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SINGING THROUGH

AMERICAN HISTORY

Events and eras in American History, in chronological context, Titles ofsongs that exemplify those dates and eras, and Sources in which those songs may beJound.

Compiled by

SAM HINTON originally preparedjor the class HFolksong and History,"

Uniuversity oj california Extension. 1968.

Printed on Friday, July :!O, :!OOI

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SONGS ARRANGED BY DATE ----------------- 1

SONGS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER -------------- 9

SONGS GROUPED BY CATEGORIES ------------- 14 African-Americans and Siavery------- 14 American Revolution-------------- 15 Between Civil War and World War 1-- 15 California ------------------------- 16 Civil Rights ------------------------ 16 Civil War -------------------------- 17 Colonial Days ---------------------- 17 Conservation and Environment ------ 18 Hard Times & Disasters -------------- 18 Immigration ----------------------- 19 Industrial Expansion & Transport ----- 19 Labor----------------------------- 20 Maritime Experience ---------------- 20 Native Americans ------------------- 21 Religious Ferment ------------------ 21 Since World War II ----------...------- 22 War of 1812 ------------------------ 22 Westward Expansion --------------- 22 World War 1------------------------ 23 World War II ----------------------- 23 Young Republic --------------------- 23

SOLIRCES OF SONGS ------------------------ 24

ADDRESSES OF SOURCES -------------------- 27

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SONGS ARRANGED BY DATE NOTE; Titles 0 J songsg are in CAPS; alternate titles are

ill quotes. sources ojsOllgs are in PARE!'.'THESES. Some songless dates are included to help place some dated songs ill context. These songs may flat have arisen at the time oj the event. but are concerned with it.

1492 (Oct 12) Columbus "discovers" America (SCHI)

1607-(May) 1st permanent English Colony, Jamestown, VA; 120 settlers. John Smith tries to rule colony, but is driven out; he leaves Va. in 1609.

JONATHAN S:MITII (COL) (HIN3) 1609-Spanish found Santa Fe. New Mexico

CA.''TO DE CUNA (ESP) 1610-Indians are an important part of our history.

MY LITTLE MOHEE(LOMl) IROQUOIS LULLABY (FOWl) ClllPPEWA OWL SONG (CRA) LAKOTA LUlLABY (RUCK2) AS LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW

(SCO) l6l0-l776-Coloniallife in general. NOTE; all songs within

this date span are appropriate here.) From the old world heritage BARBARA ALLEN (BRO) (RITCH 2) (SCOT)

(WARN4) CUCKOO, THE (RITCH 2) DEVIL & THE FAR"ffiR'S WIFE, The

("FAR\1ER'S CURST WIFE") (BRO) (FSICvi!2) (HIN3) (SCOT)

GYPSY LADDIE (RITCH 2) JOI-Il'\ BARLEYCORl'\ (RVS) LORD BATEMA.l.1\i (BRO) (RITCH 2) LORD RANDALL (RITCH 2)

GOLDEN 1REE (RITCH 2) OLD BA..NGUM: (RITCH 2) OLD MAl\" L1\i THE WOOD (FSICi/3) (HIN3)

(UNS) (SCOT) RIDDLE SONG (RUS) ROBIN THE BOBBIN (CWTY \VRli"-!')

(FSlCii3) (HIN3) '\lFE OF USHER'S WELL (RITCH 2)

North America becomes a goal for some of Europe's poor people, , . ,

INVITATION TO NORTII AMERICA (SILl) Many colonists come as indentured servants

DISTRESSED DAMSEL CfRAPA.NN'D .MAIDE\1 (SILl) (MACN2)

Daily life in the Colonies BILLY GRlA1ES (BEL) THE ClllEFTAIN'S BRIDE (AW)

GAP (CARM) (Lor..n) GRANDMOTIffiR BROWN (HIN2) KAn' CRtJa (UNS) (SCOT)

THE A fiLLER 'S WILL (HINS) PAPER OF PINS (RA.!'.') THE QUAKER'S WOOING (UNS) RISSELn' ROSSELn' (SEGI) ROVING PEDDLER (CAZI) TIIREE JOLLY ROGl7ES C1N GOOD OLD

COLOl'\"Y TIAffiS") (LL,,",S) LAD (UNS) (SO!323)

(SOREP1) YOUNG CHARLOTTE ("TI-IE FROZE,,", GIRL")

(UNS) (S0!32'3) YOUNG MAN WHO WOULDN'T HOE COR,,",

(LOM4) l612-tobacco cultivation begun by John Rolfe

TOBACCO'S BUr AN Il'.'DIANWEED (HANKS) (lVES)

1614-The Dutch Establish a colony Called New Amsterdam (later New York)

JOLLY OLD ROGER (HIN4) (LINS) 1619-Africans brought to Jamestown; probably as

indentured servants. JUBA (JONE1) (JONE2)

l620-Pilgrims land near Plymouth OLD ffilNDREDTH (RUS) TOULON (CHAS) '\\:1-10 IS THE MAN? (DOW)

1629-First Puritans anive at Salem (MA) Bay Colony l629-First commercial fishery established at Medford, MA

BOSTON COME-ALL-YE (BON) 1635) (September) Roger Williams banished from

Massachusetts Bay for preaching his belief in the separation of church and State,

1 636-Roger Williams founds Providence (Rhode Island). 1636-Anne Hutchinson also banished from the Bay

for holding "SO erroneous opinions", including what they called Antinomianism, the stressing of personal revelation, and her questioning the authority of orthodox clergy. She too fled to RI and founded the city of Portsmouth in 1638.

l640-Beginning of Actual slavery in America; \'A and MD enact a series of statutes distinguishing between white indentured servants and African chattel slaves.

ALL HID? (LC, album IV) ALL THE PREITY LIlTLE HORSES (LOM1. 2) BARNEY McCABE (MOV) (CARA3) (fUNS) GRAY GOOSE (SOREP I) JUBA (HINS) (JOl'.'El) (JOI'.'E2) LONG JOHN (LC, album III) MOTHERLESS ClllLD (RUS) (FSICi,,:3) OH MARY, DON'T YOU 'VEEP (RUS) SEEK M'D YOU SHALL FINU (RUS) (SO!32:4) SHOO TIJRKEY (CARA3) S\\lNG LOW, SWl3ET CHARIOT (BON)

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16-t-1-lst organized whale processing and distribu-tion, on Long Island, z-..'''y, (beached whales only)

16-J.7-Towns of Providence, Newport, and Portsmouth band together and form the colony of Rhode Island, with a General Assembly draft code separating church and state and guaranteeing religious freedom,

1659-1st fire department to be established by municipal action, in New York City,

BOWERY GRE"JADIERS (Alli) (SO! 9'3) 1668-French establish fur-trading post and mission at

Sault(W ARl\;4) 1738-George Whitefield, Evangelist, arrives in America

o LOVELY APPEARA1\lCE OF DEArn (LOM3) Rise of "Play-parties" as an answer to religious strictures against dancing

OLD JOE CLARK (FSIC vi:l) (HlN4) (SOREPl)

SKIP TO t-.fY LOll (RlTS) (FSIC iv:2) GO IK TIlE \\1LDERNESS (ALLE)

1756-1763- "French and Indian War" (7 Years' War) (See also 1759)

FELIX TIIE SOLDIER (WARi'\l4) 1755-English expel Acadians from Sova Scotia

l P;\;", DEllX, TROIS (ALLE) (SM) CAJlP;\;" D\'O-STEP «(Instrumental) (HlN2) M'SIEl' BAINJO (ALLE) (BON)

1758-1830-Red Jacket (Sagoyawatha), Seneca orator AS LONG AS TIffi GRASS SHALL GROW (SCO) Cl-llPPEWA OWLLL'lLABY (HOM) TIlE !ANTI K:.'lOWS YOl"RE 1HERE (CARAl)

(Hi\..l\ol\:S) (PET) 1759 (Sep 18) - English capture Quebec in French and

Indian War; leaders of both armies, Montcalme and Wolfe. are killed,

BRAVE WOLFE (FSIC vii:3) (\\'ARN4) 1761-0biutary verse about Timothy Myrick, which passed

into the folk tradition and became a song witH many, many versions,

SPRINGFlELD MOL T AL'l (HlN4) (SCO) (SCOT)

1765-Colomsts complaining about British taxation. (SILl)

1767-British Townshend Acts decree that Americans pay on all imported glass, lead, paint, and tea. Americans respond by organizing a boycott against ALL British imports,

TO TIlE LADIES! ("YOllNG LADIES N TOW!':") (FOR) (SILl) (SCOT)

1769 (July 16) Mission San Diego de Alcala founded; 1st of a series of missions & towns designed to strengthen Spain's claim to California and to keep the Russians out.

1769-18-lO: The "heyday" of Alta California Missions and Ranchos. A good general set of songs and dance music on the CD: Los Californios: Flowers ofOur Lost

Romance. -- For information. write Ms. Vykki t-.lende Gray, 634 28th St., San Diego. CA 92181.

ADIOS, ADIOS, At-.flGOS (CAUF) ALABADO (CRUZ) JAY. SUSA.lI,JAl (CALIF) BORREGO, EL (CAUF) CAUFOR.l\,,1 \'ALS JOT A, EL (CALIF) CAMOTES, LOS (CALIF) CM'TICO DE ALBA (CRUZ) CAt."'TO DE Cl,;\;A (ESP) CAPOTIK, EL (CAUF) (SO!.t:5) (LL'M) CIELITO Ul'.1)() (MACK3) (OROZ3) COr-..'TRADANZA DE MONIERREY. LA (CALIF) COl\TRADAN ZA DE SONOMA, LA (CALIF) DE COLORES (RUS) (SO!25-3) (HlN8) (OROZl) DESPEDIDA DE MONlERREY, LA (CALIF) EN NOMBRE DEL CIELO (ERR) (HlN9) ES AL AMOR MARIPOSA (CALIF) GALLITO, EL (ESP) HAMACA, LA (CAllF)

MUJER, LA (CALIF) MANAN1T AS, LAS (OROZ2) (TOO) MI PEPA (CALIF) POSADAS, LAS SONGS (lUN9) (OROZl) SOMBRERO BLANCO, EL (CALIF) VALS DE MILAN (CAUF) VARSOVlA.1\iA, LA (CALIF)

1770 (March 3) The "Boston Massacre" UNHAPPY BOSTOI' (ALLI) (BRA.,l\IDl) (LAW)

1771-1 st Spinning Mill established in Derbyshire, England FOUR-LOOM WEAVER(SEG4) POVERn' KNOCK (WALK-J2)

1773 (Dec. 16) The Boston Tea Party TIlE BOSTON TEA-TA.X (SILl) (SCOT) REVOLlmONARY TEA ("RICH LADY OVER

TIlE SEA") (SCOT) (SILl) 1774 - Increase of anti-British feelings

FREE AMERICA (BRAND2) (SILl) 1775 (Oct. 7) British rue upon the town of Bristol, Rhode

Island BOMBARDMEl'.'T OF BRISTOL (ALLI) (SILl)

1775-1783-- (I1-IE GEl\TERAL PERIOD) The American Revolution. NOTE: Many of the songs from earlier dates refer to events leading up to the Revolution, and may be used in this context

JOHNNY HAS GONE FOR A SOLDIER C'BUITER.\1ILK l-llLL") (ALU) (SCOT) (SILl)

CHESTER (MACS2) (SILl) YM'KEE DOODLE (BRA:NTI2) (FSIC Ill: 1)

(LAW) (SCO) JOHN:!'.')' GET 'yot)R GL';\; (ALLI)

1775 (JUNE 17)-The Battle Of Bunker Hill HilL (A) (ALLI) (SILl)

BL'NKER mIL (B) (DRI2)

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1776 (SEP. 22) Execution of Hale HALE (ALLI) (SILl)

ILALE 1:-': TI IE BUSI I (BRA;''D2) 1-:'76 (Dec 25) WAShington crosses the Delaware to

retake Trenton and Princeton. HIE BATILE OF (SCOT)

1776 - Shakers settle near ALBA!\,;'Y, MORE LO\'E (A.:'\.'D) (RUS) SIMPLE GIFTS (.<\"'\.'0) (FSICix:2) (RUS) (SCO)

1777 (Aug 16) Battle of Bennington, \1' OF (SILl) (SCO)

(SO!2-+: 2) 1777 (Oct 17) Battle of Saratoga

FATE OF JOH1\' BURGOYNE (SCOT) 1779 - First whaler to round the Hom; beginning

of American Pacific whale fishery. DOWN TO MI\UI (HUG)

A WHALER' S TALE (GRAY 1) TI:IE SONG OF TI:IE WORlD'S LAST WHALE

(MORS) 1780 (Sep 23) Capture of British Major John Andre reveals

Benedict Arnold's attempted treason. Andre executed Oct. 2.

CAPTIJRE (or "BALLAD") OF IvlAJOR A''ORE (ALLI) (LAW) (FSICiii:2) (SCOT)

(SILl) 1781 (Oct 19) Battle of Yorktown; Surrender of Lord

Cornwallis COR"WAWS' COCNlRY DA.NCE (FSlCiii:2)

(SILl) FOl'R LITTLE GIRLS I!': BOSTO!': (DRI 1) LORD COR"iVI"AlliS' SURREl'.'DER (FSICiii:2)

(SCOT) SOLDIERS' JOY (DRI 1)

THE WORLD TUR1\'ED UPSIDE DOWN (MACN2) (SO!24:4)

1783 (Sep 3) The Peace of Paris signals the end of the Rnolution.

DYING BRITISH SERGEA.>'rr (''DYING REDCOAT') (SCOT) (SO!I:9) (WAR'\;2)

John Adams insists that the treaty give Americans the right to fish in Canadian waters. CODFISH SHA. ''n' ("SOUTH AUSTRALIA")

(BON) (HliG) 1783- (Dec 4) British finally evacuate New York and Staten

Island DOODLEDA."'IDY (WAR'\"5)

1788 (June 21) US Constitution goes into effect. SOMOS EL BARCO (SO!32:2)

1792 (Dec 15) Bill of Rights goes into effect 1793-94 The Whiskey Rebellion; Pennsylvania farmers

(and distillers) protesting the 1791Whiskey Tax imposed by the new federal govenunent.

RL'N (DRI2)

1799 Quasi-war against France O\'er commercial maritiml..' rights

S \"lCTORY (BOARD) (LAW) 1800 Jefferson's Presidential Campaign.

JEFFERSOK A'.'D LIBERTI' (FSICviii: 1) (U\W) (SCOT) (SO!5:-I.)

1803 - Lewis and Clark Expedition authorized by President Jefferson.

