Research Catalog

Title

A San Francisco songster : 1849-1939 / Works progress Administration, northern California.

Author

History of Music Project.

Publication

San Francisco, [1939]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)

Description

ix, 208 (i.e. 246) leaves; 27 cm.

Series Statement

History of music in San Francisco series ; v.2

Uniform Title

History of music in San Francisco series ; v. 2.

Subject

• Folk songs, English > United States
• Songs, English
• Folk songs > California

Note

• Mimeographed.
• Includes thirty-eight extra numbered leaves.
• With music (unaccompanied melodies; some tunes indicated by title).
• "An anthology of songs and ballads sung in San Francisco from the gold rush era to the present."-2d prelim. leaf.
• Appendices: A. Sources of song texts.--B. Sources of music.--C. San Francisco song composers.--D. San Francisco music publishers.--E. Note on local songsters.--F. The Pacific song book (contents)--G. Other representative songsters (contents)--H. List of S.F. songster publications.--I. Flats and camps north of San Francisco.--J. General bibliography on balladry.--K. Title index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-178, 202-205).

Contents

• The forty niners balladry. Poco tiempo. Pomo love son ; Alabado ; Ya viene el alba ; La indita ; El sombrero blanco ; La noche esta serena -- Cross country and round the horn. Lines composed on the bark cantero ; Windham ; Version of Oh Susanna ; Crossing the plains ; Sailing for San Francisco ; Sacramento ; Carry me back to old Virginny ; Sweet Betsey from Pike ; Coming around the horn ; THe fools of forty nine ; I am going to California -- What was your name in the States? What was your name in the States? ; Life in California ; Seeing the elephant ; Joe Bowers ; Poker Jim ; The gambler ; Joaquin, the horse-thief ; Hog-eye man ; Hangtown gals ; Sacramento gals ; Clementine ; A pilgrim from Maine\u0027s rocky shore ; California ball ; Prospecting dream ; The happy miner ; The lousy miner ; The miner\u0027s lament ; The days of forty nine ; Ye ancient Yuba miner of the days of \u002749 ; Old forty nine ; Gold Lake and Gold Bluff ; California as it is and was -- The railroad cars are coming. Humbug steamship companies ; Loss of the Central America ; Blow the man down ; The pioneer stage driver ; The California Stage Company ; Railroad to Nicaragua ; The railroad cars are coming ; What the engines said ; Ode on completion of the Pacific Railway ; The great Pacific Railway ; Anti-monopoly war song ; Ode to McCoppin ; The west bound freight
• Transition : camp to city. Firemen shanties. Santa Ana ; The fireman\u0027s bride ; Our engine on the hill -- Three parlor ballads. When the moon on the lake is beaming ; Lament of the Irish emigrant ; You\u0027re all the world to me -- Songs from early local plays. Piece of golden opportunity ; Spirit of California ; A live woman in the mines -- Minstrel show lyrics. There\u0027s no coon one-half so warm ; Juba dis, juba dat ; Don\u0027t we step it lightly -- Loco-focos, Whigs and kings. Political song ; Political song ; Few days ; King\u0027s campaign ; On the death of James king of William ; WHo killed Cock Robin? ; California, the gem of the ocean.
• Metropolitan song. The literary ballad. The angelus ; From Russian hill ; The heathen Chinee ; The cool grey city of love ; San Francisco ; San Francisco fog ; Chinatown ballad ; San Francisco our beloved, arise! arise! ; Back to Market Street ; Telygraft Hill ; San Francisco of my heart -- Lampoons, topical verse. The abalone song ; The spirit of a sponge ; A song for tea drinkers ; The grass leaf poet ; San Francisco Liszt ; Emperor Norton I. ; The exhibition fair ; The prettiest girl at the fair ; Meet me at the San Francisco fair ; Gotta getta goin\u0027 to the Golden Gate -- Workingmen ballads. The song of silver ; Our working men ; The San Francisco rag-picker ; I catch-a-de plenty of feesh ; Twelve hundred more ; Kearney, the workingman\u0027s friend ; John Chinaman ; A dollar a day without board ; An editorial for the Chronicle -- Recent proletarian song. Harvests ; Red vanguard ; These are the class war dead ; Some day we\u0027ll pay our debts ; Picket song -- Today\u0027s hired thrushes. Penthouse for a song ; For me and my gal -- Patriots and propagandists. Maid of Monterey ; Away to the wars in Dixie ; How do you feel, Mr. Davis? ; Accessional ; The son of a gambolier ; I\u0027m a warrior ; Our gallant Ninety-first ; We\u0027re coming back to California ; The rubaiyat of future struggle.
• Appendices: A. Sources of song texts.--B. Sources of music.--C. San Francisco song composers.--D. San Francisco music publishers.--E. Note on local songsters.--F. The Pacific song book (contents)--G. Other representative songsters (contents)--H. List of S.F. songster publications.--I. Flats and camps north of San Francisco.--J. General bibliography on balladry.--K. Title index.

LCCN

40009093

OCLC

• ocm03385182
• 3385182
• SCSB-5574228

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries