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The Resource Songs of the American West, compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson

Songs of the American West, compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson

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Publication
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xii, 595 pages
Note
Unacc. melodies; includes chord symbols
Contents
  • The rolling stone
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • A miners' meeting
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • I want to make the riffle
  • We came to Tamichi
  • [words by] Scott Judy and Doc Hammond
  • The seven devil mines
  • [words by] H.F. Johnson
  • Colorado home
  • When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner
  • Westward ho
  • Casey Jones, the miner
  • The broken-hearted leaser
  • [words by] Charles E. Winter
  • The Belmont Stopes
  • I wandered today up the hill, Maggie
  • J.A. Butterfield
  • The rustling song
  • Bisbee's queen
  • Cousin Jack
  • I once was a carman in the Big Mountain con
  • Coming around the horn
  • Drill, ye miners, drill!
  • Thomas F. Casey
  • Only a miner killed in the breast
  • Stand by your union
  • The copper strike of '17
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy
  • The miner
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The scab's lament
  • Charles K. Harris
  • L.V.H. Crosby, John A. Stone
  • A scabby cousin Jack
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy.
  • Strike breaker's lament
  • Solidarity forever
  • [words by] Scottie
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • J.T. White, William Clayton
  • There is a people in the West
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Upper California
  • The fools of '49
  • Edward J. Loder, John Taylor
  • Deseret
  • Henry Russell, William Willes
  • They cry 'deluded Mormons'
  • [words by] William Willes
  • A church without a prophet
  • Edward L. Loder
  • In the hive of deseret
  • John Davy, William Willes
  • The handcarts, I
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • [words by] William Hobbs
  • The handcarts, II
  • A. Hart
  • the handcarts, III
  • S.C. Foster, Philip Margetts
  • Early this spring we'll leave Nauvoo
  • [words by] Barnard White
  • In 1864
  • The way they emigrage
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Oh, California
  • Wish I was a Mormonite
  • Brigham Young, I
  • [words by] J.W. Conner
  • Brigham Young, II
  • The Mormon king
  • [words by] G.W. Anderson
  • The Mormon creed
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Mormon love serenade
  • S. Riggs, Alfred Norton
  • S.C. Foster, J. Nichols
  • My wife has become a Mormonite
  • In the midst of these awful Mormons
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The cohabs
  • [words by] George Hicks
  • The Mormon question
  • A ripping trip
  • Humbug steamship companies
  • To the West
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Sacramento
  • The dying Californian
  • Ball and Drinkard
  • Crossing the plains
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • O if I was at home again
  • [words by] John P. Grantham
  • Sweet Betsey from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Henry Russell, C. McKay
  • Emigrant from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Arrival of the greenhorn
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Johnny's dead
  • The pioneer stage driver
  • [words by] Charley Rhoades
  • California stage company
  • J.R. Myers, John A. Stone
  • The overland stage driver
  • To the West : a parody
  • [words by] Nat Stein
  • The bull-whacker
  • Bill Peters, the stage driver
  • Pete Orman
  • [words by] Asher
  • Freighting from Wilcox to Globe.
  • The railroad cars are coming
  • [words by] Robert Snell
  • Subsidy : a Goat Island ballad
  • The iron horse
  • Hell in Texas
  • Echo Canyon
  • Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer
  • [words by] S.L. Samson
  • Way out in Idaho
  • The wandering laborer's song
  • The Peninsula Pike
  • [words by] Charley L. Grant
  • Casey Jones, the union scab
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Seeing the elephant
  • Ho! for California!
  • D.D. Emmett, D.G. Robinson
  • Hunting after gold
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • The gold digger's lament
  • Prospecting dream
  • S.C. Foster, John A. Stone
  • California ball
  • G.P. Knauff, John A. Stone
  • Joe Bowers
  • J.E. Johnson, John Woodward
  • D.D. Emmett, J. Hutchinson
  • The lousy miner
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • California as it is
  • [words by] Thaddeus W. Meighan
  • California bloomer
  • W. Whitlock, John A. Stone
  • California Joe
  • Hector A. Stuart
  • When I went off to prospect
  • J. Brougham, John A. Stone
  • I'm off for California
  • San Juan
  • [words by] Barney Riley
  • Cherry Creek emigrant's song
  • D.D. Emmett
  • A hit at the times
  • [words by] A.O. McGrew
  • In the summer of sixty
  • A trip to Salmon
  • D.D. Emmett, Max Irwin.
