Ballads & Songs Of The Civil War

A comprehensive and historically significant song collection, this massive volume captures the hopes and tragedy of the Civil War era. Songs are grouped into the following categories: The Union, The Confederacy, Lincoln, Universal Sentiments, Soldiers Songs, Battles, Negro Spirituals & Abolitionist Songs, The Lighter Side, and Post Bellum. A special feature of this text is the inclusion of authentic formal and informal portraits, plus depicting military encampment of the aftermath of the battle. Arranged for voice with piano accompaniment and guitar chords.

Inhalt:

• The Why And The Wherefore
• We've Drunk From The Same Canteen
• The Southern Soldier Boy - Words: Captain G.W. Alexander
• The John Brown Song
• The Army Of The Free - Words: Frank H. Norton
• Steal Away
• My Father, How Long?
• Many Thousand Gone
• Farewell To Grog - Words: Caspas Schenk, U.S.N.
• We'll Fight For Uncle Abe - Frederick Buckley, Words: C.E. Pratt
• The Vacant Chair - George F. Root, Words: Henry S. Washburn
• The Battle Cry Of Freedom (Rallying Song) - George F. Root
• Overtures From Richmond - Words: Francis J. Child
• Billy Barlow - Ed Clifford
• The Southern Soldier
• The New York Volunteer
• The Fall Of Charleston - Words: Eugene T. Johnson
• The Blue And The Gray - Words: M.F. Finch, Music: Felix Schelling
• Marching Song Of The First Arkansas (Negro) Regime
• Just Before The Battle, Mother - George F. Root
• High-Toned Southern Gentleman
• For The Dear Old Flag I Die - Stephen Collins Foster, Words: George Cooper
• When Sherman Marched Down To The Sea - Words: S.B.M. Meyers, Music: E. Mack
• The Yellow Rose Of Texas
• The Old Union Wagon - Words: John Hogarth Lozier
• The Liberty Ball - Words: Jesse Hutchinson
• The Cumberland Crew
• The Battle Cry Of Freedom, Ii (Battle Song) - Geroge F. Root
• Tenting On The Old Camp Ground - Walter Kittredge
• Southern Battle Cry Of Freedom - George F. Root
• Old Abe Lincoln Came Out Of The Wilderness
• Virginia's Bloody Soil
• The Gold Band
• The Faded Coat Of Blue - J.H. Mcnaughton
• Stonewall Jackson's Way - J.W. Palmer
• Lincoln And Liberty - Words: Jesse Hutchinson
• Babylon Is Fallen - Henry C. Work
• Abraham's Daughter Ii
• There Was An Old Soldier
• The Rebel Soldier
• Riding A Raid
• Maryland, My Maryland - Words: James R. Randall
• Just After The Battle - George F. Root
• Grafted Into The Army - Henry C. Work
• Drink It Down
• Do They Miss Me At Home? - S.M. Grannis, Words: Caroline A. Mason
• Billy Barlow-On The Times - Words: H. Angelo, Music:"Billy Barlow"
• The Valiant Conscript
• Sambo's Right To Be Kilt - Music: S. Lover
• Nine Miles To The Junction
• Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!, Ii (Southern Version) - George F. Root
• Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! - George F. Root
• The Battle Of Shiloh
• Cumberland Gap
• We Conquer Or Die - James Pierpont
• The Grant Pill - Words: Harriet L. Castle, Music: J.C. Beckel
• The Battle Of Shiloh Hill - Words: M.B. Smith(Comp. C, 2d Regiment, Tx Volunte
• Somebody's Darling - John Hill Hewitt, Words: Marie Ravenal De Coste
• Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last
• John Brown's Body
• I Can Whip The Scoundrel
• Home, Sweet Home - Henry Rowley Bishop, Words: John Howard Payne
• Sixty-Three Is The Jubilee - Words: J.L. Greene, Music: D.A. French
• Hard Times In Dixie - Words: M.K., Music: Eugarps
• Go Down, Moses
• Give Us A Flag
• De Day Ob Liberty's Comin' - George F. Root
• Clear The Track - Words: Jesse Hutchinson, Music: Daniel D. Emmett
• A Life On The Vicksburg Bluff - Words: A. Dalsheimer
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Patrick S. Gilmore
• We Are Coming, Father Abr'am - L.O. Emerson, Words: James Sloan Gibbons
• Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel - Music: Daniel D. Emmett
• Marching Through Georgia - Henry C. Work
• I'll Be A Sargeant
• I Goes To Fight Mit Sigel - Words: F. Poole
• Brother Green
• All Quiet Along The Potomac - W.H. Goodwin, Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers
• We Wait Beneath The Furnace Blast - Words: John Greenleaf Whittier, M:Martin Luther,Ch
• The Young Volunteer - John Hill Hewitt
• The Southern Wagon
• The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh - Will S. Hays
• Roll, Alabama, Roll
• Oh, I'm A Good Old Rebel - Music: "Joe Bowers"
• Jeff In Petticoats - Words: Henry Tucker, Music: George Cooper
• Here's Your Mule - Music: C.D.Benson
• Free At Last
• Who Will Care For Mother Now? - Charles C. Sawyer
• Weeping Sad And Lonely (When This Cruel War Is Ove - Henry Tucker, Words: Charles C. Sawyer
• The Bonnie Blue Flag - Words: Harry Mccarthy
• Follow The Drinking Gourd - Words & Music: Adapted & Arranged By Lee Hays And
• Flight Of Doodles
• Dixie's Land - Daniel D. Emmett
• Booth Killed Lincoln
• The Brass-Mounted Army
• Goober Peas
• Abraham's Daughter - Septimus Winner
• The Cumberland And The Merrimac
• Pat Murphy Of The Irish Brigade
• Marching Along - William B. Bradbury
• Johnny Is My Darling - Words: Father Reed
• Dixie - Words: Albert Pike, Music: Daniel D. Emmett
• The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Julia Ward Howe
• Southrons' Chaunt Of Defiance - A.E. Blackmar
• Oh, Freedom
• Lorena - J.P. Webster, Words: Rev. H.D.L. Webster
• Kingdom Coming - Henry C. Work
• Cairo