ROLL COLUMBIA (GllH) (ReS) 1805 - C.S. refuses to pay Barbary states for "pro-tection"

against Medi terranian piracy, captures Dama. a pirate stronghold, but piracy continues until 1815 (q.\.)

lllGH BARBARY (S013:2) (SOREP1) (\\'AR'\;-I.) (\\,AR"l'S)

1808 - Congress forbids importation of slaves from Africa. 1809-llIinois Territory formed from part ofIndiana Territory

EL-A-NOY (CARM) (FSIC\1:2) (SAl\) (TIll) 1812-1815- War of 1812

YE OF INGLA.'.'D (written 181-1.) (SILl)

1812 (Aug 12) USS Constitution (Capt. Isaac Hull) defeats the British Guerriere (Capt. Da<-'Tes)

CONSTITUTION AND GUERRIERE (Al.l.l) (LAW) (SCOT) (SILl)

HUll..: S VICTORY (fiddle tune) (BROD) (LC:AAFS 1,62)

1813 (JUNEl) British Shannon defeats American Chesapeake

CHESAPEAKE A"."D SHANNON (FOWl) PERRY'S VICTORY ( LAW) PERRY'S VICTORY (fiddle tune) (LC:AAFSL62)

1814- British bombard Fort McHenry (Baltimore, MD) hut do not capture it.

STAR-SP....\.."GLED BAK!\'ER (LAW) 1815 (Jan 8)- Battle of New Orleans

8th OF JANUARY (fiddle tune) (BROD) BATTLE or NEW ORLEANS (DRI3) (ReS)

(SO !9: 1) (SOREP2) Hl1\ThRS OF'KEl\,TIJCKY (FSICviii:2) (LAW)

(SA.") (SCOT) (SOREP2) JOHl\1\'I' BLTLL, MY .10 JORK (DOL) (FSICviii2)

(SCOT) RAZORBACK STEAK (DRl3)

1815 (May lO-Aug 5) Stephen Decatur finally forces the Barbary States to stop molesting American ships in the Caribbean.

HIGH BARBARY (SO!3:2) (SOREPl) (WARN4) (W A&"J'5)

1818 (July -1.)- Construction begins on Erie Canal, running between Albany and Buffalo. !\'Y. Completed in 1825.

THE ERIE CANAL (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPI) THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) THE RAGING CAN'AWL (SA"l')

1821 (May 5)-Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St. Helena

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OLD oS' ST. HELES'A (\\,AR..,\,,4) (WAR"'5)

1821-Cnder :Mexican grant. Moses Austin settles 300 families in the Mexican territory, Texas.

1825-Texas opened to settlement hy U.S. citi7.ens THE BRAZOS RIYER (FSICi:4)

STUD (DRI 1) (RUS) (SOREP2) 182.':;-Erie Canal completed,

THE ERIE CA. (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPl) THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) 11IE RAGI:-':G \\1... (SA.'J

1825 - Birth of the Blackface Minstrel; "Daddy" Rice becomes famous for his "Jump Jim Crow" song and dance,

t>.fY GlJM-TREE CANOE (CARM) (HEART) DARLIS'G NliUE GRAY (MACN4) OLD DAK TUCKER (HIN6) (RUS) DIS-ClM-BIBBlE (H1J'1) DIXIE'S LAND (Sll..2)

1830 (May 28) Congress Passes The Indian Removal Act, allowing for forcible removal of Indians for resettlement west of the Mississippi ..

AS LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW (SCO) 1830-1848 - political disturhances in southwest Germany

and the Rhinelands leads to ina-eased immigration of German intellectuals into the (;'.S.

DIE GEDA.'\'K.E!" SII\"]) FREI (FSIC\'ii: 1) (RUS)

1830-1%0 - Rise and decline of the railroads. r VE BEE." WORKING ON THE RAILROAD

(RCS) THE Dl1).IMY Ul\'E (S0128:4)

ON THE GREAT DIVIDE (COH) (S0124:3)

Hll'-'DRED MILES (COH) (HIN4) (SOREPl)

DADDY, "R.<\TS A TRAIN? (SO!28:6) "'RECK OF THE OLD 97 (COH)

1830 - Westward movements at a high point. WIll YOCGOOUTWEST?(CAZl) TO THE \\'EST! (CARAt) (FSICvii:l) (MACN3) WISCO)S'SIN It>.llvfIGR.A..l'.'T (FSICiv: 1) (t>.fACN3)

1831-William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator. abolitionist newspaper.

ABOunOl\1ST (DOW) (FOW3) (MACN4) Rl"NTO JESUS (GREE) LET PEOPLE GO (LAW)

1832-(Apr 6-Aug 2)-Black Hawk War: Chief Black Hawk leads his starving dispossessed Sauks back across the Mississippi into Illinois. Young Abe Lincoln is in the militia fighting Black Hawk.

ROCK RI\'ER VAILEY (THl) 1833-New York City installs first horse-cars

THE K.'\lCKERBOCKER U!\''E (S017:2) 1835 (Nov 24) -Texas Rangers organized

AMERICAN HISTORY

THE TE.XAS RANGERS (UNG) (WARN5) MUSTANG GRAY (LING)

1836 (Mar 2)-Texas declares independence from t>.lexico 1836 (Apr 21 )-Gen. Santa Ana defeated: Battle of San

Jacinto COME TO THE BO\VER (CAR\!) (HI:-':2) SMTI' A."";O (HllG)

1836 (Jun 15) Arkansas becomes the 25th state ARKA.1\;'SAS TRAVELER (SO!33:4) THE STATE OF ARKA.1\;'SAS (SOREPl)

1837-Depression hits U.S. and Europe HARD TIMES CO!\'1E AGAI:\,:-':O MORE

(RUS) 1838-Cherokees and other tribes forced to move from

Georgia to Indian Territory; 4,000 die on 'The Trail of Tears".

RIVERS OF 11.\1£ (SCO) TRAIL OF TEARS, THE (CARA2)

1840-Half of all U.S. shipping is on the Mississippi River; more than 3,000 ships and smaller craft

THE BOATMA.N DA.N'CE (CARM) (SO!8:4) (WARN5)

THE GLENDY BURKE (CARAt) HEAVING THE lEAD LINE (LC; ALBl11vl VIII) BAYOU SARA (THl) WHAT DOES THE DEEP SEA SAY? (THl)

1843-1860 - Era of the Qipper Ships; rise of the U.S. as a maritime power.

BLOW THE MAK DOWN (HUG) (LC AAFS L27) (WALK-H)

GO DOW!\' YOl; ROSES (BOARD) GOLDE.'\" \'A.'J1lY ( 'GREEN WIllOW TREE")

(FSICi:2) (HUG) (SOl 12:5) (\YARN5)

HAUL ON THE BO\\UNE (LC:AAFS L26) JAMESTOWN HOMEWARD BOU1\."])

(WAR"'5) LEAVE HER, (FSICll: 1) (HliG) (SCO) OFF TO SEA ONCE MORE (FSICii:2) (HUG)

(WALK-J 1) PADDY DOYLE (HUG) (LC AAFS L26) PADDY L<\Y BACK (HliG) (LC AAFS L26) SMTY ANO (FSlCiii:3) (HUG) RIO GR.<\."l1)E (HUG) (SOREPl) ROLLING HOME (HUG) (LC AAFS L27) 8HE."";ANDOAH (FSICiv:2) (ffiJG) (SO!33:4) \VHISKEY (HUG) (WALK-J 1)

S HYMN (BOARD) SHE.1\;'A.,1DQAH (FSICiv:2) (HUG) (80!33:4) STRIKE, STRIKE THE BELL (HUG) (WALK-J 1)

FISHERMEN'S SONGS rSTHEB'Y (S017:2) MRS. McDONALD'S LAI,fE.''T (BOKI) (B0K2) SEAFARING MEN (GRAYl) SQL1D-JIGGTI\'" GROl'.!\Tl) (SOREPl)

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WHERE THE COHO A,ASH SILYER (COME 9:-1-) 18-1-6-15.000 Mormons, led by Brigham Young, begin to

migrate westward. HIE l-L (LC ;\...\FS 1...30) (U::\G)

(HlJ'.:W) ST. GEORGE (LC AAFS L30) (LING) TITTERY -I-RE-A Y (LC AAFS L30) (LING)

18-1.6 (!\lay 13)· l'S declares war un Mexico BeCK GAG I-llM (DOL) avfACN3) TAYLOR, THE H:-''E OLD SOl:n1ER.:"

GE.'TLEMA.1>\ (DOL) GROW THE LILACS (SOREP1)

1847-"Potato Famine" In Ireland reaches worst point; Irish emigration to l..'.S. is tripled.

SONG (MAC!'3) DRILL, YE T ARRIERS. DRILL (SO!30:3) SHE SAID THE SAt-.fE TO r>.1E (SA'l') ::\0 IRISH APPLY (GREE) (SCO) PADDY ON THE RAILWAY (PSIC"i: 1) (Rl'S) PADDY'S NOT AT WORK TODAY ('TIlE SICK

(ReS) (SO!30:3) 18-18 (Jan 2-1-) Gold discovered at Sntter' s .Mill. California.

HO! FOR CA.LlFOR'lA (DWY) 18J8 10) Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends Mexican

War. "'E ARE lING HOME (DOL)

1849 (California Gold Rush begins) A RIPPING TRIP (CRl:2)

AROl1'>oU TIIE HORN (DW'Y) CROSSING THE PLAINS (DWY) (MACN3) The DAYS OP '-1-9 (DWY) (pSI iii:3) (HA:.''KS)

(WAR'\;-I-) HCMBl;G STEA.\lSI-llP CmdPA'l'IES (DWY) JOH::\ APPEAL (D"T) (.\1ACN3) The LO\'ING OF THE GAME (CARA4) 0:-': Bo.t\.RD THE STEA\1ER (D"'Y) S\'lIT BETSY PIKE (CRCZ) '\1-1AT WAS YOl'R IN THE STATES?

(Sk'') WHE." I WE'T Ol:T TO PROSPECT (DWY)

1850 Rising interest in western public lands l ;-';CLE SAM'S FARM (FSICvi:2)

1850 - Settlement increases in WAShington Territory ACRES OF CLAMS (SCO) (RUS)

1850 (Sep 9) California becomes 31st State; a wild country

SEARLES A."'m THE BEAR (GRI\Yl) ROLL. ALABAMA. ROLL (HUG)

1852-01e Bull loses money in an attempt to form a Norwegian community in Pennsylvania.

OLEA:'':SA (SCO) (SOREP!) 1852-Charles Bigelow, black inventor of makes a shoe-

pegging machine. PEG A\\'L (SOREPl)

AMERICAN HISTORY

185..J-57. :WOO New Englanders migrate to Kansas Territory to increase support for its admission as a free State.

TIlE KA.'\'SAS E\llGRA.,\T (LLNG) 18..';6-John and Dennis Searles discover in California

\ 'E (GRAY2) 1858. Widespread religious revival in York; camp

IDC!etings become common. E\'ERYBODY S (DOW) WOI\UROUS LOVE (CHAS) (OSH) (RITCH ROCKY ROAD (OSH) ON'Ll' REME.\1BERED (RA.l\;) SIllP OF ZIOS (OSH) BRIGHT MOR'\1J:NG STARS (SOREP2) ROYAL ELEPHONE 9RITCH 1) (RPS)

YOCR RADIO (RUS) THE GREAT ATOM IC POVi'ER (SO!27:3)

1859 (OCT 16) - John Brown seizes 1'.S. arsenal at Harper's ferry, hoping to start a slave insurrection. He is captured and executed

JOHN S BODY (MAC!'B) (SCO) (SIL2) JOHN un::: (SIL2)

1859 Dan Emmett composes "Dixie" and "Turkey In the Straw" (hOld Zip Coon")

DIXIE'S LM'D (MACN3) {(SIL2) TlTRKEY IN TIIE STRAW (SAN)

1859 - Southern Convention urges re-institution of inporting new slaves from Africa. "Underground Railroad" at its height; used by about 75,000 slaves.

Rl'K TO JESUS (GREE) STEAL AWAY (pSICi\':3) (SCO) GRAY GOOSE (I-llN3) (SOREP2) I'M ON MY WAY (CARA2) (FSICi,,:3) POLLOW 11lli DRlI\1(lSG GOeRD (rSICh:3)

{SO!31:4) LOSG JOHN (LC Album III)

1860 (Nov 8) - Abraham Lincoln elected to the Presidency. LlNCOLS AN'D LIBERTI' (MACK-I-) (SO!2:8) OLD ABE LlNCOu.; (MAC;!,) (SA'')

1861 (f-"eb -1-) - Confederate States formed with Jefferson Davis as President. New Confederacy fires on Ft. Sumter: Civil ,Var begins.

ACROSS no::: (SOREPZ) (WAR'J'+) (WAR'\J5)

CVMBERLA...''D GAP (RUCK2) TO\\';-.: (\YAR."S)

SONG OF THE SOlTHERl\; VOLlT!'.TEERS (FSICii: 1) (SCOT)

The YA.''KEE -WAR (pSICii: 1) 1861-65 -- General songs of the Civil War

ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC (MACl':4) (SIL2)

BATILE CRY OF FREEDOM (MAC'+) (SCO) (SIL2)

BLl'E FLAG (FSlCII: 1) (SIL2)

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FIRST ARKANSAS REGIME\1 (SIL2) GOOBER PEAS (MACN4) (SJL2) (SCO) (SCOT) TIlE DRESS (}.1ACN-\.) (SIL2) JOH:\;-""y IS }.fY DARLING (SIL2) mST BEFORE TIlE BATILE. MOTHER

(I>.1ACN-\.) (SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) LORENA (SIL2) MARCHIl'G THROllGH GEORGIA (SIL2) (SCO) SOU1.1-IERc'1 BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM (SIL2) TE.''lNG T01\lJGHT (I>.1ACN4) (SIL2) YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (l\L<\CN4) (SIL2)

1862- The Virgima (Fonnerly Merrimac) sinks the ess Cumberlalld

TIlE CU:f.,fBERLAND AI\;'D TIlE MERRIMAC (SIL2)

1862 (?\1arch) Battle between Monitor and Alerrimac ends in a draw.

1862 (Apr 6) Battle at Shiloh Hill BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL (MACN4) (SIL2)

1862 (May 30) Congress passes a new Land Act LANE COll!'.TY ("BI1'1 COUNTY") BACHELOR

{"STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERl\o'I\1E.,\1 CLAII>.f,) (LC AAFS 130)

(HIN5) (LING) (SAN) 1862 (July 29)Confederate Cruiser Alabama built,oufitted

and partially manned by British; in defience of proclaimed neutrality. Begins harassing Union shipping. (See 186-\.).

1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation FREE AT LAST (Rt'S) (MACN4) Jl'BA (JO!\'El) (JO!\'E2) (MAC.N4) OB FREEDOM! (CAR.t<\2) (FSICi\':3) (FOW3) SLA VERY OWN DO!'.T£ BROKE AT LAST

(SIL2) WAKEl\lJCODEMUS (LAW)

CO}.1lNG ("JUBlLO") (SIL2) GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3)

IS6-\. The Confederate Alabama sunk by the Union Kearsarge off the coast of France

ROLL. ALABMlA, ROLL (HUG) (SIL2) (SOnO:3)

1865-(Apr 9) Rloben E. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appamatox; end of the Civil War.