  • Idaho
  • S.C. Foster
  • Frank French
  • The dreary Black Hills
  • [words by] Dick Brown
  • A trip to Rapid River
  • [words by] Hannibal F. Johnson
  • Just from Dawson
  • The Apex boarding house
  • An honest miner
  • S. Lover, John A. Stone
  • The happy miner
  • [words by] John J. Davies
  • [words by] Gail I. Gardner
  • High Chin Bob
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • Git along, little dogies
  • The old Chisholm trail
  • John Gerner's trail herd
  • The hills of Mexico
  • Lone star trail
  • The railroad corral
  • [words by] Joseph M. Hanson
  • The Mormon bishop's lament
  • I ride an old paint
  • Goodbye, old paint
  • Night-herding song
  • [words by] Harry Stephens
  • If your saddle is good and tight
  • Chopo
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • The gal I left behind me
  • The rambling cowboy
  • The trail to Mexico
  • The Mormon car
  • Brown-eyed Lee
  • Sky ball paint
  • Speckles
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • Bucking bronco
  • The zebra dun
  • A border affair
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • The campfire has gone out
  • The Wyoming nester
  • [words by] John Taylor
  • The old cowboy
  • [words by] Charlie Johnson
  • The range of the buffalo.
  • The buffalo hunters
  • Cowboy reverie
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • The invasion song
  • Home, sweet home
  • Henry Bishop
  • The dying cowboy
  • The merry Mormons
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • Will S. Hays, N. Howard Thorp
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The cowboy's dream
  • H.J. Fuller
  • Charlie Rutledge
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • When work is done this fall
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • I've got no use for the women
  • [words by] Matthew Rowan
  • Utah Carroll
  • Only a cowboy
  • Blood on the saddle
  • The Kansas emigrant
  • [words by] John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Western home
  • Brewster Higley, Daniel E. Kelley
  • Home on the range
  • Immigration song
  • The old bachelor
  • Sea gulls and crickets
  • [words by] A.L. Stokesberry
  • Kansas jayhawker
  • T.A. Metz
  • Kansas boys
  • In Kansas
  • Starving to death on a government claim
  • [words by] Frank Baker
  • Nebraska land
  • [words by] John A. Dean
  • Kansas land, I
  • Home manufactures
  • Kansas land, II
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, I
  • Will S. Hays
  • Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • Answer to the answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, II.
  • Little adobe casa
  • [words by] Tom Beasley
  • The Kansas farmer's lament
  • [words by] Will Howell
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Comin' back to Kansas
  • But the mortgage worked the hardest
  • [words by] Will Carleton
  • The Kansas fool
  • [words by] C.S. Whitney
  • Dear prairie home
  • B.R. Hanby, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • There comes a reckoning day
  • S.C. Foster
  • Come, all ye toiling millions
  • Once I lived in Cottonwood
  • H.C. Work, H.F. Johnson
  • The hayseed
  • The farmer
  • Vote for me
  • Henry C. Work, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • Harvest land
  • The Swede from North Dakota
  • Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Overalls and snuff
  • The Mormons in the mountains
  • [words by] George A. Hicks
  • The harvest war song
  • [words by] Pat Brennan
  • Tom Joad
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Pastures of plenty
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, I
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, II
  • The frozen logger
  • James Stevens
  • Early life in Dixie
  • The tragedy of sunset land
  • [words by] Loren Roberts
  • Them days is gone forever
  • [words by] O.L. Ufavise
  • A dollar a day without board
  • [words by] Harry Norcross
  • The San Francisco rag-picker
  • [words by] Fred Woodhull
  • Ship out
  • [words by] Walquist.
  • [words by] Samuel Kenner
  • The suckers sadly gather
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • It's a long way down to the soup line
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Go to sea no more
  • The ballad of Bloody Thursday
  • Hallelujah, on the bum
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The bum on the stem
  • The great American bum
  • St. George
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, I
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, II
  • Hard travelin'
  • Woodie Guthrie
  • The dying hobo
  • The hobo's last ride
  • Oh, you wobblies
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The preacher and the slave
  • The boys of Sanpete County
  • J.P. Webster, Joe Hill
  • When you wear that button
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • Scissor Bill
  • Leighton bros., Joe Hill
  • We're bound for San Diego
  • Harry Orchard
  • Joe Hillstrom
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The old settler
  • G.F. Root
  • [words by] Francis D. Henry
  • Great-grand-dad
  • The days of '49
  • arr. E. Zimmer, [words by] Charles Rhoades (Bensell)
  • The good old days of '50, '1, and '2
  • [words by] J. Riley Mains
  • This is the place
  • [words by] Myron Crandall
  • The little old sod shanty in the West
  • [words by] O.E. Murray
  • Tittery-irie-aye
  • When I was a cowboy
  • [words by] Leadbelly
  • Do re mi
  • Woody Guthrie
  • The Sioux Indians
  • The Indian ghost dance and war
  • [words by] W.H. Prather
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The ride of Paul Venarez
  • [words by] Eben E. Rexford
  • Plantonio, the pride of the plains
  • The Texas rangers
  • The disheartened ranger
  • [words by] M.B. Smith
  • The dying ranger
  • A fair lady of the plains
  • Custer's last charge
  • The regular army, o!
