The Joan Baez Songbook

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This is a book of the songs Joan Baez sings on her Vanguard recordings and at her concerts. Here are sixty-six of the most haunting and beautiful folk songs and songs .in the folk vein. Many of these songs have never before appeared in print. Others have never before appeared in the version published here. The texts are full. The vocal lines and arrangements for piano and guitar have been kept as close as is possible to the way Joan Baez performs them. They have an aptness and basic simplicity which brings them within everyone's reach.
CONTENTS
LYRICS AND LAMENTS Wagoner's Lad • Man of Constant Sorrow • Lady Mary • The Water is
Wide • Black is the Color • Once 1 Had a Sweetheart • 1 Never Will
Marry • East Virginia • 1 Once Loved a Boy • Queen of Hearts • Fare
Thee Well • Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens
CHILD BALLADS Geordie • Henry Martin • Mary Hamilton • Silkie • Barbara Allen •
The Unquiet Grave • The Cherry Tree Carol • Lady Gay • House
Carpenter • Matty... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is a book of the songs Joan Baez sings on her Vanguard recordings and at her concerts. Here are sixty-six of the most haunting and beautiful folk songs and songs .in the folk vein. Many of these songs have never before appeared in print. Others have never before appeared in the version published here. The texts are full. The vocal lines and arrangements for piano and guitar have been kept as close as is possible to the way Joan Baez performs them. They have an aptness and basic simplicity which brings them within everyone's reach.
CONTENTS
LYRICS AND LAMENTS Wagoner's Lad • Man of Constant Sorrow • Lady Mary • The Water is
Wide • Black is the Color • Once 1 Had a Sweetheart • 1 Never Will
Marry • East Virginia • 1 Once Loved a Boy • Queen of Hearts • Fare
Thee Well • Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens
CHILD BALLADS Geordie • Henry Martin • Mary Hamilton • Silkie • Barbara Allen •
The Unquiet Grave • The Cherry Tree Carol • Lady Gay • House
Carpenter • Matty Groves
BROADSIDE BALLADS Once 1 Knew a Pretty Girl • Silver Dagger • The Trees They Do Grow
High • Jackaroe • Stewball • Rake and Rambling Boy • Fennario •
John Riley • Willie Moore • Railroad Boy • The Lily of the West
AMERICAN BALLADS Banks of the Ohio • Rambler Gambler • House of the Rising Sun •
AND SONGS Ranger's Command • Long Black Veil • Railroad Bill • Pretty Boy
Floyd • Copper Kettle • Wildwood Flower • Lonesome Road • Old Blue
HYMNS, SPIRITUALS All My Trials • Kumbaya • Hallowed Be Thy Name • Twelve Gates to
AND LULLABIES the City • Virgin Mary • We Are Crossing Jordan River • Somebody
Got Lost in a Storm • We Shall Overcome • Hush Little Baby • Battle
Hymn of the Republic • Amazing Grace
MODERN AND Portland Town • Danger Waters • Where Have All the Flowers Gone •
COMPOSED SONGS The Tramp on the Street • Three Fishers • Donna Donna • What Have
They Done to the Rain • Annabel Lee • Babe I'm Gonna Leave You •
Last Night 1 Had the Strangest Dream • Plaisir d'Amour
MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INTRODUCTION
BY ELIE SIEGMEISTER
PREFACE BY JOHN M. CONLY
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERIC VON SCHMIDT
THE
JOAN BAEZ S0MB00K Vissza