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SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY
Events and eras in American History, in chronological context, Titles ofsongs that exemplify those dates and eras, and Sources in which those songs may beJound.
Compiled by
SAM HINTON originally preparedjor the class HFolksong and History," Uniuversity ojcalifornia Extension. 1968.
Printed on Friday, July :!O, :!OOI I
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SONGS ARRANGED BY DATE ------1
SONGS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ------9
SONGS GROUPED BY CATEGORIES ------14 African-Americans and Siavery------14 American Revolution------15 Between Civil War and World War 1-- 15 California ------16 Civil Rights ------16 Civil War ------17 Colonial Days ------17 Conservation and Environment ------18 Hard Times & Disasters ------18 Immigration ------19 Industrial Expansion & Transport ----- 19 Labor------20 Maritime Experience ------20 Native Americans ------21 Religious Ferment ------21 Since World War II ------...------22 War of 1812 ------22 Westward Expansion ------22 World War 1------23 World War II ------23 Young Republic ------23
SOLIRCES OF SONGS ------24
ADDRESSES OF SOURCES ------27
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SONGS ARRANGED BY DATE THE AfiLLER 'S WILL (HINS) NOTE; Titles 0 J songsg are in CAPS; alternate titles are PAPER OF PINS (RA.!'.') ill quotes. sources ojsOllgs are in PARE!'.'THESES. THE QUAKER'S WOOING (UNS) Some songless dates are included to help place some RISSELn' ROSSELn' (SEGI) dated songs ill context. These songs may flat have arisen ROVING PEDDLER (CAZI) at the time ojthe event. but are concerned with it. TIIREE JOLLY ROGl7ES C1N GOOD OLD 1492 (Oct 12) Columbus "discovers" America COLOl'\"Y TIAffiS") (LL,,",S) (SCHI) LAD (UNS) (SO!323) 1607-(May) 1st permanent English Colony, Jamestown, (SOREP1) VA; 120 settlers. John Smith tries to rule colony, but is YOUNG CHARLOTTE ("TI-IE FROZE,,", GIRL") driven out; he leaves Va. in 1609. (UNS) (S0!32'3) JONATHAN S:MITII (COL) (HIN3) YOUNG MAN WHO WOULDN'T HOE COR,,", 1609-Spanish found Santa Fe. New Mexico (LOM4) CA.''TO DE CUNA (ESP) l612-tobacco cultivation begun by John Rolfe 1610-Indians are an important part of our history. TOBACCO'S BUr AN Il'.'DIANWEED (HANKS) MY LITTLE MOHEE(LOMl) (lVES) IROQUOIS LULLABY (FOWl) 1614-The Dutch Establish a colony Called New Amsterdam ClllPPEWA OWL SONG (CRA) (later New York) LAKOTA LUlLABY (RUCK2) JOLLY OLD ROGER (HIN4) (LINS) AS LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW 1619-Africans brought to Jamestown; probably as (SCO) indentured servants. l6l0-l776-Coloniallife in general. NOTE; all songs within JUBA (JONE1) (JONE2) this date span are appropriate here.) l620-Pilgrims land near Plymouth From the old world heritage OLD ffilNDREDTH (RUS) BARBARA ALLEN (BRO) (RITCH 2) (SCOT) TOULON (CHAS) (WARN4) '\\:1-10 IS THE MAN? (DOW) CUCKOO, THE (RITCH 2) 1629-First Puritans anive at Salem (MA) Bay Colony DEVIL & THE FAR"ffiR'S WIFE, The l629-First commercial fishery established at Medford, MA ("FAR\1ER'S CURST WIFE") (BRO) BOSTON COME-ALL-YE (BON) (FSICvi!2) (HIN3) (SCOT) 1635) (September) Roger Williams banished from GYPSY LADDIE (RITCH 2) Massachusetts Bay for preaching his belief in the JOI-Il'\ BARLEYCORl'\ (RVS) separation of church and State, LORD BATEMA.l.1\i (BRO) (RITCH 2) 1636-Roger Williams founds Providence (Rhode Island). LORD RANDALL (RITCH 2) 1636-Anne Hutchinson also banished from the Bay GOLDEN 1REE (RITCH 2) for holding "SO erroneous opinions", including what they OLD BA..NGUM: (RITCH 2) called Antinomianism, the stressing of personal OLD MAl\" L1\i THE WOOD (FSICi/3) (HIN3) revelation, and her questioning the authority of orthodox (UNS) (SCOT) clergy. She too fled to RI and founded the city of RIDDLE SONG (RUS) Portsmouth in 1638. ROBIN THE BOBBIN (CWTY \VRli"-!') l640-Beginning of Actual slavery in America; \'A and MD (FSlCii3) (HIN3) enact a series of statutes distinguishing between white '\lFE OF USHER'S WELL (RITCH 2) indentured servants and African chattel slaves. North America becomes a goal for some of Europe's ALL HID? (LC, album IV) poor people, , . , ALL THE PREITY LIlTLE HORSES (LOM1. 2) INVITATION TO NORTII AMERICA (SILl) BARNEY McCABE (MOV) (CARA3) (fUNS) Many colonists come as indentured servants GRAY GOOSE (SOREP I) DISTRESSED DAMSEL CfRAPA.NN'D JUBA (HINS) (JOl'.'El) (JOI'.'E2) .MAIDE\1 (SILl) (MACN2) LONG JOHN (LC, album III) MOTHERLESS ClllLD (RUS) (FSICi,,:3) Daily life in the Colonies OH MARY, DON'T YOU 'VEEP (RUS) BILLY GRlA1ES (BEL) SEEK M'D YOU SHALL FINU (RUS) (SO!32:4) THE ClllEFTAIN'S BRIDE (AW) SHOO TIJRKEY (CARA3) GAP (CARM) (Lor..n) S\\lNG LOW, SWl3ET CHARIOT (BON) GRANDMOTIffiR BROWN (HIN2) (Lo.M2) (RUS) KAn' CRtJa (UNS) (SCOT)
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16-t-1-lst organized whale processing and distribu-tion, on Romance. -- For information. write Ms. Vykki t-.lende Long Island, z-..'''y, (beached whales only) Gray, 634 28th St., San Diego. CA 92181. 16-J.7-Towns of Providence, Newport, and Portsmouth band ADIOS, ADIOS, At-.flGOS (CAUF) together and form the colony of Rhode Island, with a ALABADO (CRUZ) General Assembly draft code separating church and state JAY. SUSA.lI,JAl (CALIF) and guaranteeing religious freedom, BORREGO, EL (CAUF) 1659-1st fire department to be established by municipal CAUFOR.l\,,1 \'ALS JOTA, EL (CALIF) action, in New York City, CAMOTES, LOS (CALIF) BOWERY GRE"JADIERS (Alli) (SO! 9'3) CM'TICO DE ALBA (CRUZ) 1668-French establish fur-trading post and mission at CAt."'TO DE Cl,;\;A (ESP) Sault(W ARl\;4) CAPOTIK, EL (CAUF) (SO!.t:5) (LL'M) 1738-George Whitefield, Evangelist, arrives in America CIELITO Ul'.1)() (MACK3) (OROZ3) o LOVELY APPEARA1\lCE OF DEArn (LOM3) COr-..'TRADANZA DE MONIERREY. LA (CALIF) Rise of "Play-parties" as an answer to religious strictures COl\TRADAN ZA DE SONOMA, LA (CALIF) against dancing DE COLORES (RUS) (SO!25-3) (HlN8) (OROZl) OLD JOE CLARK (FSIC vi:l) (HlN4) DESPEDIDA DE MONlERREY, LA (CALIF) (SOREPl) EN NOMBRE DEL CIELO (ERR) (HlN9) SKIP TO t-.fY LOll (RlTS) (FSIC iv:2) ES AL AMOR MARIPOSA (CALIF) GO IK TIlE \\1LDERNESS (ALLE) GALLITO, EL (ESP) 1756-1763- "French and Indian War" (7 Years' War) (See HAMACA, LA (CAllF) also 1759) MUJER, LA (CALIF) FELIX TIIE SOLDIER (WARi'\l4) MANAN1T AS, LAS (OROZ2) (TOO) 1755-English expel Acadians from Sova Scotia MI PEPA (CALIF) l P;\;", DEllX, TROIS (ALLE) (SM) POSADAS, LAS SONGS (lUN9) (OROZl) CAJlP;\;" D\'O-STEP «(Instrumental) (HlN2) SOMBRERO BLANCO, EL (CALIF) M'SIEl' BAINJO (ALLE) (BON) VALS DE MILAN (CAUF) 1758-1830-Red Jacket (Sagoyawatha), Seneca orator VARSOVlA.1\iA, LA (CALIF) AS LONG AS TIffi GRASS SHALL GROW (SCO) 1770 (March 3) The "Boston Massacre" Cl-llPPEWA OWLLL'lLABY (HOM) UNHAPPY BOSTOI' (ALLI) (BRA.,l\IDl) (LAW) TIlE !ANTI K:.'lOWS YOl"RE 1HERE (CARAl) 1771-1 st Spinning Mill established in Derbyshire, England (Hi\..l\ol\:S) (PET) FOUR-LOOM WEAVER(SEG4) 1759 (Sep 18) - English capture Quebec in French and POVERn' KNOCK (WALK-J2) Indian War; leaders of both armies, Montcalme and 1773 (Dec. 16) The Boston Tea Party Wolfe. are killed, TIlE BOSTON TEA-TA.X (SILl) (SCOT) BRAVE WOLFE (FSIC vii:3) (\\'ARN4) REVOLlmONARY TEA ("RICH LADY OVER 1761-0biutary verse about Timothy Myrick, which passed TIlE SEA") (SCOT) (SILl) into the folk tradition and became a song witH many, 1774 - Increase of anti-British feelings many versions, FREE AMERICA (BRAND2) (SILl) SPRINGFlELD MOL T AL'l (HlN4) (SCO) 1775 (Oct. 7) British rue upon the town of Bristol, Rhode (SCOT) Island 1765-Colomsts complaining about British taxation. BOMBARDMEl'.'T OF BRISTOL (ALLI) (SILl) (SILl) 1775-1783-- (I1-IE GEl\TERAL PERIOD) The American 1767-British Townshend Acts decree that Americans pay Revolution. NOTE: Many of the songs from earlier dates on all imported glass, lead, paint, and tea. Americans refer to events leading up to the Revolution, and may be respond by organizing a boycott against ALL British used in this context imports, JOHNNY HAS GONE FOR A SOLDIER TO TIlE LADIES! ("YOllNG LADIES N TOW!':") C'BUITER.\1ILK l-llLL") (ALU) (SCOT) (SILl) (FOR) (SILl) (SCOT) CHESTER (MACS2) (SILl) 1769 (July 16) Mission San Diego de Alcala founded; 1st of YM'KEE DOODLE (BRA:NTI2) (FSIC Ill: 1) a series of missions & towns designed to strengthen (LAW) (SCO) Spain's claim to California and to keep the Russians JOHN:!'.')' GET 'yot)R GL';\; (ALLI) out. 1775 (JUNE 17)-The Battle Of Bunker Hill 1769-18-lO: The "heyday" of Alta California Missions and HilL (A) (ALLI) (SILl) Ranchos. A good general set of songs and dance music BL'NKER mIL (B) (DRI2) on the CD: Los Californios: Flowers ofOur Lost
