folk-songs, english

The reader lifts flaps which reveal the extravagant gifts sent to a young woman by her true love on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Contains 290 songs, ballads, and ditties with words and music, complete harmonizations or piano accompaniments.

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

On each of the twelve days of Christmas, unusual or extravagant gifts arrive from a young woman's true love.

Ten old men in colorful outfits are featured with the text of this traditional counting song. Each illustration features a die-cut through which the next old man can be seen.

Describes the historical background of more than eighty American folk songs, and explains their musical structure and evolution.

A superb blend of good story-telling and sound scholarship, this book provides a fascinating record what "country New Yorkers" have had to say and sing about themselves as they made their way through three centuries.