl Brand
Early, Early in the Spring
Equinoctial and Phoebe
Fair Maid on the Shore
Five Times Five
Girl of Constant Sorrow
Handsome Molly
Hickety Tickety
Home, Dearie, Home
House Carpenter, The
I'll Not Marry At All
In Bed with the Major
It's a Lie
Jane, Jane
John Gilbert
John Riley
Johnson Jinkson
Just As the Tide Was Flowing
Katy Cruel
Lady of Carlisle
Lass of Roch Royal
Little Bird, Little Bird*
London Bridge
Long Lonesome Road
Lord Lover
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
Lowlands of Holland
Mary Ann
Matty Grove
Mermaid, The
Mormon Crossing, The
My Dearest Dear
My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains
Newlyn Town
Nurse Pinched the Baby, The*
Old Aunt Kate*
Old Bangum
Old Maids Song, The
Old Woman and Her Little Pig
Peggy Gordon
Poor Old Maids
Prettiest Little Girl*
Pretty Fair Maid, A
Pretty Little Baby
Pretty Saro
Queen Jane
Raccoon and Possum
Rambling Gambler
Rich Old Lady
Rich Old Miser
Riding in the Buggy
Run, Chillen, Run*
Sangaree
Snake Baked a Hoecake*
Squirrel, The
Trooper and the Maid, The
Turkey Shivaree, The
Uh-Uh No
Weaver Is Handsome, The
Wedding Dress Song, The
When First Unto This Country
When I Was in My Prime
When I Was Single
Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
Willie Moore
You Didn't Do No Wrong
Young Collins
* In "Leftovers, not the main alphabetical list.

LEFTOVERS
Daddy Shot a Bear
Do, Do Pity My Case
Little Bird, Little Bird
Nurse Pinched the baby, The
Old Aunt Kate
Prettiest Little Girl
Run, Chillen, Run
Snake Baked a Hoecake

Source and Recordings, Bibliography, Discography, Index

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 01:36 AM

Oak Publications published a fairly broad range of books, not all of which were of the kind apparently most wanted here.

Oak books that we have on our shelves are:

The Blues Fakebook, Woody Mann, Oak Publications, 1995, ISBN 0-8256-1417-1
Bluegrass Songbook, Peter Wernick, Oak Publications, 1976, ISBN 0-8256-0164-9 (All Tab)
Bluegrass Mandolin, Jack Tottle, Oak Publications, ISBN 0-8256-0154-1
Songs of the British Music Hall, Peter Davison, Oak Publications, 1971, ISBN 0-8256-0099-5
The Irish Songbook: 75 songs Collected, Adapted, Written, and Sung by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, arr by Robert DeCormier; Joy Graeme, editor, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0237.8.
Dulcimer Songbook, N. Hellman, Oak Publ
Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, ed. Peter Kennedy, Oak Publications ISBN 0.7119.0283.6. Gives melody line and chords, full lyrics – frequently many verses, with extensive commentary and source citations on each song, approximately 360 songs.
The Fiddler's Fakebook, D. Brady/Oak. Melody Line w/ Chords Only, no words, some variations
Foksinger's Wordbook, Deluxe Edition, Comp & Ed by Fred & Irwin Silber, Oak Publications, 1973 ISBN 0-8256-0140-1
The Gow Collectio of Scottish Dance Music, Compiled & Edited by Richard Carlin, Oak Publications, New York, 1986, ISBN 0.8256.0307.0.
Hammered Dulcimer, Peter Pickow, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0174.6
O'Neill's Music Of Ireland, Miles Krassen, Oak Publications, ISBN0-8256-0173-8
Western Swing Fiddle, Stacy Phillips, Oak Publications, 1994, ISBN 0-8256-1122-9
Songs of England, Ireland & Scotland: A Bonnie Bunch of Roses, Dan Milner & Paul Kaplan, Oak Publications, 1983, ISBN 0-8256-0256-4.
Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0284.X.

Several of the above have no words. A few have words and no tunes.

With our big annual Fest coming up, I won't have much time to reply to requests for indices/contents, but if there's a special interest in one of these you might PM me a reminder in about a month...

John

Subject: Index: Clancy Bro & Tommy Makem Songbook (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 04:58 PM

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Song Book
copyright 1964, Tiparm Publishers, Inc.
Sole selling agent and distributor: Oak Publications, Inc.

A Big Ship Sailing
A Man of Double Deed
Ahem, Ahem
Ballinderry
Barnyards of Delgaty
Bold O'Donahue
Bonny Charlie
Brennan on the Moor
Carrickfergus
Cobbler, The
Courtin' in the Kitchen
Haul Away, Joe
I Know Who Is Sick
I'll Tell My Ma
Irish Rover
Johnny McEldoo
Johnny Todd
Johnson's Motor Car
Jug of Punch, The
Kelly the Boy from Killane
Kevin Barry
Leaving of Liverpool
Legion of the Reargauard
Marie's Wedding
Mermaid, The
Moonshiner, The
Mountain Dew
My Johnny Lad
October Winds
Old Orange Flute, The
Old Woman from Wexford
Parting Glass, The
Portlairge
Reilly's Daughter
Rising of the Moon, The
Rosin the Bow
Rothsea-o
Row, Bullies, Row
Shoals of Herring
Singin' Bird
South Australia
Tim Finnegan's Wake
Valley of Knockanure, The
When I Was Single
Wild Colonial Boy
Will You Go, Lassie, Go ?
Work of the Weavers, The
Young Roddy McCorley

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More recently in print as The Irish Songbook: 75 Songs, by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Oak Publications/Music Sales Corporation, 1979

Subject: Index: People's Song Book (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 05:42 PM

The People's Song Book
Boni and Gaer, 1948
Editor-in-chief: Waldemar Hille
Consultant Editor: Herbert Haufrecht
Associate Editors: Alan Lomax, Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber.
I do not have the Oak reissue and my copy is missing pages 17-32 and 97-112. The index is intact and I have asterisked the songs missing from my issue.