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1776 (SEP. 22) Execution of Hale 1799 Quasi-war against France O\'er commercial maritiml..' HALE (ALLI) (SILl) rights ILALE 1:-': TI IE BUSI I (BRA;''D2) S \"lCTORY (BOARD) (LAW) 1-:'76 (Dec 25) WAShington crosses the Delaware to 1800 Jefferson's Presidential Campaign. retake Trenton and Princeton. JEFFERSOK A'.'D LIBERTI' (FSICviii: 1) (U\W) HIE BATILE OF (SCOT) (SCOT) (SO!5:-I.) 1776 - Shakers settle near ALBA!\,;'Y, 1803 - Lewis and Clark Expedition authorized by President MORE LO\'E (A.:'\.'D) (RUS) Jefferson. SIMPLE GIFTS (.<\"'\.'0) (FSICix:2) (RUS) (SCO) ROLL COLUMBIA (GllH) (ReS) 1777 (Aug 16) Battle of Bennington, \1' 1805 - C.S. refuses to pay Barbary states for "pro-tection" OF (SILl) (SCO) against Medi terranian piracy, captures Dama. a pirate (SO!2-+: 2) stronghold, but piracy continues until 1815 (q.\.) 1777 (Oct 17) Battle of Saratoga lllGH BARBARY (S013:2) (SOREP1) (\\'AR'\;-I.) FATE OF JOH1\' BURGOYNE (SCOT) (\\,AR"l'S) 1779 - First whaler to round the Hom; beginning 1808 - Congress forbids importation of slaves from Africa. of American Pacific whale fishery. 1809-llIinois Territory formed from part ofIndiana Territory DOWN TO MI\UI (HUG) EL-A-NOY (CARM) (FSIC\1:2) (SAl\) (TIll) A WHALER' S TALE (GRAY 1) 1812-1815- War of 1812 TI:IE SONG OF TI:IE WORlD'S LAST WHALE YE OF INGLA.'.'D (written 181-1.) (MORS) (SILl) 1780 (Sep 23) Capture of British Major John Andre reveals 1812 (Aug 12) USS Constitution (Capt. Isaac Hull) defeats Benedict Arnold's attempted treason. Andre executed Oct. the British Guerriere (Capt. Da<-'Tes) 2. CONSTITUTION AND GUERRIERE (Al.l.l) CAPTIJRE (or "BALLAD") OF IvlAJOR (LAW) (SCOT) (SILl) A''ORE (ALLI) (LAW) (FSICiii:2) (SCOT) HUll..: S VICTORY (fiddle tune) (BROD) (SILl) (LC:AAFS 1,62) 1781 (Oct 19) Battle of Yorktown; Surrender ofLord 1813 (JUNEl) British Shannon defeats American Cornwallis Chesapeake COR"WAWS' COCNlRY DA.NCE (FSlCiii:2) CHESAPEAKE A"."D SHANNON (FOWl) (SILl) PERRY'S VICTORY ( LAW) FOl'R LITTLE GIRLS I!': BOSTO!': (DRI 1) PERRY'S VICTORY (fiddle tune) (LC:AAFSL62) LORD COR"iVI"AlliS' SURREl'.'DER (FSICiii:2) 1814- British bombard Fort McHenry (Baltimore, MD) hut (SCOT) do not capture it. SOLDIERS' JOY (DRI 1) STAR-SP....\.."GLED BAK!\'ER (LAW) THE WORLD TUR1\'ED UPSIDE DOWN (MACN2) 1815 (Jan 8)- Battle of New Orleans (SO!24:4) 8th OF JANUARY (fiddle tune) (BROD) 1783 (Sep 3) The Peace of Paris signals the end of the BATTLE or NEW ORLEANS (DRI3) (ReS) Rnolution. (SO !9: 1) (SOREP2) DYING BRITISH SERGEA.>'rr (''DYING Hl1\ThRS OF'KEl\,TIJCKY (FSICviii:2) (LAW) REDCOAT') (SCOT) (SO!I:9) (WAR'\;2) (SA.") (SCOT) (SOREP2) John Adams insists that the treaty give Americans the JOHl\1\'I' BLTLL, MY .10 JORK (DOL) (FSICviii2) right to fish in Canadian waters. (SCOT) CODFISH SHA.''n' ("SOUTH AUSTRALIA") RAZORBACK STEAK (DRl3) (BON) (HliG) 1815 (May lO-Aug 5) Stephen Decatur finally forces the 1783- (Dec 4) British finally evacuate New York and Staten Barbary States to stop molesting American ships in the Island Caribbean. DOODLEDA."'IDY (WAR'\"5) HIGH BARBARY (SO!3:2) (SOREPl) 1788 (June 21) US Constitution goes into effect. (WARN4) (WA&"J'5) SOMOS EL BARCO (SO!32:2) 1818 (July -1.)- Construction begins on Erie Canal, running 1792 (Dec 15) Bill of Rights goes into effect between Albany and Buffalo. !\'Y. Completed in 1825. 1793-94 The Whiskey Rebellion; Pennsylvania farmers THE ERIE CANAL (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPI) (and distillers) protesting the 1791Whiskey Tax imposed THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) by the new federal govenunent. THE RAGING CAN'AWL (SA"l') RL'N (DRI2) 1821 (May 5)-Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St. Helena
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OLD oS' ST. HELES'A (\\,AR..,\,,4) THE TE.XAS RANGERS (UNG) (WARN5) (WAR"'5) MUSTANG GRAY (LING) 1821-Cnder :Mexican grant. Moses Austin settles 300 1836 (Mar 2)-Texas declares independence from t>.lexico families in the Mexican territory, Texas. 1836 (Apr 21 )-Gen. Santa Ana defeated: Battle of San 1825-Texas opened to settlement hy U.S. citi7.ens Jacinto THE BRAZOS RIYER (FSICi:4) COME TO THE BO\VER (CAR\!) (HI:-':2) STUD (DRI 1) (RUS) (SOREP2) SMTI' A."";O (HllG) 182.':;-Erie Canal completed, 1836 (Jun 15) Arkansas becomes the 25th state THE ERIE CA. (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPl) ARKA.1\;'SAS TRAVELER (SO!33:4) THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) THE STATE OF ARKA.1\;'SAS (SOREPl) 11IE RAGI:-':G \\1... (SA.'J 1837-Depression hits U.S. and Europe 1825 - Birth of the Blackface Minstrel; "Daddy" Rice HARD TIMES CO!\'1E AGAI:\,:-':O MORE becomes famous for his "Jump Jim Crow" song and (RUS) dance, 1838-Cherokees and other tribes forced to move from t>.fY GlJM-TREE CANOE (CARM) (HEART) Georgia to Indian Territory; 4,000 die on 'The Trail of DARLIS'G NliUEGRAY (MACN4) Tears". OLD DAK TUCKER (HIN6) (RUS) RIVERS OF 11.\1£ (SCO) DIS-ClM-BIBBlE (H1J'1) TRAIL OF TEARS, THE (CARA2) DIXIE'S LAND (Sll..2) 1840-Half of all U.S. shipping is on the Mississippi River; 1830 (May 28) Congress Passes The Indian Removal Act, more than 3,000 ships and smaller craft allowing for forcible removal of Indians for resettlement THE BOATMA.N DA.N'CE (CARM) (SO!8:4) west of the Mississippi .. (WARN5) AS LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW (SCO) THE GLENDY BURKE (CARAt) 1830-1848 - political disturhances in southwest Germany HEAVING THE lEAD LINE (LC; ALBl11vl VIII) and the Rhinelands leads to ina-eased immigration of BAYOU SARA (THl) German intellectuals into the (;'.S. WHAT DOES THE DEEP SEA SAY? (THl) DIE GEDA.'\'K.E!" SII\"]) FREI (FSIC\'ii: 1) 1843-1860 - Era of the Qipper Ships; rise of the U.S. as a (RUS) maritime power. 1830-1%0 - Rise and decline of the railroads. BLOW THE MAK DOWN (HUG) (LC AAFS L27) r VE BEE." WORKING ON THE RAILROAD (WALK-H) (RCS) GO DOW!\' YOl; ROSES (BOARD) THE Dl1).IMY Ul\'E (S0128:4) GOLDE.'\" \'A.'J1lY ( 'GREEN WIllOW TREE") ON THE GREAT DIVIDE (COH) (FSICi:2) (HUG) (SOl 12:5) (S0124:3) (\YARN5) Hll'-'DRED MILES (COH) (HIN4) HAUL ON THE BO\\UNE (LC:AAFS L26) (SOREPl) JAMESTOWN HOMEWARD BOU1\."]) DADDY, "R.<\TS A TRAIN? (SO!28:6) (WAR"'5) "'RECK OF THE OLD 97 (COH) LEAVE HER, (FSICll: 1) (HliG) (SCO) 1830 - Westward movements at a high point. OFF TO SEA ONCE MORE (FSICii:2) (HUG) WIll YOCGOOUTWEST?(CAZl) (WALK-J 1) TO THE \\'EST! (CARAt) (FSICvii:l) (MACN3) PADDY DOYLE (HUG) (LC AAFS L26) WISCO)S'SIN It>.llvfIGR.A..l'.'T (FSICiv: 1) (t>.fACN3) PADDY L<\Y BACK (HliG) (LC AAFS L26) 1831-William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator. SMTY ANO (FSlCiii:3) (HUG) abolitionist newspaper. RIO GR.<\."l1)E (HUG) (SOREPl) ABOunOl\1ST (DOW) (FOW3) (MACN4) ROLLING HOME (HUG) (LC AAFS L27) Rl"NTO JESUS (GREE) 8HE."";ANDOAH (FSICiv:2) (ffiJG) (SO!33:4) LET PEOPLE GO (LAW) \VHISKEY (HUG) (WALK-J 1) 1832-(Apr 6-Aug 2)-Black Hawk War: Chief Black Hawk S HYMN (BOARD) leads his starving dispossessed Sauks back across the SHE.1\;'A.,1DQAH (FSICiv:2) (HUG) (80!33:4) Mississippi into Illinois. Young Abe Lincoln is in the STRIKE, STRIKE THE BELL (HUG) (WALK-J 1) militia fighting Black Hawk. FISHERMEN'S SONGS ROCK RI\'ER VAILEY (THl) rSTHEB'Y (S017:2) 1833-New York City installs first horse-cars MRS. McDONALD'S LAI,fE.''T (BOKI) (B0K2) THE K.'\lCKERBOCKER U!\''E (S017:2) SEAFARING MEN (GRAYl) 1835 (Nov 24) -Texas Rangers organized SQL1D-JIGGTI\'" GROl'.!\Tl) (SOREPl)
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WHERE THE COHO A,ASH SILYER (COME 9:-1-) 185..J-57. :WOO New Englanders migrate to Kansas 18-1-6-15.000 Mormons, led by Brigham Young, begin to Territory to increase support for its admission as a free migrate westward. State. HIE l-L (LC ;\...\FS 1...30) (U::\G) TIlE KA.'\'SAS E\llGRA.,\T (LLNG) (HlJ'.:W) 18..';6-John and Dennis Searles discover in California ST. GEORGE (LC AAFS L30) (LING) \ 'E (GRAY2) TITTERY -I-RE-A Y (LC AAFS L30) (LING) 1858. Widespread religious revival in York; camp 18-1.6 (!\lay 13)· l'S declares war un Mexico IDC!etings become common. BeCK GAG I-llM (DOL) avfACN3) E\'ERYBODYS (DOW) TAYLOR, THE H:-''E OLD SOl:n1ER.:" WOI\UROUS LOVE (CHAS) (OSH) (RITCH GE.'TLEMA.1>\ (DOL) ROCKY ROAD (OSH) GROW THE LILACS (SOREP1) ON'Ll' REME.\1BERED (RA.l\;) 1847-"Potato Famine" In Ireland reaches worst point; Irish SIllP OF ZIOS (OSH) emigration to l..'.S. is tripled. BRIGHT MOR'\1J:NG STARS (SOREP2) SONG (MAC!'3) ROYAL ELEPHONE 9RITCH 1) (RPS) DRILL, YE TARRIERS. DRILL (SO!30:3) YOCR RADIO (RUS) SHE SAID THE SAt-.fE TO r>.1E (SA'l') THE GREAT ATOM IC POVi'ER (SO!27:3) ::\0 IRISH APPLY (GREE) (SCO) 1859 (OCT 16) - John Brown seizes 1'.S. arsenal at Harper's PADDY ON THE RAILWAY (PSIC"i: 1) (Rl'S) ferry, hoping to start a slave insurrection. He is captured PADDY'S NOT AT WORK TODAY ('TIlE SICK and executed (ReS) (SO!30:3) JOHN S BODY (MAC!'B) (SCO) (SIL2) 18-18 (Jan 2-1-) Gold discovered at Sntter' s .Mill. California. JOHN un::: (SIL2) HO! FOR CA.LlFOR'lA (DWY) 1859 Dan Emmett composes "Dixie" and "Turkey In the 18J8 10) Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends Mexican Straw" (hOld Zip Coon") War. DIXIE'S LM'D (MACN3) {(SIL2) "'E ARE lING HOME (DOL) TlTRKEY IN TIIE STRAW (SAN) 1849 (California Gold Rush begins) 1859 - Southern Convention urges re-institution of A RIPPING TRIP (CRl:2) inporting new slaves from Africa. "Underground AROl1'>oU TIIE HORN (DW'Y) Railroad" at its height; used by about 75,000 slaves. CROSSING THE PLAINS (DWY) (MACN3) Rl'K TO JESUS (GREE) The DAYS OP '-1-9 (DWY) (pSI iii:3) (HA:.''KS) STEAL AWAY (pSICi\':3) (SCO) (WAR'\;-I-) GRAY GOOSE (I-llN3) (SOREP2) HCMBl;G STEA.\lSI-llP CmdPA'l'IES (DWY) I'M ON MY WAY (CARA2) (FSICi,,:3) JOH::\ APPEAL (D"T) (.\1ACN3) POLLOW 11lli DRlI\1(lSG GOeRD (rSICh:3) The LO\'ING OF THE GAME (CARA4) {SO!31:4) 0:-': Bo.t\.RD THE STEA\1ER (D"'Y) LOSG JOHN (LC Album III) S\'lIT BETSY PIKE (CRCZ) 1860 (Nov 8) - Abraham Lincoln elected to the Presidency. '\1-1AT WAS YOl'R IN THE STATES? LlNCOLS AN'D LIBERTI' (MACK-I-) (SO!2:8) (Sk'') OLD ABE LlNCOu.; (MAC;!,) (SA'') WHE." I WE'T Ol:T TO PROSPECT (DWY) 1861 (f-"eb -1-) - Confederate States formed with Jefferson 1850 Rising interest in western public lands Davis as President. New Confederacy fires on Ft. l ;-';CLE SAM'S FARM (FSICvi:2) Sumter: Civil ,Var begins. 1850 - Settlement increases in WAShington Territory ACROSS no::: (SOREPZ) ACRES OF CLAMS (SCO) (RUS) (WAR'J'+) (WAR'\J5) 1850 (Sep 9) California becomes 31st State; a wild CVMBERLA...''D GAP (RUCK2) country TO\\';-.: (\YAR."S) SEARLES A."'m THE BEAR (GRI\Yl) SONG OF THE SOlTHERl\; VOLlT!'.TEERS ROLL. ALABAMA. ROLL (HUG) (FSICii: 1) (SCOT) 1852-01e Bull loses money in an attempt to form a The YA.''KEE -WAR (pSICii: 1) Norwegian community in Pennsylvania. 1861-65 -- General songs of the Civil War OLEA:'':SA (SCO) (SOREP!) ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC (MACl':4) 1852-Charles Bigelow, black inventor of makes a shoe- (SIL2) pegging machine. BATILE CRY OF FREEDOM (MAC'+) (SCO) PEG A\\'L (SOREPl) (SIL2) BLl'E FLAG (FSlCII: 1) (SIL2)
