Gonna Sing My Head Off!: American Folk Songs for Children [Collected and Arranged for Piano and Guitar]
(From Amazon): "Work songs, love songs, ballads and blues, lullabyies, spirituals, protest songs, and sheer nonsense make up this entertaining collection of 62 traditional and contemporary favorites. The exuberant illustrations manage to be both familiar and dramatic and range in tone from comic exaggeration to understatement and unashamed sentiment. Informal notes at the head of each song give something about history, origin, performance, and possibilities for variation. The notes also express the sense of connection with ordinary people's lives that is at the heart of this collection."--Booklist (starred)
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0679872329
- Print Status
- In Print
- Songs
- 62
- Pages
- 160
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 5th
- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Copyright
- 1995
Songs
- 1 Acres of Clams
- 2 Arkansas Traveler
- 3 Barnyard Song
- 4 Bens in my Ears
- 5 Buffalo Gals
- 6 Casey Jones
- 7 The Cat Came Back
- 8 City of New Orleans
- 9 Clementine
- 10 The Cowboy's Lament
- 11 The Crawdad Song
- 12 Down by the Riverside
- 13 Down in the Valley
- 14 The Erie Canal
- 15 Follow the Drinking Gourd
- 16 The Fox
- 17 Freight Train
- 18 The Fozen Logger
- 19 Git Along, Llittle Dogies
- 20 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- 21 Go Tell it on the Mountain
- 22 Going to the Zoo
- 23 Good Night, Irene
- 24 Home on the Range
- 25 I ride an Old Paint
- 26 I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
- 27 If I Had a Hammer
- 28 I've Been Working on the Railroad
- 29 Jesse James
- 30 Joe Hill
- 31 John Henry
- 32 Little Boxes
- 33 Mama Don't Allow
- 34 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
- 35 The Mockingbird Song
- 36 The Motorcycle Song
- 37 Oh, Susanna!
- 38 Old Joe Clark
- 39 On Top of Old Smoky
- 40 Red River Valley
- 41 The Riddle Song
- 42 Rock Island Line
- 43 Shall We Gather at the River?
- 44 She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
- 45 Shenndoah
- 46 Shiloh, Liza Jane
- 47 The Sloop John B.
- 48 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
- 49 Stewball
- 50 Sweet Betsey from Pike
- 51 Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- 52 Tell Me Why
- 53 There's a Hole in the Bucket
- 54 This Land is Your Land
- 55 This Little Light of Mine
- 56 'Tis a Gift to be Simple
- 57 Turkey in the Straw
- 58 Turn, Turn, Turn
- 59 We Shall Overcome
- 60 What Hve They Done to the Rain
- 61 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- 62 Yankee Doodle
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