A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Any More *
Abe Lincoln
Acres of Clams
Ah, Poor Bird *
A-Roving
Ballad of Harry Bridges
Beans, Bacon and Gravy *
Beloved Comrade
Black, Brown and White Blues *
Blue Tail Fly *
Careless Love *
Chee Lail
Cindy *
Come, Fellow Workers
Dinkie Die
Dodger Song *
Domovina
East Virginia
Everything Is Higher *
Farmer Is the Man, The *
Farmer-Labor Train, The
Freiheit
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
Go Down Moses
Goin' Down the Road
Hallelujah, I'm A-Travelin' *
Hard Travelin'
Haul Away, Joe *
He's a Fool
Hey Ho, Nobody Home *
Hey, Zhankoye
Hold the Fort
Holly and the Ivy, The *
Horse With a Union Label, The
I Don't Want Your Millions Mister
I'm A-Looking for a Home *
I'm On My Way
Investigator's Song *
It's My Union
Jefferson and Liberty *
Jim Crow
Joe Hill
John Brown's Body
John Henry
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho *
Kevin Barry
La Marseillaise
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Listen Mr. Bilbo *
Los Quatro Generales
Meadowland
Midnight Special *
Mister Congressman
Newspapermen *
Oh Freedom *
Oh Joy Upon the Earth
Oh Mary Don't You Weep *
On Top of Old Smoky
Paddy Works on the Railway *
Peat Bog Soldiers
Picket Line Priscilla
Pity the Downtrodden Landlord
Ploughboy, The
Poor Mister Morgan *
Put It On the Ground *
Reuben James
Rich Man and the Poor Man, The
Roll the Union On
'Round and 'Round the Picket Line
Scabs Crawl In, The
Schwab, Schwab
Slavery's Chain
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You *
Solidarity
Song of the French Partisan
Song of the Pennies
Soup Song
Star Spangled Banner
Strange Fruit
Take This Hammer *
Talking Atomic Blues
Talking Union
Tarrier's Song
There Are Three Brothers
Union Maid
Union Man, The
Union Train, The
Union Way, The
United Front
United Nations
Viva la Quince Brigada
Walk in Peace *
Wanderin'
We Got to All Get Together
We Shall Not Be Moved
Which Side Are You On?
Whole Wide World Around, The
Worried Man Blues
You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union
Zum, Gali, Gali

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Oak Publications reprint, 1961

Subject: Index: Egyptian Folk Songs (Oak)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 05:42 PM

Egyptian Folk Songs
In Arabic and English
Compiled and Translated by Baheega Sidky Rasheed
OAK Publications CJ2029 $2.45
(c) 1964
Library of Congress Card #64-23968

O Henna, O Henna (Il Henna Il Henna)
Indian Muslin (Bafta Hindi)
Barhoum, O Barhoum (Barhoum ya Barhoum)
O Ye Maids of Alexandria (Ya Banat Iskendereeyah)
I'm Thirsty Sweet Maidens (Atshan ya Sabaya)
My Dainty Pretty Maid (Bintil - Shalabeya)
Processional Bridal Song (Za-fet El-aroosa)
The Vendor of Grapes (Ala Bai-ya-een-nel-enab)
For Six Rie-yals (Bisittah Rie-yal)
Come to Me Little Duckling (Ta-a-lee-li ya But-ta)
O Lemons Mine (Ah ya Lamooni)
A Bridal Song (Ma Feesh Kida Abadan)
A Wanderers Song (Ya Tare ya Ghareeb)
O Joyous Times (Marmar Zamani)
A Village Song (Ya Hawa ya See-si)
Birgalatak Birgalatak (Birgalatak Birgalatak )
My Handkerchief (Mandeeli)
A Love Song (Raw-wa Fil-anani)
A Bridal Song (Yam-nawa-rall-kasr-il-ali)
Ahmad ya Sharbatly (Y'ah-mad ya Sharbat-ly)
O Palm Trees Two (Ya Nakh-li-tane)
A Village Wedding Song (Gana'l Farhi Gana)
O Dear Beloved (Ya Azeez Einy)
Tidrubni Laih (Tidrub-ni Laih)
With Trim Mustachios (Ammal yibar-ram Shanabatoh)
O Bahey-ya Tell Me! (Ya Ba-hey-ya)
A Dance Tune (Ah ya La-lal-li)
The Orange in My Hand (Fee-di Bor-to-a-na)
Bridal Song (Sala-tin-Nabi)
Little Moon Little Moon (Amara ya Amara)
A Love Song (Hali Hali Al-haida-wey-ya)
O Thou Zane-il-Abedeen (Ah ya Zane)
Pretty Little Dove (Yamama Hilwa)
A Plaintive Love Song (Wi Gan-nin-teeni)
A Love Song (Ya Dinin-Nabi)
Bridal Song (Ya Amar ya Dil-aroosa)
A Plaintive Love Song (El-hilw Mokha-sem-ny)
O my Pigeons (Ya Hamami)
Win-nabi Ya Sha-weesh
Ali - The Oil Vendor (Ali ya Ali)
What Wants this Lad? (Il-wad Da Malou)
How Lovely Art Thou O Ry-ya (Ya Ma Hilwa ya Ry-ya)
A Slumber Song (Nen-na, Nen-na)
A Village Song (Il-Hama)
To My Homeland (Ala Baladi)
A Village Song (Mat-seeb Gameesi)
Where Were You Yesterday? (Konte Fane)
Ramadan Lantern Song (Wahawi ya Wahawi)
The Electric Car (il-kahraba-ee-ya)
O Bright Night (Ya Lay-da Baida)
A Village Song (Khod-nee Fee Ghaibak)
O Tell me, O Tell me (Oolooli, Oolooli)
O Safety Safety (Salma ya Salma)

Sidky's romanizations are a bit weird by modern standards. To make things even worse I've left off all the accents.

I also have Ewan MacColl's "Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland" and Ruth Rubin's "Jewish Folk Songs" which I don't think have been done yet. Shortly.

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: cetmst
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 06:19 PM

Almost cross-posted Ewan MacColl, will wait. I have v. 1-3 of Reprints from Sing Out!, can post if not already somewhere, also have complete issues of Sing Out!, v. 11 to date.

Subject: Index: Lift Every Voice (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 06:39 PM

Lift Every Voice: The Second People's Song Book
copyright 1953 by People's Artists, Inc, assigned to Sing Out Inc., 1957, mine is the fourth printing, 1959, before the Oak Publications issue.
Editor in Chief: Irwin Silber
Asociate Editors: Leon Bibb, Donald Lanclos, Al Moss, Erl Robinson, Betty Sanders, Pete Seeger, Jerry Silverman
Forward: Paul Robeson

A Man's a Man For A' That
Another Man Done Gone
Ariren
Ballad of the Boll WeevilBanks of Marble
Basta Ya!
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Bread and Roses
Candy
Carmagnole
Casey Jones
Commonwealth of Toil
Cuckoo
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Don Simon de mi Vida
En Canadien Errant
Everybody Loves Saturday Night
Every Night When the Sun Goes In
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Grand and Glorious Feeling
Great Gettin' Up Morning
Hammer Song
Hold the Fort
Hush Little Baby
I Ride an Old Paint
In Contempt
Jennie Jenkins
Joe Hill
John Brown's Body
Johnny I Hardly Knew You
La Borenquina
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lighthouse
Man Who Waters the Workers' Beer
Michael
Miner's Lifeguard
Minstrel Boy
My Loved One
No Irish Need Apply
No More Auction Block
Now, Right Now
Out of Your Pocket
Partigiani In Montagna
Passing Through
Put My Name Down
Raise a Ruckus Tonight
Riding the Dragon
Riflemen of Bennington
Road to Eilat
Roll It Along!
Salute to Life
Shalom Chaverim
Shenandoah
Shnel Loifn Di Reder
Sing Along
Sit Down
Solidarity Forever
Song for Peace
Spring Song
Star Spangled Banner
Strangest Dream
Study War No More
Suliram
Sur les Routes d'Ete
Tenting Tonight
Times Are Getting Hard
Told My Captain
Venga Jaleo
Wade in the Water
Wasn't That a Time
Weraring of the Green
Which Side Are You On?
Whirlwinds of Danger
World Youth Song
Zog Nit Keynmol