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FIRST ARKANSAS REGIME\1 (SIL2) HELL I!'; TEXAS (LING) (THOR) GOOBER PEAS (MACN4) (SJL2) (SCO) (SCOT) .l\1GlIr-HERDL1\JG SONG (UNG) TIlE DRESS (}.1ACN-\.) (SIL2) OLD ClllSIlOL\1 TRAIL, TIlE (LING) (TIIOR) JOH:\;-""y IS }.fY DARLING (SIL2) OLD CmVBOY, TIlE (LNG) mST BEFORE TIlE BATILE. MOTHER TE'\;'DERFOOT, THE (THOR) (I>.1ACN-\.) (SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) TRAIL TO ME.\JCO (LING) LORENA (SIL2) \\lJl\.'DY BIlL (LING) (THOR) MARCHIl'G THROllGH GEORGIA (SIL2) (SCO) 1868 Congress establishes the 8-hour day for federal SOU1.1-IERc'1 BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM (SIL2) employees: did not become standard in industry until TE.''lNG T01\lJGHT (I>.1ACN4) (SIL2) after 1920. See 1886. YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (l\L<\CN4) (SIL2) EIGHT HOURS (SEG3) 1862- The Virgima (Fonnerly Merrimac) sinks the ess 1869 (May 10) Transcontinental railway completed at Cumberlalld Promontory Point, Utah. TIlE CU:f.,fBERLAND AI\;'D TIlE MERRIMAC ECHO CANYON (HIN-\') (SO!9: 1) (SIL2) RAILROAD CARS ARE COMING, THE (Lli'\G) 1862 (?\1arch) Battle between Monitor and Alerrimac ends ZACK, TIlE MORMON li"\GIl\.'EER (SO!9: 1) in a draw. 1870 Peak of the Great Plains settlement. 1862 (Apr 6) Battle at Shiloh Hill RIDE, BlJFFALO SOLDIERS, RIDE (RUCKI) BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL (MACN4) (SIL2) DAKOTA LAND (LING) (SCO) 1862 (May 30) Congress passes a new Land Act UTILE OLD SOD SHANTY.. (FSIC"i:2) (UNG) LANE COll!'.TY ("BI1'1 COUNTY") BACHELOR WINDMIlL (GRAY2) {"STARVING TO DEATH ON A lAl."IE COlfI'.;"Y ("BEl'I" COUJ'..TI"') BACHELOR GOVERl\o'I\1E.,\1 CLAII>.f,) (LC AAFS 130) ("STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERc'\'- (HIN5) (LING) (SAN) MEl\" CLAIM') (LC AAFS 130) (HINS) (LING) 1862 (July 29)Confederate Cruiser Alabama built,oufitted (SAJ'.,) and partially manned by British; in defience of 1870 Lumbering industry shifts to Great Lakes area proclaimed neutrality. Begins harassing Union shipping. CA..'\'ADAY-I-O (FOW2) (LOMI) (See 186-\.). UTILE BROWN BULLS (FSICi\':2) 1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation LOST JIMMY WHALEN (L0M2) (THl) FREE AT LAST (Rt'S) (MACN4) 1870-Cerro Gordo silver mine opens in California Jl'BA (JO!\'El) (JO!\'E2) (MAC.N4) BESSIE BRADY, TIlE (GRA Y2) OB FREEDOM! (CAR.t<\2) (FSICi\':3) (FOW3) 1873-Extermination of the buffalo (plains bison) nearly SLA VERY OWN DO!'.T£ BROKE AT LAST accomplished in the west. (SIL2) BUFFALO SKIl\.'1'o'ERS, TIlE (LING) (SOREPl) WAKEl\lJCODEMUS (LAW) 1873 Expansion of railroads; tunnels, etc., in Virginia; CO}.1lNG ("JUBlLO") (SIL2) mechanical devices begin to replace workers. GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3) JOHN HENRY (COH) (FSIC"i: 1) (HIN2) (LOM}' IS6-\. The Confederate Alabama sunk by the Union 2) Kearsarge off the coast of France 1874 Scammon's AJarine Afammals ofthe Northwestern ROLL. ALABMlA, ROLL (HUG) (SIL2) Coast ofNorth America predicts the demise of the gray (SOnO:3) whale 1865-(Apr 9) Rloben E. Lee surrenders to Grant at WHALER'S TALE, A (GRAYl) Appamatox; end of the Civil War. SONG OF THE WORlD'S LAST WHALE FLOP-EARED :tv1CLE (fiddle tune) (BROD) (MORS) l1\'RECONSTRUCfEI) REBEL, TIlE. (SIL2) 1876 Samuel P1imsoll's Seaman's Act passed In England (WAR,,\I'-\') LA PIQL'E (HUG) (SEG-\.) DA..\1YA..'\JKEE LAD (DRI3) 'I>.1ERCHi\..'\:" SHIP, TIlE (HUG) 1865 (Apr 16) Lincoln assassinated 1876 Battle of the Little Big Hom: "Custer's Last Stand" BOOTH KIllED U!"COL"\ (SIL2) SIOl'X L'\;'DIA..,\,S (LING) (\,'AR.';5) 1867 Joseph '\1cCoy establishes stockyard at the railhead in DREARY BLACK HILLS (LING) Abilene, Kansas; beginning of the legendary Cowboy. 1880 Increased multi-ethnic immigration into California, CROOKED TRAIL TO HOLBROOK (THOR) including the Japanese GIT ALONG, UTILE DOGIES (UNG) SHO JO JI (BER) GOODBYE OLD PAL'" (LI!\:'G) 1883 Congress reduces cost of 1st-class mail from 3 cents to GOODl\.lGH[-LO\1NGTRAIL (ReS) (SCO) 2 cents.
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GOODBYE. OLD STA!>.lP (LEV) BALLAD OF THE TRIA.."GLE FIRE(SEG3) (WE:-':) 1885 The H:\ew Immigration" gets under way --largely Jews 191..J. World War I begins in Europe. escaping Russian persecution PE.-\CE HYI\!N (S0!30:2) Bll.BES (Rl13) I DID:'\-T RAISE :-'IY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER 1885 (DEC 8) AH., (American Federation Of Lahor) Fonned (CAR>\l) In Columbus, Ohio, With Samuel Gompers As CHRISThL-\S IN THE TRE.,\;CtlliS president. One goal: The 8-Hour Day. (See 1868) 1917 (Apr 6) l7S enter World War I EIGIIT-HOCR DAY(SEG3) (SO!28:3) OYER TIIERE (OOL) (\HnT) 1889 (APR 22) Non-Indian lands in Oklahoma opened to WHERE TIlEY \"ERE (DOL) (\\lnn while settlers. PACK llP YOll< TROUBLES (SCOT) AS LO:\G AS THE GR>\SS SHALL GROW (SCO) ROllND HER N'ECK SHE WEARS A YELLOW 1891 Cvlay 19) Populist Party formed in Cincinnatti. RIBBON (WHIT) FAR\fER IS TIlE THE (FSICvi:2) (SCO) BIG BASS DRuM (HlN2) (SEG-l) K-K-K-K-P (DOL) 1894 Railroad strike by American Railroad LJnion led by E. 1918 Influenza epidemic at its height-In all. between V. Debs 400,000 and 500,000 people died of it. The following A.RT., THE (SAN) song became popular as a sort of "black humor." 1898 (FEB 15) C.S. Battleship Maine blown up in Havana SOME UTILE BUG IS GOING TO AN'D YOl" Harbor; beginning of Spanish-American War. SO!\1E DAY. (DIGITRAD) (ROG) HOT TIME II' THE OLD TOWN TOl';lGlIT (B0:t\1) 1920 (Jan 16) 18th Amendment ("Prohibition") goes into (ReS) effect. EL SOLDADO AMERIC-\."'O (DOL) KEl\TUCKY MOONSHIN'ER (SO! 13:-l) SAILOR .r..V\N (DRI 1) THE MAN FROM YANKEELA.l\i'D (HlN2) 1900 (SEP 8) Galveston storm kills 6,000 GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN DEW (SOREP2) GALVESTON STORM (GRAYI) (SOREPl) 1920 (AUG 28) 19th Amendment ratified: voting rights for 19()..l Baltimore fire destroys property valued at women. NOTE: 15 states already ha\'e women's suffrage $80,000.000.00 laws.) BAL FIRE. THE (DIGITRAD) I A.\1 A SCFFRAGEITE (\\'Ei'\) 1905 (July 7) IWW (Industrial \Vorkers of the World) 1921 End of post-war boom creates large-scale founded by E. Y. Debs. unemployment; 5.7 million out of work SOLIDARITY FOREVER (ALT) (FOW3) (GREE) I WA.''1' YOUR I'.lILLIONS,:VllSTER (KOR"') (RlTS)(SEG3) (FOW3) (RVS)(SEG3) POPllAR WOBBLY (,THEY GO \\TI..O OVER 1924 Congress bestows VS citizenship on native-born :-'ffi") (KOR"') (SEG3) (SO! 11:5) American Indians. PREACHER AN'D TIlE SLAVE, THE ("PIE II\" 1925 (July 10-21) The Scopes "Monkey Trial" THE SKY") (ALT) (FOW3) (KOR"I>.,,) .r..1ACNl) TOO THIN (LEV) (ReS) (SEG-l) .AMPHIOXUS (HlN5) Dl').lP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (KOR'') THAT S ALL (by Merle Travis) WE'RE BOl::-"'D FOR SA.'" DIEGO (KOR'l 1927 (Mal 20) lindbergh's solo flight, NY to Paris (:-'ffiEK) U:,\'DBERGH. THE E.>\GLE OF THE C.S.A. REBEL GIRL, THE (CAZ2) (KORN) (RLTS) PORTLA:,\'D COlT}\oTY JAIL (SM1) 1927 Problems of fanners presage depression JOE HILL (ALT) (M>\CNl) (RUS) (SEG3) 'LEYE.,\; CE..''1' COTTON (FOW3) (RUS) BREAD A.I\,'D ROSES (ALT) (RUS) (SEG3) (WE.") 1929 (OCT 29) Stock Market CR-'\sh "officially" begins the '\llLL .\10THER'S LA!v1E.'\"T (ALT) Great Depression STEP BY STEP (j\1cCCT) (SEG3) (SEG6) I RTST OOKT WA'''T TO BE RICH (HIr\5) THERE IS .r..ffiAN THINGS HAPPE.l\ilNG IN THIS 1931 ('?\'L>\R 3 )'The Star Spangled Banner" is made the LA...''D(ALn official national anthem of the USA WHICH SIDE ARE YOC ON? (ALT) (Rl<) (ReS) TO ASACREON IN HEA\"EN (LA\\') MAG:2) ATTOR''EY FOR THE DA.\1:1\o'ED (ALT) STAR SPA.l\l'GLED BM'NER (LAW) l,::\10!\' I\1AID (ALn (FOW3) (RllS) 1932 Depression in full swing. Monthly wages are 60% of 1911 (:-'L\R 25) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sweatshop in 1929 levels; 5,000 banks failed and closed to date; bums, killing 146 young women, mostly Italian and 13,000,000 unemployed; Roosevelt elected in landslide. Jewish immigrants. This leads to legalized safety SOUP SONG (FOW3) (RLTS) rcqwreDICDts.
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BROmER, CA.'\" YOl' SPARE A 1 E'\"OL-\ GAY (SCO) mmn OLD H·\S ATO.\1 (l-J::r'7) BA.,r;:S OF DEW UTTLE GIRL OF HIROSmO.\l-\ (R1'S) Exploitation of labor; need to organize. (SEG6) (SOREPZ) BLlbS (FOW3) APE (by Jimmy Driftwood) (SOREP1) 19-1-5 (Oct 24) l'Dited Sauons founded GIRLS (\\'E.'.') 1 A CI-L\.1S (SID) \\1IICH SIDE ARE Y01' (RCS)(SEG3) 1 ('\"I-nn (S0120:5) DREA.\f (RCS) (SCO) (fOW3)(SEG3) (WE'\") 19-+6 LDited .\line Workers strike. LS Government takes SL\.lEE.'\" (SO!3:3) over mines. STEP BY STEP (SEG6) 1 (Lc.:AAFS, ALBFM X\'n DOW!', X\"I) 19-+7 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 :\lexican Homelessness becomes a way of life .'deportees." ROAD FEELIK Rill (FOW3) DEPORTEES mCS)(SEG3) (SOREP1) (FSIC"ii: 1) 1950 (Jun 29) Pres. Truman orders LS U'oops into South W.·\XDERI>.- (fSICvii: 1) ') Korea. I WALK n-n:: ROAD (CAZ1) 1953 (Jul 7) Armistice ends Korean action. TA.KE .\fY TRt'E LOVE BY n-n:: HASD ("TIMES 195+ 17) es Supreme Court rules that segregation in A-GETTI>.- HARD') (ReS) (SCO) public schools violates the 14th Amendment HALLELDAH r .\1 A (LAW) (SO !28:5) \\'E SHALL OVERCO.\.fE (CARA2) (FOW3) 1933 First of the great dust storms hits South Dakota. (FREE) (HARL) (ReS) (SCO) (SEG6) (SOREP2) 1935 Dust Storms continue; altogether, -to million acres of TIllS LITILE UGIIT OF ML''E (CAR<\2) (FREE) good farmland are blown away. (HARL) DO-RE-'\fl (GlTIIRIE) (GllH) (Rl'S) (SOREPl) THATS ALL RIGIIT (SOREP2) Dt'ST STOR\[ DISASlER (Gl'TIl) [Apr 7] BLACK A,n WHITE ("TIlE I!'.'K IS BLACK") SO IT [S BEE.'\" GOOD TO K..'\"o\\' YOt' (RCS) (SOREPl) (Gl'TIl) (Rl'S) (SCO) 1955 Rev. '\lartin Luther King. Jr.. helps organize boycott T ...u..KI>'- Dl'STBOWL (GlTIl) (SOREP2) of segregated busses in Alabama; results (DOW) (GllH) in a federal injunction against this kind of segregation. 1938 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) put BACK OF THE B1'S. THE (CARA2) (HARL) together under leadership ofJohn L. Lewis 1960 (FEB 11) Sit-Ins at segregated lunch counters begins (Jun 25) Pres. Roosevelt signs first Wage in Greenville. Law 25 cents per hour. BALLW OFn-n:: STlnE>-T (CAR-\2) 1939 DAR refuses to, let Anderson sing at 1960 Strip mining for coal becomes prevalent in Appalachia Constinuion Hall, so she gives her concert on the steps PARA.DISE (R1'S) (FSICh:2) of the Lincoln '\lemorial. One of her numbers was the BLACK WATERS (C.\R-\3) (WE\) (RITCH 1) following: L & OO>.-T STOP HERE AXY .\10RE. n-n:: HE'S GOT n-n:: WHOLE WORLD IS HIS HA_'ns (CARA3) (RITCH 1) (W.-\R'\"-4-) (WHIT) 1962 CS U'oops in \'iet.nam ordered to return fire Defense appropriations of S -4-.26 billion (for 50,000 I FEEL UKEI'M AXIX' TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) rurplanes per year) decreases 1962 (Feb 20) John Glenn Is first American in orbit ROSIE n-n:: RI\TIER (SCO) WAY l"P HERE (MORS) (SEG6) (SO! 13: 1) 19..+ I (Dec 7) Attack on Pearl Harbor; CS declares war of A.'1XJRR..-\ (SEG6) Japan; Germany & Italy declare war on CS, which 1963 Civil Rights mo\'ement continues: '\ledgar Evers recognizes that a "state of war" exists with those ,-\xis assassinated nations. WOKE l"PTHIS ..... (CARA2) 19..+1 - '''ar in the South Pacific (fREE) (HARL) (WHIT) RODGER YOl A.'n GO wrm TO TI-L-\T A A...'n A PRAYER (SCO) (CAR-\2) (SO! 6:2) 19-+5 Germany surrenders A.I>'-T GO>'''SA LET Tl'R'\" (Aug 6) t'S drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and 2 days (CAR-\2) 8 ! . SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY BIR..\UNGHA...\1 SL'l'-'DA Y (CARA2) (SCOT) AMAZING GRACE 1734 (SOREl>2) A.\ffiRlCA..t-..;TA.XATIOl' 1765 1%3 (NO\' 22) Pres. Kennedy assassinated A.\WmOXl'S 1925 I SAW COL'1'.1RY'S FLAG GO OOWN (SCO) A.''DORRA 1962 1964 (JlL 2). Senate ,'otes cloture to end 75-day lilibuster ARKAl'SAS 1RAVElER 1836 by conservative Southern senators, and passes a new AS LONG AS THE GRASS Sl-L<\LL GROW- 1610 Ci vii Rights Act. FREE AT L\ST (SIL2) AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHAll.., GROW 1758-1830 1968 (Apr 4) Ofr. Martin LutherKing, Jr., assassinated in AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHALL GROW 1830 Tenn. AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHALL GROW 1889 OH, MARTII'LL'THER KING (HNK) ATTO&'ffiY FOR HIE DA.MJ'.o'ED 1905 1969 Vietnam War continues; student protests increase iAYE SUSA.,'1A! 1769-1840 Aug 15-18. Woodstock (1\'1') Music and Art Fair attracts 35..000 young people. B I FEEL LIKE I'M FlXIl'" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) BABE OF BEfHI...EHEM 1734 Pres. Nixon announces troop withdrawal, but war BACK OF TIlE BUS, TIlE 1955 continues BALLAD OF TIlE SLOOP CLEARWATER 1981 1970 US troops sent into Cambodia.. More student protest. BALLAD OF TIlE STUDENT SIT-INS 1960 1971 26th Amendment lowers American voting age from 21 BALLAD OF TIlE TRIANGLE FIRE 1911 to 18 BALTIMORE FIRE, TIlE 1904 1973 (Jan 22) Peace agreement ends Vietnamese War. BANKS OF r..1ARBLE 1932 1973 .Military draft ends; US forces are now all volnntary. BARBARA ALLEN 1610-1776 file Island nuclear problems near Middletown, BARNEY McCABE 1640 PA. BARNYARD SONG 1714 1980 National Herb Garden opens in WAShington, DC, BATTLE CRY OFFREEOOM 1861-65 with 7,000 plants in several gardens. BATTLE OF NEW ORLEA..N"S 1815 GARDEI' SOKG, TIlE ("INCH B'Y INCH") (ReS) BATTLE OF SInLOH HILL 1862 (SO!26:8) BATTLEOFTRENTON 1776 1981. Environmental concerns become politically important BAYOU SARA 1840 BALLAD OF TIlE SLOOP CLEARWATER (SEG6) BESSIE BRADY. TIlE 1870 GARBAGE (CARA5) (!>.10RS) (RUS) (SEG6) BIG BASS DRUM 1917 LA..'''0 K;."\;OWS YOFRE TIffiRE, TIlE (CARA7) BILLY GRI:rvfES 1610-1776 r>.IY RAI1\'Bo\V RACE (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) BIRMINGHAM SL'l'-'DA" 1%3 OF TIME A:.''D RIVERS FLO\\lNG (SEG6) BLACK AND "WTE·1954 PEOPLE ARE SCRATCHING (SEG6) BLACK WATERS 1960 SEVENT\:' (SEG6) BLOW TIIE:tv1AN 00\\'1'\ 1843-1860 THIS LA.1''D IS YOUR LA.."'-'D (FSIC Ix.:3) (GCTH) BLOW YE \'\ll'-1!)S OF THE MOR.l\,lNG 1711 WE LL AIL BE A-OOUBIlNG (SEG6) BOATMAK DANCE 1840 \\'HAT HAVE TIIEY DOl\'E TO TIlE RAIN? BOMBARDMEl\T OF BRISTOL 1775 (!'.IOR) (RUS) BONl'-'Y BLu'EFLAG 1861-65 BOOTH KILLED LINCOLt-..; 1865 * * * * * * * * * * BORREGO, EL 1769-1840 SONGS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BOSTON cm.iE-ALL-YE - 1629 A BOSTON TEA-T A.X 1773 A RIPPING TRIP 1849 BOWERY GR8'l'ADIERS 1659 A WHAlER' S TALE 1779 BRAVE WOLFE 1759 A.Re., TIlE 1894 BRAZOS RIVER 1825 ABOLITIO!'.lST 1831 BREAD AJ\lD ROSES 1905 ACRES OF CLAMS 1850 BRIGHT MOR.l\,lNG STARS 1856 ADIOS, ADIOS, A..\flGOS 1769-1840 BROTHER, CA.N" YOU SPARE A DIME? 1932 AI:-'"T GO!'.'NA LET NOBODY TUR.lI.J ME... 1963 BUCK A.'ill GAG InM 1846 ALABADO 1769 BUFFALO SKINl\bRS, TIlE 1873 ALL HID? 16-W BULBES 1885 ALL QUIET ALONG TIlE POTOMAC 1861-65 BUNKER InU, (A) 1775 ALL THE PREITY LITTLE HORSES 16-W BL1-i'KER Hill.., (B) 1775 9 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY 1870 1619-Africans brought to Jamestown; probably as '\"I!\1)Y BIll- 1867 indentured servants. WI!\'NSBORO BLLCS 1932 JLiBA WISCO:-':SI:-': 16..tO-Beginning of ;\ctua\ slavery in America; YA and WOKE l'P TIllS .... 1963 enact a series of statutes distinguishing between white LOYE 173.+ indentured servants and African chattel slaves. WO!\1)ROUS LOVE 1858 JeBA 1) (J0!\c2) ,YORLD T1..R'\.CD CPSIDE 1781 OH M>\RY, YOC WEEP (RCS) MOTHERLESS CHILD (RLTS) (FSICi":3) Y GRAY GOOSE (SOREP 1) YA..';KEEooODLE 1775-1783 ALL THE PREITY UTTLE HORSES 2) YAoO'\'KEE M-\..1\;-U -WAR 1861 BARr-.'EY McCABE (!\IOY) (CARA3) YE PARllA...\1E.'\."T OF E"GLA...''D 1814 SHOO TURKEY (CARA3) YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS 1861-65 ALL HID? (LC, album IY) YOL'NGCHARLOTfE 1610-1776 LONG JOJ-r'.; (Lc, album III) YOL LADIES 1767 S\\lI\'G LOW, SWEET CHARIOT YOL'i'G l\!A...1\; ,,'HO "'OL1...DKT HOE COR.'\" 1610- (LOM2) (RUS) 1776 SEEK AND YOU SHALL AND (RUS) (SO!32:'+) 1808 - Congress forbids further importation of slaves from Z Africa. ZACK, THE !vl0RMON E1\;GI!\o"EER 1869 1825 - Birth of the Blackface Minstrel; "Daddy" Rice becomes famous for his "Jump Jim Crow" song and ***************************** dance. MY Gillvl-TREE CA...l\l"OE (CARM) (HEART) SONGS GROUPED BY CATEGORIES DARLING !\'EillE GRAY (MAC!'.'.. l) NOTE; Selecting categories. and jilling songs into them. OLD DAN TIJCKER (HIN6) (RUS) is an arbitrary activlly. The chosen categories are in DIS-Cl'M-BmBLE (Ere.) (HIN1) alphabetical order ...\Jany songs would fit equally well DIXIE'S LA'\.l) (SIL2) in several categories. and a few have been thus 1831-William Uoyd Garrison founds The Liberator, repeated. Here is a list ofthe categories I have chosen: abolitionist newspaper. • AFRlCAN A\1ERICANS AND SLAVERY ABOUIlOl\lST (OOW) (FOW3) ..l) • A.\1ERICAN REVOLUTION IEf rvry PEOPLE GO (LAW) • BETWEEN the CIVIL WAR and WORLD WAR I 1859 - Dan Emmett composes "Dixie" and "Turkey In the • C4.liFORNIA Straw" ("Old Zip Coon") • CIVIL RIGHTS DIXIE'S LA.,\1) (MAC!':3) «SIL2) • CIVIL WAR TIJRKEY Il\" THE STR.I\W • COLONIAL DAYS 1859 - Southern Convention urges re-institution of • CONSERVATION and ENVIRONMENT inporting new slaves from Africa. "LTnderground • HARD TlA·IES and DISASTERS Railroad" at its height; used by about 75,000 slaves. • 1..\1.\1IGRATION RL TO JESCS (GREE) • INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION and TRANSPORT STEAL AWAY (FSICiv:3) (SCO) • LABOR I'M MY WAY (CARA2) (FSICi":3) • The oO\/ARITI..\1E EXPERIENCE FOLLOW THE DRIl\'KING GOL7RD (FSICi":3) • NATIVE At..1ERICANS (SO!31:4) • REliGIOUS FER.\1ENT (LC Album III) • SINCE WORLD Wo04R II 1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation • WAR OF 1812 FREE AT LAST (RUS) • WORLD WAR I JUBA (Mt\.CN4) • WORW WARIl }(D\;Goo\1 ("'JlIElLO") (SIL2) • The YOUNG REPUBliC GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3) 1865 (June 19) "Juneteenth": Slaves in Texas and other southern States finally receive news of thier freedom. AFRICAN AMERICANS and SLAVERY OH FREEDOM! (CAR.1\2) (FSICh':3) (FOW3) SLAYERY CfLt\.I!'.' 00:--''£ BROKE AT LAST (SIL2) (\IAO\:-I-) 14 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY WAKE:-"lCODE\fl'S (LAW) 1781 (Oct 19) Battle or Yorktown; Surrender of Lord Cornwallis AMERICAN REVOLUTION COR.'\'YAWS· COl1\iRY DA'JCE (FSICiii:2) 1735-Friction Bctween Colonies and Britain over (SILl) designation or legal tender. LORD COR.:,,"WA,LLIS' SURRE:\;'DER (FSICiii:2) ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBBER ("BILLY (SCOT) BROKE LOCKS") (ALU) (SCO) FOLTR UTILE GIRLS IK BOSTON (DRll) 1765-Colonists complaining about British ta..,;ation. TIIE WORLD Th"R.'