The Family Car Songbook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clee, Suzanne, illustrator.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs, English--United States--Texts.

Songs, English.

Folk songs, English--United States--Texts.

Folk songs, English.

Children's songs--United States--Texts.

Children's songs.

Songs--Texts.

Songs.

United States.

Genre:

Texts.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 x 26 cm + 1 audiocassette

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1983.

Contents:

America! (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) / Lyrics by Henry Carey

America the beautiful / Lyrics by Samuel A. Ward

Battle Hymn of the Republic / Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe

Big Rock Candy Mountain / Traditional hobo song

Billy Boy / Traditional mountain song

Blow the Man Down / Traditional sea chanty

The Caisson Song (The Caissons Go Rolling Along) / Lyrics by Edmund Gruber

Camptown Races (Going to Run All Night) / Lyrics by Stephen Collins Foster

Down by the Riverside / Traditional spiritual

The Erie Canal / Traditional bargeman's song

Frankie and Johnny / Traditional southern song

Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) / Traditional French round

Frog, He Went a-Courting / Traditional English folksong

Funiculi, Funicula / Lyrics by Edward Oxenford

Git Along, Little Dogies / Traditional cowboy song

Go Tell Aunt Rhody / Traditional

Goober Peas / Lyrics by "A. Pindar"

Greensleeves / Traditional English folksong

The Happy Wanderer / Lyrics by Antonia Ridge

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands / Traditional spiritual

Home on the Range / Traditional cowboy song

Home, Sweet Home / Lyrics by John Howard Payne

Hush, Little Baby / Traditional Southern lullabye

I Wish I Were in Dixie (Dixie Land) / Lyrics by Dan Decatur Emmett

I've Been Working on the Railroad / Traditional railroad song

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair / Lyrics by Stephen Collins Foster

Jimmy Crack Corn (The Blue-Tail Fly) / Old minstrel song

The John B. Sails (The Sloop John B.) / Traditional Caribbean folksong

John Brown's Body / Lyrics by Charles S. Hall

Kookaburra / Traditional Australian round

Little Brown Jug / Lyrics by "Eastburn"

The Marines' Hymn / Lyrics by L. Z. Phillips

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis / Lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore / West Indian spiritual

My Darling Clementine / Lyrics by Percy Montrose

Oh, Susanna! / Lyrics by Stephen Collins Foster

The Old Gray Mare / Traditional

On Top of Old Smoky / Traditional Appalachian folksong

Over the River and through the Woods / Traditional Thanksgiving song

Polly Wolly Doodle / Lyrics by William H. Hills

Red River Valley / Traditional Southern folksong

'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon / Traditional

She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain / Traditional railroad song

Shenandoah / Traditional bargeman's chanty

The Streets of Laredo / Traditional cowboy song

Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) / Lyrics by Stephen Collins Foster

Sweet Betsy from Pike / Traditional

This Old Man / Traditional English country rhyme

Tom Dooley / Traditional

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Traditional English nursery tune

The Wabash Cannon Ball / Traditional hobo song

Waltzing Matilda / Lyrics by Andrew Barton Paterson

When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again / Lyrics by Louis Lambert

When the Saints Go Marchin' In / Traditional spiritual

Yankee Doodle / Traditional

Yankee Doodle Boy / Lyrics by George M. Cohan

Yellow Rose of Texas / Lyrics by "J.K."

Notes:

"Hundreds of miles of fun!"--Cover.

"Complete lyrics to fun-to-sing standards, perfect for festive get-togethers and long family car trips. Sixty minutes of instrumental music to 23 of these terrific songs."--Package.

"Cover design by Jim Wilson. Cover illustration by Verlin Miller. Interior illustrations by Suzanne Clee. Research and newly edited by Tam Mossman. Typography: Eras (by rci, Philadelphia, PA), and Benguiat."--Title page verso.

"Music production and recording: Bob Cohen, Cherry Sound Studios."--Audiocassette.

Without music.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy 1 is "3" printing.

Running Press copy 1 has "Archives" stamped on title page with date "1/17/89" printed below.

Running Press copy 2 is "7" printing.

Running Press copy 2 is package with book and audiocassette.

ISBN:

0894712136

9780894712135

0894712128

9780894712128

0894716670

OCLC:

32855825