Subject: Index: Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland (Oak)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 07:37 PM

Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland
Compiled and Edited by Ewan MacColl
(c) 1965 Oak Publications
Library of Congress Catalogue No. 65-2295

Andro and His Cutty Gun
Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie?
As I Came in by Fisherrow
The Band o' Shearers
The Barnyards o' Delgaty
The Baron o' Brackley
The Beggar Laddie
The Blantyre Explosion
Bonnie Annie
The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie
The Bonnie Las o' Fyvie
Braw Lads o' Galla Water
The Brewer Laddie
Came Ye O'er Frae France?
The Collier Laddie
The Cooper o' Dundee
The Crafty Farmer
The Cruel Mother
Dainty Davie
Donald MacGillavry
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
The Duke of Athol's Nurse
The Earl of Errol
Farewell to Tarwathie
The Gaberlunyie Man
Gae to the Kye Wi' Me Johnny
Get Up and Bar the Door
Green Grow the Rashes O
The Gypsy Laddie
The Haughs of Cromdale
The Heir o' Linne
The Highland Muster Roll
Hughie Graeme
I'm a Rover and Seldom Sober
I Maun Hae a Wife
Johnny Lad
Johnny Sangster
The Keach in the Creel
Lamachree and Megrum
The Lassie Gathering Nuts
Let Me in This Ae Nicht
Lord Gregory
The Lothian Hairst
The Mill Mill-O
The Modieward [sic - "modiewark" in the text]
The Monymusk Lads
My Last Farewell to Stirling
O, Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
O, That I Had Never Been Married
The Reel o' Stumpie
The Rigs o' Rye
Roy's Wife
The Scranky Black Farmer
The Shepherd and his Wife
Sir Patrick Spens
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
The Tailor Fell Through the Bed
Van Dieman's Land
Waly, Waly
The Wars o' Germany
The Weary Pund o' Tow
A Wee Drappie o't
We're Geyly Yet
When She Came Ben She Bobbit
Willie Mackintosh
Will Ye Go to Flanders?
Will Ye Go to Sheriffmuir?
The Working Chap
Ye Hae Lien Wrang, Lassie
Ye Jacobites By Name

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Still in print - $10.17 at Amazon

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 08:55 PM

All of the Reprints from SingOut Series.
By the way, Barrie Stavis died this winter at the age of 100

Subject: Index: The Songs of Doc Watson (Oak)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 01:32 AM

The Songs of Doc Watson
Song notes by Doc Watson, foreword by Ralph Rinzler
(c)1971, Oak Publications, a division of Embassy Music Corporation
Discography (limited to Vanguard recordings), photos, notes on reading tablature and on basic guitar techniques
I've noted the instruments for which arrangements (music/tab) are provided

A-Rovin' on a Winter's Night, 51 (guitar)
Black Mountain Rag, 26 (guitar)
Blackberry Rag, 78 (guitar)
The Call of the Road, 37 (guitar)
Deep River Blues, 34 (guitar)
Dill Pickle Rag, 99 (guitar)
Doc's Guitar, 23 (guitar)
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, 83 (guitar)
Down in the Valley to Pray, 102 (unacc)
F.F.V., 58 (guitar)
Fair Maid in the Garden, 91 (guitar)
Froggy Went A-Courtin', 116 (banjo)
Georgie, 54 (guitar)
Georgie Buck, 119 (banjo)
The Intoxicated Rat, 75 (guitar)
Katy Mory, 123 (banjo)
The Lone Pilgrim, 94 (guitar)
Lovin' Emma, 62 (guitar)
Matty Groves, 43 (guitar)
Nothing To It, 72 (guitar)
The Old Man Below, 46 (guitar)
Omie Wise, 40 (guitar)
Open Up Them Pearly Gates, 87 (guitar)
Pharaoh, 96 (guitar)
Pretty Saro, 114 (unacc)
Risin' Sun Blues, 104 (guitar)
Settin' on Top of the World, 80 (guitar)
Shady Grove, 65 (guitar)
Southbound, 48 (guitar)
St James Hospital, 112 (guitar)
Spike Driver's Blues, 68 (guitar)
Tom Dooley, 20 (guitar)
The Train That Carried My Girl From Town, 29 (guitar)
We Shall All Be Reunited, 110 (guitar)
Your Lone Journey, 107 (guitar)

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Still in print as The Songs of Doc Watson - $14.93 at Amazon

Subject: Index: Folk Songs of the Americas (Oak)
From: cetmst
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 04:17 PM

Folk Songs of the Americas
edited by A. L. Lloyd and Isabel Aretz de Ramón y Rivera for the International Folk Music Council with the assistance of the International Music Council and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
This edition published 1966 by special arrangement with the original publisher, Novello and Company Limited, London, © Novello and Company Limited, 1965.

CANADA:
Renaud
Isabeau a s'y promène
Blanche comme la niege
Quand j'étais chez mon père
La Sainte Vierge aux Cheveux Pendants
Le long e la mer jolie
Dans les Haubans
J'ai cueilli la belle rose
Là-haut sur ces montagnes
En roulant ma boule
Lisette
Dans les chantiers nous hivernons
Thye Bonny Banks of the Virgie O
The Lover's Ghost
Oh, who is at my bedroom window?
The Gypsy Laddie
The False Young Man
The Maid on the Shore
The Maiden's Lament
Bold Wolfe
The Stormy Scenes of Winter
She's like the Swallow
Mary Ann
The Lumber Camp Song

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
The Wife of Usher's Well
Little Matty Groves
The House Carpenter
Mr. Woodbury's Courtship
The Gallows Tree
The Low-Down Lonesome Low
Locks and Bolts
The Nightingale
Jackie Frazier
Daniel Monroe
The Pinery Boy
The Dear Companion
Blach is the colour
When first to this country a stranger I came
Every night when the sun goes in
Pretty Saro
The chickens they are crowing
Sally Buck
Swing a lady round
Liza Anne
Mamma's gone to the mail boat
The Lazy Farmer
Ox-Driving Song
The Buffalo Skinners
The Dying Cowboy
Red Iron Ore
A Shanty-Man's Life
The Grey Goose
Mule on the Mount
Lynchburg Town
The Babe of Bethlehem
Tone the bell easy
Gideon's Band
Lay dis body down
I'll herar the trumpet sound
Tell all theworld, John
Put John on the islan'
Go Down, Death
Dry Bones

MEXICO:
Señora Santa Ana
Miren cuántas luces (See how bright the heavens)
El cura no va a la iglesia (The curate won't go to church)
Malhaya la cocina Oh, cursed be the kitchen fire)
El Matrimonio Desigual (The Mismatched Couple)
Las olas de la laguna (The waves upon the lagoon)
Cajeme

GUATEMALA:
Nací en la cumbre (I was born on the mountain)
Vamos a la mar (Let's go to the sea)

HONDURAS:
Flores de Mimé
El Sapo (The Frog)
Papanulan

COSTA RICA:
El Toro Pinto The Spotted Bull)
Ay! tituy

PANAMA:
Hojita de Guarumal (Green leaf of the guarumo)
Mi pollera (My skirt)

