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A History of the United States through Folk Song
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART FIVE -- Continental Empire 1870 - 1914
Chapter 10 -- Northern Workers in the Gilded Age 1870 - 1914
"The Blantyre Explosion" ("High Blantyre")
"John Henry"
"The Wabash Cannon Ball"
"Tumbalalaika"
"Ot Azoy Neyt A Shnayder"
"Papir Iz Doch Vays"
"Bread and Roses"
"Solidarity Forever"
Chapter 11 -- The far West -- The Cowboy Frontier
"Get Along Little Dogies"
"Down by the Brazos"
"The Colorado Trail"
"The Streets of Laredo"
"The Cowboy's Lament"
"I Ride an Old Paint"
"Black Jack Davy"
"Home on the Range"
"The Farmer is the Man"
Chapter 12 -- African-American Workers in the South: 1865 - 1914
"Poor Lazarus"
"Pick a Bale of Cotton"
"More Cane on this Brazos"
"Another Man Done Gone"
"Take This Hammer"
"The Midnight Special"
"The Gray Goose"
"The Ballad of the Boll Weevil"
"The House of the Rising Sun"
Folksong In The Classroom and us
Index
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