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The American songbag, [by] Carl Sandburg

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The American songbag

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[by] Carl Sandburg

He's gone away -- Boll weevil song -- Moanish lady! -- I ride an old paint -- Foggy, foggy dew -- Waillie, Waillie! -- Dis mornin', dis evenin', so soon -- Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie -- Careless love -- The John B. Sails -- John Henry -- Midnight special -- Alice B. -- Po' boy -- As I was walkin' down Wexford Street -- SH-TA-RA-DAH-DEY (Irish lullaby) -- She said the same to me -- Who's the pretty girl milkin' the cow? -- Give me three grains of corn, mother -- Kevin Barry -- The son of a gambolier -- I wish I was single again -- Walky-talky Jenny -- Hayseed -- Good-by Liza Jane -- Wizard oil --Barbra Allen -- The frozen girl -- Pretty Polly -- Common Bill -- Little scotch-ee -- The house carpenter -- A pretty fair maid -- Lord Lovel -- The quaker's wooing -- The maid freed from the gallows -- Frankie and Albert -- Frankie and Johnny -- Frankie blues -- Josie -- Sadie -- The little old sod shanty -- Where o where is old Elijah? -- Turkey in the straw -- Who will shoe your pretty little foot? -- The true lover's farewell -- Fair Annie of Lochyran -- Ten thousand miles away -- Old gray mare -- The drunkard's doom -- What was your name in the states? -- Sweet Betsy from pike -- California -- The banks of sacramento -- Money -- The monkey's wedding -- Rosie Nell -- Chicken reel -- Hanging out the linen clothes -- Down, down derry down -- The lane county bachelor --Sourwood mountain -- The lover's lament -- Hello, girls -- Kansas boys -- Red river valley -- Liza Jane -- Mountain top -- Negro reel -- One morning in May -- The troubled soldier -- Post-rail song -- Hammer man -- Love somebody, yes I do -- Ain't gonna rain -- Kentucky moonshiner -- Mister frog went a-courting -- Kind miss -- Goin' down to town -- The ship that never returned -- Down in the valley -- I dreamed last night of my true love -- Drivin' steel -- The Missouri harmony -- Windsor -- Greenfields -- Worthington -- Highbridge -- Legacy -- The brown girl or fair Eleanor -- Hey Betty Martin -- Old brass wagon -- Cuckoo waltz -- Weevily wheat -- El-a-noy -- Hoosen Johnny -- My pretty little pink -- Lincoln and liberty -- Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness --The Erie Canal -- Bigerlow -- Red iron ore -- Raging canawl -- The E-RI-E -- Shovellin' iron ore -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum! -- Tramp, tramp, tramp, keep on a-tramping -- THe dying hogger -- Wanderin' -- A.R.U. -- We are four bums -- The poor working girl -- Roll the chariot -- Brady -- On to the morgue -- It's the syme the whole world over -- In the days of old rameses -- The good boy -- Willy the weeper -- Cocaine lil -- She promised she'd meet me -- No more booze (fireman save my child) -- Lydia Pinkham -- Bird in a cage -- Yonder comes the high sheriff -- Portland county jail -- Moonlight -- Midnight special -- Seven long years in state prison -- When I was young and foolish -- Been in the pen so long -- The preacher and the slave --Levee moan -- Those gambler's blues -- Got dem blues -- De blues ain' nothin' -- When a woman blue -- Coo-coo (peacock song) -- Great gawd, I'm feelin' bad -- O my honey, take me back -- What kin' o' pants does the gambler wear? -- Joe Turner -- Times gettin' hard, boys -- I'm sad and I'm lonely -- C.C. Rider -- You fight on -- Satan's a liah -- Ballet of de boll weevil -- De titanic -- When the curtains of night and pinned back -- When the work's all done this fall -- As I walked out in the Streets of Laredo -- The dreary black hills -- The lone star trail -- Whoopie ti yi yo, git along little dogies -- The buffalo skinners -- Poor lonesome cowboy -- The tenderfoot -- Little ah sid -- The kinkaiders -- Dakota land -- The farmer -- Rabble soldier -- The trail to Mexico --La cucaracha (Mexican cockroach song) -- Mañanitas (de jalisco) -- Lo que digo -- El abandonado -- Cielito Lindo -- Adelita -- Versos de montalgo -- Way up on clinch mountain -- Liza in the summer time (she died on the train) -- Coon can (poor boy) -- Gypsy Davy -- The roving gambler -- Yonder comes my pretty little girl -- The gamboling man -- O bury me beneath the willow -- Mag's song -- The orphan girl or no bread for the poor -- I got a gal at the head of the holler -- Lonesome road -- Fond affection -- Go bring me back my blue-eyed boy -- London City -- The midnight train -- I don't like no railroad man -- Sucking cider through a straw -- Did you ever, ever? -- I was born almost ten thousand years ago -- Go get the ax -- Abalone -- In de vinter time -- Cigarettes will spoil yer life -- Mary had a William goat --I wish I was a little bird -- Old Adam -- The horse named Bill -- Crazy song to the air of "Dixie" -- A boy he had an auger -- Abdul, the bulbul ameer -- Greens -- Animal fair -- Calliope -- Si hubbard -- Bolsum Brown -- Poor paddy works on the railway -- The railroad cars are coming -- Jerry, go an' ile that car -- If I die a railroad man -- Cap'n I believe -- Jay Gould's daughter and on the Charlie so long -- Casey Jones -- Mama have you heard the news? -- Don' let yo' watch run down -- There's many a man killed on the rail-road -- She'll be comin' round the mountain -- I went down to the depot -- Ever since Uncle John Henry been dead -- Go 'way f'or mah window -- My Lulu -- The wind it blew up the railroad track -- Hog-eye -- My sister she works in a laundry -- I found a horse shoe -- Railroad Bill -- Hangman -- Timber -- James Whaland -- The shanty-man's life --Flat river girl -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Driving saw-logs on the plover -- Morrissey and the russian sailor -- Mule Skinner's song -- Whisky Johnny -- Blow the man down -- The dead horse -- Heave away -- The wide mizzoura -- I catch-a da plenty of feesh -- The hog-eye man -- Leave her, bullies, leave her -- Across the western ocean -- Jim Fisk -- Jesse James -- Sam Bass -- The hunters of Kentucky or half horse and half alligator -- Jackson -- Poor kitty popcorn -- There was an old soldier -- A filipino hombre -- The sergeant, he is the worst of all -- Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket and the handsome young airman -- A war bird's burlesque -- Hinky Dinky, parlee-voo -- Where they were -- The hearse song -- Man goin' roun' -- All night long -- Zer'l weep -- I know moonlight -- Blind man lay beside the way -- By'm by --Go to sleepy -- Jungle mammy song -- Ten thousand miles away from home -- My old hammah -- Chahcoal man -- The weaver -- The Colorado trail -- I met her in the garden where the praties grow -- Somebody -- I don't want to be a gambler -- When poor Mary came wandering home -- Jesus, won't you come b'm-by? -- Dese bones gwine to rise again -- Two white horses -- Way over in the new buryin' groun' -- Mary wore three links of chain -- Pharaoh's army got drowned -- Good-bye, brother -- God's goin' to set this world on fire -- Ain' go'n to study war no mo' -- Things I used to do -- In my father's house -- Standin' on the Walls of Zion -- A hundred years ago -- You got to cross it foh yohself -- I got a letter from Jesus -- Ezekiel, you and me