BAHAMAS:
Dig my grave long an' narrow
The wind blows east

CUBA:
Má Teodora
Yo quisiera vivir en la Habana
Vamos a hacer un ajiaco (We're going to make a fine stew)
Al amanecer del día (Just as day is dawning)
Para los caficultores (For the coffee-workers)
Hay aquí, madre un jardín Mother, there's a garden fair)

HAITI:
For Atti Daï (Cult Song)
Jéorico

JAMAICA:
Oh, Selina
John Thomas
Three acres o' coffee
Once I was a trav'ller

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO:
Anansi, play for Ma Dogoma
Wind'ard Car'line
Dandy man, oh
Leggo me han'
Cap'n Baker
Emma

COLOMBIA:
El Zancudo (The Mosquito)
El Pajarillo (The Little Bird)
La Cartagena
Mi Compadre Mono My friend Mister Monkey)
Van cantando por la sierra (O'er the mountain they go singing)

VENEZUELA:
Adorar al niño (Come, hasten, shepherds)
La corona (The Crown)
Tono de Velorio de Cruz (Watch-Night Song)
La Burriquita (The Little Donkey)
El Mampulario
Amalia Rosa
Se fué volando (They have flown away)
Sanguéo
El Carite (The Fish)
Que el cantar tiene sentido (A somg has its meaning)

BRAZIL:
La Na Catarineta (The ship Catarineta)
Como pode vivir o peixe (How can a fish live)
Tenho um vestido novo (I have got a new dress)
Da Bania me mandaram (From Bahia someone sent me)
Triste vida é do marujo (A sdailor's life is a sad one)
Vem cá, Cabaleira (Come here Cabeleira)
Colônia, usina Catende

ECUADOR:
Yo soy indiecito (I'm a little Indian)
San Juanito
Kurikinga
Pirusa

PERU:
Hakumamai purisisun (O Dearest Mother)
Dime, lluvia, si ya se divisan (Tell me, rain)
Al canto de una laguna (By the edge of a lagoon)
La Lluvia (The Rain)
El Puquito (The Pigeon)

BOLIVIA:
Canto para Cosechar la Papa (Potato-gathering Song)
Navidava puri nihua (Christmas is Here)
Taquircapuscaiqui ari (I'll tell you all about it)
He venido, palomita (My little dove, I Cannot stay)

CHILE:
Ha nacido en un portal (He was born in a stall)
La Pastora (The Shepherdess)
Déjenme paso que voy (Let me be free)
Ingrato, ya no me quieres (False lover, now you don't love me)
En la cordillera llueve (It's raining on the mountain)

PARAGUAY:
La Guaireñita
Che lucero Aguai-î (The Star Called Aguai-i)

ARGENTINA:
Yo no canto por cantar (I don't sing just to be heard)
Despierta mi palomita (Awake, my beloved)
Ahora voy a cantarles (All the night long I'll be singing)
Cansado estoy de vivir (I'm weary of living)
Una palomita (A little dove)
Pues que es lo que me dices (Since all that you've been saying)
Dicen que no me quiere (They say that you don't love me)
Disen que las heladas (They say the frost in winter

URUGUAY:
La terrible inmensidad (Dark and immense are these plains)

Includes a list of sources of the songs, collectors, translators, acknowledgements

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 05:36 PM

I couldn't see it listed above (though I think it's been mentioned on Mudcat before), but the index for Sing Out! is available online at Song Index for Sing Out!. (This is a direct link to the page, but it can be accessed indirectly in the frames from the Sing Out site; follow link to the Sing Out Resource Centre, then from there to the index).

I've got some Oak books. The ones to hand appear to be:

Old-Time String Band Songbook (not listed above, but with dates 1964, 1976)

Masters of the Instrumental Blues Guitar (1967)

and two more recent ones:

The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music (1986)
Western Swing Fiddle (1994)

I think I've got some more, but would probably have to hunt around for them (not on shelves!)

I'll try and put up the contents for the two early ones tomorrow.


Mick

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Hi, Mick - Old-Time String Band Songbook was indexed above under the title New Lost City Ramblers Songbook
-Joe-

Subject: Index: Jewish Songs (Oak)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 06:34 PM

Jewish Folk Songs in Yiddish and English
Compiled and edited with English adaptations by Ruth Rubin
With Guitar Accompaniments by Ethel Raim
(c) 1965 Oak Publications 165 West 46th St., New York, N.Y.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 65-22692

Amol Iz Geven A Mayse (The Jews They Had A King)
Af Di Felder, Grine Felder (Over the Greenwood, on the Plain)
Ale Vasserlech Flisn Avek (All the Rivers Flow Down to the Sea)
A Geneyve (The Robbery)
Aylye Lyulye Lyulye
Bin Ich Mir A Shnayderl (I Am A Little Tailor)
Bay Dem Shtetl Shteyt A Shtibl (We Live At The Edge Of Town)
Oyfn Yam Veyet A Vintele (Over The Sea The Breezes Are Blowing)
Bayt-zhe Mir Ois a Finf-un-tsvantsiger (Bandsmen, Change My Twenty-Fiver Now)
Bin Ich Mir Gegangen Fishelech Koyfn (I Went To Market To Buy Me Some Fish)
Biztu Mit Mir Broygez (Why Do You Pout And Frown?)
Bulbes (Spuds)
Chatskele, Chatskele (Hey There, Chatski)
Dremlen Feygl Oyf Di Tsvaygn (Sleep My Baby, Hungry Baby)
Du Meydele Du Fayns, Du Meydele Du Sheyns (Pretty Little Girl, Can You Answer Me?)
Es Iz Gefloygn Di Gilderne Pave (The Golden Peacock Came A-Flying)
Eyder Ich Leyg Mich Shlofn (No Sooner To Bed)
Eyn Kol, Eyn Kol, Eyn Kol Vayn (Sparkling, Bubbly, Lovely Wine)
Gibn Dir Mayn Tochter (Tell Me, Darling Daughter)
Hob Ich A Por Oksn (Have You Seen My Honey Bears?)
Hop, Mayne Homentashn! (Hey, Hey, Homentashn!)
Hot Zich Mir Di Zip Tsezipt (My Old Sieve Was All Worn Out)
Lomir Zich Iberbetn (Come, Let's Be Friends Again)
Gey Ich Mir Shpatsirn (I Strolled Out One Spring Morning)
Mayn Yingele (My Little Son)
Michalku
Ot Azoy Neyt A Shnayder (This Is How A Tailor Stitches)
Oyfn Barg Un Ibern Barg (Up The Hill And Over The Hill)
Oy, A Nacht A Sheyne (The Moon Was Sailing In The Sky)
Oy, Dortn, Dortn, Ibern Vasserl (Away Across The Hills)
Oyfn Pripetshok (On The Little Hearth)
Papir Iz Doch Vays (One Day As I Was Walking)
Shlof Mayn Kind, Mayn Treyst, Mayn Sheyner (Sleep My Baby, My Sweet Comfort)
Shpilt-zhe Mir Dem Nayem Sher (Play That Lovely Tune For Me)
Shvartse Karshelech Raysn Mir (Red Cherries Are Not For Picking)
Sheyn Bin Ich, Sheyn (I Am So Pretty)
Shlof Mayn Kind, Shlof Keseyder (Sleep My Baby, I Will Croon To You)
Trink Bruder, Trink Oys! (Drink Brother, Drink Up!)
Tsvey Taybelech (Two Little Doves)
Yeder Ruft Mich Ziamele (People Call Me Ziamele)
Yomi, Yomi
Yoshke Fort Avek (Yoshke's Going Off To War)
Zhamele
Zits Ich Mir Oyfn Benkele (On A Stool, One Summer's Day)
Zhankoye
Zog Nit Keynmol! (We Survive)
Zolst Azoy Lebn Un Zayn Gezint (I'll Sing To The Baby And It Won't Cry)
Vacht Oyf! (Awake!)