FLOP-EARED :tv1CLE (fiddle tune) (BROD) l1\'RECONSTRUCfEI) REBEL, TIlE. (SIL2)

(WAR,,\I'-\') DA..\1YA..'\JKEE LAD (DRI3)

1865 (Apr 16) Lincoln assassinated BOOTH KIllED U!"COL"\ (SIL2)

1867 Joseph '\1cCoy establishes stockyard at the railhead in Abilene, Kansas; beginning of the legendary Cowboy.

CROOKED TRAIL TO HOLBROOK (THOR) GIT ALONG, UTILE DOGIES (UNG) GOODBYE OLD PAL'" (LI!\:'G) GOODl\.lGH[-LO\1NGTRAIL (ReS) (SCO)

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HELL I!'; TEXAS (LING) (THOR) .l\1GlIr-HERDL1\JG SONG (UNG) OLD ClllSIlOL\1 TRAIL, TIlE (LING) (TIIOR) OLD CmVBOY, TIlE (LNG) TE'\;'DERFOOT, THE (THOR) TRAIL TO ME.\JCO (LING) \\lJl\.'DY BIlL (LING) (THOR)

1868 Congress establishes the 8-hour day for federal employees: did not become standard in industry until after 1920. See 1886.

EIGHT HOURS (SEG3) 1869 (May 10) Transcontinental railway completed at

Promontory Point, Utah. ECHO CANYON (HIN-\') (SO!9: 1) RAILROAD CARS ARE COMING, THE (Lli'\G) ZACK, TIlE MORMON li"\GIl\.'EER (SO!9: 1)

1870 Peak of the Great Plains settlement. RIDE, BlJFFALO SOLDIERS, RIDE (RUCKI) DAKOTA LAND (LING) (SCO) UTILE OLD SOD SHANTY.. (FSIC"i:2) (UNG) WINDMIlL (GRA Y2) lAl."IE COlfI'.;"Y ("BEl'I" COUJ'..TI"') BACHELOR

("STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERc'\'-MEl\" CLAIM') (LC AAFS 130) (HINS) (LING)

(SAJ'.,) 1870 Lumbering industry shifts to Great Lakes area

CA..'\'ADAY-I-O (FOW2) (LOMI) UTILE BROWN BULLS (FSICi\':2) LOST JIMMY WHALEN (L0M2) (THl)

1870-Cerro Gordo silver mine opens in California BESSIE BRADY, TIlE (GRA Y2)

1873-Extermination of the buffalo (plains bison) nearly accomplished in the west.

BUFFALO SKIl\.'1'o'ERS, TIlE (LING) (SOREPl) 1873 Expansion of railroads; tunnels, etc., in Virginia;

mechanical devices begin to replace workers. JOHN HENRY (COH) (FSIC"i: 1) (HIN2) (LOM}'

2) 1874 Scammon's AJarine Afammals of the Northwestern

Coast ofNorth America predicts the demise of the gray whale

WHALER'S TALE, A (GRAYl) SONG OF THE WORlD'S LAST WHALE

(MORS) 1876 Samuel P1imsoll's Seaman's Act passed In England

LA PIQL'E (HUG) (SEG-\.) 'I>.1ERCHi\..'\:" SHIP, TIlE (HUG)

1876 Battle of the Little Big Hom: "Custer's Last Stand" SIOl'X L'\;'DIA..,\,S (LING) (\,'AR.';5) DREARY BLACK HILLS (LING)

1880 Increased multi-ethnic immigration into California, including the Japanese

SHO JO JI (BER) 1883 Congress reduces cost of 1st-class mail from 3 cents to

2 cents.

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GOODBYE. OLD STA!>.lP (LEV) 1885 The H:\ew Immigration" gets under way --largely Jews

escaping Russian persecution Bll.BES (Rl13)

1885 (DEC 8) AH., (American Federation Of Lahor) Fonned In Columbus, Ohio, With Samuel Gompers As president. One goal: The 8-Hour Day. (See 1868)

EIGIIT-HOCR DAY(SEG3) (SO!28:3) 1889 (APR 22) Non-Indian lands in Oklahoma opened to

while settlers. AS LO:\G AS THE GR>\SS SHALL GROW (SCO)

1891 Cvlay 19) Populist Party formed in Cincinnatti. FAR\fER IS TIlE THE (FSICvi:2) (SCO)

(SEG-l) 1894 Railroad strike by American Railroad LJnion led by E.

V. Debs A.RT., THE (SAN)

1898 (FEB 15) C.S. Battleship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor; beginning of Spanish-American War.

HOT TIME II' THE OLD TOWN TOl';lGlIT (B0:t\1) (ReS)

EL SOLDADO AMERIC-\."'O (DOL) SAILOR .r..V\N (DRI 1)

1900 (SEP 8) Galveston storm kills 6,000 GALVESTON STORM (GRAY I) (SOREPl)

19()..l Baltimore fire destroys property valued at $80,000.000.00

BAL FIRE. THE (DIGITRAD) 1905 (July 7) IWW (Industrial \Vorkers of the World)

founded by E. Y. Debs. SOLIDARITY FOREVER (ALT) (FOW3) (GREE)

(KOR"') (RlTS)(SEG3) POPllAR WOBBLY (,THEY GO \\TI..O OVER

:-'ffi") (KOR"') (SEG3) (SO! 11:5) PREACHER AN'D TIlE SLAVE, THE ("PIE II\"

THE SKY") (ALT) (FOW3) (KOR"I>.,,) .r..1ACNl) (ReS) (SEG-l)

Dl').lP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (KOR'') WE'RE BOl::-"'D FOR SA.'" DIEGO (KOR'l

(:-'ffiEK) REBEL GIRL, THE (CAZ2) (KORN) (RLTS) PORTLA:,\'D COlT}\oTY JAIL (SM1) JOE HILL (ALT) (M>\CNl) (RUS) (SEG3) BREAD A.I\,'D ROSES (ALT) (RUS) (SEG3) (WE.") '\llLL .\10THER'S LA!v1E.'\"T (ALT) STEP BY STEP (j\1cCCT) (SEG3) (SEG6) THERE IS .r..ffiAN THINGS HAPPE.l\ilNG IN THIS

LA...''D(ALn WHICH SIDE ARE YOC ON? (ALT) (Rl<) (ReS) ATTOR''EY FOR THE DA.\1:1\o'ED (ALT) l,::\10!\' I\1AID (ALn (FOW3) (RllS)

1911 (:-'L\R 25) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sweatshop in bums, killing 146 young women, mostly Italian and

Jewish immigrants. This leads to legalized safety rcqwreDICDts.

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BALLAD OF THE TRIA.."GLE FIRE(SEG3) (WE:-':) 191..J. World War I begins in Europe.

PE.-\CE HYI\!N (S0!30:2) I DID:'\-T RAISE :-'IY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER

(CAR>\l) CHRISThL-\S IN THE TRE.,\;CtlliS

1917 (Apr 6) l7S enter World War I OYER TIIERE (OOL) (\HnT) WHERE TIlEY \"ERE (DOL) (\\lnn PACK llP YOll< TROUBLES (SCOT) ROllND HER N'ECK SHE WEARS A YELLOW

RIBBON (WHIT) BIG BASS DRuM (HlN2) K-K-K-K-P (DOL)

1918 Influenza epidemic at its height-In all. between 400,000 and 500,000 people died of it. The following song became popular as a sort of "black humor."

SOME UTILE BUG IS GOING TO AN'D YOl" SO!\1E DAY. (DIGITRAD) (ROG)

1920 (Jan 16) 18th Amendment ("Prohibition") goes into effect.

KEl\TUCKY MOONSHIN'ER (SO! 13:-l) THE MAN FROM YANKEELA.l\i'D (HlN2) GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN DEW (SOREP2)

1920 (AUG 28) 19th Amendment ratified: voting rights for women. NOTE: 15 states already ha\'e women's suffrage laws.)

I A.\1 A SCFFRAGEITE (\\'Ei'\) 1921 End of post-war boom creates large-scale

unemployment; 5.7 million out of work I WA.''1' YOUR I'.lILLIONS,:VllSTER

(FOW3) (RVS)(SEG3) 1924 Congress bestows VS citizenship on native-born

American Indians. 1925 (July 10-21) The Scopes "Monkey Trial"

TOO THIN (LEV) .AMPHIOXUS (HlN5) THAT S ALL (by Merle Travis)

1927 (Mal 20) lindbergh's solo flight, NY to Paris U:,\'DBERGH. THE E.>\GLE OF THE C.S.A.

1927 Problems of fanners presage depression 'LEYE.,\; CE..''1' COTTON (FOW3) (RUS)

1929 (OCT 29) Stock Market CR-'\sh "officially" begins the Great Depression

I RTST OOKT WA'''T TO BE RICH (HIr\5) 1931 ('?\'L>\R 3 )'The Star Spangled Banner" is made the

official national anthem of the USA TO ASACREON IN HEA\"EN (LA\\') MAG:2) STAR SPA.l\l'GLED BM'NER (LAW)

1932 Depression in full swing. Monthly wages are 60% of 1929 levels; 5,000 banks failed and closed to date; 13,000,000 unemployed; Roosevelt elected in landslide.

SOUP SONG (FOW3) (RLTS)

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BROmER, CA.'\" YOl' SPARE A 1 mmn

BA.,r;:S OF Exploitation of labor; need to organize.

BLlbS (FOW3) (SOREP1)

GIRLS (\\'E.'.') \\1IICH SIDE ARE Y01' (RCS)(SEG3)

(S0120:5) (fOW3)(SEG3) (WE'\")

SL\.lEE.'\" (SO!3:3) STEP BY STEP (SEG6)

DOW!', X\"I) Homelessness becomes a way of life

ROAD FEELIK Rill (FOW3) (FSIC"ii: 1)

W.·\XDERI>.- (fSICvii: 1) ') I WALK n-n:: ROAD (CAZ 1) TA.KE .\fY TRt'E LOVE BY n-n:: HASD ("TIMES

A-GETTI>.- HARD') (ReS) (SCO) HALLELDAH r .\1 A (LAW) (SO !28:5)

1933 First of the great dust storms hits South Dakota. 1935 Dust Storms continue; altogether, -to million acres of

good farmland are blown away. DO-RE-'\fl (GlTIIRIE) (GllH) (Rl'S) (SOREPl) Dt'ST STOR\[ DISASlER (Gl'TIl) [Apr 7] SO IT [S BEE.'\" GOOD TO K..'\"o\\' YOt'

(Gl'TIl) (Rl'S) (SCO) T . ..u..KI>'- Dl'STBOWL (GlTIl) (SOREP2)

(DOW) (GllH) 1938 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) put

together under leadership of John L. Lewis (Jun 25) Pres. Roosevelt signs first Wage

Law 25 cents per hour. 1939 DAR refuses to, let Anderson sing at

Constinuion Hall, so she gives her concert on the steps of the Lincoln '\lemorial. One of her numbers was the following:

HE'S GOT n-n:: WHOLE WORLD IS HIS HA_'ns (W.-\R'\"-4-) (WHIT)

Defense appropriations of S -4-.26 billion (for 50,000 rurplanes per year) decreases

ROSIE n-n:: RI\TIER (SCO) 19..+ I (Dec 7) Attack on Pearl Harbor; CS declares war of

Japan; Germany & Italy declare war on CS, which recognizes that a "state of war" exists with those ,-\xis nations.

19..+1 - '''ar in the South Pacific RODGER YOl

A A...'n A PRAYER (SCO) 19-+5 Germany surrenders

(Aug 6) t'S drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and 2 days later on Japan surrenders. American war casualties: 292.000 killed or missing; 613,000 wOUlldcd.

E'\"OL-\ GAY (SCO) OLD H·\S ATO.\1 (l-J::r'7) DEW UTTLE GIRL OF HIROSmO.\l-\ (R1'S)

(SEG6) (SOREPZ) APE (by Jimmy Driftwood)

19-1-5 (Oct 24) l'Dited Sauons founded 1 A CI-L\.1S (SID) 1 ('\"I-nn

DREA.\f (RCS) (SCO) 19-+6 LDited .\line Workers strike. LS Government takes

over mines. 1 (Lc.:AAFS, ALBFM X\'n

19-+7 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 :\lexican .'deportees ."

DEPORTEES mCS)(SEG3) (SOREP1) 1950 (Jun 29) Pres. Truman orders LS U'oops into South

Korea. 1953 (Jul 7) Armistice ends Korean action. 195+ 17) es Supreme Court rules that segregation in

public schools violates the 14th Amendment \\'E SHALL OVERCO.\.fE (CARA2) (FOW3)

(FREE) (HARL) (ReS) (SCO) (SEG6) (SOREP2) TIllS LITILE UGIIT OF ML''E (CAR<\2) (FREE)

(HARL) THATS ALL RIGIIT (SOREP2) BLACK A,n WHITE ("TIlE I!'.'K IS BLACK")

(RCS) (SOREPl) 1955 Rev. '\lartin Luther King. Jr.. helps organize boycott

of segregated busses in Alabama; results in a federal injunction against this kind of segregation.

BACK OF THE B1'S. THE (CARA2) (HARL) 1960 (FEB 11) Sit-Ins at segregated lunch counters begins

in Greenville. BALLW OFn-n:: STlnE>-T (CAR-\2)

1960 Strip mining for coal becomes prevalent in Appalachia PARA.DISE (R1'S) (FSICh:2) BLACK WATERS (C.\R-\3) (WE\) (RITCH 1) L & OO>.-T STOP HERE AXY .\10RE. n-n::

(CARA3) (RITCH 1) 1962 CS U'oops in \'iet.nam ordered to return fire

I FEEL UKEI'M AXIX' TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) 1962 (Feb 20) John Glenn Is first American in orbit

WAY l"P HERE (MORS) (SEG6) (SO! 13: 1) A.'1XJRR..-\ (SEG6)

1963 Civil Rights mo\'ement continues: '\ledgar Evers assassinated

WOKE l"PTHIS ..... (CARA2) (fREE) (HARL) (WHIT)

A.'n GO wrm TO TI-L-\T (CAR-\2) (SO! 6:2)

A.I>'-T GO>'''SA LET Tl'R'\" (CAR-\2) <FREE) (H.-\RLl

EYES n-n:: PRIZE (CAR-\2) (H.-\RL) 1963 (Sep 15) Four black children killed in racist bombing

of church in Birmingham, Alabama.

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BIR..\UNGHA...\1 SL'l'-'DA Y (CARA2) (SCOT) (SOREl>2)

1%3 (NO\' 22) Pres. Kennedy assassinated I SAW COL'1'.1RY'S FLAG GO OOWN (SCO)

1964 (JlL 2). Senate ,'otes cloture to end 75-day lilibuster by conservative Southern senators, and passes a new Ci vii Rights Act.

FREE AT L\ST (SIL2) 1968 (Apr 4) Ofr. Martin LutherKing, Jr., assassinated in

Tenn. OH, MARTII'LL'THER KING (HNK)

1969 Vietnam War continues; student protests increase Aug 15-18. Woodstock (1\'1') Music and Art Fair attracts 35..000 young people.

I FEEL LIKE I'M FlXIl'" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) Pres. Nixon announces troop withdrawal, but war continues

1970 US troops sent into Cambodia.. More student protest. 1971 26th Amendment lowers American voting age from 21

to 18 1973 (Jan 22) Peace agreement ends Vietnamese War. 1973 .Military draft ends; US forces are now all volnntary.

file Island nuclear problems near Middletown, PA.

