Music from "Little House in the Big Woods" and "Farmer Boy", Laura's Music 1

In her famous Little House series of eight books Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) loosely traces her family's history through episodes located in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota over a period from 1867 to 1885. Embedded in the stories are references to 127 separate songs and tunes. Surely, few if any books in American literature of comparable standing and popularity feature America's common, vernacular music so centrally, assign it such a major narrative role, and index it in such rich abundance. This set of seven songbooks presents all of the songs mentioned in each book, with chapter references cited for each song. While the majority of the works are songs with piano accompaniment, a wide variety of other styles of music are also represented, including hymns, fiddle tunes, children's songs, and part-songs, all carefully edited by Dale Cockrell from contemporaneous American prints or early folksong collections. Contents of this volume: This songbook contains all the pieces mentioned in Little House in the Big Woods and Farmer Boy (except one lost fiddle tune), including: Am I a Soldier of the Cross? The Arkansas Traveler Auld Lang Syne Buffalo Gals Captain Jinks Darling Nelly Gray The Devil's Dream Home! Sweet Home! The Irish Washerwoman Kitty Wells Money Musk Old Grimes Pop Goes the Weasel Rock of Ages The Star Spangled Banner Susanna Uncle Ned Yankee Doodle