Subject: Index: Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 08:17 PM

Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin, 1946-1949
An Oak Publication, 1961   price: $1.95
Foreword (Pete Seeger)
Introduction (Irwin Silber)
Front Page - Vol. 1, No. 1

Don't You Push Me
All The Pretty Little Horses
Sh, Ta - Ha - Dah - Day
Bling! Blang!
Jig Along Home
Eddystone Light
Tom Dooley
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Runnin', Runnin'
Cold Water
Rye Whiskey
The Farmer's Curst Wife
Toom Balalaika
Mule Skinner's Holler
The State of Arkansas
Ain't It A Shame
Jinny Jenkins
To Anacreon in Heaven
Little Willie
Greensleeves
Quantrell Side
Original Talking Blues
It Was Poor Little Jesus
Doria Nobis
Shorty George
Barney Graham
Eating Goober Peas
Times Gettin' Hard
Lee Hays
Stir the Pudding
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Cherry Tree Carol
The Poor Man's Family
Catskill Festival
The Fireship
Boston Tea Tax Song
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
The Buffalo Skinners
Fair and Free Elections
New York City
Santa Claus Blues
Changes
Roll On, Columbia
The Praties
The Preacher and the Slave
Joe Hill (Article)
Problema Social
Birth of La Conga
Lamento Borincano
Go Tell
Singing People
Two Early Labor Songs:
The Shoemaker's Song
Eight Hours
UAW-CIO
Capitalistic Boss
Wasn't That A Time
The Four Maries
Swingin' On A Scab
Peace On Earth
The Same Merry-Go-Round
The Ballad for Un-American Blues
The Death of Harry Simms
Out of Your Pocket
Raggedy
Go Where I Send Thee
Jesus Christ
The Dodger Song
I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow
I'm A-Looking for a Home
Mad As I Can Be
The Rankin Tree
The Scabs Crawl In
United Nations Make a Chain

Subject: Index: American Folksong: Woody Guthrie (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 08:49 PM

American Folksong
by Woody Guthrie, edited by Moses Asch
Published in 1947 by Moe Asch of DISC Company of America, 117 West 46th St., NY
Illustrations by York Cunningham, Jr., and by Woody Guthrie
reprinted from the original edition by Oak Publications, 1961

My Life
Leadbelly Is A Hard Name
Voice
Stackabones Own Song
Goin' Down This Road
I Ain't Got No Home In Anymore
Been In Jail
Talling Subway Blues
Talk
This World
Joe Hillstrom
Boomtown Bill
Tom Joad
Jack Hammer John
Pretty Boy Floyd
Belle Starr
Billy The Kid
When The Curfew Blows
On My Way
Gonna Get Together in the Live Oak
Good Old Union Feeling
What Shall It Profit A Man
At My Window
Moneyless Children
Sharecropper Song
Ain't A-Gonna Do
Hooversville
Electricity and All
Turkey in the Corn
Old Army Mule
Go and Leave Me
Pastures of Plenty
Notes About Music
The Music To The Songs
Goin' Down This Road
I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore
Boomtown Bill
Tom Joad
Jack Hammer John
Pretty Boy Floyd
Billy The Kid
When The Curfew Blows
On My Way
Moneyless Children
At My Window
Good Old Union Feeling
Sharecropper Song
Electricity and All
Turkey in the Corn
Old Army Mule
Go and Leave Me
Pastures of Plenty

Subject: Index:Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 09:12 PM

Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
Compiled by Alan Lomax
Notes on the songs by Woody Guthrie
Music Transcribed and edited by Pete Seeger
foreward by John Steinbeck
published by Oak Publications, 1967

