Research Catalog

Title

The essential Ewan MacColl songbook : sixty years of songmaking / compiled and annotated by Peggy Seeger ; editing and layout by Irene Pyper-Scott ; forward [sic] by Pete Seeger.

Author

MacColl, Ewan.

Publication

Windsor, NJ : CAMSCO Music ; [S.l.] : Loomis House Press, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Seeger, Peggy, 1935-
• Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.
• Camsco Music.

Description

418 p. of music : ill.; 28 cm.

Uniform Title

Songs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Songs.
• Ewan MacColl songbook

Subject

• Songs, English > Great Britain
• Ballads, English > Great Britain

Note

• Melodies with chord symbols.
• Originally published: New York : Oak : Exclusive distributors, Music Sales, c2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 383), discography (p. 390-393), and indexes.

Contents

Love and laughter. The first time ever I saw your face ; Sweet Thames, flow softly ; The letter ; You and I ; Love for love ; What the poet called her ; Sunday, O Sunday ; Space girl's song ; Down the lane ; Stalinvarosh ; Northern city ; Rosalie ; Co-operative marriage ; Tatty underpants -- Lullabies and farewells. Cannily cannily ; The father's song ; The young birds -- Growing pains. Look at you! ; Parent and child ; World beyond the wall ; Alone ; Juliet's song ; We're young but we're a-growing ; I think we should be getting married -- Role models. St. George's song ; The ballad of the carpenter ; The ballad of new Poland ; The ballad of Ho Chi Minh ; The compañeros ; The ballad of the big cigars ; Jamie Foyers -- Work and no work. The firefighter's song ; Twenty-one years ; Champion at keepin' 'em rolling ; We are the engineers ; Follow the printer's trade ; Needle and thread ; The tenant farmer ; The gravedigger's song ; On the picket line ; Holy Joe from Scabsville ; Daddy what did you do in the strike? ; Looking for a job ; My old man ; Nobody knew she was there ; Lament for the death of a nobody ; Public unpublic ; Seven days of the week -- Song of the iron road. Song of the iron road ; Fireman's calypso ; Ballad of leisure time ; The fireman's not for me -- Song of a road. Song of a road ; Cats and back-acters ; The driver's song ; The fitter's sung ; Come, me little son ; Hot asphalt ; The road is done ; The exile song -- The sea. Cabin buy ; North sea holes ; The trawl ; The shoals of herring ; Net-hauling sung ; Fishing for cod ; The fishgutters' song ; We're awa' to fish for the herrin'-o ; Fisherman's wife ; The sailor ; Shellback song -- The big hewer. The big hewer ; Miner's wife ; Schooldays end ; Down in the dark ; Roll up the coal up ; The plodder seam -- The square ring. Life is a battle ; Peter Keenan's song ; When you're a fighter ; Skipping song ; Punching shanty ; Speedball song ; The boxing business ; The day of the fight ; The fight ; The battle is done with ; Who would have a boxer ; Man in the ring -- The Irishmen. The nipper's song ; Farewell to Ireland ; The new rocks of Baun ; Dublin jack of all trades ; The rambler from Clare ; The rambling Irishman ; Indeed I would ; The devil and Ganger McGlynn ; The tunnel tigers ; Van Diemen's land 1965 -- The travelling people. There's no place for me ; Moving on song ; Gypsy Jack of all trades ; The gypsy is a gentleman ; Freeborn man ; Thirty-foot trailer ; The terror time ; The gypsy's answer ; The winds of change -- A matter of colour. Cut-price hero ; The ballad of Sharpeville ; White tornado ; The great conspiracy ; Ten young women and one young man ; White wind, black tide. White wind ; The warriors came ; Who are the people ; Where is your daddy, son? ; Soweto ; Black and white -- Targets and anti-heroes. The Tories' march ; The leader's a bleeder ; Wonder boy ; No agents need apply ; Politician's alphabet ; Don't be surprised ; Kingaroy king ; Skipper heath ; The new boys ; Parliamentary polka ; Blast against blackguards ; Dracumag ; True love ; The androids ; The grocer ; Collection of second-rate chancers ; Rogues' gallery ; Get rid of it! ; The economic miracle ; In praise of famous men (and women) ; Prince Charles's wage rise -- The civil war in our midst. Mass trespass 1932 ; Ivor ; Hard case ; The ballad of Tim Evans ; The new policemen ; The lag's song ; Student Edward ; Only doing their job -- The war game. The dose ; The war game ; The Trafford Road ballad ; Browned off ; Young man of our time -- Uncle Sam, Vietnam. This is no' my ain hoose ; The second front son ; Leave me Yankee man, leave me ; Big mouth ; All on the American shore ; The banks they are rosy ; Yankee doodle ; L.B.J. looks after me ; Disc of sun ; Execution song ; The fields of Vietnam ; Tall and proud -- Technology, ecology and premonitions. Brother, won't you join in the line? ; Lullabye for the times ; Nuclear means jobs ; Nightmare ; Let's pretend ; That bomb has got to go! ; The vandals ; Come jive with me -- Philosophy, history and hope. Here's to old Jack ; House-hungry blues ; After the weekend it's Monday ; The flower people ; Nation of animal lovers ; We don't want to live like that! ; Holiday song ; The media ; Legal illegal ; The island ; Bring the summer home ; While there's life there's hope ; The ballad of accounting ; Five fingers ; Kilroy was here ; Dirty old town -- The joys of living. Friday night ; The ballad of the travels ; Manchester rambler ; The joy of living -- Appendix I, A media history -- Appendix II, Songs not included in this book -- Appendix III, The critics group and the British folksong revival -- Appendix IV, "The ballad of Stalin".

ISBN

• 9781935243120
• 1935243128 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn495586086
• 495586086

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries