ISBN:
0486226921
Language:
English
Pages:
239 S.
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Ill., Notenbeisp.
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22 cm
Series Statement:
Dover books on folklore, folk art, and folk song
DDC:
784.4/973
Keywords:
Folklore
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Folk songs, English
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Folk music
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USA
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Volkslied
Abstract:
Mr. Chase has collected a wide variaty of folklore for inclusion in this volume. Here you will find tales of dry humor whose telling will enliven and friendly gathering, or the "jump" tales that literally require the teller to jump at his listener, mostly ghost stories that have enthralled generations of children and grandchildren. Here, complete with guitar chords, are American versions of old English ballads like " The Devils̉ Questions" and "Bold Robin Hood", and original mountain ballads like "Old Bangum and the Boar". Here too are many hymns and childrens̉ songs current in the mountains of the South. A sample of fiddle music and country games can provide inspiration for all manner of parties or family amusements. In addition to the ballads, songs, and stories, Mr. Chase also gives such amusing folk miscellany as riddles, love-rhymes, and jokes ...
Note:
Includes unacc. melodies, in part with shape-note notation. - New guitar chords have been prepared by John E. Curtiss especially for the Dover ed
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Literaturangaben
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This Dover ed., first publ. in 1971. is an unabridged republication, with minor corrections, of the work originally publ. by the New American Library of World Literature, Inc., New York, in 1956
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