![]() Those are just a few of the 39 separate song chapters. Subject headings range from "Bile Them Cabbage Down" (hoedowns, jigs and reels) and "All Over This Land" (songs of green places, big cities, mountain ranges, waterways and prairies) to "The Farmer is the Man" (songs of renters, hayseeds, sharecroppers and workers on the land), "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" (pretty self-explanatory, don't you think?) and "Murder Most Cruel" (songs of cruel mothers, jealous lovers, quarreling brothers and other bloody ballads). The table of contents is 13 pages long the alphabetical index in the rear is 10. But wow, what a great collection of words! No music, sadly, although it does contain notation for chords. But that just goes to show how absorbing books like this can be.įolksinger's Wordbook has the lyrics to more than 1,000 folk songs. Water-stained, with well-turned pages, I believe it was already well used when Madelyn bought it second-, or possibly third-hand. The book in question was already battered when it came into my possession. And hey, if you ever want it back, e-mail me! ![]() So if you're reading this, Madelyn, I've taken good care of your book. By the time I managed to track down her new address, she'd moved again. However, I also never returned it - shortly after the book's loan, Madelyn moved from Maryland to Oregon. Seeing me absorbed by this particular volume, she generously insisted that I borrow it for a while.Īnd then, to ensure its good care, she inscribed a curse inside the cover: "May the sidhe call he who misuses me!"īelieve me, I've taken good care of it ever since. During a brief visit to Madelyn's house, we discovered a mutual love for music. I'd known Madelyn for an hour or so before she pressed a copy of Fred and Irwin Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook into my eager hands. Fred & Irwin Silber, editors, Folksinger's Wordbook
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