Better include the bawdy song collections from the great Ozark collector, Vance Randolph, edited by Gershon Legman: Roll Me in Your Arms and Blow the Candles Out, published by the University of Arkansas Press. My copies are on the other side of the house, but I think that's the right publisher.

While we're on the subject of bawdy material, remember Ed Cray's The Erotic Muse (is that the right title?). Also, I just saw Logsdon's The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing, and Other Songs the Cowboys Sang remaindered and available from Hamilton Bookseller in Falls Village, CT. He has a web site you can reach with a simple search. The same catalog has several of Jerry Silverman's books from Mel Bay Publications offered at less than half price. For folks who just want to sit around and sing good songs, and to heck with the academics, Silverman once did a two-volume collection that was titled Folksong Encyclopedia, or words to that effect, but I don't know the publisher. (Dammit, I'd better move this computer up to the library!)

The Abelard Songbook, by Norman Cazden, has some fine songs for folks to learn. And we'd be remiss if we failed to mention Ruth Crawford Seeger's excellent collections of songs for children. What are the titles? American Songs for Children? Animal Songs for Children? Christmas Songs for Children? I'm just not sure. But maybe these will lead you on to further study.

Sandy

(with editing by Joe Offer)