1980 National Herb Garden opens in WAShington, DC, with 7,000 plants in several gardens.

GARDEI' SOKG, TIlE ("INCH B'Y INCH") (ReS) (SO!26:8)

1981. Environmental concerns become politically important BALLAD OF TIlE SLOOP CLEARWATER (SEG6) GARBAGE (CARA5) (!>.10RS) (RUS) (SEG6) LA..'''0 K;."\;OWS YOF RE TIffiRE, TIlE (CARA7) r>.IY RAI1\'Bo\V RACE (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) OF TIME A:.''D RIVERS FLO\\lNG (SEG6) PEOPLE ARE SCRATCHING (SEG6) SEVENT\:' (SEG6) THIS LA.1''D IS YOUR LA.."'-'D (FSIC Ix.:3) (GCTH) WE LL AIL BE A-OOUBIlNG (SEG6) \\'HAT HAVE TIIEY DOl\'E TO TIlE RAIN?

(!'.IOR) (RUS)

* * * * * * * * * * SONGS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

A A RIPPING TRIP 1849 A WHAlER' S TALE 1779 A.Re., TIlE 1894 ABOLITIO!'.lST 1831 ACRES OF CLAMS 1850 ADIOS, ADIOS, A..\flGOS 1769-1840 AI:-'"T GO!'.'NA LET NOBODY TUR.lI.J ME... 1963 ALABADO 1769 ALL HID? 16-W ALL QUIET ALONG TIlE POTOMAC 1861-65 ALL THE PREITY LITTLE HORSES 16-W

AMAZING GRACE 1734 A.\ffiRlCA..t-..;TA.XATIOl' 1765 A.\WmOXl'S 1925 A.''DORRA 1962 ARKAl'SAS 1RAVElER 1836 AS LONG AS THE GRASS Sl-L<\LL GROW- 1610

AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHAll.., GROW 1758-1830 AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHALL GROW 1830 AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHALL GROW 1889 ATTO&'ffiY FOR HIE DA.MJ'.o'ED 1905 iAYE SUSA.,'1A! 1769-1840

B BABE OF BEfHI...EHEM 1734 BACK OF TIlE BUS, TIlE 1955 BALLAD OF TIlE SLOOP CLEARWATER 1981 BALLAD OF TIlE STUDENT SIT-INS 1960 BALLAD OF TIlE TRIANGLE FIRE 1911 BALTIMORE FIRE, TIlE 1904 BANKS OF r..1ARBLE 1932 BARBARA ALLEN 1610-1776 BARNEY McCABE 1640 BARNYARD SONG 1714 BATTLE CRY OFFREEOOM 1861-65 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEA..N"S 1815 BATTLE OF SInLOH HILL 1862 BATTLEOFTRENTON 1776 BAYOU SARA 1840 BESSIE BRADY. TIlE 1870 BIG BASS DRUM 1917 BILLY GRI:rvfES 1610-1776 BIRMINGHAM SL'l'-'DA" 1%3 BLACK AND "WTE·1954 BLACK WATERS 1960 BLOW TIIE:tv1AN 00\\'1'\ 1843-1860 BLOW YE \'\ll'-1!)S OF THE MOR.l\,lNG 1711 BOATMAK DANCE 1840 BOMBARDMEl\T OF BRISTOL 1775 BONl'-'Y BLu'EFLAG 1861-65 BOOTH KILLED LINCOLt-..; 1865 BORREGO, EL 1769-1840 BOSTON cm.iE-ALL-YE - 1629 BOSTON TEA-T A.X 1773 BOWERY GR8'l'ADIERS 1659 BRAVE WOLFE 1759 BRAZOS RIVER 1825 BREAD AJ\lD ROSES 1905 BRIGHT MOR.l\,lNG STARS 1856 BROTHER, CA.N" YOU SPARE A DIME? 1932 BUCK A.'ill GAG InM 1846 BUFFALO SKINl\bRS, TIlE 1873 BULBES 1885 BUNKER InU, (A) 1775 BL1-i'KER Hill.., (B) 1775

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1870 '\"I!\1)Y BIll- 1867 WI!\'NSBORO BLLCS 1932 WISCO:-':SI:-': WOKE l'P TIllS .... 1963

LOYE 173.+ WO!\1)ROUS LOVE 1858 ,YORLD T1..R'\.CD CPSIDE 1781

Y YA..';KEEooODLE 1775-1783 YAoO'\'KEE M-\..1\;-U -WAR 1861 YE PARllA...\1E.'\."T OF E"GLA...''D 1814 YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS 1861-65 YOL'NGCHARLOTfE 1610-1776 YOL LADIES 1767 YOL'i'G l\!A...1\; ,,'HO "'OL1...DKT HOE COR.'\" 1610-1776

Z ZACK, THE !vl0RMON E1\;GI!\o"EER 1869

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SONGS GROUPED BY CATEGORIES NOTE; Selecting categories. and jilling songs into them.

is an arbitrary activlly. The chosen categories are in alphabetical order ... \Jany songs would fit equally well in several categories. and a few have been thus repeated. Here is a list of the categories I have chosen:

• AFRlCAN A\1ERICANS AND SLAVERY • A.\1ERICAN REVOLUTION • BETWEEN the CIVIL WAR and WORLD WAR I • C4.liFORNIA • CIVIL RIGHTS • CIVIL WAR • COLONIAL DAYS • CONSERVATION and ENVIRONMENT • HARD TlA·IES and DISASTERS • 1..\1.\1IGRATION • INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION and TRANSPORT • LABOR

• The oO\/ARITI..\1E EXPERIENCE • NATIVE At..1ERICANS • REliGIOUS FER.\1ENT • SINCE WORLD Wo04R II • WAR OF 1812 • WORLD WAR I • WORW WARIl • The YOUNG REPUBliC

AFRICAN AMERICANS and SLAVERY

1619-Africans brought to Jamestown; probably as indentured servants.

JLiBA 16..tO-Beginning of ;\ctua\ slavery in America; YA and

enact a series of statutes distinguishing between white indentured servants and African chattel slaves.

JeBA 1) (J0!\c2) OH M>\RY, YOC WEEP (RCS) MOTHERLESS CHILD (RLTS) (FSICi":3) GRAY GOOSE (SOREP 1) ALL THE PREITY UTTLE HORSES 2) BARr-.'EY McCABE (!\IOY) (CARA3)

SHOO TURKEY (CARA3) ALL HID? (LC, album IY) LONG JOJ-r'.; (Lc, album III) S\\lI\'G LOW, SWEET CHARIOT

(LOM2) (RUS) SEEK AND YOU SHALL AND (RUS) (SO!32:'+)

1808 - Congress forbids further importation of slaves from Africa.

1825 - Birth of the Blackface Minstrel; "Daddy" Rice becomes famous for his "Jump Jim Crow" song and dance.

MY Gillvl-TREE CA...l\l"OE (CARM) (HEART) DARLING !\'EillE GRAY (MAC!'.' ..l) OLD DAN TIJCKER (HIN6) (RUS) DIS-Cl'M-BmBLE (Ere.) (HIN1) DIXIE'S LA'\.l) (SIL2)

1831-William Uoyd Garrison founds The Liberator, abolitionist newspaper.

ABOUIlOl\lST (OOW) (FOW3) ..l) IEf rvry PEOPLE GO (LAW)

1859 - Dan Emmett composes "Dixie" and "Turkey In the Straw" ("Old Zip Coon")

DIXIE'S LA.,\1) (MAC!':3) «SIL2) TIJRKEY Il\" THE STR.I\ W

1859 - Southern Convention urges re-institution of inporting new slaves from Africa. "LTnderground Railroad" at its height; used by about 75,000 slaves.

RL TO JESCS (GREE) STEAL AWAY (FSICiv:3) (SCO) I'M MY WAY (CARA2) (FSICi":3) FOLLOW THE DRIl\'KING GOL7RD (FSICi":3)

(SO!31:4) (LC Album III)

1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation FREE AT LAST (RUS) JUBA (Mt\.CN4) }(D\;Goo\1 ("'JlIElLO") (SIL2) GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3)

1865 (June 19) "Juneteenth": Slaves in Texas and other southern States finally receive news of thier freedom.

OH FREEDOM! (CAR.1\2) (FSICh':3) (FOW3) SLAYERY CfLt\.I!'.' 00:--''£ BROKE AT LAST

(SIL2) (\IAO\:-I-)

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WAKE:-"lCODE\fl'S (LAW)

AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1735-Friction Bctween Colonies and Britain over

designation or legal tender. ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBBER ("BILLY

BROKE LOCKS") (ALU) (SCO) 1765-Colonists complaining about British ta..,;ation.

AMF.RICA"-'TA:X.ATIOl': (SILl) 1767-British Townshend Acts decree that Americans pay tax

on all imported glass, lead, paint, and tea, Americans respond by organi7ing a boycott against ALL British imporlS,

TO TIlE LWIES! ("YOUNG LADIES I.!' TOw;-.."') (FOR) (SILl) (SCOT)

1770 (!\ larch 3) The "Boston lassacre" L'i'.i'HAPPY BOSTON (ALU) (BRA""'''DI) (LAW)

1773 (Dec. 16) The Boston Tea Party ..X (SILl) (SCOT)

REVOLl'TIONARY TEA ("RICH LWY OVER THE SEA") (SCOT) (SILl)

177-l-1ncrease or anti-British reelings FREE A\lERICA (BRA""D2) (SILl)

1775-1783-- (THE GE'\'ERAL PERIOD) ''Y HAS GO:-"13 FOR A SOLDIER

CBlTTERMILK HIlL') (ALLI) (SCOT) (SCOT) (SILl)

CHESTER (MACX2) (SILl) )'A,\'KEE OOODLE (BRA'\'D2) (FSICiii: I)

(L\W) (SCO) JOI-I:\XY GET YOCR Gl:::-': (ALLI)

1775 (Oct 7) British fire upon the town or Bristol, Rhode Island

T OF BRISTOL (ALLI) (SILl) 1775 17)-The Battle Of Bunker Hill

Bl,:\'KER HILL (A) (ALLI) (SILl) illXKER HILL (13) (DRl2)

1776 (SIP. 22) _. Execution or Nathan Hale HALE (ALLI) (SILl)

HALE THE I3USH (BRA.,\"D2) 1776 (Dec 2S) Washington crosses the Delaware to retake

Trenton and Princeton. ilATILE OF TRE.'\ (SCOT)

1777 (Aug 16) - Battle or Bennington, VT RlFLE\1E.!' OF (SILl) (SCO)

(SO!2-l:2) 1777 (Oct 17) Battle of Saratoga

FATE OF JOl-r\' Bl'RGOY!\o'E (SCOT) 1780 (Sep 23) Capture orI3ritish .Major John Andre reveals

Benedict Arnold's attempted treason. Andre executed Oct,

CAPITRE (or "BALLAD") OF A.'\'DRE (ALLI) (LAW) (FSICiii:2) (SCOT)

(SILl)

1781 (Oct 19) Battle or Yorktown; Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

COR.'\'YAWS· COl1\iRY DA'JCE (FSICiii:2) (SILl)

LORD COR.:,,"WA,LLIS' SURRE:\;'DER (FSICiii:2) (SCOT)

FOLTR UTILE GIRLS IK BOSTON (DRll) TIIE WORLD Th"R.'\'ED UPSIDE OOW?\

(SO!2-l:-l) 1783 (SEP 3) The Peace or Paris signals the end of the

Revolution. DYING BRmSH SERGEM'T ("DYING

REDCOAT') (SCOT) (S0!1:9) (\YAR,\,2) 1783- (Dec 4) British fmally evacuate New York and Staten

Island DOODLEDA.,\'DY (\YARN4) (WARNS)

BETWEEN CIVIL WAR and WORLD WAR I

1883 Congress reduces cost or 1st-class mail rrom 3 cents to 2 cents.

GOODBYE, OLD STA.\i1P (LEV) 1898 (FEB 15) V.S. Battleship Maine blown up in Havana

Harbor; beginning or Spanish-American War. HOT TI:VIE THE OLD TO";-: TO:-"lGHf

(RllS) EL SOLDA.IX) AIvlERICAI\!O (OOL) SAILOR ,MAl\' (DRll)

190+ Baltimore fire destroys property valued at $80,000,000.00

FIRE, THE (DIGITRAD) 1911 (MAR 2S) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sweatshop in

!',Ty bums, killing 146 young women, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. This leads to legalized safety requirements.

BAlLW OF TIIE FIRE (SEQ3) <'\B)

1920 (Jan 16) 18th Amendment ("Prohibition") goes into erfect.

K.I;.:\.TVCKY MOOKSHI!\oCR (SO! 13:-l) TIIE FROM YM'KEELA'''D (HIK2) GOOD OLD MOL:;""TAl!': DEW (SOREP2)

1920 (AUG 28) 19th Amendment ratified: voting rights for women. NOTE: IS states already have women's sufrrage laws.)

I .r\,.\1 A SlT-'FRAGETIE (FOW3) (RUS) (SEG3) <,\'E'-:)

1925 (July 10-21) The Scopes "Monkey Trial" TOO THIK (LE\,) A\IPHIOXUS (HINS) TIlt\T S ALL (DIGITRW)

1927 (May 20) LinJhl.7gh's solo flight, :-..."Y to Paris U:t\'DBERGH, TIIE EAGLE OF THE V.S.A.

(DIGITRAD)

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CALIFORNIA 1769(July 16). San Diego founded; 1st of a series of

missions & towns designed to strengthen Spain's daim to California and to kccp the Russians out.

17691840 -1840: CHIEF PERIOD OF THE !vfiSSIO:-':S A..''D

ADIOS, ADIOS, A.\fiGOS (CALIF) AL\BAOO (CRUZ) JAY, SlTSA..'\;A! (CALIf) BORREGO. EL (CALIF) CALlf'OR'l VALS JOTGA, EL (CAUF) CAMOTES, LOS (CALIF) CA.:'TICO DE ALBA (CRCZ) CA.:'"TO DE ClTNA (ESP) CAPOTI1\:. EL (CALIF) (Mt\CN3) (S014:5) (LlM) CIELITO LI1\'DO (MAC1\:3) (OROZ3) C01\IRADA.l''ZA DE LA (CALIF) C01\'TRADA..:'" ZA DE SONOMA., LA (CAUF) DE COLORES (Rl'S) (SO!Z5-3) (HIN8) (OROZl) DESPEDIDA DE M01'i'TEREY, LA (CAUF) E"i NOMBREDEL CIELO (EI-m.) (HIN9) ES AL ;\.\IOR (CALIF) GALLITO, EL (ESP) HA.\ lACA, LA (CALIF) MAGIC\ LA (CAllF) !>.iA.:'\;A.:'lTAS. LAS (OROZZ) (TOO) !\fi PEPA (CALIf) POSADAS, LAS SOSGS (HIN9) (OROZ1) SO!\1BRERO BLA..:'\rCO, EL (CALIF) VALS DE (CALIf)

Lt\ (CALIF) (.Ian 24) Gold discovered at Sutler's :Mill, California. HO! FOR CALIFOR'lA (OWl')

18-1-9 (California Gold Rush hegins) A RIPPING TRIP (CRUZ) CO!v1L'\;G TIlE HOR1\J (OWY) CROSSNG TI-fE PLAINS (OWY) (\L\CS3) The DAYS OF '49 (OWY) (FSI iii:3) (1-lA!\'KS)

(WAR"4) In. STEAMSmp 'lES (OWY) .IOHS CI-lli'\;AMAl'.n S APPEAL (D\\,Y) (Iv1ACS3) The LOnNG OF THE GAME (CARt\4) OS BOARD THE STEA.MER (O\\"Y) S\VEb"T BETSY FROIvl PIKE (CRCZ) WHAT WAS YOUR IN THE STATES?