  • The Mormon du dah song
  • [words by] Ed Harrigan
  • Mustang gray
  • The Mormon battalion
  • [words by] Azariah Smith.
  • The desert route
  • [words by] Levi W. Hancock
  • The Sonora filibusters
  • N. Kneass, John A. Stone
  • Our leaky tents
  • George F. Root
  • S.C. Foster
  • There is no work in the army
  • Old Arizona again
  • It's a long, long way to Capture Villa
  • When we go marching home
  • H.C. Work
  • John Chinaman
  • Josh, John
  • John Chinaman, my Jo
  • J. Watson, J.W. Conner
  • John Chinaman's appeal
  • All are talking of Utah
  • [words by] Mart Taylor
  • John Chinaman's marriage
  • Hay sing, come from China
  • Twelve hundred more
  • Long John, Chineeman
  • Since the Chinese ruint the thrade
  • Get out, yellow-skins, get out!
  • What was your name in the states?
  • Quantrell
  • Sam Bass
  • H.C. Work
  • Joaquin the horse-thief
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Billy the kid
  • Cole Younger
  • Portland County jail
  • Experience
  • Pretty boy Floyd
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The Texas cowboy
  • I want to be a cowboy
  • The mountain meadows massacre
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Yellowstone flat
  • The captain of the cowboys
  • Top hand
  • The jolly vaquero
  • The horse wrangler
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Old time cowboy.
  • The cowboy, I
  • [words by] Allen McCandless
  • Uncle Sam and the Mormons
  • The cowboy, II
  • The cowboy's life
  • The dreary, dreary life
  • The cowboys' Christmas ball
  • [words by] Larry Chittenden
  • A busted cowboy's Christmas
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Windy Bill
  • Bow-legged Ike
  • Tying knots in the devil's tail
Instance
Label
Songs of the American West
Title
Songs of the American West
Statement of responsibility
compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Accompanying matter
bibliography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Lingenfelter, Richard E
Form of composition
folk music
LC call number
M1629.L63
LC item number
S7
Literary text for sound recordings
not applicable
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1942 April 26-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Dwyer, Richard A
  • Cohen, David
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Folk songs, English
  • Folk music
  • West (U.S.)
Label
Songs of the American West, compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Unacc. melodies; includes chord symbols
Bibliography note
Bibliography: pages 573-584
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
notated music
Content type code
  • ntm
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The rolling stone
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • A miners' meeting
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • I want to make the riffle
  • We came to Tamichi
  • [words by] Scott Judy and Doc Hammond
  • The seven devil mines
  • [words by] H.F. Johnson
  • Colorado home
  • When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner
  • Westward ho
  • Casey Jones, the miner
  • The broken-hearted leaser
  • [words by] Charles E. Winter
  • The Belmont Stopes
  • I wandered today up the hill, Maggie
  • J.A. Butterfield
  • The rustling song
  • Bisbee's queen
  • Cousin Jack
  • I once was a carman in the Big Mountain con
  • Coming around the horn
  • Drill, ye miners, drill!
  • Thomas F. Casey
  • Only a miner killed in the breast
  • Stand by your union
  • The copper strike of '17
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy
  • The miner
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The scab's lament
  • Charles K. Harris
  • L.V.H. Crosby, John A. Stone
  • A scabby cousin Jack
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy.