\'ED UPSIDE OOW?\ AMF.RICA"-'TA:X.ATIOl': (SILl) (SO!2-l:-l) 1767-British Townshend Acts decree that Americans pay tax 1783 (SEP 3) The Peace or Paris signals the end of the on all imported glass, lead, paint, and tea, Americans Revolution. respond by organi7ing a boycott against ALL British DYING BRmSH SERGEM'T ("DYING imporlS, REDCOAT') (SCOT) (S0!1:9) (\YAR,\,2) TO TIlE LWIES! ("YOUNG LADIES I.!' TOw;-.."') 1783- (Dec 4) British fmally evacuate New York and Staten (FOR) (SILl) (SCOT) Island 1770 (!\larch 3) The "Boston lassacre" DOODLEDA.,\'DY (\YARN4) (WARNS) L'i'.i'HAPPY BOSTON (ALU) (BRA""'''DI) (LAW) 1773 (Dec. 16) The Boston Tea Party BETWEEN CIVIL WAR and ..X (SILl) (SCOT) WORLD WAR I REVOLl'TIONARY TEA ("RICH LWY OVER 1883 Congress reduces cost or 1st-class mail rrom 3 cents to THE SEA") (SCOT) (SILl) 2 cents. 177-l-1ncrease or anti-British reelings GOODBYE, OLD STA.\i1P (LEV) FREE A\lERICA (BRA""D2) (SILl) 1898 (FEB 15) V.S. Battleship Maine blown up in Havana 1775-1783-- (THE GE'\'ERAL PERIOD) Harbor; beginning or Spanish-American War. ''Y HAS GO:-"13 FOR A SOLDIER HOT TI:VIE THE OLD TO";-: TO:-"lGHf CBlTTERMILK HIlL') (ALLI) (SCOT) (RllS) (SCOT) (SILl) EL SOLDA.IX) AIvlERICAI\!O (OOL) CHESTER (MACX2) (SILl) SAILOR ,MAl\' (DRll) )'A,\'KEE OOODLE (BRA'\'D2) (FSICiii: I) 190+ Baltimore fire destroys property valued at (L\W) (SCO) $80,000,000.00 JOI-I:\XY GET YOCR Gl:::-': (ALLI) FIRE, THE (DIGITRAD) 1775 (Oct 7) British fire upon the town or Bristol, Rhode 1911 (MAR 2S) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sweatshop in Island !',Ty bums, killing 146 young women, mostly Italian and T OF BRISTOL (ALLI) (SILl) Jewish immigrants. This leads to legalized safety 1775 17)-The Battle Of Bunker Hill requirements. Bl,:\'KER HILL (A) (ALLI) (SILl) BAlLW OF TIIE FIRE (SEQ3) illXKER HILL (13) (DRl2) <'\B) 1776 (SIP. 22) _. Execution or Nathan Hale 1920 (Jan 16) 18th Amendment ("Prohibition") goes into HALE (ALLI) (SILl) erfect. HALE THE I3USH (BRA.,\"D2) K.I;.:\.TVCKY MOOKSHI!\oCR (SO! 13:-l) 1776 (Dec 2S) Washington crosses the Delaware to retake TIIE FROM YM'KEELA'''D (HIK2) Trenton and Princeton. GOOD OLD MOL:;""TAl!': DEW (SOREP2) ilATILE OF TRE.'\ (SCOT) 1920 (AUG 28) 19th Amendment ratified: voting rights for 1777 (Aug 16) - Battle or Bennington, VT women. NOTE: IS states already have women's sufrrage RlFLE\1E.!' OF (SILl) (SCO) laws.) (SO!2-l:2) I .r\,.\1 A SlT-'FRAGETIE (FOW3) (RUS) (SEG3) 1777 (Oct 17) Battle of Saratoga <,\'E'-:) FATE OF JOl-r\' Bl'RGOY!\o'E (SCOT) 1925 (July 10-21) The Scopes "Monkey Trial" 1780 (Sep 23) Capture orI3ritish .Major John Andre reveals TOO THIK (LE\,) Benedict Arnold's attempted treason. Andre executed Oct, A\IPHIOXUS (HINS) TIlt\T S ALL (DIGITRW) CAPITRE (or "BALLAD") OF 1927 (May 20) LinJhl.7gh's solo flight, :-..."Y to Paris A.'\'DRE (ALLI) (LAW) (FSICiii:2) (SCOT) U:t\'DBERGH, TIIE EAGLE OF THE V.S.A. (SILl) (DIGITRAD) 15 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY CALIFORNIA 1935-lmmigration from the dust bowl 1769(July 16). San Diego founded; 1st of a series of (GtTHRIE) (GlTH) (Rt'S) (SOREPl) missions & towns designed to strengthen Spain's daim 1947 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 to California and to kccp the Russians out. "deportees." 17691840 -1840: CHIEF PERIOD OF THE !vfiSSIO:-':S DEPORTEES (RCS)(SEG3) (SOREPI) A..''D ADIOS, ADIOS, A.\fiGOS (CALIF) AL\BAOO (CRUZ) CIVIL RIGHTS JAY, SlTSA..'\;A! (CALIf) 1939 DAR refuses to let Marian Anderson sing at BORREGO. EL (CALIF) Constitution Hall, so she gives her concert on the steps CALlf'OR'l VALS JOTGA, EL (CAUF) of the Lincoln Memorial. One of her numbers was the CAMOTES, LOS (CALIF) following: CA.:'TICO DE ALBA (CRCZ) Iffi'S GOT THE \VHOLE WORLD HIS HA''DS CA.:'"TO DE ClTNA (ESP) (WAR'\J4) (WHIT) CAPOTI1\:. EL (CALIF) (Mt\CN3) (S014:5) (LlM) 1954 (May 17) US Supreme Court rules that segregation in CIELITO LI1\'DO (MAC1\:3) (OROZ3) public schools violates the 14th Amendment C01\IRADA.l''ZA DE LA (CALIF) BLACK AND \VHITE ('TIIE INK IS BLACK") C01\'TRADA..:'" ZA DE SONOMA., LA (CAUF) (Rt'S) (SOREP1) DE COLORES (Rl'S) (SO!Z5-3) (HIN8) (OROZl) 1955 Re\'. Martin Luther King. Jr., helps organize boycott DESPEDIDA DE M01'i'TEREY, LA (CAUF) of segregated busses in Montgomery, Alabama; results E"i NOMBREDEL CIELO (EI-m.) (HIN9) in a federal injunction against this kind ofsegregation. ES AL ;\.\IOR (CALIF) BACK OF TIlE BUS, THE (CARA2) (HARL) GALLITO, EL (ESP) 1960 (FEB 11) Sit-Ins at segregated lunch counters begins HA.\ lACA, LA (CALIF) in Greenville. N.C. MAGIC\ LA (CAllF) BALI..AD OFTHE STl'D"B.T SIT-INS (CARA2) !>.iA.:'\;A.:'lTAS. LAS (OROZZ) (TOO) 1963 Civil Rights movement continues; Medgar Evers !\fi PEPA (CALIf) assassinated POSADAS, LAS SOSGS (HIN9) (OROZ1) WE SHAll (CARt\2) (FOW3) SO!\1BRERO BLA..:'\rCO, EL (CALIF) (FREE) (HARL) (RUS) (SCO) (SEG6) VALS DE (CALIf) (SOREP2) Lt\ (CALIF) THIS LITTI.£ LIGHT OF (C\RA2) (FREE) (.Ian 24) Gold discovered at Sutler's :Mill, California. (HARL) HO! FOR CALIFOR'lA (OWl') 11-IAT' S ALL RIGHT (SOREP2) 18-1-9 (California Gold Rush hegins) WOKE CP TIllS ... (CARA.2) A RIPPING TRIP (CRUZ) (FREE) (HARL)(WHrI) CO!v1L'\;G TIlE HOR1\J (OWY) A..:''D GO \\lTH ME TO THAT LA.,,1I,m CROSSNG TI-fE PLAINS (OWY) (\L\CS3) (CARt\2) (SO! 6:2) The DAYS OF '49 (OWY) (FSI iii:3) (1-lA!\'KS) AIl'.nT GO,!\;'1'\A lEf NOBODY lTR" !\1E (WAR"4) AROlf.!';'D In. STEAMSmp 'lES (OWY) (CARt\:!) (FREE) (HARL) .IOHS CI-lli'\;AMAl'.n S APPEAL (D\\,Y) (Iv1ACS3) EYES ON THE PRIZE (CARt\Z) (HARL) The LOnNG OF THE GAME (CARt\4) 1963 (Sep 15) Four black children killed in racist bombing OS BOARD THE STEA.MER (O\\"Y) of church in Birmingham, Alabama. S\VEb"T BETSY FROIvl PIKE (CRCZ) BIR\.1L,\;GHAM SI.J1'<'DAY (CARA2) (SCOT) WHAT WAS YOUR IN THE STATES? (SOREP2) 1964 (.Il1... 2). Senate \otes cloture to end 75-day filibuster '\l-fE.\' I WE.,\;T OUT TO PROSPECT (OW-n by conservative Southern senators, and passes a new 1850 (Sep 9) . California becomes 31st State; a wild Ci \'il Rights Act. country FREE AT LAST (SIL2) SE.t\RLES A..:1\,'D TIlE BEAR (GRAY I) 1968 (Apr 4) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in ROLL, ALABA.\IA. ROLL (lruG) Memphis, Tenn. . 1856-.lohn and Dennis Searles discover bora.... in California. OR LllHER KING (l .n.:ST W A..:"H TO MOHAVE (GRAYZ) SING YOLTR NM1E) (FIl'.'K) 1870-Cerro Gordo silver mine opens in California BESSIE BRADY. TIlE (GRt\Y2) 16 -- I [' 'I -- SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY KINGDOM C01vfiNG ("JUBlLO") (SIL2) CIVIL WAR GRIZZLY BEAR (SO!9:3) 18511 (OCT 16) - John Brown seizes U.S. arsenal at Harper's 1864 The Confederate Alabama sunk by the Union ferry, Hoping to start a slave insurrection. He is Kearsarge off the coast of France captured and executed. ROLL, ALABAMA, ROLL (HUG) (SIL2) JOHN BODY Cv1ACN3) (SCO) (SIL2) (SO! 10:3) JOH]'.; SO!'JG, TIlE (SIL2) 1865-(Apr 9) Rlobert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at 1860 (Nov 8) - Abraham Lincoln elected to the Presidency. Appamatox; end of the Civil War. LINCOL" A..'\.D LIBERTI' (MACN4) (SO!2:8) FLOP-EARED MUlE (fiddle time) (BROD) OLD ABE LINCOLN (1vtAC4) VNRECONSTRUCfED REBEL, TIlE. (SlL2) 1861 (Feb 4) - Confederate States fonned with Jefferson (WARN1,4) Davis as President. New Confederacy fires on Ft. RING TIlE BELL, WATCHMAN (OIGITRAD) Sumter: War begins. DAMYM'KEE LAD (ORI3) GOIN' ACROSS TIlE MOLTI\TAIN (SOREP2) 1865 (Apr 16) lincoln assassinated (WARN4) (WARN5) BOOTH KIllED UNCOLN (SIL2) CD.1BERlA"D GAP (RUCK2) 1865 (JUNE 19) "Juneteenth": Slaves in the defeated LYNGINBURG TOWN (WARN5) Southern Statwes are fu=inaIly infonned of their SONG OF TIlE SOUrHERN VOLLrt.'TEERS freedom. (FSICii: 1) (SCOT) OH, FREEDOM! The Y A..NKEE M4...t'l-O' -WAR (FSICii: 1) SLAVERY CHAIN OO:r-..'E BROKE AT LAST 1861-65 -- GeneraLsongs of the Civil War (SIL2) (MACN4) ALL QUIET ALONG TIlE POT01vtAC (MACN4) WAKE NICODamS (LA\\') (SIL2) BATILE CRY OF FREEDOM (MAC4) (SCO) COLONIAL DAYS (SIL2) 1492 (Oct 12) Columbus "discovers" America B01\'1\,)' BLL'EflAG (FSIOI:l) (SIL2) FOURTEEN NINETY -TWO (SCHI) FIRST ARKANSAS REGI.MENT (SIL2) 1607-(1vlay) 1st pennanent English Colony, James-town, GOOBER PEAS (1vtACN4) (SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) VA; 120 settlers. John Smith tries to rule colony, but is TIlE HOMESPUN DRESS (MACN4) (SIL2) driven out; he leaves Va in 1609. JOI-l1'.'1\')" IS MY DARLING (SIL2) JONATHAN SMITH (COL) (HIN3) Jl-ST BEFORE TIlE BATILE, MOTHER 1609-Spanish found Santa Fe, New Mexico (SIL2) (SCO) (SCOT) CM'TO DE CUNA (ESP) LORE.'\'A (SIL2) 161O-1776-Coloniallife in general. NOTE; all songs within THROUGH GEORGIA (SIL2) (SCO) this date span are appropriate here,) SOUTHERN BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM (SIL2) From the old world heritage lEl\,lNGTONIGHT (MACN4) (SIL2) BARBARA ALLEN (BRO) (RITCH 2) (SCOT) YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS (1vtACN4) (SIL2) (\VARl"J'4) 1862- The Virginia (Fonnedy Merrimac) sinks the USS The CUCKOO (RITCH 1) Cumberland The DEVIL & TIlE FARMER'S WIFE TIIE CUMBERLAND AND TIlE .HERR/AIAC ("FARi\:IER'S C1.JRST \\lFE") (BRO) (MACN4) (SIL2) (FSICvi!2) (HIN3) (SCOT) 1862 (March) Battle between Monitor and Merrimac ends G\'PSY LADDIE (RITCH 2) in a draw. JOH]'.; BARLEYCORl" (RUS) 1862 (Apr 6) Battle at ShilobHill LORD BATEMAN (BRO) (RITCH 2) BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL (MACN4) (SIL2) LORD R.Al\'D.4..LL (RITCH 2) 1862 (July 29)Confederate Cruiser Alabama built, OlJfitted MERRY GOLDE.K TREE «(RITCH 2) and partially manned by British; begins harassing Union OLD IN TIlE WOOD (FSICi3) (HIN3) shipping. (See 1864). (UNS) (SCOT) 1863 (Jan 1) Emancipation Proclamation RIDDLE SONG (RUS) FREE AT LAST (RUS) (MACN4) ROBIN THE BOBBIN (aID- WREN) JUBA (JOl\'El) (J0l';'E2) (MAC"4) (FSICi!3) (HI!'."3) OH FREEDOM! (CARA2) (FSICi\':3) (FOW3) North America becomes a goal for some of Europe's SLAVERY CHAIN OONE BROKE AT LAST poor people. , .. (SIL2) (MACN4) INVITATION TO NORTH (SILl) WAKE ':--lCODBIUS (LA\\,) 17 I SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY colonists come as indentured sen-ants C' EST L' A VI RON" (F0\'-2) DISTRESSED DA..MSEL CfRAPA"-1'\D 11" ROlLI\J'rr BOULE (FOWl, 2) M.AIDE!':) (SILl) SI MON MOII'.)'"E VOLlAITDA'iSER (FOW2) Daily life in the Colonies 1681-Philadelphia.. PA. founded. BILLY (BEL) 1701-(May 23) \"illiam Kidd hanged in England for THE C:illEFTAil':' S BRIDE (ALL!) commited in the New World, marking an end to piracy in CU.MBERLA'\o'D GAP (CARM) (LDM 1) American waters, GRA!