Ain't Gonna Study War No More 850
All Around the Jailhouse 185
All In and Down and Out Blues 56
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues 28
Ballad of Barney Graham, The 290
Ballad of John Catchins, The 804
Ballad of the Blue Bell Jail 296
Ballad of the TVA 196
Beans, Bacon and Gravy 94
Better Go Down and Jine the Union 326
Blowin' Down This Road 216
Boll Weevil 30
Bonny of the Union 218
Boss Is Having a Terrible Time, Parles-vous, The 316
Bourgeois Blues 344
Bring Me My Robe and Slippers, James 243
Buffalo Skinners, The 100
CCC Blues 195
CIO Is Bigger than It Used to Be, The 310
CWA Blues 194
Calls for an Honest Square Dance 320
Capitol City Cyclone 356
Casey Jones 92
Chief Aderholt 180
Chiseler's Sorrow, The 186
Coal Creek Explosion 153
Collective Bargaining in Our Shops 248
Collector Man Blues 42
Come All You Coal Miners 166
Come All You Hardy Miners 118
Come On Friends and Let's Go Down 168
Commonwealth of Toil, The 97
Cotton Mill Blues 123
Cotton Mill Colic 120
Crossbone Skully 70
Davidson-Wilder Blues 288
Depression Blues 45
Dickman Song, The 208
Don't Kill My Baby and My Son 334
Don't Take Away My PWA 191
Down and Out 50
Down in Old Henderson 270
Down On Roberts' Farm 34
Down the Street We Hold Our Demonstration 295
Drill Ye Barriers Drill 104
Dust Bowl Refugee 224
Dust Can't Kill Me 220
East Ohio Miners' Strike 152
Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch 148
Farmer Is the Man, The 32
Fifteen Miles from Birmingham 48
Fisher Strike, The 240
Fool There Was, A 361
Goodbye Semaria 312
Goody Goody 255
Got a Union in the Country 302
Dust Storm Disaster 218
Greenback Dollar, The 175
Hallelujah, I'm a Ku Klux 340
Hard Times in Cryderville Jail 72
Hard Times in the Mill 124
Hard Working Miner, The 136
Harry Bridges 327
Hitch-Hike Blues 65
How About You? 946
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 64
I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow 156
I Am a Union Woman 142
I Hate the Capitalist System 164
I Love Coal Miners I Do 146
If You Ain't Got the Do Re Mi
I'm Goin' Down that Road Feeling Bad 215
I'm Looking for that New Deal Now 206
I'm Thinking Tonight of an Old Southern Town 158
Insurance Man Blues 44
It Ain't Gonna Work No More 318
It's Hard Times in These Mines 135
It's Me, O Lord 272
Jesse James and His Boys 112
Jesus Christ Was a Man 336
John Brown's Body 108
Johnnie Woncha Ramble 111
Kentucky Miners' Dreadful Fate 150
Kentucky Miner's Wife's Hungry, Ragged Blues 144
Knots to Knudsen 249
Little David Blues 285
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues (Olen Montgomery) 80
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues (Aunt Molly Jackson) 141
Long, Long Ago 160
Longshoreman's Strike 119
Lord, It's All, Almost Done 76
Ludlow Massacre 332
Lynchburg Town 36
Ma and Pa (A Unionization Plan) 319
Mama Don't 'Low No Bush-Wahs Hangin' Around 338
Man Frank Weems, The 276
Marion Massacre, The 30S
Marion Strike, The 308
Matthew Kimes 116
Midnight Special 78
Mill Mother's Lament, The 184
Mister Congressman 360
Mister Farmer 274
Murder of Harry Simms, The 170
My Children Are Seven In Number 292
Mysteries of a Hobo's Life 96
NRA Blues 192
New Stranger Blues 58
Nineteen-Twenty Eight - Nineteen Thirty Four 190
No Dough Blues 52
No Job Blues 47
No More Mournin' 262
No More Shall I Work in the Factory 126
O, The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga 311
Oh, Mister Sloan 243
Old Chain Gang, The 68
Old Chisholm Trail, The 102
On the Picket Line 250
One Dime Blues 54
Our Children They Were Sickly 309
Pie in the Sky 88
Pity The Shape I'm In 357
Planter and the Sharecropper, The 265
Powder Mill Jail Blues 284
Pretty Boy Floyd 114
Raggedy Raggedy Are We 265
Red Cross Store 354
Roane County 298
Rock-A-Bye-Baby 258
Roll On Buddy 138
Roll the Union On 268
Ruben 82
Scabs in the Factory 328
Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat 38
Shirt Factory Blues 300
Silicosis Is Killin' Me 134
Sit Down 244
Sixty Six Bighway Blues 62
Skinnamalinkadoolium 106
So Long, It's Been Good To Know You 226
Song of the Evicted Tenant 273
Song of the West Virginia Miners 283
Soup Song, The 294
Starvation Blues 59
Story of Sara Ogan, The 154
Striking Miners, The 179
Take This Hammer 84
Talkin' Dust Bowl 228
Ten Little Farmer Men 264
That Old Feeling 167
There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land 260
There Was a Rich Man and He Lived in Detroitium 254
There's Something About a Worker 252
These Old Cumberland Mountain Farms 29
They Tell Us To Wait 152
Things About Comin' My Way 86
Toiling on Life's Pilgrim Pathway 186
Tom Joad 236
Tom Mooney Is Free 356
Tramp, The 90
Unemployment Stomp 46
Union Fights the Battle of Freedom 314
Union Maid 324
Union Train 291
Up In Old Loray 183
Vigilante Man 234
WPA Blues 202
Waitin' On Roosevelt 210
Wanderin' 65
Wartime Blues 352
We Ain't Down Yet 278
We Pity Our Bosses Five 317
We Shall Not Be Moved 348
Weave Room Blues 130
Weaver's Life 132
Welcome the Traveler Home 172
Welfare Blues 198
We'll Be Wearing Union Buttons 315
We're the Guys 246
When the Maid Comes To Town 118
When You're Down and Out 232
Which Side Are You On? 176
Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? 352
Win It 151
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues 128
Working for the PWA 197
Working on the Project 200
Worried Man Blues 330
Write Me Out My Union Card 297
You Guys Got To Organize 322
You Kick and Stomp and Beat Me 83
You Low Life Son of a Bitch 342
You Okies and Arkies 225
You're Bound To Get Lousy in the Lousy Old Jail 74
You're On Your Last Go 'Round 204

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I found a first edition of this book for sale online for $650 (and didn't buy it). I paid $20 for my second edition, and I couldn't pass up a paperback I found later for $8.99. Maybe they'll pay for my grandchildren's education....

This page (click) has some interesting information on the book:

Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and John and Alan Lomax, made a huge impact on folk music in America, one which is still felt today. It is likely that their joint efforts with each other and many others fostered that sense of community which is still present in modern folk music circles. Seeger, Guthrie, and Alan Lomax collaborated on a number of projects, including a book of protest songs that Alan had been collecting. His father, John, had considered them "too protesty" for his own publications. In 1940, Alan passed the songs on to Seeger and Guthrie who compiled them and wrote introductions and copy for the book, "Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People." Unfortunately, the songs were considered so radical that they were unable to find a publisher. The book eventually was published in 1967.

The book was reissued by the University of Nebraska Press on November 1, 1999. As far as I can tell, it is no longer in print - but copies are available for consideraby less than $650.

Subject: Index: Old-Time Country Guitar (Oak)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 12:26 AM

If I'm not mistaken, Old Time String Band Songbook, noted above by Mick, is just a retitle of New Lost City Ramblers Songbook.

Old-Time Country Guitar
by Stephen Cicchetti and Fly Bredenberg [names are given in reverse order on the cover]
(c) 1976, Oak Publications, a division of Embassy Music Corporation
tablature only, no music, with lyrics for songs marked * (the others are instrumentals)

Amos Johnson Rag (Sam McGee), 56
Bibb County Grind (South Georgia Highballers), 20
*Boat's Up the River (Roscoe Holcomb), 34
*Brownskin Blues (Dick Justice), 24
Buck Dancer's Choice (Sam McGee), 46
*Careless Love (Jimmie Tarlton), 38
*Cocaine (Dick Justice), 22
*Dixie (Riley Puckett), 66
Drummer Boy (Sam McGee), 58
Franklin Blues (Sam McGee), 51
Fuller Blues (Sam McGee), 54
The Georgia Stomp (Andrew & Jim Baxter), 70
Jailhouse Rag (David Miller), 30
*Johnson City Blues (Clarence Greene), 27
Kentucky Moon Waltz (Lena Hughes), 42
*Left All Alone Again Blues (Hoke Rice), 73
Logan County Blues (Frank Hutchison), 38
*Railroad Blues (Sam McGee), 48
*They Are Wild Over Me (Wesley Long), 34
*White House Blues/Goodbye Booze (Roy Harvey), 62
*Worried Man Blues (Maybelle Carter), 18

Subject: Index: The Leadbelly Songbook (Oak)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 12:45 AM

The Leadbelly Songbook
edited by Moses Asch and Alan Lomax
(c) 1962, Oak Publications
illustrated; lead sheets and chords, no tablature