  • Strike breaker's lament
  • Solidarity forever
  • [words by] Scottie
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • J.T. White, William Clayton
  • There is a people in the West
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Upper California
  • The fools of '49
  • Edward J. Loder, John Taylor
  • Deseret
  • Henry Russell, William Willes
  • They cry 'deluded Mormons'
  • [words by] William Willes
  • A church without a prophet
  • Edward L. Loder
  • In the hive of deseret
  • John Davy, William Willes
  • The handcarts, I
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • [words by] William Hobbs
  • The handcarts, II
  • A. Hart
  • the handcarts, III
  • S.C. Foster, Philip Margetts
  • Early this spring we'll leave Nauvoo
  • [words by] Barnard White
  • In 1864
  • The way they emigrage
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Oh, California
  • Wish I was a Mormonite
  • Brigham Young, I
  • [words by] J.W. Conner
  • Brigham Young, II
  • The Mormon king
  • [words by] G.W. Anderson
  • The Mormon creed
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Mormon love serenade
  • S. Riggs, Alfred Norton
  • S.C. Foster, J. Nichols
  • My wife has become a Mormonite
  • In the midst of these awful Mormons
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The cohabs
  • [words by] George Hicks
  • The Mormon question
  • A ripping trip
  • Humbug steamship companies
  • To the West
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Sacramento
  • The dying Californian
  • Ball and Drinkard
  • Crossing the plains
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • O if I was at home again
  • [words by] John P. Grantham
  • Sweet Betsey from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Henry Russell, C. McKay
  • Emigrant from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Arrival of the greenhorn
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Johnny's dead
  • The pioneer stage driver
  • [words by] Charley Rhoades
  • California stage company
  • J.R. Myers, John A. Stone
  • The overland stage driver
  • To the West : a parody
  • [words by] Nat Stein
  • The bull-whacker
  • Bill Peters, the stage driver
  • Pete Orman
  • [words by] Asher
  • Freighting from Wilcox to Globe.
  • The railroad cars are coming
  • [words by] Robert Snell
  • Subsidy : a Goat Island ballad
  • The iron horse
  • Hell in Texas
  • Echo Canyon
  • Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer
  • [words by] S.L. Samson
  • Way out in Idaho
  • The wandering laborer's song
  • The Peninsula Pike
  • [words by] Charley L. Grant
  • Casey Jones, the union scab
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Seeing the elephant
  • Ho! for California!
  • D.D. Emmett, D.G. Robinson
  • Hunting after gold
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • The gold digger's lament
  • Prospecting dream
  • S.C. Foster, John A. Stone
  • California ball
  • G.P. Knauff, John A. Stone
  • Joe Bowers
  • J.E. Johnson, John Woodward
  • D.D. Emmett, J. Hutchinson
  • The lousy miner
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • California as it is
  • [words by] Thaddeus W. Meighan
  • California bloomer
  • W. Whitlock, John A. Stone
  • California Joe
  • Hector A. Stuart
  • When I went off to prospect
  • J. Brougham, John A. Stone
  • I'm off for California
  • San Juan
  • [words by] Barney Riley
  • Cherry Creek emigrant's song
  • D.D. Emmett
  • A hit at the times
  • [words by] A.O. McGrew
  • In the summer of sixty
  • A trip to Salmon
  • D.D. Emmett, Max Irwin.
  • Idaho
  • S.C. Foster
  • Frank French
  • The dreary Black Hills
  • [words by] Dick Brown
  • A trip to Rapid River
  • [words by] Hannibal F. Johnson
  • Just from Dawson
  • The Apex boarding house
  • An honest miner
  • S. Lover, John A. Stone
  • The happy miner
  • [words by] John J. Davies
  • [words by] Gail I. Gardner
  • High Chin Bob
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • Git along, little dogies
  • The old Chisholm trail
  • John Gerner's trail herd
  • The hills of Mexico
  • Lone star trail
  • The railroad corral
  • [words by] Joseph M. Hanson
  • The Mormon bishop's lament
  • I ride an old paint
  • Goodbye, old paint
  • Night-herding song
  • [words by] Harry Stephens
  • If your saddle is good and tight
  • Chopo
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • The gal I left behind me
  • The rambling cowboy
  • The trail to Mexico
  • The Mormon car
  • Brown-eyed Lee
  • Sky ball paint
  • Speckles
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • Bucking bronco
  • The zebra dun
  • A border affair
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • The campfire has gone out
  • The Wyoming nester
  • [words by] John Taylor
  • The old cowboy
  • [words by] Charlie Johnson
  • The range of the buffalo.