\1)MOTIIER BROWN (l-m\2) C\PTAIN KJDD (UNS) (SCO) (SCOT) KAn- CRUEL (UNS) (SCOT) (SOREPl) THE :MILLER'S \\lLL 1756--1763- "French and Indian War" (7 Years' 'War) (See PAPER OF PNS also 1759) TIlE Ql:AKER' S WOOING (UNS) 1759 (Sep 18) - English capture Quebec in French and RISSELTY ROSSELn' (SEGI) Indian War; leaders of both armies, Montcalme and ROVING PEDDLER (CAZl) (WARNS) \Volfe, are killed. THREE JOLLY ROGUES ("IN GOOD OLD BRAVE WOLFE (FSIC vii:3) (WARN4) COLOl\T TIMES"j (LINS) FELLX TI-IE SOLDIER (WAR"4) W AGOl'.'ER' S LAD (SO!32/3) (SOREP1) 1755-English expel Acadians from Nova Scotia YOVNG CHARLOTTE ("TI-IE FROZE.I\; GIRL") UN, DEUX, TROIS (ALLE) (SA'i) (U;-':S) (S01323) CAJUN TWO-STEP «(Instrumental) (IllN2) YOUNG t>.1AN WHO WOULDN'T HOE COR.'l' M' SIEU BAINJO (AlLE) (BON) (LOM4) 1761-0biutary verse about Timothy Myrick, which passed 1612-tobacco cultivation begun by John Rolfe into the folk tradition and became a song witb many, TOBACCO'S BUr Al\i Il'Io'DIAI'\' WEED (HA'\i'KS) many versions. (lVES) SPRINGFIElD MOlJ'1\iTAIN (HL""J4) (SCO) 161+-The Dutch Establish a colony Called New Amsterdam (SCOT) (later New York) JOLLY OLD ROGER (HIN4) (ll,S) CONSERVATION and ENVIRONMENT 1620-Pilgrims land near Plymouth 1874 Scammon's Marine Mammals of the Northwestern OLD Hl1'.'DREDTH (RUS) Coast of North America predicts the demise of the gray TOULON (CHAS) whale \\1{0 IS TI-IE (DOW) WHALER'S TALE, A (GRAY1) I 629-First Puritans anive at Salem (MA) Bay Colony SONG OF THE WORLD'S LAST WHALE 1629-First commercial fishery established at Medford, (MORS) BOSTON COl\1E-AJL..YE (BON) 1960 Strip mining for coal becomes prevalent in Appalachia 1635) (September) Roger Williams banished from PARADISE (RUS) CARA4) (FSICix:2) Massachusetts Bay for preaching his belief in the BLACK WATERS (CARA3) (RITCH 2)(W8\1) separation of church and State. L & N ool':'T STOP HERE AI"\}' MORE, TI-IE I 636-Roger Williams founds Providence (Rhode Island). (CARA3) (RITCH 2) 1636-Anne Hutchinson also banished from the Bay Colony 1981. Environmental concerns become politically important for holding "80 erroneous opinions", including what they BAI1....AD OF THE SLOOP CLEAR'" ATER (SEG6) called Antinomianism, the stressing of personal GARBAGE (CARAS) (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) re"e1ation, and her questioning the authority of orthodox LA1\i'D K.."lOWS YOFRE THERE, THE (CARA7) clergy. She too fled to RI and founded the city of MY RAIN"BOVi' RACE (MORS) (RUS) (SEG6) Portsmouth in 1638. OF HME AND RIVERS FLO\\lNG (SEG6) 16+1-1st organized whale processing and distribu-tion, on PEOPLE ARE SCRATCillNG (SEG6) Long Island, NY. (beached whales only) SEVE1\,TY :MlLES (SEG6) 16+7-Towns of Providence, Newport, and Portsmouth band TIllS LAl';'D IS YOUR LAI'\o'D (FSIClx:3) (GUlli) together and form the colony of Rhode Island, with a \VB'LL AlL BE A-oolTBUl\,IG (SEG6) General Assembly draft code separating church and state \\1I.AT HAVE TIlEY 001\1'£ TO TI-IE RAIN? and guaranteeing religious freedom. (MORS) (RUS) 1659-1st fire department to be es tablished by mum(,;ipal action, in New York Citv. BARD TIMES and DISASTERS BOWERY GRENADIERS (ALLI) (SO! 9.'3) 1837-Depression hits U.S. and Europe 1668-French establish fur-trading post and mission at Sault HARD TI:\1ES COr..1E AGAIN NO MORE Ste. \laric, :-'fL (RUS) 18 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY 1918 Influenza epidemic at its height In alL hetween o TA!'..;-"'E!'.'BALl1vl (EHR) .wo,OOU and 500.000 people died of it. The following HOLE 11'\ MY BUCKEr (KORS) (SO' 26:2) song became popular as a sort of "black humor." \\1-IE'\; I ARST CA.Ml:: TO THIS LA:"\U (SCU) SOME LI1TI.E BeG IS GONG TO A:--'TI YOl' (SOREPI, SOt-.1E DAY. (DIGITRAD) (ROG) 178.1-Crerman settle Germantown. near 1921 End of post-war boom creates large-Scale Philadelphia. (Sec 1710.) unemployment; 5.7 million out of work t71'+-Bcginning of heavy migration into PA of the "Scots- I WA:'-1 YOFR Irish", acrualJy Protestant Scols who had lived in 1927 Problems of farmers presage depression northern Ireland. Herc, they began moving southward 'I.EVEr' CH\;1 COTTON (FOW3) (RFS) through thc Yalley of Yirginia.to found thc Southern 1929 (OCT 29) Stock Market Crash "of!icialh" bc!!ins the Appalachian mountain culturc. Great DepreSSIOn. - '" BAR."-l"ARl) SO!\:G I Jl'ST DO!\" T W,'-"1 TO BE RICH (l []:-":5) HIE Cl'CKOO (SO! 8: 1) (SOREP1) 1931 (MAR 3 )'The Star Spangled Banner" is made the LORD (BRO) official national anthem of the USA SEYE" JOYS OF !\1ARY (RCS) TO Ii\: HEAVE,\; (LAW) 1718-l\'ew Orleans founded STAR BA.l\ll\,'ER (LAW) FAIS 00-00 (WHITF) 1932 Depression in full swing. Monthlv. waocs'" are 6Oc;-(, of 1830-1848 - political disturbances in southwest Germany 1929 levels; 5,000 banks failed and closed to date; and the Rb.inelands leads to increased immigration of 13,000.000 unemployed; Roosevelt elected in landslide. German intellectuals into the C.S. SOUP SONG (FOW3) (RUS) DIE GEDANKE.'\' SI!\TI rREI (FSIC"ii: 1) BROlRER. CA...1\i YOl' SPARE A DIME? (SO!30: 1 (RUS) (WI-III) 1S+7-"Potato Famine" In Ireland reaches worst point; Irish BANKS OF MARBLE(SEG3) emigration to V.S. is tripled. Exploitation of labor; need to organize. FA..\fI!\12 V,'L''NSBORO COTTON-NfiLL BLUES (FOW3) DRILL. YE TARRIERS, DRILL (SO!30:3) (SOREP1) SHE SAID THE TO (SA..") GIRLS (WEN) :-":0 IRISH APPLY (GRr£) (SCO) WHICH SIDE ARE YOU (RUS)(SEG3) PADDY (FSIC"i: I)(RCS) (SO!20:5) PADDY'S AT WORK TODAY rTIIESICK 1 :'-10:-": (FOW3)(SEG3) (WE") ;-':OTE") (Rt'S) (SO!30:3) SIXTEE." TO:-":S (SO!3:3) 1852-01e Bull loses money in an attempt to form a STEP BY STEP (SEG6) Norwegian community in Pennsylvania. DOW}\, 00\''N (LCALBUM XYI) (SCO) (SOREP!) Homelessness becomes a way of life 1880 Increased multi-ethnic immigration into California. THIS ROAD BAD (FOW3) including the Japanese (FSIO'ii: 1) SHO JO Jl (BER) WA!\TIERIN' (FSIC\ii: 1) (SA."J) 1885 '{be "New Immigration" gcts under way largely Jews I WALK THE ROAD AGAIN (CAZl) escaping Russian persecution TAKE TRUE LOVE BY THE HA.J''D (,TIt-.1ES BLUES (ROB) HARD") (RUS) (SCO) HALLELCJAH r M A BUM (LAW) (SO!28:5) INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION 1933 First of the great dust storms hits South Dakota. and TRANSPORT 1935 Dust Storms continue; altogether, 40 million acres of 1771-1st Spinning Mill established in Derbyshire. England good farmland Are blown away. FOUR-LOOM \VEA VER (SEG4) (Apr 7) DUST STO&\1 DISASTER (GL:nI) POVERn' KNOCK (WALK-J2) (GLTHRIE) (GUll-I) (RUS) (SOREPl) 1818 (July 4)- Construction begins on Erie Canal, running T JOAD (oo\\') (GL:'JH) between Albanv and Buffalo. !\i\". Completed in 1825. TALKI!\- Dl'STBOWL (GOTH) (SOREPZ) THE ERIE CAo'\AL (FOR) (RL'S) (SOREPl) SO LO!\'G.IT rS GOOD TO KNOW YOL- THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) (GL'TH) (RUS) (SCO) THE RAGING CA!':AWL (SAN,) 1821 (May 5)-Kapoleon Bonaparte dies on St. Helena IMMIGRATION OW BONEY ON ST. HElE'\;A (WAR."'J'4) 1710-Seginning of large-scalc German immigration into (WARNS) PA; the "PcIWsyhaIlia 'Dutch.'" 19 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY 1821-l'nder ?-.texican !!fant, Austin settles 300 1905 (July 7) rww (Industrial Workers of the World) families in the Mexican territory, Texas. founded by E. Y. Debs. I 825-Texas opened to settlement by C.S. citi7..ens SOUDARITI' FOREYER (9ALT) (FOW3) (GREE) TIIE BRAZOS RJYER (FSICi:4) (KOR."-:) (RL'S)(SEG3) TE;'\1\'ESSEE STliD (DRJ1) (Rl:S) (SOREF'2) POPl'LAR WOBBLY (,TIII::Y GO "lLD OYER 182.':;-Erie Canal completed. ?\fE") (KOR.")( SEG3) 11 :5) THE ERIE CA.1\"AL (FOR) (RUS) (SOREPI) PREACHER AND THE SLAVE, THE ("PIE I:\, THE E-RI-E (FOR) (SCO) THE SKY") (ALT) (FOW3) (K0R.'\1 ?\L<\G;l) THE RAGING CA.1\JA'VL (SA.'I\l) (RUS) (SEG'+) 1830-1960 - Rise and decline of the railroads. DF.MP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK (KOR") r VE BEE." WORKING ON THE RAILROAD WERE FOR SA" DIEGO (KOR.") (RVS) (MEEK) THE (SO!28:4) REBEL GIRL. THE (CAZ2) (K0R.'1 (RCS) RAILROADING OK THE GREAT DIVIDE PORTLAND COlTl\'TY JAIL (SA..l\') (SO!24:3) JOE HILL (ALT) (MACNl) (RUS) (SEG3) Hl1\1)RED (HIN'4) (SOREPI) BREAD AND ROSES (ALT) (RUS) (SEG3) (WE"') DADDY, WHAT S A TRAIN? (SO!28:6) rvULL MOTIffiR'S LAMENT (ALT) 1833-New York City installs first horse-cars STEP BY STEP (McClTT) (SEG3) (SEG6) THE K.1\lCKERBOCKffi Ut-.'E (SO!7:2) TI1ERE IS MEAN TIUNGS lIAPPE..'JING IN TInS 1840-Half of all LS. shipping is on the Mississippi River; l..A!'ID (ALn more than 3,000 ships and smaller craft. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (ALT) OUR) (RVS) TIlE BOAThM.N DA."CE (CARM) (SO!8:4) ATTOR.'-''E't' FOR TIlE DMfl-.;'ED (ALT) (WAR"5) MAID (ALT) (FOW3) (RUS) THE GLENDY BURKE (CAR\!) (WAR1\J5) 1938 00 (Congress of Industrial Organizations) put IlEA\TSG TlIE LEAD (LC; ALBUM nIl) together under leadership of John L. Lewis BAYOU SARA (TIll) (Jun 25) Pres. Roosevelt signs first Minimum WHAT DOES THE DEEP SEA SAY? (TIll) Vi'age Law - 25 cents per hour, 1852-Charles Bigelow, black inventor of :t\'y. makes a shoe- 1946 United 'Vorkers strike. US Government takes pegging machine. over mines. PEG A!\1) AWL (SOREPl) l1!\10N (Lc.: (AAFS, ALBUM XVI) 1869 ('\la; 10) Transcontinental railway completed at Promontory Point, Utah. The MARITIME EXPERIENCE ECHO CA... '\l'ON (HIN4) (SO!9: 1) 1711-1 st sperm whale taken by Nantucket wbaling boat. RAILROAD CARS ARE TIlE (UNG) Vi1IALE FISHERY (InS4) (SCO) ZACK, THE MORi\fON (SO!9: I) (SOREP1) 1873 Expansion of railroads; tunnels. etc., in Virginia; NM'll.TKET LlTIlABY (ALU) t mechanical devices begin to replace workers. BLOW YE OF TIlE JOHN HEr-.'RY (FSICvi: I) (HIN2) (LOMl, 2) (SO! 1:2) ROLLING TO OLD .MAll (HUG) (RUS) LABOR 1779 First l"antucket whaler to round the Hom; beginning 1868 Con!!fess establishes the 8-hour day for federal of American Pacific whale fishery. employees: did not become standard in industry until ROlliNG DOWN TO ?l.L<\VI (HUG) after 1920. See 1886. A \\1IALER'S TALE (GRAYl) EIGHT HOl!'RS (SEG3) THE SONG OF THE WORLD'S LAST WHALE 1885 (DEC 8) AFL (American Federation Of Labor) Formed (MORS) In Columbus, Ohio, With Samuel Gompers As John Adams insists that the treaty give Americans the president. One goal: The 8-Hour Day. (See 1868) right to fish in Canadian waters, ElGHT-HOl!'R DA Y(SEG3) (SO!28:3) CODFISH SHANTY ("SOLTIl AVSTRAUA") 1891 19) Populist Party formed in Cincinnatti. (B0)\1 (IICG) FAR.\JER IS THE MAN, THE (FSIC"i"2) (SCO) 18-+3-1860 Era of the Clipper Ships; rise of the U.S. as a (SEG4) maritime power. 189.+ Railroad strike by American Railroad Union led by r::. HALL ON TJ-II: BOVi'U:-..t:: (LC:AAFS L26) Y. Debs SHENA.'