Ain't It a Shame (To Go Fishing on a Sunday), 27
Ain't You Glad, 82
Alabama Bound, 75
Army Life, 66
Backwater Blues, 22
Black Betty, 84
Black Girl, 37
Boll Weevil, 23
Borrow Love and Go, 42
Bourgeois Blues, 24
Bring Me a Little Water, Sylvie, 60
Can't You Line 'Em, 86
Christmas is a-Coming, 61
Come Along All You Cowboys, 43
Corn Bread Rough, 29
Cotton Song (Cotton Fields), 39
Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea, 47
DeKalb Blues, 34
Didn't Old John, 25
Don't Sleep Too Long, 85
Duncan and Brady, 74
Easy Rider, 89
Fannin Street, 32
Gallis Pole, 52
Go Down, Old Hannah, 50
Good Morning Blues, 64
Green Corn, 58
Grey Goose, 88
Ha Ha This-A-Way, 29
Ham and Eggs, 55
Happy Birthday, 30
Haul Away Joe, 77
Hitler Song, 68
House of the Rising Sun, 57 (nb, this is not "In New Orleans," Leadbelly's better-known version of "Rising Sun")
In the Evening, 94
Irene, 93
Jailhouse Blues, 63
Jean Harlow, 87
Jim Crow Blues, 91
John Henry, 31
Julie Ann Johnson, 67
Keep Your Hands Off Her, 48
Leavin' Blues, 20
Little Children's Blues, 83
Little Sally Walker, 92
Look Away in the Heaven, 35
Looky Looky Yonder, 19
Meeting at the Building, 44
Midnight Special, 71
More Yet, 65
National Defense Blues, 73
Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch a Rabbit?, 49
Old Riley, 38
On a Monday, 79
Pick a Bale of Cotton, 56
Pigmeat, 78
Poor Howard, 21
Pretty Flower, 36
Red Bird, 90
Rock Island Line, 80
Salty Dog, 41
Shorty George, 69
Skip to My Lou, 53
Stewball, 72
T B Blues, 62
Take This Hammer, 45
There's a Man Goin' Round Takin' Names, 28
They Hung Him on a Cross, 40
Titanic, 26
We Shall Be Free, 76
We Shall Walk Through the Valley, 59
Whoa, Buck (expurgated version), 46
Yellow Gal, 54
You Can't Lose-a Me, Cholly, 51

Subject: Index: Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar
From: 12-stringer
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 01:04 AM

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

Subject: Index: Old-Time Mountain Banjo (Oak)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 01:23 AM

Old-Time Mountain Banjo
An Instruction Manual for playing the old-time five-string mountain banjo, based on the styles of traditional banjo-pickers
by Art Rosenbaum
(c) 1968, Oak Publications, a division of Embassy Music Corporation
some music but mostly tablature, with lyrics, plus discography and notes on 23 banjo tunings; songs marked * are instrumental only; illustrated by drawings; songs in specific players' styles are noted

*Arkansas Traveler (Hobart Smith), 50
Baby-O (Frank Proffitt), 61
Black Eyed Susie, 42
*Brickyard Joe, 74
The Butcher's Boy (Buell Kazee), 44
*Chilly Winds (Wade Ward), 49
Cluck, Old Hen, 47
*Coal Creek March (Pete Steele), 32
Danville Girl (Dock Boggs), 68
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Charlie Poole), 67
Frankie Was A Good Girl, 34
Free a Little Bird as I Can Be, 20
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad (Cass Moore), 17
Ground Hog, 23
*Heavy Loaded Freight Train (Pete Steele), 48
The Hills of Mexico (Roscoe Holcomb), 24
Hook and Line, 11
In the Pines, 31
Little Birdie, 39
Little Sadie (Hobart Bailey), 56
Lonesome Road Blues (Snuffy Jenkins), 70
Lynchburg Town, 16
Mole in the Ground (Bascom Lunsford), 36
Old Ruben, 52
*Pretty Little Miss (Fred Cockerham), 62
Pretty Polly (Pete Steele), 27
Shady Grove, 13
Sourwood Mountain, 15
*There Was an Old Soldier and He Had a Wooden Leg, 58
Way Down the Old Plank Road (Uncle Dave Macon), 72

Subject: Index: Australian Favorite Ballads (Oak)
From: 12-stringer
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 01:38 AM

Australian Favorite Ballads: 61 Traditional Songs of Australia with Guitar Chords
compiled by John Lahey
(c) 1965 by Hill of Content Publishing Co Pty, Ltd; this edition by Oak Publications.
Lead sheets with chords; illustrated by old photos and woodcuts

Ain't It a Shame, 90
The Albury Ram, 49
"Ard Tae", 50
Big Poll the Grogseller, 20
Birchgrove Park, 39
The Bludger's Song, 43
Bluey Brink, 78
Botany Bay, 26
The Broken Down Squatter, 66
Broken Hearted Shearer, 53
Bushman's Farewell to Queensland, 91
The Catalpa, 31
The Colonial Widow, 22
Come and Join the Union, 48
Convict Maid, 30
Dennis O'Riley, 15
Dinky Di, 88
The Drover's Dream, 56
The Dying Stockman, 70
Fair Young Jockey, 92
Farewell Address, 28
Farewell to Tommy Corrigan, 84
The German Girls, 24
A Good Time Coming, 18
A Good Time Coming [another version], 19
The Great Northern Line, 60
Gumtree Canoe, 93
Herbert Hoover's Love Song, 10
I am a Tolerant Man, 14
Ireland Over Here, 86
Jackie Jackie, 12
Jim Jones, 32
Kelly's Farewell, 80
Lachlan Tigers, 58
Ladies of Brisbane, 68
Licence Hunting, 16
The Lost Sailor, 42
Maggie May, 40
The Maiden's Prayer, 89
Maids of the Mountains, 74
Molly McGuigan, 34
Moreton Bay, 38
Murrumbidgee Shearer, 72
A Nautical Yarn, 95
Ode to Westralia, 13
The Old Bullock Dray, 65
On the Wallaby, 94
The Orange and the Green, 82
Our Father's Cleared the Bush, 96
The Overlanders, 69
The Springtime It Brings on the Shearing, 64
Struggle in the West, 44
To Dr Mannix, 81
Travelling Down the Castlereagh, 62
The Union Boy, 46
Van Dieman's Land, 36
Wallaby Stew, 54
Waltzing Matilda, 52
Wild Colonial Boy, 76
Wild Rover, 71

Subject: Index: Instrumental Blues Guitar (OakPublications)
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 06:19 AM

Thanks for the info on Old-Time String Band Songbook Joe - I hadn't checked the listings above in detail - that saved me a bit of typing!.

Here's the index for Masters of Instrumental Blues Guitar (and now I've been reminded, I'm off to listen to the Coffee Blues - never fails to make me smile).