  • The buffalo hunters
  • Cowboy reverie
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • The invasion song
  • Home, sweet home
  • Henry Bishop
  • The dying cowboy
  • The merry Mormons
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • Will S. Hays, N. Howard Thorp
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The cowboy's dream
  • H.J. Fuller
  • Charlie Rutledge
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • When work is done this fall
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • I've got no use for the women
  • [words by] Matthew Rowan
  • Utah Carroll
  • Only a cowboy
  • Blood on the saddle
  • The Kansas emigrant
  • [words by] John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Western home
  • Brewster Higley, Daniel E. Kelley
  • Home on the range
  • Immigration song
  • The old bachelor
  • Sea gulls and crickets
  • [words by] A.L. Stokesberry
  • Kansas jayhawker
  • T.A. Metz
  • Kansas boys
  • In Kansas
  • Starving to death on a government claim
  • [words by] Frank Baker
  • Nebraska land
  • [words by] John A. Dean
  • Kansas land, I
  • Home manufactures
  • Kansas land, II
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, I
  • Will S. Hays
  • Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • Answer to the answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, II.
  • Little adobe casa
  • [words by] Tom Beasley
  • The Kansas farmer's lament
  • [words by] Will Howell
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Comin' back to Kansas
  • But the mortgage worked the hardest
  • [words by] Will Carleton
  • The Kansas fool
  • [words by] C.S. Whitney
  • Dear prairie home
  • B.R. Hanby, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • There comes a reckoning day
  • S.C. Foster
  • Come, all ye toiling millions
  • Once I lived in Cottonwood
  • H.C. Work, H.F. Johnson
  • The hayseed
  • The farmer
  • Vote for me
  • Henry C. Work, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • Harvest land
  • The Swede from North Dakota
  • Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Overalls and snuff
  • The Mormons in the mountains
  • [words by] George A. Hicks
  • The harvest war song
  • [words by] Pat Brennan
  • Tom Joad
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Pastures of plenty
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, I
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, II
  • The frozen logger
  • James Stevens
  • Early life in Dixie
  • The tragedy of sunset land
  • [words by] Loren Roberts
  • Them days is gone forever
  • [words by] O.L. Ufavise
  • A dollar a day without board
  • [words by] Harry Norcross
  • The San Francisco rag-picker
  • [words by] Fred Woodhull
  • Ship out
  • [words by] Walquist.
  • [words by] Samuel Kenner
  • The suckers sadly gather
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • It's a long way down to the soup line
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Go to sea no more
  • The ballad of Bloody Thursday
  • Hallelujah, on the bum
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The bum on the stem
  • The great American bum
  • St. George
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, I
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, II
  • Hard travelin'
  • Woodie Guthrie
  • The dying hobo
  • The hobo's last ride
  • Oh, you wobblies
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The preacher and the slave
  • The boys of Sanpete County
  • J.P. Webster, Joe Hill
  • When you wear that button
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • Scissor Bill
  • Leighton bros., Joe Hill
  • We're bound for San Diego
  • Harry Orchard
  • Joe Hillstrom
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The old settler
  • G.F. Root
  • [words by] Francis D. Henry
  • Great-grand-dad
  • The days of '49
  • arr. E. Zimmer, [words by] Charles Rhoades (Bensell)
  • The good old days of '50, '1, and '2
  • [words by] J. Riley Mains
  • This is the place
  • [words by] Myron Crandall
  • The little old sod shanty in the West
  • [words by] O.E. Murray
  • Tittery-irie-aye
  • When I was a cowboy
  • [words by] Leadbelly
  • Do re mi
  • Woody Guthrie
  • The Sioux Indians
  • The Indian ghost dance and war
  • [words by] W.H. Prather
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The ride of Paul Venarez
  • [words by] Eben E. Rexford
  • Plantonio, the pride of the plains
  • The Texas rangers
  • The disheartened ranger
  • [words by] M.B. Smith
  • The dying ranger
  • A fair lady of the plains
  • Custer's last charge
  • The regular army, o!
  • The Mormon du dah song
  • [words by] Ed Harrigan
  • Mustang gray
  • The Mormon battalion
  • [words by] Azariah Smith.
  • The desert route
  • [words by] Levi W. Hancock
  • The Sonora filibusters
  • N. Kneass, John A. Stone
  • Our leaky tents
  • George F. Root
  • S.C. Foster
  • There is no work in the army
  • Old Arizona again
  • It's a long, long way to Capture Villa
  • When we go marching home
  • H.C. Work
  • John Chinaman
  • Josh, John
  • John Chinaman, my Jo
  • J. Watson, J.W. Conner
  • John Chinaman's appeal
  • All are talking of Utah
  • [words by] Mart Taylor
  • John Chinaman's marriage
  • Hay sing, come from China
  • Twelve hundred more
  • Long John, Chineeman
  • Since the Chinese ruint the thrade
  • Get out, yellow-skins, get out!