\,TIOAH (FSICi,':2) (HUG) (SO!33:4) r A.Rt'., THE (SAN) SANTY ANO (FSICiii:3) (HliG) J WHISKEY (HlTG) t SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY YOC ROSES (BOARD) Mississippi into Illinois. Young Abe Lincoln is in the BLOW TIlE ,\1A'.: mIrG) (LC AAFS L27) militia fighting Black Hawk. (WALK-JI) ROCK Rl\'ER \ALLE\ (Till) GOLDE'.: \' ('GREES WilLOW TREE") 1838-Chcrokccs and other tribes lorced to move from (FSICi:2) (HtTG) (H-<\C!'\3) (SO! 12:5) Georgia to Indian Territory; -+,000 die on 'The Trail 01 (\\'AR"5) Tears". UO,\lE\\'ARD B01'1\1) RI\'ERS OF TIME (SCO) (WAR'\'5) TRAIL OF TEARS, TIn; (CARA2) LEA\'E HER, (FSICII: 1) (Ht'G) (SCO) 1876 Battle of the Little Big Hom: "Custer's Last Stand" .\1ERRY TREE (GOLDE;"; \'A'1TY) SIOl'X (LING) (\\'AR'.:S) (RITCll:! DREARY BLACK HILLS (UNG) TO SEA O;";CE MORE (FSICii:2) (HUG) 192-' Congress bestows US citizenship on native-born (WALK-J I) American Indians. PADDY ooYLE (rn'G) (LC AAFS L26) PADDY LAY BACK (rn 'G) ( LC AAFS L26) RELIGIOUS FERMENT (\L\LK-J I) 17J..1-Beginning of The Great Awakening (For other dates RIO (IIl'G) (SOREPI) relevant to American religious history. see ROLLING (HVG) (LC AAFS L27) 1635. 1636, 1637) SEA\1.,,-'-S HY.\t:\ (BOARD) WO:--'1)ROCS LDVE (BO)") (OOW) (OSH) SI IE'.:A'lX)AII (FSICh:2) (Hl'G) (SO!33:'+) (SO! 16: 1) STRIKE. STRIKE TIlE BELL (Hl :G) (WALK·J 1) A..\1AZING GR<\CE (OSH) (Rt'S) rs TIlE B'y (SO'7,2) GR£E!\" HEIDS (WALK) .\lRS, L\ME.'T (BOKI) (BOK2) PRO.\DSED I.A.,n (BON) (ooW) (LO\1-+) SI :AFARING ,\ m,'\' (GR<\ Y I) (WALK) GROI (SORErI ) WEARY PILGRI.\I (OSH) WllERE '11 [E COIiO HJASII SIISER (CO,\[£ 9:-') I A.\1 A PILGRI\I (SOREPI) Scammon's ,\fartnt: oj the Northwestern BABE OF BETI IU:llE.\l (1 (WALK) c'oaSI oj Norrh America predicts the demise or the gray GARDEN In''\[\; (OSH) whak WA STR·\...'\'GER (OSH) (SO!22:5) WIlALER'S TALE, A (GRAY l) 173X-George Whitefield, Evangelist, arri\es in America SO."G OF '11 U: WORLD'S I,AST WHAI.I: o LO\'ELY APPEAR,,-'.:CE OF DEATII (LO.\B) (.\tORS) Rise of "Play-partics" as an answcr to religious strictures against dam.;ng NATIVE AMERICANS OLD JOE CLARK (FSIC \i.l) Colwmhus "discO\ers" Americam hut the Indians are (SOREP1 ) atn:ady here. SKJP TO MY LOt' (R1TS) (FSIC i\:2) JUt :--'l:-'En'·TWO (SCHl) GO TIlE WILDER''ESS (ALLE) 16IO-lndians arc an important part of our history. 1776 . Shakcrs settle ncar ALBA:-.... Y, :-.'y .\fY LIlT!.E .\IOIlE:E (LO.\lI) LO\'E (A..'1» (Rl'S) !ROQt 'OIS U LLABY (FOWl) SI\fPLE GIFTS (:\:-'1» (FSICi\..2) (Rl'S) (SCO) CJI1PPEWA OWL SONG (110.\1) 18-1.6-15,000 Icd hy Brigbam Young, begin to LAKOTA l,t 'LLABY (Rt 'CK2) migratc westward. .\S LO."G AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW nIl: H.,,-'1X'ARTS (LC AAFS 130) (SeO) lOt')..TAIN I10,\1E (I IL'.: 10) I'"'SX- I830-Rcd Jacket (Sagoyawatha), Seneca orator ST. GEORGE (LC AAFS 130) AS AS THE GR.\SS SIL\LL GRO\r (SO)) TITIlRY-I-RL-.-\'1' (I.e AAFS 130) CI nPPEW A IlOOT-OWL U 1 L\BY (1I0\[) 1HSK Widespread religious rc\i\al in ."cw York; camp TJ U: LA:-'1) KSOWS Yat .. RE (C.\R\1) me!ctings become! common . (PET) EYI:R\"BODY'S WELCO\U: (DOW) IX30 ('\Ia) 28) l'ongress Passes 'Ibe Indian RcmO\ at Act. WO:-'l)Rm'S 1.0\'1: (OL\S) (OSHl alloWJfig for forcihIc removal of Indians for resettlcment ROCKY ROAD (OSII) \\ e:.luf Llll: \ tissi:-.sippi .. 0:-'1,'1' AS AS TIn: GRASS SII.\LL GROW (SeO) SI UP OF (OSII) 1832-(Apr 6·Aug 2)-Black Hawk War: Chief Black Hawk BRIGHT MOR'1!':G STARS (SOREP2) Ill!> stan illl! Sauks bal:k tlle ROYAL (Rt'S) :?l I SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY Tl'R.!" YOCR RADIO (RllS) 181-1-- British bombard Fort (Baltimore, but THE GREAT POWER (SO!27:3 do not capture it. STAR-SPA..,GLED R.\. (LAW) SINCE WORLD WAR II 1815 (Jan 8)- Battle or :--:ew Orleans 1945 (Oet2.....) t'nited founded 8th Of" J...\.Xl'ARY (fiddle tune) (BROD) 1. ,"!\l1Till MAKE A (SIU) BATIT.E OF ORl ..E,,-'S (DRB) (Rl'S) l NA'nONS (\VHIn (SO!9:1) (SOREP2) STRANGEST DREAJv1 (Rl'S) (SCO) Hl1\lERS OF KE.'!l.;CKY (FSIC\iii:2) (LAW) 1947 Plane Crash at Los Gatos Canyon kills 32 Mexican (SAN (SCOT) (SOREP2) "deportees." JOHNl'i'Y BeLL. JO JOl-l:\' (DOL) (FSICviii2) DEPORTEES (RLTS)(SEG3) (SOREPl) (SCOT) 19.50 (Jun 29) Pres. Tnunan orders US troops into South RAZORBACK SrriAK (ORB) Korea 1953 (Jul 7) Annistice ends Korean action. WESTWARD EXPANSION 1962 US troops in Vietnam ordered to return fire 17so- Dr. Thomas Walker opens Cumberland Gap as a way I FEEL LIKE n.l FIXI1'" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) to kentucky; becomes focus of THE Wilderness Road 1962 (Feb 20) John Glenn Is first American in orbit GAP (CARM) (SIU) FROM WAY UP HERE (MORS) (SEG6) (SO! 13: 1) 1809-111inois Territory fonned from part of Indiana Territory A''DORRA (SEG6) EL-A-NOY (CAR\!) (FSICiv::2) (SA'1 (TIll) 1963 (No\' 22) Pres. Kennedy assassinated 1830 - Westward movements at a high point I SAW MY COlTl\;'TRY'S fLAG GO DOWN (SCO) WIll.. YOU GO OlJT WEST? (CAZl) 1969 \'ietnam War continues; students protest increase TO THE WEST! (CAR\1) (FSIC\'ii: I) (MACN3) (Aug 15-18). Woodstock (l'ory) Music and Art Fair WISCONSIN (FSlCi\':I) (MAC.N3) attracts 35,000 young people. 1835 (Nov 24) ..Texas Rangers organized I FEEL LIKE rJ\I FIXI!" TO DIE RAG (SOREP2) TIIE TE.XAS RAc.'GERS (UNG) (\YAR.'5) Pres. Nixon announces troop withdrawal, but war MlJSTANGGRAY (UNG) continues 1836 (Mar 2)-Texas declares independence from Mexico 1970 rs troops sent into Cambodia, .More student protest. 1836 (Apr 2 I)-Gen. Santa Ana defeated; Battle of San 1971 26th Amendment lowers American voting age from 21 Jacinto to 18 CO:ME TO THE BO\\'ER (CA&\-I) 1973 (Jan 22) Peace a.,oreement ends Vietnamese War. SA'TY A'\;O (I RIG) 1973 Military draft ends; US forces become all voluntary. 1836 (Jun 15) Arkansas becomes the 25th state. 19791bree-Mile Island nuclear problems near .Middletown. ARK.A!'SAS TRAVELER (SO!33:4) PA. TIIE STATE OF ARKA.'\;SAS (SOREPl) 1980 National Herb Garden opens in Washington, DC, with 1846 (May 13) - lJS declares war on Mexico 7.000 plants in several gardens, BUCK. AND GAG illM (DOL) (rvl;\C:\"3) SONG, TIlE ("INa! BY (RUS) TAYLOR. TlIE FII'.'E OlD SOC11-IER.' (SO!26:8) GE\.lLE.\lA' (DOL) GREE.' GROW THE LILACS (SOREP!) 1848 (Mar 10) Treaty of Guadalupe-I Iidalgo ends Mexican WAR OF 1812 War. 1812-1815- War of 1812 \\c ARE COMING HOME (DOL) YE PARLIA}.tE\T OF (written 181 .....) 18.50 - Rising interest in western public lands (SILl) SA.M'S FARM (FSICvi:2) 1812 (Aug 12) CSS Conslitution (Capt. Isaac Hull) defeats 18SO Settlement increases in Washington Territory the British Guernere (Capt. Dacres) ACRES OF CLA.MS (SCO) (Rt'S) CONSTITUTION Al\;'D GUERRJERE (ALLI) 1889 (APR 22) Non-Indian lands in Oklahoma opened to (LAW) (SCOT) (SILl) white settlers. IR1L'S VICTORY (fiddlrtune)(BROD) AS LONG AS TIlE GRASS SHAlL GROW (SCO) (LC:AAFS 1..62) 185+-57. 2,000 New Eoglanders migrate to Kansas 1813 (Jll!\cl) British Shannon defeats American Territory to increase support for its admission as a Free Chesapeake State. CHESAPEAKE A''D SHANNON (FOWl) THE KAl'SAS a'flGRAc.1\.T (LING) PERRY'S nCTORY (L;\W) 1862 (May 30) Congress passes a new Land Act PERRY'S YICTORY (fiddle tunc) (LC:AAFSL62) SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY LA.''E COL:-'T)' ("BE'" COlr:!\.T)"') BACHELOR 19.1. I (Dec 7) Attack on Pearl Harbor; CS declares war of {"STARVING TO DEATH 0:-': A GOVER."· .Japan; Germany & Italy declare war on l'S, which MEl'." CLAIM') (LC AAFS 130) rccognizes that a "state or war" exists with those Axis (U:-':G) (SA1'\) nations, 1867 Joseph establishes stockyard at the railhead in 19.1.2 War in the South Pacific Ahilene, Kansas; beginning of the legendary Cowboy. RODGER 'fOl::--:G BILL (U1'\G) (11IOR) 0:-': A \\,I1\G A':D A PMYER (SCO) OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL. THE (UNG) mmR) 19-1S Germany surrenders CROOKED TRAIl" TO HOLBROOK (THOR) (Aug 6) US drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and 2 TRAIL TO t\l£.\'JCO (LING) days later on Japan surrenders. American war TF..;'DERFOOT,llIE (THOR) casualties: 292,000 killed or missing; 613,000 GOODBYE OLD PAL'" (UNG) wounded. GlT ALONG, L1Tn£ DOGIES (LI:-':G) G'\;OLA GAY (SCO) OLD Cm\'BOY, THE (LJ!':G) OLD MA!'.: ATOM (}-ll!\7) GOOD:--''1GHr-LO\ l1'\G TRAIL (RUS) (SCO) DEAD UTILE GIRL OF HIROSHIOMA (Rl'S) lD::I....L 1:-\ TE.XAS (LING) (THOR) (SEG6) (SOREP2) SONG (UNG) APE (by Jimmy Driftwood) 1870 Peak of the Great Plains settlement. RIDE, Bl:ffALO SOLDIERS, RIDE (RUCKI) The YOUNG REPUBLIC DAKOTA LA!'-l) (I1NG) (SCO) 1788 (June 21) US Constitution goes into effect S01\10S LlTn...E OLD SOD .. (FSIO'i:2) (LING) EL BARCO (SO!32:2) (GR-\Y2) 1792 (Dec 15) - Bill of Rights goes into effect. COL ("BE'" COL T)"') BACHELOR 1793-9.t The Whiskey Rebellion; Pcnnsyh'ania farmers CSTARVI:-':G TO DEATIl 0:-': A GOVER,· (and distillers) protesting the 1791 Whiskey Ta, imposed CLAI!\n (LC AAFS DO) (HI:-':S) hy the new federal government. (SA:") JOIJ::\:"'T, (DRI2) I . I "umbering industry shifts to Great Lakes area 1799 . Quasi-war against France over commercial maritime C\....\ADAY-I-O (FOW2) (lD1\lI) rights I.lTrLE BROW:-': Bll.J..8 TRl'XTO:-;'S \,lcrORY (BOARD) (LAW) LOST JI1\l!\fY WI-HLE" (L0!\t2) (THI) 1800 JeJTerson's Presidential Campaign. 18-3-E'i:termination of the huffalo (plains bison) ncarl) JEFFERSO:-': IJBERTI' (FSICviii:l) (LAW) accomplished in the west. (SCOT) (SO!S:-t) Bl HALO TI IE (LNG) (SOREPl) 1803 Lewis and Clark Expedition authorized by President Jefferson. ROL.L O!\'. (Glill) (RUS) WORLD WAR I J805 t'.S. refuses to pay BarbaI')' states for "pro-tection" 191.1. World War I hegins ill Europe. !\ leditcrratlian piracy. captures Dama, a pirate PEACE lfY!\l:-': (SO'30:2) stronghold. hut piracy continues until 1815 (q,\.) I RAISE 1\fY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER HIGH BARBARY (SOI3:2) (SOREPl) (WAR,\,.1.) (C\IUI) (WAR'\'5) 1917 (.\pr 6) l'S enter World War I 1815 (1\la) IO-Aug 5) Stephen Decatur finally forces the O\'ER THERI; (DOl") (\\1 nT) BarhaI') States to stop molesting ."-merican ships in the TI-n:y \\'ERE (DOL) (\nnT) Carihheau. PACK l T' Yot'R TR0l1U.ES (SCOT) I I1GII BARBARY (S0I3:2) (SOREPl) (WAR,\,-l) Rot HER SHE WE-\RS A YEI LOW (\L\R,5) RIBBO:'\ (WI rrn BIG BASS DIU '1\1 on:-':2) * * * * * * * * * * * K·K-K-K-P (IX)LJ CI IRISnL\S 1:-': TID: TRE.'\'CIIES '1') WORLD WAR II 1C)4(1. Ddeusc appropnaLiuu!> uf .1..26 hilliull (for 50,000 airplanes per del-Tcases lIDI..'11lplo)IDent. ROSIE TIlE RI\'tlER (SCO) 23 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY SOURCES OF SONGS CARA2 CARAWA..'J. GUY A.'\'D CA..'\'DIE 5/1lg For Freedom (book) Sing Out Publications. 