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USA CULTURE THROUGH SONGS
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Across the USA
- The Land and its resources
- This Land Is Your Land1 (X) | 2 (X)
- Mighty Mississippi
(X)
- Rivers of Texas
(X)
- Heartland
(X)
- Allegheny Moon
- Oh, Shenandoah [river]
- Lake Erie
- Delaware River
(X)
- Range (Kansas) - Home, Home on the Range (X)
- Prairies - Don't Fence Me In (X)
- Ridin' Down the Canyon - - Arlo Guthrie (X)
- Chesapeake Gold
(X)
- Red River Valley (X) [between Oklahoma and Texas] [between Minnessota and Dakotas to Lake Winnipeg]
- Halley's Comet
(X)
- Dixie's Land (X)
- Piney Wood Hills
(X)
- The People and Their Regional Work
- Sailor's Alphabet
(X)
- Call Me the Whale
(X)
- Stormalong
(X)
- The Coal Baron's Song
(X)
- Coal Town Road
(X)
- Coal Tattoo
(X)
- Come All Ye Coal Miners
(X)
- West Virginia Mining Disaster
(X)
- Mike Fink (X) [on the Mississippi River]
- The Lumberman's Alphabet
(X)
- Stereotypes - cowboys - Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
- The West - -Old Bill Pickett
- Cowboys - Jesse James
- Buffalo Skinners (X)
- Homestead Strike
(X)
- The Mill Worker
(X)
- American Labor Song - - Twelve Hundred More
- Sioux Indians
(X)
- Migrant Song
(X)
- Apple Picker's Reel
(X)
- Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
- Deportees - Arlo Guthrie (X)
- Historical Events
- Valley Forge
(X)
- Constitution and the Guerriere
(X)
- Cumberland and the Merrimac
(X)
- The Cumberland's Crew
(X)
- Battle of New Orleans [Mississippi River]
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
(X)
- Just Before the Battle Mother (X)
- Civil War - Sinking of the Alabama (X)
- Battleship of Maine
(X)
- The influences of man
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Galveston Flood
(X)
- Mining 49ers (California )- Clementine (X)
- Goldmining - Acres of Clams (X)
- Plantation life - Ring Ring the Banjo (X)
- Jump Down Turn Around and Pick a Bale of Cotton (X)
- Just Before the Battle (X)
- Civil War - Sinking of the Alabama (X)
- Blowin' in the Wind
- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
- Movement
- Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
- Coming to America - Neil Diamond
- No Irish Need Apply
(X)
- I've Been Everywhere [USA cities]
- King of the Road
- It's Nice to Go Trav'ling
- City of New Orleans - - Arlo Guthrie (X)
- Pioneer westward - - Sweet Betsy of Pike
- Follow the Drinking Gourd1 (X) | Follow the Drinking Gourd2
(X)
- The Old Chisholm Trail (cattle drive - San Antonio to Dodge City, KS)
- Coming 'Round the Mountain (X)
- See the USA in a Chevrolet - Dinah Shore
- Amtrak Song
(X)
- Hudson River Steamer
(X)
- Barges
(X)
- Enjoyment
- Ragtime - Alexander's Ragtime Band (X)
- It Might As Well Be Spring (similes and metaphors)
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(X)
Patriotic Songs
- Star-Spangled Banner (X)
- America, the Beautiful
- America
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (X)
- Civil War - When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
- Civil War - When Sherman Marched Down to the Sea
- U. S. Marines - From the Halls of Montezuma (X)
- You're in the Army Now (X)
- Navy - Anchors Away
- Army Air Corps - Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
- Mohawk Valley - Red River Valley (X)
The States
Alabama
- Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Oh, Susannah
Alaska
- Song of the Sockeye [salmon]
Arizona
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix (X)
California
- California, Here I Come (X) [melody]
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
- Do You Know the Way to San Jose? - Dionne Warwick (X)
- Little Old Lady from Pasadena
Colorado
- Colorado
- Colorado Rocky Mountain High + John Denver songs
(Old folks at Home) by Stephen Foster
Georgia
- Georgia on My Mind
- Midnight Train to Georgia
Hawaii
- Blue Hawaii
- Hawaiian chants
Illinois
- There'll Be A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
- Illinois State Song (X)
- Chicago
Indiana
- On the banks of the Wabash, far away
- Indiana - Back Home Again in Indiana
- Wabash Cannonball
- Casey Jones
Kansas
- Abilene
- Home on the Range (KS)
- Half Kansas Moon - Swingin' Haymakers
- You're not in Kansas anymore - Jo Dee Messina
- Kansas Girl
- Wichita Lineman (X)
- I'm Going to Kansas City, Kansas City Here I Come (Herman's Hermits)
Kentucky
- My Old Kentucky Home (X)
- I Can Hear Kentucky Calling Me - Bill Monroe
- Kentucky - Osborne Brothers
- Readin', Writin' and Route 23 - Dwight Yoakam
- Kentucky - Gail Davies
- Kentucky Thunder - Ricky Skaggs
- Paradise - John Prine (strip mining)
- Blue Kentucky Girl - Emmylou Harris
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
Louisiana
- Battle of New Orleans [Mississippi River]
- Give Me Louisiana - Louisiana Historical and Cultural Information.
