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Subject: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 11:15 PM

Among American folkies, one of the most respected and legendary folk songbooks is Song Fest, edited by Dick & Beth Best and published by IOCA. You'll find indexes of the 1938, 1948, and 1955 editions in the thread titled Help: Song Fest - How many editions?

Are there other songbook indexes scattered around the threads that should be mentioned here?

-Joe-

This is a PermaThread™, maintained by Joe Offer. Feel free to post to this thread, but be aware that all messages in this thread are subject to deletion and editing.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: GUEST,iancarterb
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 11:26 PM

I once hunted extensively for a later edition of Song Fest because I had unintentionally kept and then lost someone else's copy of the 1955 edition. I found none, but this was in 1980 or so, and it's a lot easier to hunt now.
Carter


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 11:48 PM

There is one dated 1963 (1965), the "New Song Fest," with 300 songs. It may just be a reprint of the 1955 edition.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 12:00 AM

IWW Little Red Songbook indexed in this thread (click).

Malvina Reynolds songbooks indexed here (click)

-Joe-


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Subject: Index: Folksongs from the Highlands
From: srich
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 06:52 AM

Folksongs from the Highlands

Whaur Will We Gang? - Andy Mitchell
Sandwood Down to Kyle - Dave Goulder
Night Visiting Song - from singing of Ray and Archie Fisher
Coshieville - Stuart MacGregor
Soraidh Slan le Fionnairidh - Archibald Sinclair
Donald's Return to Glencoe - (Ford Vagabond songs and Ballads) tune from Brigitte Tunney
The Lovely Lass of Inverness -
The Bonnie Fisher Lass -Ian Sinclair
I Left the Village - Andy Mitchell
Oran a Chaiora - Murdo Morrison
Pride of Coll - Iain MacDonald
John of Lorn - Neil Munro
Bonnie Glenlogie - from the singing of Janice Clarke and Iain MacDonald
The North Highlands - (Ford Vagabond songs and ballads)
Lassie, Lie Near Me - Hogg, Jacobite Relics,
Erin-go-Bragh -- (Ford Vagabond songs and ballads)
Eilean Fraoich - William Mackenzie
A Ribhinn Og Bheil Cuimhn' Agad - Lewis Parting Song
Follow My Highland Soldier - from the singing of Janice Clarke and Stanley Robertson
Bonnie George Campbell- anon
Cumha Mhic Criomain - anon
Loch Tay Boat Song - Harold Boulton
The King's Command - Dougie MaClean
When I was In My 18th Year - Adapted from the Greig/Duncan collection
A Jacobite Lament - attributed to Captain Ogilvy 1690
The Road to Drumlemon - Willie Mitchell
Bonnie Glenshee - from the singing of Cathy (Stewart) Higgins
As I went Into Inverness-shire - collected by Norman Stewart
"I'll Lay Ye Doon Love" or "Inverey" - words from Enoch Kent original - Jeannie Robertson
S'Fhada Leam an Oidchche Gheamhraidh - Murdo MacFarlane
Nairn's River Banks - Greig/Duncan Folksong collection
The Roaming Highlander or the Braemar Poacher - from the singing of Iain MacDonald
Kincardine Lads or the Barley Bree - from the singing of David Ross
Ballad of the Men of Knoydart - (Hamish Henderson)
Mo Shoraidh Leis Na Fuar-bheannan - Murdo Smith
Queen Among the Heather - from the singing of Belle Stewart
Donald MacGillavry - (Hoggs Jacobite Relics)
The Massacre of Glencoe -
MacCallum's Lament - collected by Duncan MacLennan
The Loss of the Iolaire - Dena Graham
The Yellow Haired Laddie - Will Scott
The Shira Dam - Helen Fullarton
Fear a Bhata -
The Boys of Balgate - Duncan MacLennan
My Donald - Owen Hand

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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 05:47 PM

Thanks a lot, srich.
-Joe-


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Subject: Index: Burl Ives Songbook
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 09:15 PM

A couple of books that I've processed to get off the book shelf might be of interest for someone looking for where to look for a song. It's possible that these might have been listed here before, but I didn't find them with a search.

Those compiling indices are free to move them wherever is appropriate, of course.

Both books were in "well aged" condition, and too fragile to survive as paper. Scanning reduced what was left to "scraps and shreds."

First Book:

BURL IVES SONGBOOK

Front pages through about half of the Table of Contents missing. Ballentine Books (paperback). No ISBN or other publisher data shown on pages remaining, but Amazon & Wiki both show publication 1953.