1991 :-';OTE: Many of these sources are out of print. One of the CARA3 Carawan, Guy and Candie Voices From The easiest ways to search for them is to use the internet; there .\tountains (Book) !','Y: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 arc three con\,eruenlweh sites (and ma"he vou know of more CARA4 Carawan. Guy and Candie. High all a A10untam that tnat) that represent the collective of hundreds (tape) Order direct from Guy & Candie. of booksellers. These three are: CARAS Carawan, Guy and Candie .\1)' Rhllloceros alld I:-"TERLOC, at FOW2 Fowke, Edith Penguin Book ofCanadian Folk JONEI Jones, Bessie. Step it Down (LP) Rounder SOl/gs, (Book) Ontario. Penguin Books, Ltd. 1980. Records. FOW3 Fowke, Edith, and Joe Glazer. SOl/gs Of Work and JONE2 Jones, Bessie. and Bess Lorna.. Hawes: Step it Freedom, (Book) Garden City, r-.,"y. Doubleday, Down. (Book) NY: Harpeer & Row, 1972, (Reprinted FREE The Freedom Singers; We Shall Overcome. (LP) 1987, University of Georgia Press,) ?\.lercury Records 20879. JUR Juravich, Tom. Out ofDarkness (tape, CD) Flying FSIC Folk Song III The Classroom. (Journal) An irregular Fish Records (Rounder Records) 1991 journal, now temporarily suspended while its editors KORN Kombluh, Joyce L. Rebel Voices: An i.W.W. map out a course for the future - but all back issues Anthology, Ann Arbor: Uni\' , f\fichigan Press, 19(H, are available at a very reasonable price, KORS Korson, George, Pennsylvama Songs and Legends. GREE Greenway, John. American Folk Songs ofProtest Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1949, (book) Phil a: Unh'. PA Press. 1953. LAW Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Music for PatriOIS. G RAY I Graydon, Ken. Elissa. Spread Your Wmgs (tape) Politicians. and Presidents. (Book) !';"Y: Macmillan, Sherline, 1989. 1975, GRAY2 Graydon, Ken, Windmill (tape) Sherline. 1989. LEV Levy, Lesater. Grace Notes III American History. GRAY3 Graydon, Ken and Phee Sherline. The Coyote (Book) Normasn, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Special. (tape) Sherline, 1992. Press, 1967, G UTB Leventhal, Harold. and Mrujorie Guthrie. The LC Ubrary of Congresas. Phonograph Records produced Woody Guthrie Song Book (book). NY: Grosset & by the Archive of Folk Cuklture, American Folkife Dunlap. 1976 Center, Ubrary of Congress, Washington DC 29540, BANKS Hanks, Larry Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail. Send for a catalog! (LP) Long Sleeve Records. LING Ungenfelter. Riuchard E., Richard A Dwyer, and BARL Harley. Bill et al.I'm Gonna utlt Shine. (tape) Dfavid Cohen: Songs ofthe American West. (Book) Round River Records, 1992. Berkeley: University of Califomia Press. 1986, BEART Hearl Songs (book) Clearfield Company LINS Unscott. Eloise Hubbard, Folk Songs ofOld Newe Baltimore, MD (facsimile reprint of 1909 edition) England. (Book) NY: Macmillan. 1939. (Dover BINI Hinton, Sam. A Family Tree ofFolksongs. (LP) reprint edition. 1993) Decca Records. DL8418, 1982. OP. LOMI Lomax. Alan. Folk Songs ofNorth America, HIN2 Hinton. Sam. From an East Texas Childhood. (Book) Garden City. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1960, (tape) Hinton Enterprises. LOM2 Loma'i.. John A. & Alan Lomax. American BIN3 Hinton, Sam, I'll Sing You a Story. (CD or Tape) Ballads and Folk Songs. (Book) :\"Y: Macmillan. Smithsonian .: Folkways, 1972. 1934. (Dover edition. 1994) HIN4 Hinton. Sam, Singing Across the Lond. (LP) LOM3 Loma'i.. John A. & Alan Loma... Our Singing Decca,DL-8418. OP. Countrv, (Book) l'.1": Macmillan, 1941. HINS Hinton, Sam. The Song ofAIen (CD or tape) LOM4 Lo'ma'i., Alan Folk Song U.S.A. (Book) NY: Smithsonian'Folkways, FA2400, 1961 Duell Sloan and Pearce. 19..:18. Reprinted as Best Loved BIN6 Hinton, Sam. Whoever Shall Have Some Good American Songs. Grossett & Dunlasp, 1953. Peanuts (CD or tape) Smithsonian/Folkways, FC- LUM Lummis, Charles F. Spanish Songs ofOld 7530, 1961. California (Book) Privately printed. 1923. Out of print HIN' Hinton. Sam. (10" 78 rpm single) Old Man Atom. and hard to find. Columbia, 1950 (Now available on CD or tape or LP MACN MacNeill. Keith and Rusty MacNeil. Insights into from Smithsonian Colections. "Folk Song America.") American History Through Folksong. 7 sets so far. BINS Huinton, Sam OfFrogs and Dogs and Such. (tape) each set consisting of 1 or 2 Cds or 2 or more tapes, Hinton Enterprises, 1991. with biiklet. Records. Great songs, great HIN9 Hinton. Sam 'Tis the Season. (tape) Hinton narration. Enterprises. 1991. MACN I - Working allli Union Songs. HIN 10 Hinton, Sam. The Wandering Folksong. (CD or MACN2 - Colonial America. American RevolutlOll. tape) Smithsonian1Folkways. FC-7530, 1962. War of1812. BOM Homeland Songs (booklet) The publisher, World MACNJ - Moving West Songs. Around Songs is continuing the fine work begun by the MACN4 Civil War Songs. Cooperative Recreation Association. MACNS - Cowboy Songs. HUG Hugill. Stan. Shanties From mhe Seven Seas. MACN6 - Western Railroad Songs (Book) !',"Y: E.P.Dutton A& Co.. Inc. 1961. M A CN' - Cali/ornia Songs (2 CDs or 2 tapes) IVES lves. Burl. The Burllves Song Book. Ballantyne Books. 1953, OP, :25 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY SCOT Scott. John Anthony. The Ballad oj America. McCUT .\1cCutcheon, John. Water From Another Time. (Book) Carbondale, IL. l'niversity of Illinois Press, (LP or tape) Rounder Records. 1989. 1983 (2nd ediuon). John has a !.1feat website at:http:" wwwJolkmusic.com SEG 1 Seeger, Pete. Darling Corey. (rape or CD) MEEK .\Ieek. Bill. Songs a/the Irish 111 America. (Book) Smithsonian Foilkways .FP3. 1950. Dublin: Gilbert Dalton, Ltd. 1978 SEG2 Seeger, Pete. Ameru:an Favorile Ballads (Book) MORS .\lorse. Jim. and Nancy Matthews. Survival !\'T: Oak Publications, 196-+. Songbook. (Book) San Frdlu..'isco: The Sierra Club, SEGJ Seeger, Pete. and Bob Reiser: Carry iT 011 (Book) 1971. The Sierra Club should never have let this book Sing Out Publicatgions. 1991. go out of print, hut they did! SEG4 Seeger, Peggy. and Ewan .MacColl. The Singing MOV .Hovlng Star Hall Singers. Guy and Candie -.island. (Book) London. !\1ills Ltd. too date) Carawan. recordists. (Tape or CD) Smithsonian ' SEGS Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs For folkways fS38-U. 196-+. Childrell. (Book) j\.T: Doubleday. 1948. Doubleday re· OROZ Orozco, Jose-Luis. Lyrica InJalllil. (iPs or tapes) issue, paperback, 1980. Berkeley. CA: Arcoiris Records SEG6 Seeger, Pete. Where Have Alllhe Flowers Gone? OROZI - Volume 1. (Book: Pete's musical autobiography) Bethlehem, PA: OROZ2 - \'olume 2 Sing Out Publications. 1993. OSH The Orgillal Sacred Harp Denson Revision. Sacred SIL 1 Silber. Irwin. Songs oj Inderpendcence (Book) ;-'iY Harp Publishing Co. Re\'ision of 184-+ edition. Stackpole Books. 1973 PET Petric, Faith. Woman child (rape) Center Records SILZ Silber. Irwin. Songs oJ the Civil War. (Book) j\.··Y: RAN Randolph. Vance: O::.ark Folk Songs. (Books) Columbia University Press, 1960. Columbia. ,MO; State Historical Soc. of SILJ Silber. Irwin. Reprints From the People'S Songs (Book) in 4 volumes. 1946-50. Out of print. Skillfully Bulletin. (Book) j\.T: Oak Publications, 1961. edited I-volume ediuon probably still available: SO! Sing Out!, The Folk MUSic Maga:ine. Sing Out t'niversity of Illinois Press, 1942. Publications. (Journal) 13:3 means Yol. 13, No.3, RITCH 1..IEA.s RITCHIE: None But One/High Hills etc. Many back issues out of print. but see SOREP. alld .\4oumains. (CD) Grccnhays. SOREP The Collected Reprinlsfrom Sillg Out! RITCH 2. .TEA,:\" RITCHIE. Cbild Ballads In America. Aloga::.ine, Originally in 12 small volumes; now Vols. I &2 (LP) Greenhays. issued in two big ones. Sing Out Publications. Jean Ritchie has a website at SOREPI - Yolume 1. http: mt.:mber.aol.com greenbays.page6.htm SOREPZ - Volume 2. ROG 1 Rogers. Sally. Love W!lI Guide Us. (LP, tape. THI Thieme. Art. On the River. (Tape) Distribvuted by CD) Hying Fish Records, 1985. Art Thieme. ROG2 Rogers, Sally. Piggyback Planet: a THOR Thorp, .s. Howard. Songs oJ the Cowbovs (Book) Whole Earth. (LP. tape, CD. Round River Records, NY: Houghton t-.1ifflin, 1921. An inportant early 1990. collection. Sally has a website at: TOO Toor. Frances. A Treasury oj AfexicGII Folkways. http: www.sallyrogers.com (Book) I'\ Y: Crown Publishers. 1947. RUB Rubin. Ruth. Jewish Folk Songs. (Book) 1\"Y:Oak WALK Walker, William. The Southern HarmollY (Book) Publications, 1965. Los Promusicamericana, 1966 (facsimile RUCKI Rucker, Sparky and Rhonda. Treasures and reprint of 18.54 edition.) Tears, (rape) Hying Fish (Rounder Records) WALK.JI Walker, Johnny Haul and Sillg (rape) RUCK2 Rucker. Sparky and Rhonda. b'elltide (rape). Distributed b\ Jobnnv Walker. Tremont Productions. WALK.JZ Waiker, Johnny Folks01lgs alld Such (rape) R U S Rise Up Singing. Sing Out Publications. The very Distributed by Johnny Walker. best word book fopr group singing. WARN 1 Warner, Frank. Frank Warner Sings American SAN Sandburg, Carl. The American Songbag (Book) Folk Songs and Ballads. (10" LP) Elektra EKL-3. 1927. Reprint edition, in paperback form, with intro by 1952. Garrison Keillor.1\'Y:Harcourt. Brace, 1990. WARN2 Warner, Fnmk Come All You Good People (LP) SCHI Schimmel. Nancy. Head First and Belly Down. .\1instrel JD204 (no date) (Tape) Sisler's Choice, 1990. WARNJ Warner, Frank Songs oJllle Civil War. (LP) S CO Scofield . Twilo. All American Sampler. (Book) Prestige International 1302 (no date). bugene, Oregon: Cutthropat Press. WARN4 Warner. Frank. and Anne Warner. Traditional American Folk Songs. (Book) Syracuse. !\.l·: Syracuse Lniversily Press, 19!54. 26 SINGING THROUGH AMERICAN HISTORY WARN 5 Warner. Jeff, and Jeff Davis. Wilder iov (Tape) consortiums listed here at the head of the SOl1{CES Hying Fish (Rounder records) section.. WARN6 Warner, Jeff, and .IeffDavis. Old Time Songsfor Kids. (Tape or LP) Warner and Davis (SOTE: Jeff EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RECORDS-- Warner is the son of the late Frank and Atme Warner, Freeport, !\l' 11520 and thcy would be proud of him and his friend Jeff Davis!) FIFE AND DRUM -- A website especialh'• eoood for WEN Wenner, Hilda E.,. and Elizabeth Freillicher. Here's Civil "'ar songs and references: To the Women. (Book) Syracuse: Syracuse University ADDRESSES OF SOURCES FOLK SONG IN THE CLASSROOM -- John W. NOTE: Addresses of major publishers are not Scott, PO Box 264, Holyoke, MA 01041 given here; your' bookstore or record shop will know how to reach them for orders -- so FOLKWAYS -- See SMITIISONIAN/FOLKWAYS will Amazon Books on the Internet. GRAY GOOSE MUSIC -- 13-1- S. 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