Mick

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Masters of Instrumental Blues Guitar
by Donald Harwood
Original Edition 1967 by Traditional Stringed Instruments, Inc
Oak edition 1968 $2.95

SBN 8256-0001-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-14542


CHAPTER. 1. MUSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE BLUES, 1
    Timing And Length, 1
    Blues Chord Progressions, 2
    Melodic Structure, 6
    Rhythmic Units, 7
    Instrumental Breaks, 8
    Emotional Mood, 9

CHAPTER 2. SURVEY OF ALTERNATING BASS FINGERPICKING, 11
    Red River - Mance Lipscomb, 12
    Lonesome Road Blues - Etta Baker, 15
    My Creole Belle - Mississippi John Hurt, 17
    Sugar Babe, It's All Over Now - Mance Lipscomb, 18
    Cocaine Blues - Reverend Gary Davis, 21
    I Got Mine - Frank Stokes, 23
    T'Aint Nobody's Business - Guitar Duet, 25
    Take A Look At That Baby - John Fahey, 28

CHAPTER 3. MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, 31
    Casey Jones, 33
    Louis Collins, 34
    Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied, 36
    Stack O'Lee, 38
    See See Rider, 38
    Coffee Blues, 40
    Sliding Delta, 41
    Oh, Mary Don't You Weep, 42
    Bye And Bye I Will See Jesus, 43
    Candy Man Blues, 45
    Frankie, 47

CHAPTER 4. THE MONOTONIC BASS OF MANCE LIPSCOMB, 51
    Aint' Gonna Rain No Mo', 53
    Going To Louisiana - See See Rider, 55
    Ella Speed, 58
    Take A One On Me, 59
    Cocaine Done Killed My Baby, 60
    'Bout A Spoonful, 61
    Charlie James, 63

CHAPTER 5. INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, 66
    I'm An Old Bumble Bee - Bo Carter, 68

GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS, 73

DISCOGRAPHY WITH KEYS AND TUNINGS, 77

Subject: Index: Ewan MacColl-Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak)
From: Cattail
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 02:38 PM

EWAN MacCOLL - PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK

Forward by Irwin Silber.
Illustrations selected by, and from, the collection of Moses Asch.
Library of Congress No: 63 - 14092


Oak Publications, 3rd Printing, Paperback, 1963 - price: $2.45


"EWAN MacCOLL - PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK".


VARIOUS TRADES

The printers trade
I'm champion at keepin' 'em rolling
Needle and thread
The firefighter's song


CONTEMPORARY BROADSIDES

Jamie Foyers
The ballad of Springhill
Go down, you murderers
The ballad of Jimmy Wilson
The lifeboat Mona
Hey ho! Cook and Rowe!
The crooked cross
The young birds



THE IRON ROAD

Song of the iron road
Fireman's calypso
Ballad of leisure time
The fireman's not for me


ROAD BUILDERS

The exile song
Hot asphalt
The driver's song
Come, me little son
The fitter's song


THE BOLD FISHERMEN

North sea holes
Shoals of herring
Net - hauling song
Song of the fish-gutters
Fisherman's wife


COALMINERS

The plodder seam
The big hewer
Schoolday's end
Miner's wife
The gallant colliers


LOVERS

The first time ever I saw your face
The letter
My love and I are one


SONGS FOR SURVIVAL

Five fingers
The Trafford Road ballad
The dove
There's better things
That bomb has got to go
Brother, won't you join in the line?
Come live with me
March with us today
When I was young
Lullabye for the times


JUST SONGS

The space girl's song
The ballad of the carpenter
I'm a rambler
The lag's song
Northern city
No agents need apply
Come, fill up your glasses

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: cetmst
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 07:20 AM

Reprints from Sing Out! (volume 1, 1959)

Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser
All Night Long
Ballad of Sam Hall
Banks of the Ohio
Been in the Pen So Long
Billy Barlow
Black and White (The Ink Is Black)
Blood Red Roses
Blow the Candle Out
Break Bread Together
Buffalo Boy
Darby Ram
The Demi Said to Me
Doctor Freud
Domestic Worker's Song
Easter Rebellion Song
Farther Along
La Firolera
Foggy Dew. The
Great Dust Storm
Greenland Fisheries
Gypsy Davey
Hold the Line
Home In That Rock
Housewife's Lament
Hullabaloo Belay
Hymn for Nations
I Don't Want to Get Adjusted
I Walk the Road Again
In Tarrytown
I've Got to Know
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Klan, The
Love Alone
Ludlow Massacre
MTA Song
Mi Y'malel
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Mighty Day
Mister Block
Mrs. McCrath
Mule Skinner Blues
My Old Man
Never Touch Water
Number Twelve Train
Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, The
Pay Day at Cold Creek
Pay Me My Money Down
Peg and Awl
Pittsburgh
Poisoning the Students' Minds
Portland Town
Putting On the Style
Rebel Girl, The
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Roll on the Ground
Round the Bay of Mexico
This Land Is My Land
Two Maids Went a-Milking One Day
Tomorrow Is a Highway
Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies, The

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: cetmst
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 07:35 AM

Reprints from Sing Out!, volume 2, 1960

Alabama Bound
All My Trials
Blantyre Explosion
Buffalo Skinners
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Come and Go With Me To That Land
Cryderville Jail
Darlin' Corey
Delia's Gone
Eight Hundred Miles
Every Night When the Sun Goes In
Gallows Pole, The
Go Down You Murderers
Green Corn
Guardian Beauty Contest
Hans Beimler
He Lies in American Land
House of the Rising Sun
Hudson River Steamboat
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
I Had a Rooster
I Never Will Marry
I'm a Stranger Here
In Tarrytown
Lass From the Low Country, The
Let Me Fly
Let My Little Light Shine
Liebster Meiner
Little Maggie
Little Phoebe
MTA Song, The
Mary, What You Gonna Name That Pretty Little Baby?
Mighty Day
Money Is King
New York Town
Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Oifn Pripetshok
Oleanna
Pastures of Plenty
Pich a Bale of Cotton
Poor Lazarus
Ragaputi Ragava Rajah Ram
Si Me Quieres Escribir
Sinner Man
Soldier's Prayer, The
Squid-Jigging Ground, The
State of Arkansas
Step By Step
Streets of Glory
There Is Power
Titanic, The
Too Old to Work
Trouble in Mind
Twelve Gates to the City
When First Unto This Country
When I First Came to This Land
Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
Wo Riley
Work of the Weavers, The

Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
From: cetmst
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 07:45 AM

Reprints from Sing Out!, volume 3, 1961

A la Claire Fontaine
Alberts
Asteroid Light, The
Battle of New Orleans
Bells of Rhymney
Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
Black Fly Song, The
Blow Ye Winds in the Morning'
Bring Me a Little Water, Sylvie
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Darlin'
Die Gute Kamerad
Done Laid Around
Drunken Spacemen
Duermete Nino Lindo
East Virginia
El Dia De Tu Santo
Forty-Two Kids
Four Nights Drunk
Four Pence a Day
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Grizzle Bear
Ha-Ha This-A-Way
Hans Beimler
High Germany
I Am a Pilgrim
Intoxicated Rat, The
It's Almost Done
Jarama Valley
Johnson Boys, The
Kum Ba Yah
Little Moses
Mary Had a Baby
1913 Massacre, The
Old Aunt Kate
Patriot Game, The
Quizmasters, The
Red Apple Juice
River of My People
Rock Island Line
Roll Down the Line
Roll On Columbia
Run Come See
St. James Hospital
She Moved Through the Fair
Song for Peace
Spacey Jones
Talking D.J. Blues
Talking Nothin'
Talking Un-American Blues
Things Are Comin' My Way
This Train
Unemployment Compensation Blues
Venezuela
Vigndig A Fremd Kind
Wagoner's Lad
Walk On Alabama
Water Is Wide, The
Wildwood Flower