  • What was your name in the states?
  • Quantrell
  • Sam Bass
  • H.C. Work
  • Joaquin the horse-thief
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Billy the kid
  • Cole Younger
  • Portland County jail
  • Experience
  • Pretty boy Floyd
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The Texas cowboy
  • I want to be a cowboy
  • The mountain meadows massacre
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Yellowstone flat
  • The captain of the cowboys
  • Top hand
  • The jolly vaquero
  • The horse wrangler
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Old time cowboy.
  • The cowboy, I
  • [words by] Allen McCandless
  • Uncle Sam and the Mormons
  • The cowboy, II
  • The cowboy's life
  • The dreary, dreary life
  • The cowboys' Christmas ball
  • [words by] Larry Chittenden
  • A busted cowboy's Christmas
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Windy Bill
  • Bow-legged Ike
  • Tying knots in the devil's tail
Control code
169779
Dimensions
29 cm
Extent
xii, 595 pages
Lccn
67012220
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(WaOLN)1144045
Label
Songs of the American West, compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen. Drawings by Steven M. Johnson
Publication
Note
Unacc. melodies; includes chord symbols
Bibliography note
Bibliography: pages 573-584
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
notated music
Content type code
  • ntm
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The rolling stone
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • A miners' meeting
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • I want to make the riffle
  • We came to Tamichi
  • [words by] Scott Judy and Doc Hammond
  • The seven devil mines
  • [words by] H.F. Johnson
  • Colorado home
  • When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner
  • Westward ho
  • Casey Jones, the miner
  • The broken-hearted leaser
  • [words by] Charles E. Winter
  • The Belmont Stopes
  • I wandered today up the hill, Maggie
  • J.A. Butterfield
  • The rustling song
  • Bisbee's queen
  • Cousin Jack
  • I once was a carman in the Big Mountain con
  • Coming around the horn
  • Drill, ye miners, drill!
  • Thomas F. Casey
  • Only a miner killed in the breast
  • Stand by your union
  • The copper strike of '17
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy
  • The miner
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The scab's lament
  • Charles K. Harris
  • L.V.H. Crosby, John A. Stone
  • A scabby cousin Jack
  • [words by] Joe Kennedy.
  • Strike breaker's lament
  • Solidarity forever
  • [words by] Scottie
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • J.T. White, William Clayton
  • There is a people in the West
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Upper California
  • The fools of '49
  • Edward J. Loder, John Taylor
  • Deseret
  • Henry Russell, William Willes
  • They cry 'deluded Mormons'
  • [words by] William Willes
  • A church without a prophet
  • Edward L. Loder
  • In the hive of deseret
  • John Davy, William Willes
  • The handcarts, I
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • [words by] William Hobbs
  • The handcarts, II
  • A. Hart
  • the handcarts, III
  • S.C. Foster, Philip Margetts
  • Early this spring we'll leave Nauvoo
  • [words by] Barnard White
  • In 1864
  • The way they emigrage
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Oh, California
  • Wish I was a Mormonite
  • Brigham Young, I
  • [words by] J.W. Conner
  • Brigham Young, II
  • The Mormon king
  • [words by] G.W. Anderson
  • The Mormon creed
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Mormon love serenade
  • S. Riggs, Alfred Norton
  • S.C. Foster, J. Nichols
  • My wife has become a Mormonite
  • In the midst of these awful Mormons
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The cohabs
  • [words by] George Hicks
  • The Mormon question
  • A ripping trip
  • Humbug steamship companies
  • To the West
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Sacramento
  • The dying Californian
  • Ball and Drinkard
  • Crossing the plains
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • O if I was at home again
  • [words by] John P. Grantham
  • Sweet Betsey from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Henry Russell, C. McKay
  • Emigrant from Pike
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Arrival of the greenhorn
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Johnny's dead
  • The pioneer stage driver
  • [words by] Charley Rhoades
  • California stage company
  • J.R. Myers, John A. Stone
  • The overland stage driver
  • To the West : a parody
  • [words by] Nat Stein
  • The bull-whacker
  • Bill Peters, the stage driver
  • Pete Orman
  • [words by] Asher
  • Freighting from Wilcox to Globe.