Table of Contents has been partially reconstructed. Remainder of the book appears complete, although pages in "variable condition."

Table of Contents
COLONIAL AMERICA 1620 – 1775        1
Tobacco's But An Indian Weed        8
Little Mohee        10
Psalm III        12
Confess Jehovah        14
Old Hundred        16
The Seven Joys Of Mary        18
The Indian Christmas Carol        20
Mother goose nursery rhymes        22
Hey Diddle Diddle
Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Mr. Froggie Went A-Courting        24
The Tailor And The Mouse        26
The Fox        28
The Escape Of Old John Webb        30
Three rounds        32
The hart he loves the high wood
Oh, absalom, my son
Let simon's beard alone
Greensleeves        34
The Riddle Song        36
The Devil's Nine Questions        38
Paper Of Pins        40
The Golden Vanity        42
Captain Kidd        44
Henry Martin        46
Edward        48
Barbara Allen        50
Brennan On The Moor        52
Lord Thomas And Fair Elinore        55
Lord Randall        58
The Foggy, Foggy Dew        60
Pretty Polly        62
Robin        64
Why Soldiers Why?        66
On Springfield Mountain        68
The Bold Soldier        70
Yankee Doodle        72
REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1775-1790                75
What A Court Hath Old England        80
Heart Of Oak        82
The Ballad Of The Tea Party        84
The Boston Tea Tax        86
Free America        88
Chester        90
The Riflemen's Song At Bennington        92
The Battle Of Saratoga        94
The Yankee Man-Of-War        96
Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier        98
How Happy The Soldier        100
Sir Peter Parker        102
Cornwallis Country Dance        104
The World Turned Upside Down        106
My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free        108
THE GROWING COUNTRY: ON THE SEA 1790-1850        111
The Maid Of Amsterdam        114
High Barbaree        116
The Pirate Song        118
The Constitution And The Guerriere        120
The Hornet And The Peacock        122
Ye Parliaments Of England        124
The Patriotic Diggers        126
Miss Bailey's Ghost        128
Blow The Man Down        130
Away, Rio        132
Shenandoah        134
The Drunken Sailor        136
Hullabaloo Belay        138
Haul Away, Joe        140
Sacramento        142
Rolling Home        144
Blow Ye Winds        146
The Whale        148
Song of the Fishes        150
The Dreadnought        152
The Crocodile Song        154
CHAPTER IV: RELIGIOUS, PROFESSIONAL, AND FOLK SINGING, 1800-1850        156
The Wayfaring Stranger        160
Nearer My God to Thee        164
Wondrous Love        165
The Turtle Dove        166
Billy Boy (English)        168
Billy Boy (Irish)        170
The Divil and the Farmer        172
Aunt Rhody        175
The Wee Cooper o' Fife        178
A Bonnie, Wee Lassie        180
Old Blue        182
Sourwood Mountain        184
Down in the Valley        186
Lolly Too Dum        188
I'm Sad and I'm Lonely        190
Careless Love        192
Skip to My Lou        194
Turkey in the Straw        196
Grandfather's Clock        199
Old Dan Tucker        202
Kemo-Kimo        204
The Blue Tail Fly        206
Buffalo Gals        208
The Abolitionist Hymn        210
Nicodemus        212


In the above, the entries in ALL CAPS are brief "essays" on the Chapter Contents, rather than tunes/songs.

Second Book:

JoeO pointed out to me that I missed the last page of the TOC for the Burl Ives Songbook

Add onto the end:

CHAPTER V: The Frontiers of America, 1800-1850        215
The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn        220
The Sow Took the Measles        222
The Grey Goose        224
Peter Gray        226
The Erie. Canal        228
The Praties They Grow Small        230
Patrick on the Railroad        232
Sweet Betsy From Pike        234
The Ox-Driving Song        236
Joe Bowers        238
What Was Your Name in the States?        240
The Sioux Indians        242
The Hand-Cart Song        244
Old Rosin the Beau        246
Ben Bolt        248
The Little Old Sod Shanty        250
I've Got No Use For Women        252
When I Was Single        254
Poor Boy        256
The Utah Iron Horse        258
The Cowboy's Lament        260
TITLE INDEX        262
INDEX OF FIRST LINES        264
GUITAR CHORDS        268
LIST OF BURL IVES RECORDINGS        270


Joe might want to paste the addition into the previous post, and delete this one.(?)

