Research Catalog

Title

Songs of the great American west / compiled and edited by Irwin Silber ; music annotated, edited, and arranged by Earl Robinson.

Publication

New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Silber, Irwin, 1925-
• Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991.

Description

1 score (xvi, 334 p.) : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Folk music > West (U.S.)
• Folk songs, English > West (U.S.)
• Ballads, English > West (U.S.)

Note

• In part for voice and piano; in part unacc.; includes chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.
• Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1967.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-327) and indexes.
• Discography: p. 328.

Contents

Race to Calif. -- Ho! for Calif. -- Sacramento -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Joe Bowers -- Crossing the plains -- Coming around the Horn -- We'll give 'em Jessie -- Sioux Indians -- A la ru -- Song of happiness -- Pacific railroad -- Remember the Alamo -- Green grow the lilacs -- Santy Anno -- Maid of Monterey -- Buena vista -- Mustang gray -- Clarin de Campana -- El tecolote -- Come, come, ye saints -- Sea gulls and crickets -- Mountain Meadows massacre -- Handcart song -- Brigham Young -- Echo canyon -- Days of 49 -- Good old days of '50, '1 and '2 -- When I went off to prospect -- Life in Calif. --Seeing the elephant -- I often think of writing home -- Calif. as it is -- Lousy miner -- Poker Jim -- Hangtown gals -- Humbug steamship companies -- Calif. Stage Co. -- We are all a-panning -- Corrido de Joaquin Murieta -- 1200 more -- Root hog, or die -- I'm off to Boise City -- Dreary black hills -- Old settler's song -- I ride an old paint -- Old Chisholm trail -- Buffalo skinners -- Git along, little dogies -- Cowboy's gettin'-up holler -- Good-bye old paint -- Corrido de Kansas -- Doney gal -- Trail to Mexico -- Cowboy's life is a dreary, dreary life -- Gal I left behind me -- Utah carroll -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- Spanish is the loving tongue -- Little Joe, the wrangler -- Homestead of the free -- Uncle Sam's farm -- Little old sod shanty on my claim -- Western home -- Lane county bachelor -- Kansas boys -- Wyoming nester -- Dakota land -- Kansas fool -- Farmer is the man -- Hayseed -- Independent man -- People's Jubilee -- Jesse James -- Sam Bass -- Billy the Kid -- Zebra Dun -- Toro Moro -- Corrido de Heraclio Bernal -- Custer's last charge -- Roy Bean -- Streets of Laredo -- Tying 10 knots in the Devil's tail -- Big rock candy mountain -- Ludlow massacre -- Preacher and the slave -- Commonwealth of toil -- Too ree ama -- Frozen logger -- 50.000 lumberjacks -- When the ice worms nest again -- Roll on, Columbia

Call Number

JMF 01-927

ISBN

0486287041 (pbk.)

LCCN

95017334

OCLC

32488027

Title

Songs of the great American west / compiled and edited by Irwin Silber ; music annotated, edited, and arranged by Earl Robinson.

Imprint

New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-327) and indexes.

Discography: p. 328.

Added Author

Silber, Irwin, 1925-

Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991.

Research Call Number

JMF 01-927