Songs of the Great American West

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.

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

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