'\l-fE.\' I WE.,\;T OUT TO PROSPECT (OW-n 1850 (Sep 9) . California becomes 31st State; a wild

country SE.t\RLES A..:1\,'D TIlE BEAR (GRAY I) ROLL, ALABA.\IA. ROLL (lruG)

. 1856-.lohn and Dennis Searles discover bora.... in California. MOHAVE (GRAYZ)

1870-Cerro Gordo silver mine opens in California BESSIE BRADY. TIlE (GRt\Y2)

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1935-lmmigration from the dust bowl (GtTHRIE) (GlTH) (Rt'S) (SOREPl)

1947 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 "deportees."

DEPORTEES (RCS)(SEG3) (SOREPI)

CIVIL RIGHTS 1939 DAR refuses to let Marian Anderson sing at

Constitution Hall, so she gives her concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. One of her numbers was the following:

Iffi'S GOT THE \VHOLE WORLD HIS HA''DS (WAR'\J4) (WHIT)

1954 (May 17) US Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools violates the 14th Amendment

BLACK AND \VHITE ('TIIE INK IS BLACK") (Rt'S) (SOREP1)

1955 Re\'. Martin Luther King. Jr., helps organize boycott of segregated busses in Montgomery, Alabama; results in a federal injunction against this kind of segregation.

BACK OF TIlE BUS, THE (CARA2) (HARL) 1960 (FEB 11) Sit-Ins at segregated lunch counters begins

in Greenville. N.C. BALI..AD OF THE STl'D"B.T SIT-INS (CARA2)

1963 Civil Rights movement continues; Medgar Evers assassinated

WE SHAll (CARt\2) (FOW3) (FREE) (HARL) (RUS) (SCO) (SEG6) (SOREP2)

THIS LITTI.£ LIGHT OF (C\RA2) (FREE) (HARL)

11-IAT' S ALL RIGHT (SOREP2) WOKE CP TIllS ... (CARA.2)

(FREE) (HARL)(WHrI) A..:''D GO \\lTH ME TO THAT LA.,,1I,m

(CARt\2) (SO! 6:2) AIl'.nT GO,!\;'1'\A lEf NOBODY lTR" !\1E

AROlf.!';'D (CARt\:!) (FREE) (HARL)

EYES ON THE PRIZE (CARt\Z) (HARL) 1963 (Sep 15) Four black children killed in racist bombing

of church in Birmingham, Alabama. BIR\.1L,\;GHAM SI.J1'<'DAY (CARA2) (SCOT)

(SOREP2) 1964 (.Il1... 2). Senate \otes cloture to end 75-day filibuster

by conservative Southern senators, and passes a new Ci \'il Rights Act.

FREE AT LAST (SIL2) 1968 (Apr 4) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in

Memphis, Tenn. OR LllHER KING (l .n.:ST W A..:"H TO

SING YOLTR NM1E) (FIl'.'K)

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CIVIL WAR 18511 (OCT 16) - John Brown seizes U.S. arsenal at Harper's

ferry, Hoping to start a slave insurrection. He is captured and executed.

JOHN BODY Cv1ACN3) (SCO) (SIL2) JOH]'.; SO!'JG, TIlE (SIL2)

1860 (Nov 8) - Abraham Lincoln elected to the Presidency. LINCOL" A..'\.D LIBERTI' (MACN4) (SO!2:8) OLD ABE LINCOLN (1vtAC4)

1861 (Feb 4) - Confederate States fonned with Jefferson Davis as President. New Confederacy fires on Ft. Sumter: War begins.

GOIN' ACROSS TIlE MOLTI\TAIN (SOREP2) (WARN4) (WARN5)

CD.1BERlA"D GAP (RUCK2) LYNGINBURG TOWN (WARN5) SONG OF TIlE SOUrHERN VOLLrt.'TEERS

(FSICii: 1) (SCOT) The Y A..NKEE M4...t'l-O' -WAR (FSICii: 1)

1861-65 -- GeneraLsongs of the Civil War ALL QUIET ALONG TIlE POT01vtAC (MACN4)

(SIL2) BATILE CRY OF FREEDOM (MAC4) (SCO)

(SIL2) B01\'1\,)' BLL'EflAG (FSIOI:l) (SIL2) FIRST ARKANSAS REGI.MENT (SIL2) GOOBER PEAS (1vtACN4) (SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) TIlE HOMESPUN DRESS (MACN4) (SIL2) JOI-l1'.'1\')" IS MY DARLING (SIL2) Jl-ST BEFORE TIlE BATILE, MOTHER

(SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) LORE.'\'A (SIL2)

THROUGH GEORGIA (SIL2) (SCO) SOUTHERN BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM (SIL2) lEl\,lNGTONIGHT (MACN4) (SIL2) YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (1vtACN4) (SIL2)

1862- The Virginia (Fonnedy Merrimac) sinks the USS Cumberland

TIIE CUMBERLAND AND TIlE .HERR/AIAC (MACN4) (SIL2)

1862 (March) Battle between Monitor and Merrimac ends in a draw.

1862 (Apr 6) Battle at ShilobHill BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL (MACN4) (SIL2)

1862 (July 29)Confederate Cruiser Alabama built, OlJfitted and partially manned by British; begins harassing Union

KINGDOM C01vfiNG ("JUBlLO") (SIL2) GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3)

1864 The Confederate Alabama sunk by the Union Kearsarge off the coast of France

ROLL, ALABAMA, ROLL (HUG) (SIL2) (SO! 10:3)

1865-(Apr 9) Rlobert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appamatox; end of the Civil War.

FLOP-EARED MUlE (fiddle time) (BROD) VNRECONSTRUCfED REBEL, TIlE. (SlL2)

(WARN1,4) RING TIlE BELL, WATCHMAN (OIGITRAD) DAMYM'KEE LAD (ORI3)

1865 (Apr 16) lincoln assassinated BOOTH KIllED UNCOLN (SIL2)

1865 (JUNE 19) "Juneteenth": Slaves in the defeated Southern Statwes are fu=inaIly infonned of their freedom.

OH, FREEDOM! SLAVERY CHAIN OO:r-..'E BROKE AT LAST

(SIL2) (MACN4) WAKE NICODamS (LA\\')

COLONIAL DAYS 1492 (Oct 12) Columbus "discovers" America

FOURTEEN NINETY -TWO (SCHI) 1607-(1vlay) 1st pennanent English Colony, James-town, VA; 120 settlers. John Smith tries to rule colony, but is

driven out; he leaves Va in 1609. JONATHAN SMITH (COL) (HIN3)

1609-Spanish found Santa Fe, New Mexico CM'TO DE CUNA (ESP)

161O-1776-Coloniallife in general. NOTE; all songs within this date span are appropriate here,)

From the old world heritage BARBARA ALLEN (BRO) (RITCH 2) (SCOT)

(\VARl"J'4) The CUCKOO (RITCH 1) The DEVIL & TIlE FARMER'S WIFE

("FARi\:IER'S C1.JRST \\lFE") (BRO) (FSICvi!2) (HIN3) (SCOT)

G\'PSY LADDIE (RITCH 2) JOH]'.; BARLEYCORl" (RUS) LORD BATEMAN (BRO) (RITCH 2) LORD R.Al\'D.4..LL (RITCH 2) MERRY GOLDE.K TREE «(RITCH 2) OLD IN TIlE WOOD (FSICi3) (HIN3)

(UNS) (SCOT) RIDDLE SONG (RUS) ROBIN THE BOBBIN (aID- WREN)

(FSICi!3) (HI!'."3) North America becomes a goal for some of Europe's poor people. , ..

INVITATION TO NORTH (SILl)

shipping. (See 1864). 1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation

FREE AT LAST (RUS) (MACN4) JUBA (JOl\'El) (J0l';'E2) (MAC"4) OH FREEDOM! (CARA2) (FSICi\':3) (FOW3) SLAVERY CHAIN OONE BROKE AT LAST

(SIL2) (MACN4) WAKE ':--lCODBIUS (LA\\,)

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I


colonists come as indentured sen-ants DISTRESSED DA..MSEL CfRAPA"-1'\D

M.AIDE!':) (SILl)

Daily life in the Colonies BILLY (BEL) THE C:illEFTAil':' S BRIDE (ALL!) CU.MBERLA'\o'D GAP (CARM) (LDM 1) GRA!\1)MOTIIER BROWN (l-m\2) KAn- CRUEL (UNS) (SCOT) THE :MILLER'S \\lLL PAPER OF PNS TIlE Ql:AKER' S WOOING (UNS) RISSELTY ROSSELn' (SEGI) ROVING PEDDLER (CAZl) (WARNS) THREE JOLLY ROGUES ("IN GOOD OLD

COLOl\T TIMES"j (LINS) W AGOl'.'ER' S LAD (SO!32/3) (SOREP1) YOVNG CHARLOTTE ("TI-IE FROZE.I\; GIRL")

(U;-':S) (S01323) YOUNG t>.1AN WHO WOULDN'T HOE COR.'l'

(LOM4) 1612-tobacco cultivation begun by John Rolfe

TOBACCO'S BUr Al\i Il'Io'DIAI'\' WEED (HA'\i'KS) (lVES)

161+-The Dutch Establish a colony Called New Amsterdam (later New York)

JOLLY OLD ROGER (HIN4) (ll,S) 1620-Pilgrims land near Plymouth

OLD Hl1'.'DREDTH (RUS) TOULON (CHAS) \\1{0 IS TI-IE (DOW)

I 629-First Puritans anive at Salem (MA) Bay Colony 1629-First commercial fishery established at Medford,

BOSTON COl\1E-AJL..YE (BON) 1635) (September) Roger Williams banished from

Massachusetts Bay for preaching his belief in the separation of church and State.

I 636-Roger Williams founds Providence (Rhode Island). 1636-Anne Hutchinson also banished from the Bay Colony

for holding "80 erroneous opinions", including what they called Antinomianism, the stressing of personal re"e1ation, and her questioning the authority of orthodox clergy. She too fled to RI and founded the city of Portsmouth in 1638.

16+1-1st organized whale processing and distribu-tion, on Long Island, NY. (beached whales only)

16+7-Towns of Providence, Newport, and Portsmouth band together and form the colony of Rhode Island, with a General Assembly draft code separating church and state and guaranteeing religious freedom.

1659-1st fire department to be es tablished by mum(,;ipal action, in New York Citv.

BOWERY GRENADIERS (ALLI) (SO! 9.'3) 1668-French establish fur-trading post and mission at Sault

Ste. \laric, :-'fL

C' EST L' A VI RON" (F0\'-2) 11" ROlLI\J'rr BOULE (FOWl, 2) SI MON MOII'.)'"E VOLlAITDA'iSER (FOW2)

1681-Philadelphia.. PA. founded. 1701-(May 23) \"illiam Kidd hanged in England for

commited in the New World, marking an end to piracy in American waters,

C\PTAIN KJDD (UNS) (SCO) (SCOT) (SOREPl)

1756--1763- "French and Indian War" (7 Years' 'War) (See also 1759)

1759 (Sep 18) - English capture Quebec in French and Indian War; leaders of both armies, Montcalme and \Volfe, are killed.

BRAVE WOLFE (FSIC vii:3) (WARN4) FELLX TI-IE SOLDIER (WAR"4)

1755-English expel Acadians from Nova Scotia UN, DEUX, TROIS (ALLE) (SA'i) CAJUN TWO-STEP «(Instrumental) (IllN2) M' SIEU BAINJO (AlLE) (BON)

1761-0biutary verse about Timothy Myrick, which passed into the folk tradition and became a song witb many, many versions.

SPRINGFIElD MOlJ'1\iTAIN (HL""J4) (SCO) (SCOT)

CONSERVATION and ENVIRONMENT 1874 Scammon's Marine Mammals of the Northwestern

Coast of North America predicts the demise of the gray whale

WHALER'S TALE, A (GRAY1) SONG OF THE WORLD'S LAST WHALE

(MORS) 1960 Strip mining for coal becomes prevalent in Appalachia

PARADISE (RUS) CARA4) (FSICix:2) BLACK WATERS (CARA3) (RITCH 2)(W8\1) L & N ool':'T STOP HERE AI"\}' MORE, TI-IE

(CARA3) (RITCH 2) 1981. Environmental concerns become politically important

BAI1....AD OF THE SLOOP CLEAR'" ATER (SEG6) GARBAGE (CARAS) (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) LA1\i'D K.."lOWS YOFRE THERE, THE (CARA7) MY RAIN"BOVi' RACE (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) OF HME AND RIVERS FLO\\lNG (SEG6) PEOPLE ARE SCRATCillNG (SEG6) SEVE1\,TY :MlLES (SEG6) TIllS LAl';'D IS YOUR LAI'\o'D (FSIClx:3) (GUlli) \VB'LL AlL BE A-oolTBUl\,IG (SEG6) \\1I.AT HAVE TIlEY 001\1'£ TO TI-IE RAIN?

(MORS) (RUS)

BARD TIMES and DISASTERS 1837-Depression hits U.S. and Europe

HARD TI:\1ES COr..1E AGAIN NO MORE (RUS)

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1918 Influenza epidemic at its height In alL hetween .wo,OOU and 500.000 people died of it. The following song became popular as a sort of "black humor."

SOME LI1TI.E BeG IS GONG TO A:--'TI YOl' SOt-.1E DAY. (DIGITRAD) (ROG)

1921 End of post-war boom creates large-Scale unemployment; 5.7 million out of work

I WA:'-1 YOFR 1927 Problems of farmers presage depression

'I.EVEr' CH\;1 COTTON (FOW3) (RFS) 1929 (OCT 29) Stock Market Crash "of!icialh" bc!!ins the

. - '" Great DepreSSIOn I Jl'ST DO!\" T W ,'-"1 TO BE RICH (l []:-":5)

1931 (MAR 3 )'The Star Spangled Banner" is made the official national anthem of the USA

TO Ii\: HEAVE,\; (LAW) STAR BA.l\ll\,'ER (LAW)

1932 Depression in full swing. Monthlv waocs are 6Oc;-(, of . '" 1929 levels; 5,000 banks failed and closed to date; 13,000.000 unemployed; Roosevelt elected in landslide.