  • The railroad cars are coming
  • [words by] Robert Snell
  • Subsidy : a Goat Island ballad
  • The iron horse
  • Hell in Texas
  • Echo Canyon
  • Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer
  • [words by] S.L. Samson
  • Way out in Idaho
  • The wandering laborer's song
  • The Peninsula Pike
  • [words by] Charley L. Grant
  • Casey Jones, the union scab
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Seeing the elephant
  • Ho! for California!
  • D.D. Emmett, D.G. Robinson
  • Hunting after gold
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • The gold digger's lament
  • Prospecting dream
  • S.C. Foster, John A. Stone
  • California ball
  • G.P. Knauff, John A. Stone
  • Joe Bowers
  • J.E. Johnson, John Woodward
  • D.D. Emmett, J. Hutchinson
  • The lousy miner
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • California as it is
  • [words by] Thaddeus W. Meighan
  • California bloomer
  • W. Whitlock, John A. Stone
  • California Joe
  • Hector A. Stuart
  • When I went off to prospect
  • J. Brougham, John A. Stone
  • I'm off for California
  • San Juan
  • [words by] Barney Riley
  • Cherry Creek emigrant's song
  • D.D. Emmett
  • A hit at the times
  • [words by] A.O. McGrew
  • In the summer of sixty
  • A trip to Salmon
  • D.D. Emmett, Max Irwin.
  • Idaho
  • S.C. Foster
  • Frank French
  • The dreary Black Hills
  • [words by] Dick Brown
  • A trip to Rapid River
  • [words by] Hannibal F. Johnson
  • Just from Dawson
  • The Apex boarding house
  • An honest miner
  • S. Lover, John A. Stone
  • The happy miner
  • [words by] John J. Davies
  • [words by] Gail I. Gardner
  • High Chin Bob
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • Git along, little dogies
  • The old Chisholm trail
  • John Gerner's trail herd
  • The hills of Mexico
  • Lone star trail
  • The railroad corral
  • [words by] Joseph M. Hanson
  • The Mormon bishop's lament
  • I ride an old paint
  • Goodbye, old paint
  • Night-herding song
  • [words by] Harry Stephens
  • If your saddle is good and tight
  • Chopo
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • The gal I left behind me
  • The rambling cowboy
  • The trail to Mexico
  • The Mormon car
  • Brown-eyed Lee
  • Sky ball paint
  • Speckles
  • [words by] N. Howard Thorp
  • Bucking bronco
  • The zebra dun
  • A border affair
  • [words by] Charles Badger Clark
  • The campfire has gone out
  • The Wyoming nester
  • [words by] John Taylor
  • The old cowboy
  • [words by] Charlie Johnson
  • The range of the buffalo.
  • The buffalo hunters
  • Cowboy reverie
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • The invasion song
  • Home, sweet home
  • Henry Bishop
  • The dying cowboy
  • The merry Mormons
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • Will S. Hays, N. Howard Thorp
  • The cowboy's lament
  • The cowboy's dream
  • H.J. Fuller
  • Charlie Rutledge
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • When work is done this fall
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • I've got no use for the women
  • [words by] Matthew Rowan
  • Utah Carroll
  • Only a cowboy
  • Blood on the saddle
  • The Kansas emigrant
  • [words by] John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Western home
  • Brewster Higley, Daniel E. Kelley
  • Home on the range
  • Immigration song
  • The old bachelor
  • Sea gulls and crickets
  • [words by] A.L. Stokesberry
  • Kansas jayhawker
  • T.A. Metz
  • Kansas boys
  • In Kansas
  • Starving to death on a government claim
  • [words by] Frank Baker
  • Nebraska land
  • [words by] John A. Dean
  • Kansas land, I
  • Home manufactures
  • Kansas land, II
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, I
  • Will S. Hays
  • Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • Answer to the answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • The little old sod shanty on the claim, II.
  • Little adobe casa
  • [words by] Tom Beasley
  • The Kansas farmer's lament
  • [words by] Will Howell
  • [words by] William Willes
  • Comin' back to Kansas
  • But the mortgage worked the hardest
  • [words by] Will Carleton
  • The Kansas fool
  • [words by] C.S. Whitney
  • Dear prairie home
  • B.R. Hanby, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • There comes a reckoning day
  • S.C. Foster
  • Come, all ye toiling millions
  • Once I lived in Cottonwood
  • H.C. Work, H.F. Johnson
  • The hayseed
  • The farmer
  • Vote for me
  • Henry C. Work, Mrs. J.T. Kellie
  • Harvest land
  • The Swede from North Dakota
  • Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Overalls and snuff
  • The Mormons in the mountains
  • [words by] George A. Hicks
  • The harvest war song
  • [words by] Pat Brennan
  • Tom Joad
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Pastures of plenty
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, I
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, II
  • The frozen logger
  • James Stevens
  • Early life in Dixie
  • The tragedy of sunset land
  • [words by] Loren Roberts
  • Them days is gone forever
  • [words by] O.L. Ufavise
  • A dollar a day without board
  • [words by] Harry Norcross
  • The San Francisco rag-picker
  • [words by] Fred Woodhull
  • Ship out
  • [words by] Walquist.
