Songs of the Great American West

by Silber, Irwin

• ISBN13: 9780486287041
• ISBN10: 0486287041
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-13
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Ninety-two songs ballads, lullabies, battle cries, love songs, satirical songs, children's singing games and more celebrate the ups and downs of homesteaders, lumberjacks, cowboys, gold miners, railroad workers, outlaws, and other early adventurers. Complete lyrics, vocal score, simple piano arrangements, chord symbols. Historical notes and 127 period illustrations.

Table of Contents

Thoughts on the music	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part 1 ``Ho! For California!''
The race to California	5	(4)
Ho! For California	9	(3)
Sacramento	12	(2)
Sweet Betsy from Pike	14	(4)
Joe Bowers	18	(5)
Crossing the Plains	23	(4)
Coming around the horn	27	(3)
We'll give 'Em Jessie	30	(3)
Sioux Indians	33	(3)
A La Ru	36	(2)
Song of Happiness	38	(1)
The Pacific Railroad	39	(8)
Part 2 ``On the Plains of Mexico''
Remember the Alamo!	47	(2)
Green Grow the Lilacs	49	(3)
Santy Anno	52	(3)
The Maid of Monterey	55	(2)
Buena Vista	57	(3)
Mustang Gray	60	(2)
Clarin de Campana	62	(2)
El Tecolote	64	(9)
Part 3 ``Come, Come, Ye Saints!''
Come, Come, Ye Saints	73	(2)
Sea Gulls and Crickets	75	(2)
The Mountain Meadows Massacre	77	(3)
The Handcart Song	80	(3)
Brigham Young	83	(6)
Echo Canyon	89	(7)
Part 4 ``The Days of '49''
The Days of Forty-Nine	96	(3)
The Good Old Days of '50, '1, and '2	99	(1)
When I went off to prospect	100	(4)
Life in California	104	(3)
Seeing the Elephant	107	(4)
I often think of writing home	111	(3)
California as it is	114	(3)
The Lousy Miner	117	(3)
Poker Jim	120	(3)
Hangtown Gals	123	(2)
Humbug Steamship Companies	125	(5)
California Stage Company	130	(2)
We are all A-panning	132	(3)
Corrido de Joaquin Murieta	135	(3)
Twelve Hundred more	138	(4)
Root Hog, or Die	142	(3)
I'm off to Boise City	145	(4)
The Dreary Black Hills	149	(4)
The Old Settler's song	153	(8)
Part 5 ``Ride Around Little Dogies''
I Ride an Old Paint	161	(3)
The Old Chisholm Trail	164	(5)
The Buffalo Skinners	169	(4)
Git Along, Little Dogies	173	(4)
Cowboy's Gettin'-up Holler	177	(2)
Good-Bye Old Paint	179	(2)
Corrido de Kansas	181	(3)
Doney Gal	184	(3)
The Trail to Mexico	187	(5)
Cowboy's Life is a Dreary, Dreary Life	192	(3)
The Gal I left behind me	195	(2)
Utah Carroll	197	(3)
Bury me not on the Lone Prairie	200	(3)
Spanish is the Loving Tongue	203	(3)
Little Joe, the Wrangler	206	(7)
Part 6 ``The Farmer is the Man''
The Homestead of the Free	213	(2)
Uncle Sam's Farm	215	(3)
The Little Old Sod Shanty on my Claim	218	(3)
Western Home	221	(3)
The Lane County Bachelor	224	(5)
Kansas Boys	229	(2)
The Wyoming Nester	231	(2)
Dakota Land	233	(2)
The Kansas Fool	235	(1)
The Farmer is the man	236	(4)
The Hayseed	240	(3)
The Independent Man	243	(2)
The People's Jubilee	245	(7)
Part 7 ``Come All You Bold Fellers''
Jesse James	252	(5)
Sam Bass	257	(3)
Billy the Kid	260	(2)
The Zebra Dun	262	(3)
El Toro Moro	265	(5)
Corrido de Heraclio Bernal	270	(3)
Custer's Last Charge	273	(3)
Roy Bean	276	(3)
The Streets of Laredo	279	(4)
Tying Ten Knots in the Devil's Tail	283	(8)
Part 8 ``Roll On, Columbia''
The Big Rock Candy Mountain	291	(5)
The Ludlow Massacre	296	(2)
The Preacher and the Slave	298	(4)
The Commonwealth of Toil	302	(2)
Too Ree Ama	304	(2)
The Frozen Logger	306	(2)
Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks	308	(3)
When The Ice Worms Nest Again	311	(3)
Roll on, Columbia	314	(5)
Bibliography	319	(9)
Discography	328	(1)
Subject Index	329	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines	333