SOUP SONG (FOW3) (RUS) BROlRER. CA...1\i YOl' SPARE A DIME? (SO!30: 1

(WI-III) BANKS OF MARBLE(SEG3)

Exploitation of labor; need to organize. V,'L''NSBORO COTTON-NfiLL BLUES (FOW3)

(SOREP1) GIRLS (WEN)

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU (RUS)(SEG3) (SO!20:5)

1 :'-10:-": (FOW3)(SEG3) (WE") SIXTEE." TO:-":S (SO!3:3) STEP BY STEP (SEG6)

DOW}\, 00\''N (LCALBUM XYI) Homelessness becomes a way of life

THIS ROAD BAD (FOW3) (FSIO'ii: 1)

WA!\TIERIN' (FSIC\ii: 1) (SA."J) I WALK THE ROAD AGAIN (CAZl) TAKE TRUE LOVE BY THE HA.J''D (,TIt-.1ES

HARD") (RUS) (SCO) HALLELCJAH r M A BUM (LAW) (SO!28:5)

1933 First of the great dust storms hits South Dakota. 1935 Dust Storms continue; altogether, 40 million acres of

good farmland Are blown away. (Apr 7) DUST STO&\1 DISASTER (GL:nI)

(GLTHRIE) (GUll-I) (RUS) (SOREPl) JOAD (oo\\') (GL:'JH)

TALKI!\- Dl'STBOWL (GOTH) (SOREPZ) SO LO!\'G.IT rS GOOD TO KNOW YOL-

(GL'TH) (RUS) (SCO)

IMMIGRATION 1710-Seginning of large-scalc German immigration into

PA; the "PcIWsyhaIlia 'Dutch.'"

o TA!'..;-"'E!'.'BALl1vl (EHR) HOLE 11'\ MY BUCKEr (KORS) (SO' 26:2) \\1-IE'\; I ARST CA.Ml:: TO THIS LA:"\U (SCU)

(SOREPI, 178.1-Crerman settle Germantown. near

Philadelphia. (Sec 1710.) t71'+-Bcginning of heavy migration into PA of the "Scots-

Irish", acrualJy Protestant Scols who had lived in northern Ireland. Herc, they began moving southward through thc Yalley of Yirginia.to found thc Southern Appalachian mountain culturc.

BAR."-l"ARl) SO!\:G HIE Cl'CKOO (SO! 8: 1) (SOREP1) LORD (BRO) SEYE" JOYS OF !\1ARY (RCS)

1718-l\'ew Orleans founded FAIS 00-00 (WHITF)

1830-1848 - political disturbances in southwest Germany and the Rb.inelands leads to increased immigration of German intellectuals into the C.S.

DIE GEDANKE.'\' SI!\TI rREI (FSIC"ii: 1) (RUS)

1S+7-"Potato Famine" In Ireland reaches worst point; Irish emigration to V.S. is tripled.

FA..\fI!\12 DRILL. YE TARRIERS, DRILL (SO!30:3) SHE SAID THE TO (SA..") :-":0 IRISH APPLY (GRr£) (SCO) PADDY (FSIC"i: I)(RCS) PADDY'S AT WORK TODAY rTIIESICK

;-':OTE") (Rt'S) (SO!30:3) 1852-01e Bull loses money in an attempt to form a

Norwegian community in Pennsylvania. (SCO) (SOREP!)

1880 Increased multi-ethnic immigration into California. including the Japanese

SHO JO Jl (BER) 1885 '{be "New Immigration" gcts under way largely Jews

escaping Russian persecution BLUES (ROB)

INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION and TRANSPORT

1771-1st Spinning Mill established in Derbyshire. England FOUR-LOOM \VEA VER (SEG4) POVERn' KNOCK (WALK-J2)

1818 (July 4)- Construction begins on Erie Canal, running between Albanv and Buffalo. !\iT\". Completed in 1825.

THE ERIE CAo'\AL (FOR) (RL'S) (SOREPl) THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) THE RAGING CA!':AWL (SAN,)

1821 (May 5)-Kapoleon Bonaparte dies on St. Helena OW BONEY ON ST. HElE'\;A (WAR."'J'4)

(WARNS)

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SINGING THROUGH

1821-l'nder ?-.texican !!fant, Austin settles 300 families in the Mexican territory, Texas.

I 825-Texas opened to settlement by C.S. citi7..ens TIIE BRAZOS RJYER (FSICi:4) TE;'\1\'ESSEE STliD (DRJ1) (Rl:S) (SOREF'2)

182.':;-Erie Canal completed. THE ERIE CA.1\"AL (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPI) THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) THE RAGING CA.1\JA'VL (SA.'I\l)

1830-1960 - Rise and decline of the railroads. r VE BEE." WORKING ON THE RAILROAD

(RVS) THE (SO!28:4) RAILROADING OK THE GREAT DIVIDE

(SO!24:3) Hl1\1)RED (HIN'4) (SOREPI)

DADDY, WHAT S A TRAIN? (SO!28:6) 1833-New York City installs first horse-cars

THE K.1\lCKERBOCKffi Ut-.'E (SO!7:2) 1840-Half of all LS. shipping is on the Mississippi River;

more than 3,000 ships and smaller craft. TIlE BOAThM.N DA."CE (CARM) (SO!8:4)

(WAR"5) THE GLENDY BURKE (CAR\!) (WAR1\J5) IlEA\TSG Tl IE LEAD (LC; ALBUM nIl) BAYOU SARA (TIll) WHAT DOES THE DEEP SEA SAY? (TIll)

1852-Charles Bigelow, black inventor of :t\'y. makes a shoe-pegging machine.

PEG A!\1) AWL (SOREPl) 1869 ('\la; 10) Transcontinental railway completed at

Promontory Point, Utah. ECHO CA ...'\l'ON (HIN4) (SO!9: 1) RAILROAD CARS ARE TIlE (UNG) ZACK, THE MORi\fON (SO!9: I)

1873 Expansion of railroads; tunnels. etc., in Virginia; mechanical devices begin to replace workers.

JOHN HEr-.'RY (FSICvi: I) (HIN2) (LOMl, 2)

LABOR 1868 Con!!fess establishes the 8-hour day for federal

employees: did not become standard in industry until after 1920. See 1886.

EIGHT HOl!'RS (SEG3) 1885 (DEC 8) AFL (American Federation Of Labor) Formed

In Columbus, Ohio, With Samuel Gompers As president. One goal: The 8-Hour Day. (See 1868)

ElGHT-HOl!'R DA Y(SEG3) (SO!28:3) 1891 19) Populist Party formed in Cincinnatti.

FAR.\JER IS THE MAN, THE (FSIC"i"2) (SCO) (SEG4)

189.+ Railroad strike by American Railroad Union led by r::. Y. Debs

A.Rt'., THE (SAN)

AMERICAN HISTORY

1905 (July 7) rww (Industrial Workers of the World) founded by E. Y. Debs.

SOUDARITI' FOREYER (9ALT) (FOW3) (GREE) (KOR."-:) (RL'S)(SEG3)

POPl'LAR WOBBLY (,TIII::Y GO "lLD OYER ?\fE") (KOR.")( SEG3) 11 :5)

PREACHER AND THE SLAVE, THE ("PIE I:\, THE SKY") (ALT) (FOW3) (K0R.'\1 ?\L<\G;l)

(RUS) (SEG'+) DF.MP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (KOR") WERE FOR SA" DIEGO (KOR.")

(MEEK) REBEL GIRL. THE (CAZ2) (K0R.'1 (RCS) PORTLAND COlTl\'TY JAIL (SA..l\') JOE HILL (ALT) (MACNl) (RUS) (SEG3) BREAD AND ROSES (ALT) (RUS) (SEG3) (WE"') rvULL MOTIffiR'S LAMENT (ALT) STEP BY STEP (McClTT) (SEG3) (SEG6) TI1ERE IS MEAN TIUNGS lIAPPE..'JING IN TInS

l..A!'ID (ALn WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (ALT) OUR) (RVS) ATTOR.'-''E't' FOR TIlE DMfl-.;'ED (ALT)

MAID (ALT) (FOW3) (RUS) 1938 00 (Congress of Industrial Organizations) put

together under leadership of John L. Lewis (Jun 25) Pres. Roosevelt signs first Minimum Vi'age Law - 25 cents per hour,

1946 United 'Vorkers strike. US Government takes over mines.

l1!\10N (Lc.: (AAFS, ALBUM XVI)

The MARITIME EXPERIENCE 1711-1 st sperm whale taken by Nantucket wbaling boat.

Vi1IALE FISHERY (InS4) (SCO) (SOREP1)

NM'll.TKET LlTIlABY (ALU) t BLOW YE OF TIlE

(SO! 1:2) ROLLING TO OLD .MAll (HUG) (RUS)

1779 First l"antucket whaler to round the Hom; beginning of American Pacific whale fishery.

ROlliNG DOWN TO ?l.L<\VI (HUG) A \\1IALER'S TALE (GRAYl) THE SONG OF THE WORLD'S LAST WHALE

(MORS) John Adams insists that the treaty give Americans the

right to fish in Canadian waters, CODFISH SHANTY ("SOL TIl AVSTRAUA")

(B0)\1 (IICG) 18-+3-1860 Era of the Clipper Ships; rise of the U.S. as a

maritime power. HALL ON TJ-II: BOVi'U:-..t:: (LC:AAFS L26) SHENA.'\,TIOAH (FSICi,':2) (HUG) (SO!33:4) SANTY ANO (FSICiii:3) (HliG) r

J WHISKEY (HlTG) t


YOC ROSES (BOARD) BLOW TIlE ,\1A'.: mIrG) (LC AAFS L27)

(WALK-JI) GOLDE'.: \' ( 'GREES WilLOW TREE")

(FSICi:2) (HtTG) (H-<\C!'\3) (SO! 12:5) (\\'AR"5)

UO,\lE\\'ARD B01'1\1) (WAR'\'5)

LEA\'E HER, (FSICII: 1) (Ht'G) (SCO) .\1ERRY TREE (GOLDE;"; \'A'1TY)

(RITCll:! TO SEA O;";CE MORE (FSICii:2) (HUG)

(WALK-J I) PADDY ooYLE (rn'G) (LC AAFS L26) PADDY LAY BACK (rn 'G) ( LC AAFS L26)

(\L\LK-J I) RIO (IIl'G) (SOREPI) ROLLING (HVG) (LC AAFS L27) SEA\1.,,-'-S HY.\t:\ (BOARD) SI IE'.:A'lX)AII (FSICh:2) (Hl'G) (SO!33:'+) STRIKE. STRIKE TIlE BELL (Hl :G) (WALK·J 1) rs TIlE B'y (SO'7,2) .\lRS, L\ME.'T (BOKI) (BOK2) SI :AFARING ,\ m,'\' (GR<\ Y I)

GROI (SOREr I ) WllERE '11 [E COIiO HJASII SIISER (CO,\[£ 9:-')

Scammon's ,\fartnt: oj the Northwestern c'oaSI oj Norrh America predicts the demise or the gray whak

WIlALER'S TALE, A (GRAY l) SO."G OF '11 U: WORLD'S I,AST WHAI.I:

(.\tORS)

NATIVE AMERICANS Colwmhus "discO\ers" Americam hut the Indians are

atn:ady here. JUt :--'l:-'En'·TWO (SCHl)

16IO-lndians arc an important part of our history. .\fY LIlT!.E .\IOIlE:E (LO.\lI) !ROQt 'OIS U LLABY (FOWl) CJI1PPEWA OWL SONG (110.\1) LAKOTA l,t 'LLABY (Rt 'CK2) .\S LO."G AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW

(SeO) I'"'SX- I830-Rcd Jacket (Sagoyawatha), Seneca orator

AS AS THE GR.\SS SIL\LL GRO\r (SO)) CI nPPEW A IlOOT-OWL U 1 L\BY (1I0\[) TJ U: LA:-'1) KSOWS Yat .. RE (C.\R\ 1)

(PET) IX30 ('\Ia) 28) l'ongress Passes 'Ibe Indian RcmO\ at Act.

alloWJfig for forcihIc removal of Indians for resettlcment \\ e:.luf Llll: \ tissi:-.sippi ..

AS AS TIn: GRASS SII.\LL GROW (SeO) 1832-(Apr 6·Aug 2)-Black Hawk War: Chief Black Hawk

Ill!> stan illl! Sauks bal:k tlle

Mississippi into Illinois. Young Abe Lincoln is in the militia fighting Black Hawk.

ROCK Rl\'ER \ALLE\ (Till) 1838-Chcrokccs and other tribes lorced to move from

Georgia to Indian Territory; -+,000 die on 'The Trail 01 Tears".

RI\'ERS OF TIME (SCO) TRAIL OF TEARS, TIn; (CARA2)

1876 Battle of the Little Big Hom: "Custer's Last Stand" SIOl'X (LING) (\\'AR'.:S) DREARY BLACK HILLS (UNG)

192-' Congress bestows US citizenship on native-born American Indians.

RELIGIOUS FERMENT 17J..1-Beginning of The Great Awakening (For other dates

relevant to American religious history. see 1635. 1636, 1637)

WO:--'1)ROCS LDVE (BO)") (OOW) (OSH) (SO! 16: 1)

A..\1AZING GR<\CE (OSH) (Rt'S) GR£E!\" HEIDS (WALK) PRO.\DSED I.A.,n (BON) (ooW) (LO\1-+)

(WALK) WEARY PILGRI.\I (OSH) I A.\1 A PILGRI\I (SOREPI) BABE OF BETI IU:llE.\l (1 (WALK) GARDEN In''\[\; (OSH) WA STR·\...'\'GER (OSH) (SO!22:5)

173X-George Whitefield, Evangelist, arri\es in America o LO\'ELY APPEAR,,-'.:CE OF DEATII (LO.\B)

Rise of "Play-partics" as an answcr to religious strictures against dam.;ng

OLD JOE CLARK (FSIC \i.l) (SOREP1 )

SKJP TO MY LOt' (R1TS) (FSIC i\:2) GO TIlE WILDER''ESS (ALLE)

1776 . Shakcrs settle ncar ALBA:-. ...Y, :-.'y LO\'E (A..'1» (Rl'S)

SI\fPLE GIFTS (:\:-'1» (FSICi\..2) (Rl'S) (SCO) 18-1.6-15,000 Icd hy Brigbam Young, begin to

migratc westward. nIl: H.,,-'1X'ARTS (LC AAFS 130)

lOt')..TAIN I10,\1E (I IL'.: 10) ST. GEORGE (LC AAFS 130) TITIlRY-I-RL-.-\ '1' (I.e AAFS 130)

1HSK Widespread religious rc\i\al in ."cw York; camp me!ctings become! common .

EYI:R\"BODY'S WELCO\U: (DOW) WO:-'l)Rm'S 1.0\'1: (OL\S) (OSHl ROCKY ROAD (OSII) 0:-'1,'1' SI UP OF (OSI I) BRIGHT MOR'1!':G STARS (SOREP2) ROYAL (Rt'S)

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Tl'R.!" YOCR RADIO (RllS) THE GREAT POWER (SO!27:3

SINCE WORLD WAR II 1945 (Oet2.....) t'nited founded

1. ,"!\l1Till MAKE A (SIU) l NA'nONS (\VHIn STRANGEST DREAJv1 (Rl'S) (SCO)

1947 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 Mexican "deportees."