I managed to scan another: American Ballads: Naughty Ribald and Classic edited by Charles O'Brien Kennedy, Fawcett Publications, NY, 1952, but the OCR didn't work too well on the TOC, so I may be able (or not) to get it posted later. This one is lyrics only, and mostly well know songs, but variations(?) in lyrics might be of interest to some people if I can get it put together.

John


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 02:07 AM


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Subject: Index: Folk Song Jamboree (Marais & Miranda)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 02:16 AM

Marais & Miranda
Folk Song Jamboree

© 1960 Josef Marais
Ballentine Books Paperback
INDEX OF TITLES

AS THE SUN GOES DOWN        8
BEAU REYNOLDS        82
BESIDE THE WINDMILL        120
THE BOUQUET        92
BRETON LULLABY        100
BUT THE CAT CAME BACK        12
DANCE AND WHISTLE        20
DER REBBE        146
ELEVEN LITTLE FROGGIES        124
EVERYWHERE        126
FAREWELL, DARLING GRETA        89
FAREWELL TO BELLASHANNY        118
A FARMER, THIN AND SMALL        78
FIDEREE, FIDERA        134
FLOATING DOWN THE STREAM        148
THE FLOCKS, THE FLOCKS        104
FRANCES, 0 FRANCES        102
GOLD AND SILVER        110
GO TELL AUNT RHODY        66
THE GREEN DRESS        24
HALL-HO!        136
HENRIETTA'S WEDDING        15
HERE AM I        26
I SAW CECILIA WALKING        94
JIM BROWN        68
JOHNNY WITH THE BANDY LEGS        29
KEEP A-ROWING        129
MA SAYS, PA SAYS        34
THE MOUNTAIN IS FAR        80
MY BOAT IS DRIFTING        144
MY HEART IS SO SAD        38
OH, JONATHAN        40
OLD TANTE KOBA        45
ONE DAY I WENT A-RIDING        113
PASTORALE        132
Pin' THE POOR PATAT        52
PRETTY KITTY        48
RIDING DOWN FROM BANGOR        72
SITTIN' IN JAIL        74
SIX CREAM CAKES        106
STOP YOUR GROANING (The Stellenbosse Boys)        42
THERE COMES ALIBAMA        54
TODAY IS SYLVESTER        142
VILLIKENS AND HIS DINAH        86
WHEN WILL WE BE MARRIED?        57
WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU        151
THE WHITE LINEN COAT        97
WINE OF GAUL        108
WORK SONG (Shir Avodah)        116
YODEL WITH ME        139
YOU CAN MAKE FRICADEL        60
THE ZULU WARRIOR        62


I've saved both books as pdf files, but in "publishing quality" the Ives is ~160 MB and the Marais & Miranda ~ 95 MB, so too large for convenient email. It is theoretically feasible to extract individual songs, as .jpg or .pdf, if someone has a real need and can PM an email addy and tell what's wanted, but I can't make any promises on deliveries.

John


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Subject: Index:American Ballads: Naughty Ribald and Classic
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 02:54 AM

Via OCR from Scan to PDF, with minimal corrections; but I think I got most of the misread characters.

American Ballads: Naughty Ribald and Classic compiled by Charles O'Brien Kennedy, Fawcett Publications, NY, 1952

Jim Bludso        15
The Dying Hobo        17
The Bootblack's Christmas        18
Annabel Lee        20
What One May and May Not Call a Woman        21
The Man on the Flying Trapeze        22
The Girl with the Blue Velvet Band        24
To Maurice Barrymore        27
The Piddling Pup        28
The Erie Canal        31
The Little Brown jug        32,
Always the Woman Pays        33
The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"        34
The Passing of the Backhouse        38
War        41
The Mornin's Mornin'        42
Finnigan's Wake        45
But I Know What I Like        47
The Ballad of Yukon Jake        48
A Persian Kitty        52
Mary Anne Lowder        53
Johnny Appleseed        54
I've Been Workin' on the Railroad        57
Where Is Your Boy Tonight        58
Opportunity        59
Abdullah Bulbul Amir        60
Billy Boy        62
Lassa        64
Do You. Know How Many Stars        67
Mother's Letter        68
Annie Breen        70
Ballad by A. Lincoln        72
America Greets an Alien        73
Natchez Nan and Her Gambling Man        75
The Dead Men's Song        77
Had a Set of Double Teeth        79
The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train        81
Willie the Weeper        84
There Is a Tavern in the Town        86
Punch, Brother, Punch        87
The Eagle's Song        88
The Orphan Girl, or No Bread for the: Poor        89
The Kilkenny Cats        90
A Stein Song        91
A Song of Panama        92
After the Ball        94
The Hell-Bound Train        95
On Cheese        97
Maria Peripatetica        99
The Downfall of Piracy        101
Temperance Hymn        104
Gossip in a Street Car        104
The Face on the Barroom Floor        109
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie        114
Roy Bean        115
Joshua Ebenezer Fry        117
The Kid's Last Fight        120
Unhappy Boston        124
The Ballad of the Oysterman        125
Dot Leedle Loweeza        127
Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John. Smith        128
Casey at the Bat        132
The Frozen Maid        135
The Letter Edged in. Black        138
John Maynard.        139
The Lily of the West        143
Root Hog or Die        144
Frankie and Johnnie        147
A Taking Girl        151
Down Went McGinty        152
Barbara Allen        155
Wait for the Wagons        156
The Whore on the Snow Crust        158
Liquor and Longevity        161
Caution        161
When 'Willie Wet the Bed        162
A Prayer        163
Madamoiselle from Armentiers        164
The Shooting of Dan McGrew        166
The Boston Burglar        170
Quatrain        171
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot        172
Polly-Wolly-Doodle        173
Black Rock Pork        174
When Someone Cares        175
What the Engines Said        176
You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry        178
When Johnny Comes Marching Home        180
No More Booze        181
Sisters of the Cross of Shame        182
The New Colossus        183
The Cremation of Sam McGee        184
A Hobo's Wish        188
The Oregon Trail        189
The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue        190
The Fall of Tecumseh        192
Sam Hall        194
The Battle of Eutaw        196
A Drunkard's Ode        198
Racketty Jack        199
Out of the Tavern        200
The Rolling Stone        201
Lips That Touch Liquor        202
Duty        204
Battle-Hymn of the Republic        205
She Plays the Game        206
A Fireman's Life        207
The Old Oaken Bucket        208
Oh, My Darling Clementine        210
A Mother's Name        211
The Old, Old. Story        212
Rock Me to Sleep        214
Sam Bass and How His Career Was Short        216
The Flat River Girl        218
Casey Jones        220

This book is "Lyrics Only." No Dots or Chords.
The book also has a table of "First Lines" and a separate listing of "Titles and Authors" but those didn't come through the OCR process at all well.

John


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Subject: Index: The Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook
From: cetmst
Date: 06 Aug 16 - 08:12 AM

The Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook
Comments, Illustration and Design by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Music Edited and Arranged by Peter Greenwood, Piano Arrangements by John Marino, Grossett & Dunlap, 1971.
The Piney Wood Hills                         15
Universal Soldier                            22
Guess Who I Saw in Paris                      25
I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again             30
Take My Hand For s While                      34
He's a Keeper of the Flame                   38
He's a Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me          40      
The Wedding Song                              44
A Soulful Shade of Blue                      47
Sweet Patootie                               49
He Lived Alone in Town                        53
Hey, Little Bird                              58
Yessir, Honey                                 62
Suffer the Little Children, notes             64
Suffer the Little Children, song             68
God Is Alive, Magic is Afoot                  72 Words Leonard Cohen
Cod'íne                                        76 Ahead of its time
Welcome, Welcome Emigranté                   80    "       "
Lazarus                                       85 Adaptation by Buffy
The Carousel                                  87
Cripple Creek                                 90 Arranged & Adapted
The Vampire                                  93
Soldier Blue                                  95
I'm Gonna Feel Better When You're Gone       101
Eyes of Amber                               104
The Dream Tree                               107
Better to Find Out For Yourself             110
Ananais                                     114 Arr,new words& music
The Seeds of Brotherhood                     119
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Girls            121 New words and music
Little Wheel Spin and Spin                   122
I Regret, Fair Knight                        126
97 Men in This Here Town Would Give Half a
    Grand on Silver Just to Follow Me Down   132
Quiet Places                                 136
Men of the Fields                            139
Sometimes when I Get to Thinking             141
Babe in Arms                                 143
Tall Trees in Georgia                        145
The Love of a Good Man                      148
It's My Way                                  151
Now That the Buffalo's Gone                  156
My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying   164
Timeless Love                               168
Mary's Theme                                 171
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina             172
Poppies                                     175
Poor Man's Daughter                         176
Water Boy                                    178
On the Banks of Red Roses                   181 Arr,new words & music
Ground Hog                                  185 Arranged &Adapted
Los Pescadores                               189
Broke-Down Girl                              192
Johnny Be Fair                               195
Tho Old Man's Lament                         196 Arranged & Adapted
The Incest Song                              200
You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond      203 Blind Willie Johnson
Summer Boy                                  205
Don't Call Me Honey When Your Mother's Around 207
From the Bottom of My Heart                  209
Little Boy Dark Eyes                         211
Maple Sugar Boy                              214
Until It's Time for You to Go                217
Discography to 1971                         222


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Subject: Index:Oscar Brand Songbook-Something to Sing About
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 17 - 09:38 PM

This isn't a very big songbook and it certainly isn't a comprehensive study of Oscar's work, and it's too skinny for me to find when I go looking for it - so I'll post the index here so I don't have to look for it so often.

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT: OSCAR BRAND SONGBOOK

3. Something to Sing About (Canadian Version)
5. Something to Sing About (American Version)
6. A Guy Is a Guy
8. When I First Came to This Land

SHOWS AND AMERICAN HISTORY
10. When Will I Learn (from "The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N")
12. All American (from Hyman Kaplan)
14. Loving You (from Hyman Kaplan)
16. Love Will Come (from Hyman Kaplan)
19. Joyful Noise (from "A Joyful Noise")
23. Longtime Traveling (from "A Joyful Noise")
27. When You Meet Her (from "Thunder Bay")
28. My Two Hands (from "Thunder Bay")
30. I'm Afraid to Go Alone (from "Thunder Bay")
31. Comes the Right Man (from "How to Steal an Election")
32. Down Among the Grass Roots (from "How to Steal an Election")
34. Charisma (from "How to Steal an Election")
35. Mr. Might've Been (from "How to Steal an Election")
37. Sing America Sing
40. Revolutionary Alphabet

THE AMERICAN DREAMER
41. Touch the Earth
42. First He Told Me
44. Remember the Horse
46. A Very Nice Country
48. There Were No Yellow Ribbons for Us
50. The Leaves Turn to Paper

COMMENTARY, MOSTLY HUMOROUS
51. Itarzuke Tower
52. Appendectomy-Country Style
53. Cat Rap
54. Good Old Dog
56. What'll We Do With the Baby-O
58. Stretch Pants Lament
59. Skier's Daydream
60. My Old Man's a Sailor
63. Violins Play Along

THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
64 Mary Had a Cousin
65. Who Knows the Color of God
66. Wake Up, Brother John
68. Burgundian Carol
69. Here It Comes
70 A Really Remarkable Star
72. Turn To Me

Publishers
Hollis Music, Inc
TRO The Richmond Organization
Hal Leonard Corporation


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Subject: Index: World Folk Songs (Marais & Miranda)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Aug 19 - 09:32 PM

Oh, I wish I had asked John in Kansas for his PDF files. There were some wonderful books produced in paperback in the 1950s and 1960s, but now they're falling apart. It happens often that the book just destroys itself when I put it in the scanner. Here's another Marais and Miranda songbook.

World Folk Songs (Marais & Miranda)
©1964 by Josef Marais

CONTENTS
(Songs in alphabetical order by title)
INTRODUCTION
A WORD ABOUT TRANSLATIONS
NOTES TO THE GUITARISTS
NOTES TO THE PIANISTS

Angler’s Song, The - 72
A-Round the Corner - 28
Beautiful Rosemary - 114
Bunch of Feathers, A - 24
Come Walk With Me Tonight - 36
Cool, Running Water - 78
Distant Mountain Peak - 116
D’ye Know What Pleases Me? - 118
Hex River Valley - 31
Hold Your Head Up High - 38
If a Ship Has Legs - 81
I’ll Soon Be Starting on My Way - 20
I’m Looking for Dinah - 42
Little Marguerite - 84
Live Happily - 88
Marching to Pretoria - 16
No Dolly No - 45
Oh, Brandy, Leave Me Alone - 48
Old Transvaal, The (Sarie Marais) - 51
Pile Up Bricks - 91
Polly, Polly! - 22
Samuel Young - 68
Santa Claus, Won’t You Come In? - 101
Sarie Marais (see The Old Transvaal) - 51
See There Comes the Steamer - 104
Sitting by the Bright Firelight - 54
Sheep Are Coming Down the Road, The - 40
Song of the Potato - 96
Sugarbush - 58
Trek, Horses, Trek! - 106
Two Thousand Miles to Go - 96
Two Wagoners - 109
Wanderer’s Song, The - 19
Warfare is Raging, The - 70
We’ll Travel the Highlands - 121
When a Little Farm We Keep - 74
When I Get Home - 56
When It Rains - 65
When You’re Traveling with Friends - 98
Why Should I, a Brisk Young Lassie? - 112
Wind in the Trees, The - 122
Wo-ye-le (Boating Chant) - 62

DULCIMER SUPPLEMENT - 127
Notes on How to Build and Play the Dulcimer - 129

Ancient Breton Air - 196
As the Sun Goes Down - 182
Auld Joe Nicolson’s Bonnie Nannie - 192
Dance Tune for Dulcimer - 198
Down in the Valley - 160
Everywhere - 173
Frankie and Johnnie - 178
Farmyard, The - 176
Go Tell Aunt Rhody - 162
Goin’ Down Cripple Creek - 168
Green Grow the Rashes O - 202
Hangman! Hangman! - 164
Here Am I - 166
I’m Dry - 204
Jinnie Jinkins - 158
On Top of Old Smoky - 180
O No John! - 188
Old Joe Clarke - 206
Old Tante Koba - 185
Riddle Song The - 190
Snake Baked a Hoecake - 200


Many of these songs are translations and adaptations of traditional songs from South Africa, from Afrikaans, English, and indigenous languages. As far as I know, only one of these songs was a hit - "Sugarbush" was recorded by Doris Day.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: The Doctor
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 07:04 AM

Over the years I have accumulated around fifty songbooks, and some years ago I made an index of them, by title (Roman) and by first line (Italic). As it runs to 85 pages of Word it is rather too long to post here, but if I can find a way to send it I shall do so. Suggestions welcome.

    I'm joe@mudcat.org, and I'm always eager to work with people on songbook indexing.
    -Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: The Doctor
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 07:09 AM

This might give you a taste. The letters ending each line are just for linking the songs to the books.


                           Index of Folk Songs

Penguin Book of American Folk Songs………………………………….AFS
Book of British Ballads (RP)………………………………….………….BBB
A Ballad History of England (RP)……………….…………….…………BHE
Boxing the Compass (RP)………………………………………………...Box
Ballads, Songs and Pipe-Tunes II………………………………………...BSP
Clancy Brothers Song Book……………………………………….……..CBS
Collected Folk-Songs Vol.1………………………………………………CF1
The Constant Lovers……………………………………………………...Con
The Copper Family Song Book…………………………………………..Cop
The Crystal Spring…………………………………………………………CS
Book of English Country Songs (RP)……………………….……………ECS
Eighty English Folksongs……………………………...…………………EEF
The English Folksinger…………………………………….......…………EFS
English Traditional Songs and Carols…………………………………….ETS
Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales…………………….FGB
Folk Songs Today 1 and 5……………………………………………....FS1,5
Folk Songs of Lancashire…………………………………………………FSL
Folk Song in England……………………………………………………..FSE
Folk Songs from Somerset………………………………………….…….FSS
Folk Songs of the West Country………………...……………………….FSW
Great Australian Folk Songs……………………………………………..GAF
Garland of Country Songs (RP)…………………………………………...Gar
Songscapes (GM).………………………………………………………...GM
The Jolly Herring…………………………………………………………Her
The Joan Baez Songbook…………………………………………………JBS
Traditional Tunes………………………………………………………….Kid
Marrow Bones………………………………………………………….…Mar
100 Folk Songs and New Songs…………………………………………..100
Penguin Australian Song Book……………………………………………Pas
Penguin Book of English Folk Songs………………………………….….Pen
Poverty Knock (RP)..……………………………………………………...PK
The Painful Plough (RP)……………………………………………………PP
The Rambling Soldier (RP)……………………………………………….Ram
The Rigs of the Fair (RP)………………………………….………………..RF
Room for Company (RP)………………………………………………….RfC
Folk Songs collected by RVW (RP).……………………………………RVW
The Song and the Story……………………………………………………SaS
Strike the Bell (RP)…………………………………………………………SB
Sea Songs and Shanties…………………………………………...……….Sea
A Song for Every Season………………………………………………….SES
Sing High Sing Low………………………………………….…………….Sin
Seeds of Love, The…………………………………….…………………SoL
Songs and Music of the Redcoats………………………………………..SMR
The Sound of History……………………………………………………..SoH
Songs of the Midlands…………………………………………………....SoM
Songs for Today……………………………………………….…………..Son
A Swag of Songs………………………………………………….……….SoS
Songs and Marches of the Roundheads and Cavaliers……………………SRC
Sussex Songs……………………………………………………………….SS
Shanties and Sailors’ Songs……………………………………………….SSS
A Touch on the Times………………………………………………….....ToT
Tunes to Poems and Songs, MW-R………………………………………TPS
The Singing Island………………………………………………………...TSI
Windmills (AB)..…………………………………………………………Win

Any specific queries about the books can, hopefully, be answered.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 08:21 AM

Hi: The Doctor
Clearly a lot of work, but also, as you say, a bit long to post here.
Do you still also have it as a list per song book? (or can each be easily separated out?). If so you could post each book in a separate message on this thread. The general "lyrics and knowledge" search on the home page would then guide anyone searching for a particular song (title or first line) to the occurrence of that song in this thread, identifying what book it can be found in.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: The Doctor
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 03:39 AM

Unfortunately it is one complete index, which would now be very difficult to separate out.


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:29 AM

Hi, "the doctor" - take a look at what we've done already (crosslinks above), and see if there's any way you can integrate with what we have. So many of us have so many songbooks, that we just can't post every song from every book here. But if we index our songbook collections here, Google searches often lead requesters to us, and then we can provide them with the songs. We have been doing this for years, and it has been fun.
-Joe-


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Subject: Index: 30 & 1 Folk Songs from Southern Mountains
From: Rex
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 01:33 PM

I was looking for the contents of 30 and 1 Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains. by Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Lamar Stringfield. I found it in a library list. Not to be picky but I count only 30.

Little Marget (Sweet William)
Black Jack Davie
Wild Bill Jones
Darby's ram
I wish I was a mole in the ground
Old man and his mill
Little turtle dove
My little bonny blue eyes
Jinnie Jinkins
I'm goin' back to Georgia
Young hunting
Sourwood Mountain
Poor Omia Wise
Ruint cobbler
John Henry
Swannanoa Tunnel
Ole gray mare
Kitty Clyde
Careless love
Cindy
Italy
Old Jimmie Sutton
Kidder Cole
Red apple juice
Down the road
Dogget gap
Cripple creek
Old Smoky
Wild horse (Short'nin bread)
Johnson boys (Awake, o awake).


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 03:33 PM

Rex, I'm guessing that the missing song was in the book forward. I notice that the list you've put up has Sourwood Mountain as the #12 song, yet in the following image (see second page of the screen that opens) it's listed as # 13. Just a guess, but it's all I can figure. Perhaps if there's someone out there with the book the 'mystery' will be solved.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/249535116/30-and-1-folk-songs-from-the-southern?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details


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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: Rex
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 12:12 PM

Thank'ee to Guest,# for pointing out the actual numerical order of Sourwood Mountain in 30 and 1 Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains. It could be that another song is within the forward. Lunsford had a playful streak and could well have done that. The title implies it. Yes, hopefully someone has an extant copy and can clear this up.


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Subject: Index: An East Riding Songster-Steve Gardham, 1982
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 01:16 AM

It appears that Steve has been at this sort of thing for a long time. He's done wonderful work through the years. This book was published in 1982 by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts.

An East Riding Songster Collected and edited by Steve Gardham, 1982

  1. The Derby Ram
  2. I’ve fun’ a bod’s nest
  3. The herring’s head
  4. Here we come a wassailing
  5. Old Johnny Walker
  6. Mr. Noah
  7. An acre of land (lst Version)
  8. An acre of land (2nd Version)
  9. A country life for me
  10. The country carrier
  11. We’re all jolly fellows who follow the plough
  12. The farmer’s boy
  13. The farmyard song
  14. A rolling stone gathers no moss
  15. The keys of Heaven
  16. I wish they’d do it now
  17. Mutton pie
  18. Three men they went a yunting
  19. The old mare
  20. Rumpsy-Bumpsy-ay
  21. My beautiful muff
  22. Lord Bateman
  23. Underneath her apron
  24. No, my love, not I
  25. Bell-bottom trousers
  26. The little ball of yarn
  27. The lily-white hand
  28. The maiden’s prayer (Died for love)
  29. Still I love him
  30. I wish I was single again
  31. The Artillery Alphabet
  32. The jolly ploughboy


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Subject: Index: Shanties by the Way: a selection of NZ song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 May 21 - 02:15 AM

Thread #13706   Message #4101032
Posted By: GUEST,Tongers
06-Apr-21 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Soon May the Wellerman Come
Subject: Index: Shanties by the Way: a selection of NZ song

