Jerry Silverman

Irwin Silber

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

Songs of the Civil War

Peter Davison

Discusses the performers most commonly associated with each song, as well as looking at its origins and commenting on the lyrics. Includes the melody line and chord names.

Songs of the British Music Hall

60 Favorite Folk Songs Arranged for Harmonica with Complete Lyrics and Guitar Chords

Folk Harmonica

With Over 1,000 Favorite Songs Arr. for Voice and Guitar]

Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia

110 American Folk Blues

Folk Blues

Forty-six of the world's best-loved Christmas classics, arranged for piano and quitar; accompanied by the complete lyrics.

Best Loved Classics Arranged for Keyboard and Guitar

A Treasury of Christmas Carols

Forty-one favorites: songs to rally the troops, ballads of sorrow, even some of hope and humor. Includes Marching Through Georgia, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Go Down, Moses, many others. Each song printed as a guitar solo and also as a "lead sheet" with accompaniment and complete lyrics.

Civil War Songs and Ballads for Guitar

Rose N. Rubin

Michael Stillman

Twenty-five traditional folk songs, plus 19 songs written in the folk style by 20th-century composers such as Shostakovich, Knipper, and Zakharov. Each of the songs appears with a vocal line, full piano accompaniment, and guitar chords. The lyrics are shown in the original Cyrillic, in transliteration, and in an English translation.

A Russian song book

Uses the music and lyrics of thirteen Afro-American songs as a focal point for relating the history of the African-American experience and for telling American musical history.

African-American History Through Song

Just Listen to this Song I'm Singing

A collection of more than 125 songs mostly from the Civil War period.

The selection of songs was designed to give players a repertoire of the most common played tunes, as well as examples of the most commonly used techniques. The GUITAR collection contains a classic Bill Monroe tune Big Mon and 24 traditional tunes, ranging from Arkansas Traveler, Turkey in the Straw, Old Joe Clark, Sailor's Hornpipe, and Sally Goodin, to the less familiar Whiskey Before Breakfast and others. The book also contains a CD with each song recorded in a such a way that you can pan to hear the lead instrument alone, the backing track alone, or the two combined.

The Flatpicker's Guitar Guide

An illustrated songbook of songs from the Caribbean.

Jerry Silverman

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