  • [words by] Samuel Kenner
  • The suckers sadly gather
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • It's a long way down to the soup line
  • [words by] Joe Hill
  • Go to sea no more
  • The ballad of Bloody Thursday
  • Hallelujah, on the bum
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The bum on the stem
  • The great American bum
  • St. George
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, I
  • [words by] Harry McClintock
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains, II
  • Hard travelin'
  • Woodie Guthrie
  • The dying hobo
  • The hobo's last ride
  • Oh, you wobblies
  • [words by] Scottie
  • The preacher and the slave
  • The boys of Sanpete County
  • J.P. Webster, Joe Hill
  • When you wear that button
  • [words by] Richard Brazier
  • Scissor Bill
  • Leighton bros., Joe Hill
  • We're bound for San Diego
  • Harry Orchard
  • Joe Hillstrom
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The old settler
  • G.F. Root
  • [words by] Francis D. Henry
  • Great-grand-dad
  • The days of '49
  • arr. E. Zimmer, [words by] Charles Rhoades (Bensell)
  • The good old days of '50, '1, and '2
  • [words by] J. Riley Mains
  • This is the place
  • [words by] Myron Crandall
  • The little old sod shanty in the West
  • [words by] O.E. Murray
  • Tittery-irie-aye
  • When I was a cowboy
  • [words by] Leadbelly
  • Do re mi
  • Woody Guthrie
  • The Sioux Indians
  • The Indian ghost dance and war
  • [words by] W.H. Prather
  • [words by] William Willes
  • The ride of Paul Venarez
  • [words by] Eben E. Rexford
  • Plantonio, the pride of the plains
  • The Texas rangers
  • The disheartened ranger
  • [words by] M.B. Smith
  • The dying ranger
  • A fair lady of the plains
  • Custer's last charge
  • The regular army, o!
  • The Mormon du dah song
  • [words by] Ed Harrigan
  • Mustang gray
  • The Mormon battalion
  • [words by] Azariah Smith.
  • The desert route
  • [words by] Levi W. Hancock
  • The Sonora filibusters
  • N. Kneass, John A. Stone
  • Our leaky tents
  • George F. Root
  • S.C. Foster
  • There is no work in the army
  • Old Arizona again
  • It's a long, long way to Capture Villa
  • When we go marching home
  • H.C. Work
  • John Chinaman
  • Josh, John
  • John Chinaman, my Jo
  • J. Watson, J.W. Conner
  • John Chinaman's appeal
  • All are talking of Utah
  • [words by] Mart Taylor
  • John Chinaman's marriage
  • Hay sing, come from China
  • Twelve hundred more
  • Long John, Chineeman
  • Since the Chinese ruint the thrade
  • Get out, yellow-skins, get out!
  • What was your name in the states?
  • Quantrell
  • Sam Bass
  • H.C. Work
  • Joaquin the horse-thief
  • [words by] John A. Stone
  • Billy the kid
  • Cole Younger
  • Portland County jail
  • Experience
  • Pretty boy Floyd
  • [words by] Woody Guthrie
  • The Texas cowboy
  • I want to be a cowboy
  • The mountain meadows massacre
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Yellowstone flat
  • The captain of the cowboys
  • Top hand
  • The jolly vaquero
  • The horse wrangler
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Old time cowboy.
  • The cowboy, I
  • [words by] Allen McCandless
  • Uncle Sam and the Mormons
  • The cowboy, II
  • The cowboy's life
  • The dreary, dreary life
  • The cowboys' Christmas ball
  • [words by] Larry Chittenden
  • A busted cowboy's Christmas
  • [words by] D.J. O'Malley
  • Windy Bill
  • Bow-legged Ike
  • Tying knots in the devil's tail
Control code
169779
Dimensions
29 cm
Extent
xii, 595 pages
Lccn
67012220
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(WaOLN)1144045

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