My First Book of American Folk Songs

Expert settings of 25 American folk classics by a well-known composer and arranger for young pianists. Includes:

1. Amazing Grace
2. as we ’round the mulberry bush
3. aura lea
4. billy boy
5. black is the color of my true love’s hair
6. blow the man down!
7. Blue-tail fly (jimmy crack corn)
8. Buffalo Gals
9. Dep River
10. Down by the Riverside
11. The farmer in the dell
12. the gift to be simple
13. go down, moses (let my people go)
14. I’ve been working on the railroad
15. maryland, my maryland!
16. The Old chisholm trail (a black key favorite)
17. Polly-Wolly-Doodle
18. Pop goes the weasel
19. short’nin’ bread
20. skip to my lou
21. sweet betsy from pike
22. thanksgiving prayer (we gather together)
23. Turkey in the straw
24. Yankee Doodle Dandy
25. The yellow rose of Texas

Original Dover (1995) publication. Illustrations by Thea Kliros. Contents. Note. 48pp. 8,1/4 x 11. Paperbound