Songs & Places: Themes

Carter Family, first recording trip to Bristol Tennessee, 1927

We'll treat the following themes, week by week. The list is approximately chronological--a new theme will be presented each week in class. So heads up! The songs correspond to your S&P Songsheets (tan cover) and to the recordings on the S&P CD Download.

 

Love Songs

   Down in the Valley

   You Are My Sunshine

Spirituals

   Oh Mary Don’t You Weep

   Since I Laid My Burden Down

   Do Lord

Appalachia

   Banks of the Ohio

   Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Anglo-Irish-Scots Ballads

   Barbara Allen

   Down by the Sally Gardens  

   Comin’ thro’ the Rye

Mississippi John Hurt (Songster I)

   Beulah Land

   Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor

Lead Belly (Songster II)

   Goodnight, Irene

   Rock Island Line

Woody Guthrie (Songster III)

   This Land Is Your Land

   Going down the Road

   Roll on Columbia  

Spirituals II

   Amazing Grace

   Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Blues

   Sweet Home Chicago

   Corrine, Corrina

   Careless Love

Cowboy Songs

   Streets of Laredo

   I Ride an Old Paint

Sea Shanties

   Greenland Fisheries

   Blow Ye Winds of Morning

Love Songs

   Shenandoah

   Red River Valley