DEPORTEES (RLTS)(SEG3) (SOREPl) 19.50 (Jun 29) Pres. Tnunan orders US troops into South

Korea 1953 (Jul 7) Annistice ends Korean action. 1962 US troops in Vietnam ordered to return fire

I FEEL LIKE n.l FIXI1'" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) 1962 (Feb 20) John Glenn Is first American in orbit

FROM WAY UP HERE (MORS) (SEG6) (SO! 13: 1) A''DORRA (SEG6)

1963 (No\' 22) Pres. Kennedy assassinated I SAW MY COlTl\;'TRY'S fLAG GO DOWN (SCO)

1969 \'ietnam War continues; students protest increase (Aug 15-18). Woodstock (l'ory) Music and Art Fair attracts 35,000 young people.

I FEEL LIKE rJ\I FIXI!" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) Pres. Nixon announces troop withdrawal, but war continues

1970 rs troops sent into Cambodia, .More student protest. 1971 26th Amendment lowers American voting age from 21

to 18 1973 (Jan 22) Peace a.,oreement ends Vietnamese War. 1973 Military draft ends; US forces become all voluntary. 19791bree-Mile Island nuclear problems near .Middletown.

PA. 1980 National Herb Garden opens in Washington, DC, with

7.000 plants in several gardens, SONG, TIlE ("INa! BY (RUS)

(SO!26:8)

WAR OF 1812 1812-1815- War of 1812

YE PARLIA}.tE\T OF (written 181.....) (SILl)

1812 (Aug 12) CSS Conslitution (Capt. Isaac Hull) defeats the British Guernere (Capt. Dacres)

CONSTITUTION Al\;'D GUERRJERE (ALLI) (LAW) (SCOT) (SILl)

IR1L'S VICTORY (fiddlrtune)(BROD) (LC:AAFS 1..62)

1813 (Jll!\cl) British Shannon defeats American Chesapeake

CHESAPEAKE A''D SHANNON (FOWl) PERRY'S nCTORY (L;\W) PERRY'S YICTORY (fiddle tunc) (LC:AAFSL62)

181-1-- British bombard Fort (Baltimore, but do not capture it.

STAR-SPA..,GLED R.\. (LAW) 1815 (Jan 8)- Battle or :--:ew Orleans

8th Of" J...\.Xl'ARY (fiddle tune) (BROD) BATIT.E OF ORl ..E,,-'S (DRB) (Rl'S)

(SO!9:1) (SOREP2) Hl1\lERS OF KE.'!l.;CKY (FSIC\iii:2) (LAW)

(SAN (SCOT) (SOREP2) JOHNl'i'Y BeLL. JO JOl-l:\' (DOL) (FSICviii2)

(SCOT) RAZORBACK SrriAK (ORB)

WESTWARD EXPANSION 17so- Dr. Thomas Walker opens Cumberland Gap as a way

to kentucky; becomes focus of THE Wilderness Road GAP (CARM) (SIU)

1809-111inois Territory fonned from part of Indiana Territory EL-A-NOY (CAR\!) (FSICiv::2) (SA'1 (TIll)

1830 - Westward movements at a high point WIll.. YOU GO OlJT WEST? (CAZl) TO THE WEST! (CAR\1) (FSIC\'ii: I) (MACN3) WISCONSIN (FSlCi\':I) (MAC.N3)

1835 (Nov 24 ) ..Texas Rangers organized TIIE TE.XAS RAc.'GERS (UNG) (\YAR.'5) MlJSTANGGRAY (UNG)

1836 (Mar 2)-Texas declares independence from Mexico 1836 (Apr 2 I)-Gen. Santa Ana defeated; Battle of San

Jacinto CO:ME TO THE BO\\'ER (CA&\-I) SA'TY A'\;O (I RIG)

1836 (Jun 15) Arkansas becomes the 25th state. ARK.A!'SAS TRAVELER (SO!33:4) TIIE STATE OF ARKA.'\;SAS (SOREPl)

1846 (May 13) - lJS declares war on Mexico BUCK. AND GAG illM (DOL) (rvl;\C:\"3) TAYLOR. TlIE FII'.'E OlD SOC11-IER.'

GE\.lLE.\lA' (DOL) GREE.' GROW THE LILACS (SOREP!)

1848 (Mar 10) Treaty of Guadalupe-I Iidalgo ends Mexican War.

\\c ARE COMING HOME (DOL) 18.50 - Rising interest in western public lands

SA.M'S FARM (FSICvi:2) 18SO Settlement increases in Washington Territory

ACRES OF CLA.MS (SCO) (Rt'S) 1889 (APR 22) Non-Indian lands in Oklahoma opened to

white settlers. AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHAlL GROW (SCO)

185+-57. 2,000 New Eoglanders migrate to Kansas Territory to increase support for its admission as a Free State.

THE KAl'SAS a'flGRAc.1\.T (LING) 1862 (May 30) Congress passes a new Land Act


LA.''E COL:-'T)' ("BE'" COlr:!\.T)"') BACHELOR {"STARVING TO DEATH 0:-': A GOVER."·

MEl'." CLAIM') (LC AAFS 130) (U:-':G) (SA1'\)

1867 Joseph establishes stockyard at the railhead in Ahilene, Kansas; beginning of the legendary Cowboy.

BILL (U1'\G) (11IOR) OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL. THE (UNG) mmR) CROOKED TRAIl" TO HOLBROOK (THOR) TRAIL TO t\l£.\'JCO (LING) TF..;'DERFOOT,llIE (THOR) GOODBYE OLD PAL'" (UNG) GlT ALONG, L1Tn£ DOGIES (LI:-':G) OLD Cm\'BOY, THE (LJ!':G) GOOD:--''1GHr-LO\ l1'\G TRAIL (RUS) (SCO) lD::I....L 1:-\ TE.XAS (LING) (THOR)

SONG (UNG) 1870 Peak of the Great Plains settlement.

RIDE, Bl:ffALO SOLDIERS, RIDE (RUCKI) DAKOTA LA!'-l) (I1NG) (SCO) LlTn...E OLD SOD .. (FSIO'i:2) (LING)

(GR-\Y2) COL ("BE'" COL T)"') BACHELOR

CSTARVI:-':G TO DEATIl 0:-': A GOVER,· CLAI!\n (LC AAFS DO) (HI:-':S) (SA:")

I . I "umbering industry shifts to Great Lakes area C\....\ADAY-I-O (FOW2) (lD1\lI) I .lTrLE BROW:-': Bll.J..8 LOST JI1\l!\fY WI-HLE" (L0!\t2) (THI)

18-3-E'i:termination of the huffalo (plains bison) ncarl) accomplished in the west.

Bl HALO TI IE (LNG) (SOREPl)

WORLD WAR I 191.1. World War I hegins ill Europe.

PEACE lfY!\l:-': (SO'30:2) I RAISE 1\fY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER

(C\IUI) 1917 (.\pr 6) l'S enter World War I

O\'ER THERI; (DOl") (\\1 nT) TI-n:y \\'ERE (DOL) (\nnT)

PACK l T' Yot'R TR0l1U.ES (SCOT) Rot HER SHE WE-\RS A YEI LOW

RIBBO:'\ (WI rrn BIG BASS DIU '1\1 on:-':2) K·K-K-K-P (IX)LJ CI IRISnL\S 1:-': TID: TRE.'\'CIIES '1')

WORLD WAR II 1C)4(1. Ddeusc appropnaLiuu!> uf .1..26 hilliull (for 50,000

airplanes per del-Tcases lIDI..'11lplo)IDent. ROSIE TIlE RI\'tlER (SCO)

19.1. I (Dec 7) Attack on Pearl Harbor; CS declares war of .Japan; Germany & Italy declare war on l'S, which rccognizes that a "state or war" exists with those Axis nations,

19.1.2 War in the South Pacific RODGER 'fOl::--:G 0:-': A \\,I1\G A':D A PMYER (SCO)

19-1S Germany surrenders (Aug 6) US drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and 2

days later on Japan surrenders. American war casualties: 292,000 killed or missing; 613,000 wounded.

G'\;OLA GAY (SCO) OLD MA!'.: ATOM (}-ll!\7) DEAD UTILE GIRL OF HIROSHIOMA (Rl'S)

(SEG6) (SOREP2) APE (by Jimmy Driftwood)

The YOUNG REPUBLIC 1788 (June 21) US Constitution goes into effect S01\10S

EL BARCO (SO!32:2) 1792 (Dec 15) - Bill of Rights goes into effect. 1793-9.t The Whiskey Rebellion; Pcnnsyh'ania farmers

(and distillers) protesting the 1791 Whiskey Ta, imposed hy the new federal government.

JOIJ::\:"'T, (DRI2) 1799 . Quasi-war against France over commercial maritime

rights TRl'XTO:-;' S \,lcrORY (BOARD) (LAW)

1800 JeJTerson's Presidential Campaign. JEFFERSO:-': IJBERTI' (FSICviii:l) (LAW)

(SCOT) (SO!S:-t) 1803 Lewis and Clark Expedition authorized by President

Jefferson. ROL.L O!\'. (Glill) (RUS)

J805 t'.S. refuses to pay BarbaI')' states for "pro-tection" !\ leditcrratlian piracy. captures Dama, a pirate

stronghold. hut piracy continues until 1815 (q,\.) HIGH BARBARY (SOI3:2) (SOREPl) (WAR,\,.1.)

(WAR'\'5) 1815 (1\la) IO-Aug 5) Stephen Decatur finally forces the

BarhaI') States to stop molesting ."-merican ships in the Carihheau.

I I1GII BARBARY (S0I3:2) (SOREPl) (WAR,\,-l) (\L\R,5)

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CARA2 CARAWA..'J. GUY A.'\'D CA..'\'DIE 5/1lg For Freedom (book) Sing Out Publications. 1991

SOURCES OF SONGS

:-';OTE: Many of these sources are out of print. One of the easiest ways to search for them is to use the internet; there arc three con\,eruenlweh sites (and ma"he vou know of more that tnat) that represent the collective of hundreds of booksellers. These three are:

I:-"TERLOC, at <http: www.lDterioc.com> : BIBLIOH':--''D, at <http://www.bibliofind.com>. and ADA"A."CED BOOK EXCHA.'JGE, AT

<http:abcbooks.coID>. (That last one is in Canada.)

ALLE Allen, William Francis. Charles Pickford Ware, & Lucy McKim Garrison. Slal'e Songs oj the United Slates. :-"j:: Peter Smith. 1951 (Facsmilile reprint oif 1867 edition)

ALLI Allison. John & Lucy. (78 Rpm Album) Ballads OJ The American Revolution And The War Of 1812. RCA P-ll (26.:+58-26462. Out of print.

ALT Altman, Ross; Live at the Barn (tape) Gray Goose 1991.

AND Andrews, Edward D. The Gif! To Be Simple. !'.')": Dover, 1%2. (Reprint of 1940 edition)

BEL Belden H..\l. (edItor) Ballads and Songs Collected by the A1,ssouri Folk-Lore Society. Columbia, MO; Cniversity of !\fissouri Press. 1940 (Reprinted in 1973).

BER Berman. !\larcia. and Anne Lief Barlin. Dance-a-Story, Sl1lg-a-Sollg. Learning Through t>.lovement: BIB Rcconls.

BOARD The Boarding Party: 'Tis Our Sailing Time. (Tape or LP) Folk-Legacy. C-97, 1983

BOKI Bok, Gordon. Time And The Flyillg Snow (Book) Sharon, Cf; Folk-Legacy Records. Inc. 1977.

BOK2 Bok, Gordon. Peter Kagan and the Wind. (LP) Sharon. CT: Folk-Legacy Records. 1971

BON Boni, .\largaret. Fireside Book ofFolk Songs. !',Ty: Simon & Schuster, 1957

BRAN 1 Brand, Oscar. Songsoj'76. (Book) !','Y: M. Evans & Co. 1972

BR AN 2 Brand, Oscar. Singillg Holidays. (Book) !\.'Y: AUred A. Knopf. 1957

BRO Bronson, Bertrand Harris. The Traditional Tunes oj the Child Ballads. (Book) Princeton, Princeton l:ni\ersity Press . .;I. voIs (books) OP

BROD Brody, David The Fiddler's Fakebook. (Book) Oak Publications, 1983.

CALIF Los Californios: Aowers of Our Lost Romance. co Vykki Mende Gray

CARA 1 Carawan, Guy The Land Knows You're There (LP) Aying Fish FF329,1988 (Aying Fish Records

Handled By Rounder Records)

CARA3 Carawan, Guy and Candie Voices From The .\tountains (Book) !','Y: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975

CARA4 Carawan. Guy and Candie. High all a A10untam (tape) Order direct from Guy & Candie.

CARAS Carawan, Guy and Candie .\1)' Rhllloceros alld Olher Fnellds (!ape) A Gentle Wind

CARA6 Carawan. Guy and Candie. Tree oj LIJe: Arbol de Vida (Tape) Aying Fish (Rounder Records)

CARM Carmer, Carl. Songs oJ the Rivers ojAmerica. (book) Farrar & Rhinehart, 1942

C A Z I Cazden, Norman, Herbert Haufrccht. and !'orman Studer. Folk Songs oj the Catskills. (Book) Albany: State University of NY Press. 1982.

CAZ2 Cazden, Joanna. The Rebel Girl. (tape) Sister Sun Music SS04. 1984.

CBAS Chase, Gilbert. America's MUSic. (book) Urbana & Chicago: Uni\,. of Illinois Press. 1992 (3rd revised edition)

COL Coleman, Satis N.• and Adolph Bregman. Songs oj American Folks. (book) i'.T: John Da}, 1942.

COME Come For to Sing (quarterly journal, published b:y Song In the Wind. In\'., Chicago. Sad note: no longer published..

CRU Z Cruz, Ben. and Sam Hinton. Songs ojCallJornia and the Old West. (LP) Los Angeles: Bowmar Records, 1953.

DlGITRAD Digital Tradtion, website. <http:/lwww.mudcat.org!folksearch.html>

DOL Dolph, Edward Arthur. Sound Off! Soldier Songs. (book) Farrar & Rhinehart. 1942

DOW Downes, Olin and Elie Siegmeister. Treasury of American SOllg. !'.T: Howell, Soskin, 1948.

DRII Driftwood, Jimmy. The Best oj jimmy Driftwood (LP) Monument rvtLP 8043

DRI2 Driftwood, Jimmy. Voice oj the People. (LP) Monument !\.1LP 8006.

DRI3. Driftwood, Jimmy. The Wilderness Road. (LP) 1959.

DWY Dwyer, Richard A., and Richard E. Lingenfelter. Songs ojthe Gold Rush. Berkeley: (Book) University of California Press. 196.:+. Unfortunately out of print.

EBR Ehret, Walter. and George K. Evans. international Book ofChristmas Carols. NY: Stephen Greene Press, 1980.

ESP Espinel, Luisa. (Booklet) CallClOnes de ,\1/ Padre. (Book) Tucson: Uru\.Arizona Bulletin Vol. VII, l.

FINK Fink, Cathy. When the Rain Comes Down, (Tape, __ CD) Rounder Records 1987.

Forcucci, Samuel L. A Folk Song history ojAme-rica. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Princeton-Hall, 198-+.

