folk songs, english

Presents an illustrated version of the traditional song along with some discussion of its folk origins.

Provides a history and words to six verses of the folk song, "She'll be Coming Around the Mountain, " as well as simple instructions for making a musical instrument and adding traditional actions and sounds.

Presents a comprehensive study of folk music in America examining cowboy and Midwestern ballads, railroad songs, slave spirituals, Appalachian music, and discusses the different genres and regions throughout the nation.

Presents an illustrated version of the traditional song along with some discussion of its folk origins.

A young woman's true love sends her extravagant gifts on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Discusses the essence and development of various forms of Negro folk music, both vocal and instrumental, including ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs, Louisiana Creole songs, cries, dances, and game songs. Includes words and music for forty-three songs, and discographies.

More and more gifts arrive from a young bear's true love on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

An illustrated version of the traditional folk song, in which the buffalo girls sleep in the kitchen, sing by starlight, and dance by the light of the moon.

Illustrations by Gennady Spirin accompany the lyrics to the traditional holiday song that describes gifts given on each of the twelve days that lead up to Christmas.

More and more gifts arrive from a young girl's true love on each of the twelve days of Christmas.