Another rare book of NZ songs is "Shanties by the way: a selection of New Zealand popular songs and ballads"

Author:         Rona Bailey; Bert Roth; Neil Colquhoun
Publisher:         Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/shanties-by-the-way-a-selection-of-new-zealand-popular-songs-and-ballads/oclc/41715619

Contents: Sealers, whalers and traders. David Lowston --
Come all you tonguers --
New Zealand whales --
Whalers' rhymes --
The voyage of the Buffalo --
The settlers. Taranaki song / John Hursthouse --
The lay of the disappointed / Walter Mantell --
Cheer, boys, cheer! --
The steel mill / John Blair --
The new chum / Charles John Martin --
A tract for the hard times / music, Neil Colquhoun --
The abolition of the Provinces --
The New Zealand wars. He Ngeri --
A jeering song --
The fall of Rangiriri / E.J.F. --
The escaped prisoners ; The surrender of the natives / Charles Robert Thatcher --
The inimitable thatcher. The old identity ; The shipping agents ; The bazaar ; Presented at court / Charles Robert Thatcher --
Gold. The rush to Coromandel ; The Southland gold escort / Charles Robert Thatcher --
The Wakamarina / Charles Robert Thatcher ; music, Neil Colquhoun --
The shanty by the way / E.J. Overbury ; Anon. --
The unlucky digger --
The digger's farewell : on the wharf, 1874 / music, Neil Colquhoun --
Waitekauri everytime! / Edwin Edwards ; music, Neil Colquhoun --
The volunteers. Kumara volunteers' song --
The Russian scare / 'Puzzlehead' --
The long depression. The sweater / N.A.A. --
The scab / John Brooks Hulbert --
The exiles of New Zealand / A.D. --
God's own country --
I struck for better wages --
Arthur Desmond. The song of Te Kooti ; Death song for the Huntly miners ; Barr of the Western Chain / Arthur Desmond --
Arthur Desmond / 'An Australian exile'. Prohibition. A Prohibition jingle of 1893 --
Strike out the top line --
Don't strike out the top line --
The young teetotaller --
A lay of the trade --
Members of Parliament. The liberal march / James Adams --
Ma¯ori Joe --
Sir Joseph Ward --
The rival candidate / 'Casual chronicler' --
Vote for Tommy Seddon, boys / Ned McCormack --
An M.P.'s life for me / Ronald L. Meek --
War and conscription. We'll set the children free : the song of the anti-conscripts --
Kidd from Timaru / Barrie Marschel --
The bloke that puts the acid on / Henry Kirk ('The Mixer') --
Work and wages. Cook and shearer : a 'Bulletin' pastoral idyll --
A long time ago --
I've traded with the Ma¯oris --
The windy hills o' Wellington / 'The Exile' --
A meeting / 'Taiwai' --
Song of the gumfield / William Satchell ('Saml. Cliall White') --
Amelia Jane / David McKee Wright --
Shearing's coming / David McKee Wright --
In the morning / Marshall Nalder --
The Ma¯ori's wool / Andrew Barton Paterson --
The embryo cockatoo / 'The Wanderer' --
The gay muttonbirder --
Goodbye to the old pick and shovel / Dennis Hogan --
Old Billy Kirk / 'Cazna Gyp' --
The magpies / Dennis Glover ; music, Neil Colquhoun --
Cargo workers. Out with the jokers. Double-bunking ; A fast pair of skis / Harold William Gretton --
The old gumdiggers' bar / Dennis Hogan --
The passing of the Helvetia : a lament / Louis Magee --
Down the hall on Saturday night / Peter Cape --
Black billy tea / Joe Charles ; music, Les Cleveland --
Lament for Barney Flanagan : licensee of The Covenant Hotel / James K. Baxter ; music, Neil Colquhoun --
By the dry Cardrona / James K. Baxter ; music, James McNeish --
The hunted. The hero of the coast / Jim S. Case --
Down on my luck / A.R.D. Fairburn ; music, Neil Colquhoun --
On the swag / R.A.K. Mason ; music, Neil Colquhoun.

Responsibility:         collected and edited by Rona Bailey and Herbert Roth ; with musical arrangements by Neil Colquhoun.

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Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Miscellaneous Songbooks
From: JHW
Date: 28 Sep 21 - 05:31 AM

I have the Linn Records 12 CD boxed set of Burns Songs. They sent me (when asked) a list of all the songs which I printed and keep on the shelf.
Very handy.


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