songs, english

Contains the piano arrangements, lyrics, and chord symbols for two hundred American songs, drawn from throughout the country's history, organized by subject, including hymns, patriotic anthems, sea shanties, Broadway tunes, classics, and others.

Recounts the popular song with chickens, pigs, donkeys, sheep, horses, cats, pigeons, goats, ducks, geese, and even tractors.

Presents lyrics for eighty-five Civil War ballads from the North and the South, including patriotic tunes, romantic and sentimental pieces, and songs of battles past.

Provides new lyrics to the tune of Sedaka's song, Calendar Girl, in which a dinosaur hatches in January, then grows bigger every month of the year. Accompanying CD has a performance of the title song as well as two original songs.

Includes data on over 4,800 American musicals produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in a number of other venues from 1877 to the fall of 1995, arranged alphabetically by title, and including a complete index to more than 70,000 songs and more than 27,000 personnel, and a chronological listing of productions.

An illustrated version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing, " the James Weldon Johnson poem that became a song and is often called the African-American national anthem.

Presents a collection of illustrations that represent the classic song "America the Beautiful.".