FOWl Fowke, Edith. Alan IYfilis and Helmut Blume. Canada's S10i1)'ln SOllg. (Book) Toronto: W J Gage, Ltd. (no date)

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FOW2 Fowke, Edith Penguin Book ofCanadian Folk SOl/gs, (Book) Ontario. Penguin Books, Ltd. 1980.

FOW3 Fowke, Edith, and Joe Glazer. SOl/gs Of Work and Freedom, (Book) Garden City, r-.,"y. Doubleday,

FREE The Freedom Singers; We Shall Overcome. (LP) ?\.lercury Records 20879.

FSI C Folk Song III The Classroom. (Journal) An irregular journal, now temporarily suspended while its editors map out a course for the future - but all back issues are available at a very reasonable price,

GREE Greenway, John. American Folk Songs of Protest (book) Phil a: Unh'. PA Press. 1953.

G RAY I Graydon, Ken. Elissa. Spread Your Wmgs (tape) Sherline, 1989.

GRAY2 Graydon, Ken, Windmill (tape) Sherline. 1989. GRA Y3 Graydon, Ken and Phee Sherline. The Coyote

Special. (tape) Sherline, 1992. G UTB Leventhal, Harold. and Mrujorie Guthrie. The

Woody Guthrie Song Book (book). NY: Grosset & Dunlap. 1976

BANKS Hanks, Larry Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail. (LP) Long Sleeve Records.

BARL Harley. Bill et al.I'm Gonna utlt Shine. (tape) Round River Records, 1992.

BEART Hearl Songs (book) Clearfield Company Baltimore, MD (facsimile reprint of 1909 edition)

BINI Hinton, Sam. A Family Tree of Folksongs. (LP) Decca Records. DL8418, 1982. OP.

HIN2 Hinton. Sam. From an East Texas Childhood. (tape) Hinton Enterprises.

BIN3 Hinton, Sam, I'll Sing You a Story. (CD or Tape) Smithsonian .: Folkways, 1972.

HIN4 Hinton. Sam, Singing Across the Lond. (LP) Decca,DL-8418. OP.

HINS Hinton, Sam. The Song ofAIen (CD or tape) Smithsonian'Folkways, FA2400, 1961

BIN6 Hinton, Sam. Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts (CD or tape) Smithsonian/Folkways, FC-7530, 1961.

HIN' Hinton. Sam. (10" 78 rpm single) Old Man Atom. Columbia, 1950 (Now available on CD or tape or LP from Smithsonian Colections. "Folk Song America.")

BINS Huinton, Sam OfFrogs and Dogs and Such. (tape) Hinton Enterprises, 1991.

HIN9 Hinton. Sam 'Tis the Season. (tape) Hinton Enterprises. 1991.

HI N 10 Hinton, Sam. The Wandering Folksong. (CD or tape) Smithsonian1Folkways. FC-7530, 1962. BOM Homeland Songs (booklet) The publisher, World Around Songs is continuing the fine work begun by the Cooperative Recreation Association. HUG Hugill. Stan. Shanties From mhe Seven Seas.

(Book) !',"Y: E.P.Dutton A& Co.. Inc. 1961. IVES lves. Burl. The Burllves Song Book.

Ballantyne Books. 1953, OP,

JONEI Jones, Bessie. Step it Down (LP) Rounder Records.

JONE2 Jones, Bessie. and Bess Lorna .. Hawes: Step it Down. (Book) NY: Harpeer & Row, 1972, (Reprinted 1987, University of Georgia Press,)

JUR Juravich, Tom. Out of Darkness (tape, CD) Flying Fish Records (Rounder Records) 1991

KORN Kombluh, Joyce L. Rebel Voices: An i.W.W. Anthology, Ann Arbor: Uni\' , f\fichigan Press, 19(H,

KORS Korson, George, Pennsylvama Songs and Legends. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1949,

LAW Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Music for PatriOIS. Politicians. and Presidents. (Book) !';"Y: Macmillan, 1975,

LEV Levy, Lesater. Grace Notes III American History. (Book) Normasn, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967,

LC Ubrary of Congresas. Phonograph Records produced by the Archive of Folk Cuklture, American Folkife Center, Ubrary of Congress, Washington DC 29540, Send for a catalog!

LING Ungenfelter. Riuchard E., Richard A Dwyer, and Dfavid Cohen: Songs of the American West. (Book) Berkeley: University of Califomia Press. 1986,

LINS Unscott. Eloise Hubbard, Folk Songs ofOld Newe England. (Book) NY: Macmillan. 1939. (Dover reprint edition. 1993)

LOMI Lomax. Alan. Folk Songs ofNorth America, (Book) Garden City. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1960,

LOM2 Loma'i.. John A. & Alan Lomax. American Ballads and Folk Songs. (Book) :\"Y: Macmillan. 1934. (Dover edition. 1994)

LOM3 Loma'i.. John A. & Alan Loma... Our Singing Countrv, (Book) l'.1": Macmillan, 1941.

LOM4 Lo'ma'i., Alan Folk Song U.S.A. (Book) NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce. 19..:18. Reprinted as Best Loved American Songs. Grossett & Dunlasp, 1953.

LUM Lummis, Charles F. Spanish Songs ofOld California (Book) Privately printed. 1923. Out of print and hard to find.

MACN MacNeill. Keith and Rusty MacNeil. Insights into American History Through Folksong. 7 sets so far. each set consisting of 1 or 2 Cds or 2 or more tapes, with biiklet. Records. Great songs, great narration. MACN I - Working allli Union Songs. MACN2 - Colonial America. American RevolutlOll.

War of1812. MACNJ - Moving West Songs. MACN4 Civil War Songs. MACNS - Cowboy Songs. MACN6 - Western Railroad Songs M A CN' - Cali/ornia Songs (2 CDs or 2 tapes)

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McCUT .\1cCutcheon, John. Water From Another Time. (LP or tape) Rounder Records. 1989. John has a !.1feat website at:http:" wwwJolkmusic.com

MEEK .\Ieek. Bill. Songs a/the Irish 111 America. (Book) Dublin: Gilbert Dalton, Ltd. 1978

MORS .\lorse. Jim. and Nancy Matthews. Survival Songbook. (Book) San Frdlu . .'isco: The Sierra Club, 1971. The Sierra Club should never have let this book go out of print, hut they did!

MOV .Hovlng Star Hall Singers. Guy and Candie Carawan. recordists. (Tape or CD) Smithsonian ' folkways fS38-U. 196-+.

OROZ Orozco, Jose-Luis. Lyrica InJalllil. (iPs or tapes) Berkeley. CA: Arcoiris Records OROZI - Volume 1. OROZ2 - \'olume 2

OSH The Orgillal Sacred Harp Denson Revision. Sacred Harp Publishing Co. Re\'ision of 184-+ edition.

PET Petric, Faith. Woman child (rape) Center Records RAN Randolph. Vance: O::.ark Folk Songs. (Books)

Columbia. ,MO; State Historical Soc. of (Book) in 4 volumes. 1946-50. Out of print. Skillfully edited I-volume ediuon probably still available: t'niversity of Illinois Press, 1942.

RITCH 1..IEA.s RITCHIE: None But One/High Hills alld .\4oumains. (CD) Grccnhays.

RITCH 2. .TEA,:\" RITCHIE. Cbild Ballads In America. Vols. I &2 (LP) Greenhays.

Jean Ritchie has a website at http: mt.:mber.aol.com greenbays.page6.htm

ROG 1 Rogers. Sally. Love W!lI Guide Us. (LP, tape. CD) Hying Fish Records, 1985.

ROG2 Rogers, Sally. Piggyback Planet: a Whole Earth. (LP. tape, CD. Round River Records, 1990. Sally has a website at:

http: www.sallyrogers.com RUB Rubin. Ruth. Jewish Folk Songs. (Book) 1\"Y:Oak

Publications, 1965. RUCKI Rucker, Sparky and Rhonda. Treasures and

Tears, (rape) Hying Fish (Rounder Records) RUCK2 Rucker. Sparky and Rhonda. b'elltide (rape).

Tremont Productions. R U S Rise Up Singing. Sing Out Publications. The very

best word book fopr group singing. SAN Sandburg, Carl. The American Songbag (Book)

1927. Reprint edition, in paperback form, with intro by Garrison Keillor.1\'Y:Harcourt. Brace, 1990.

SCHI Schimmel. Nancy. Head First and Belly Down. (Tape) Sisler's Choice, 1990.

S CO Scofield . Twilo. All American Sampler. (Book) bugene, Oregon: Cutthropat Press.

SCOT Scott. John Anthony. The Ballad oj America. (Book) Carbondale, IL. l'niversity of Illinois Press, 1983 (2nd ediuon).

SEG 1 Seeger, Pete. Darling Corey. (rape or CD) Smithsonian Foilkways .FP3. 1950.

SEG2 Seeger, Pete. Ameru:an Favorile Ballads (Book) !\'T: Oak Publications, 196-+.

SEGJ Seeger, Pete. and Bob Reiser: Carry iT 011 (Book) Sing Out Publicatgions. 1991.

SEG4 Seeger, Peggy. and Ewan .MacColl. The Singing -.island. (Book) London. !\1ills Ltd. too date)

SEGS Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs For Childrell. (Book) j\.T: Doubleday. 1948. Doubleday re· issue, paperback, 1980.

SEG6 Seeger, Pete. Where Have Alllhe Flowers Gone? (Book: Pete's musical autobiography) Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Publications. 1993.

SIL 1 Silber. Irwin. Songs oj Inderpendcence (Book) ;-'iY Stackpole Books. 1973

SILZ Silber. Irwin. Songs oJ the Civil War. (Book) j\.··Y: Columbia University Press, 1960.

SILJ Silber. Irwin. Reprints From the People'S Songs Bulletin. (Book) j\.T: Oak Publications, 1961.

SO! Sing Out!, The Folk MUSic Maga:ine. Sing Out Publications. (Journal) 13:3 means Yol. 13, No.3, etc. Many back issues out of print. but see SOREP.

SOREP The Collected Reprinlsfrom Sillg Out! Aloga::.ine, Originally in 12 small volumes; now issued in two big ones. Sing Out Publications. SOREPI - Yolume 1. SOREPZ - Volume 2.

THI Thieme. Art. On the River. (Tape) Distribvuted by Art Thieme.

THOR Thorp, .s. Howard. Songs oJ the Cowbovs (Book) NY: Houghton t-.1ifflin, 1921. An inportant early collection.

TOO Toor. Frances. A Treasury oj AfexicGII Folkways. (Book) I'\ Y: Crown Publishers. 1947.

WALK Walker, William. The Southern HarmollY (Book) Los Promusicamericana, 1966 (facsimile reprint of 18.54 edition.)

WALK.JI Walker, Johnny Haul and Sillg (rape) Distributed b\ Jobnnv Walker.

WALK.JZ Waiker, Johnny Folks01lgs alld Such (rape) Distributed by Johnny Walker.

WARN 1 Warner, Frank. Frank Warner Sings American Folk Songs and Ballads. (10" LP) Elektra EKL-3. 1952.

WARN2 Warner, Fnmk Come All You Good People (LP) .\1instrel JD204 (no date)

WARNJ Warner, Frank Songs oJllle Civil War. (LP) Prestige International 1302 (no date).

WARN4 Warner. Frank. and Anne Warner. Traditional American Folk Songs. (Book) Syracuse. !\.l·: Syracuse Lniversily Press, 19!54.

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WARN 5 Warner. Jeff, and Jeff Davis. Wilder iov (Tape) Hying Fish (Rounder records)

WARN6 Warner, Jeff, and .IeffDavis. Old Time Songsfor Kids. (Tape or LP) Warner and Davis (SOTE: Jeff Warner is the son of the late Frank and Atme Warner, and thcy would be proud of him and his friend Jeff Davis!)

WEN Wenner, Hilda E.,. and Elizabeth Freillicher. Here's To the Women. (Book) Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987.WHIT Whitman, Wanda Wilson. Songs That Cha1lged the World. (Book) l\.'Y: Crown Publishers 1969.

WHITF 'Vhiilield, Irene Theresc. Louisiana French Folk Songs. (Booklet) Louisiana State University Press, 1936. (Dover reprint, 1969.)

* * * * * * ADDRESSES OF SOURCES

NOTE: Addresses of major publishers are not given here; your' bookstore or record shop will know how to reach them for orders -- so will Amazon Books on the Internet.

A GENTLE WIND -- Box 3103, Albany,l\.'Y 12203

ARCOIRIS RECORDS -- (.lose-Luis Orozco records) P.O. box 7-1-28, Berkeley, CA 94707

AMAZON BOOKS -- on the Internet at <http: www.amazon.coOl> Tremendous stock of books. both in and out of print.

CARA W AN -- RFD 3, Box 370, New Market. n.; 37820

CENTER RECORDS -- 885 Oayton Street, San Francisco, CA 9-1-117

CHILDREN'S MUSIC NETWORK -- PO Box 307 SJ 076-1-5.

CUTTHROAT PRESS -- (Named for a fish, not a murderer!) 1974 Yillard, Eugene, OR 9-1-703

DIGITAL TRADITION -- A useful website, with words to hundreds of songs. Access it at: <http: www.mudcat.orgifolksearch.html>

DOVER PUBLICATIONS -- 31 E. 2nd Street, !\1incola,:-"-Y 11501. Dover publishes extremely useful reprint editions of old books. They have a website at <httpl: www.w-s-o.com.DovcrPublications index.hun> but you might find it more convenient to order throuAmazon Books or one of the second-hand book

AMERICAN HISTORY

consortiums listed here at the head of the SOl1{CES section..

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RECORDS-- Freeport, !\l' 11520

FIFE AND DRUM -- A website especialh' • eoood for Civil "'ar songs and references: <hnp:,'ififeanddrum.com.web.storelhistoricaI·us_civil_w ar·cw_music.html>

FLYING FISH RECORDS (now available from RECORDS, qv.)

FOLK-LEGACY RECORDS -- Box 1148. Sharon, cr 06069 website: http://folklegacy.com

FOLK SONG IN THE CLASSROOM -- John W. Scott, PO Box 264, Holyoke, MA 01041

FOLKWAYS -- See SMITIISONIAN/FOLKWAYS

GRAY GOOSE MUSIC -- 13-1- S. La Brea Avenue, #4, Los Angeles, CA 90036

GRAY, VYKKI MENDE - (Los Californios CD) 63-1-28th Street, San Diego, CA 92181

GREENHA YS -- LPs, tapes, CDs, books, instruments by .lean Ritchie. 7A Locust Ave., Port Washington, 1\1' 11050. Website (with order form): http: :members.aol.coIIl;greenhays,page6.htm

HINTON ENTERPRISES -- (Sam Hinton tapes) 9420 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla. CA 92037

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS -- Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC 29540.

LONG SLEEVE RECORDS -- PO Box 315, !\1ill Yalley, CA 9-1-9-1-2.

MUSIC FOR LIFE (Ijnda Williams Tapes) 1106 2nd Street, Encinitas, CA 9002-1-

PROMUSICAMERICANA -- Box 232-1-, Los Angeles, CA 90028

RAINBOW SNAKE RECORDS -- PO Box 922, Greenfield, \IA 01302

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