- Cajun songs - "Louisiana Saturday night" -Mel McDaniel and Jimmy C. Newman
- Louisiana Man - Flying Burrito Brothers
- Leavin' Louisiana in the broad daylight - Emmylou Harris
- Louisiana 1929 - Aaron Neville (written by Randy Newman) (a flood)
- Crawfish
- Jambalaya (X)
Massachusetts
- Boston Harbor
(X)
- Boston's subway system - Charley on the MTA (X)
- The Granite Mill Fire [Fall River]
- Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie (Stockbridge, MA)
- No More Fish, No Fisherman
- Cape Cod Girls (X)
- Blow Ye Winds in the Morning - - Boston, Come Ye All
- Young Ladies in Town [Rev. War period]
- Massachusetts - - Arlo Guthrie (X)
- Sweet Baby James - James Taylor [Stockbridge, Boston, and the Berkshires]
- Massachusetts by Scud Mountain Boys
- Woodstock by Joni Mitchell
Mississippi
- Go Mississippi
- Mississippi Moon
- Tupelo Blues
Missouri
- Meet Me in St. Louis (X)
- Missouri Waltz
- St. Louis Blues March
Montana
- Montana
- The Gift - Ian Tyson [splendor of Montana.]
Nebraska
- Beautiful Nebraska
- Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
Nevada
- Home Means Nevada - Bertha Raffetto.
- Viva, Las Vegas
New Mexico (X)
- O Fair New Mexico - (X)
- New Mexico - John and Audrey Wiggins
- Indigo Moon (X)
New Jersey
- Under the Boardwalk - - the Drifters
New York
- Erie Canal [opened in 1825 from Albany to Buffalo]
- Captain Billy and the Whale (George Ward) [Erie Canal]
- Sidewalks of New York (X)
- New York, New York
North Carolina
- Carolina on my Mind
(X)
- Carolina in the Pines - - Michael Martin Murphey
- Carolina - - Charlie Daniels
- In My Mind I'm Going to Carolina - - James Taylor
- Goodbye to Carolina - - Lyle Lovett
- Heads Carolina, Tails California - - Jo Dee Messina
North Dakota
- North Dakota - - Lyle Lovett
- Red River Valley - - Alberta Slim & the X Ranch Boys
Ohio
- Beautiful Ohio
- Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Borderline - - Vince Gill
- Oklahoma Hills - - Jack Guthrie (X)
- Oklahoma Going Home - - Kate Wolf on Back Roads
- Okie from Muskogee
- Oklahoma - - Rodgers & Hammerstein
Oregon
- Oregon, My Oregon
- Roll on Columbia - Woody Guthrie
Pennsylvania
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania
- Allentown - Billy Joel [factory closings and broken dreams.]
Rhode Island
- Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Is Famous for You - Dietz and Schwartz [1948 musical called "Inside USA"]
Tennessee
- My homeland, Tennessee
- When it's iris time in Tennessee
- My Tennessee
- Tennessee Waltz
- Rocky Top Tennessee
- Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- The Ballad of Davey Crockett (Tom Blackburn and George Burns)
- Fly Eagle Fly
- Follow Me to Tennessee - - Ed Bruce
- My Tennessee Mountain Home - - Dolly Parton
- Tennessee Homesick Blues - - Dolly Parton
- Tennessee - - Glen Campbell
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- The Boll Weevil [Memphis]
- Horses - - Tennessee Stud
- Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller
Texas
- Boll Weevil (TX)
- Deep in the Heart of Texas (X)
- Red River Valley (X)
- Galveston
- Galveston Flood
(X)
- San Antonio Rose
- Streets of Laredo
(X) (Cowboy's Lament)
- Yellow Rose of Texas1 (X) | Yellow Rose of Texas2
(X)
- Rivers of Texas
(X)
- Cotton-Eyed Joe (X)
- The Eyes of Texas are Upon You (X)
Utah
- Utah, We Love Thee
- Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Virginia
- Shenandoah
- Virginia - Page Wilson
- I Love the Mountains of Virginia - Statler Brothers
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginia (X)
- Manassa Junction
- John Brown's Body
- Railroading - The Wreck of Old 97 (X)
Washington
- Roll on Columbia [Columbia River]
Washington, DC
- Nothing as Original as You - - Statler Brothers, The Originals
Tour of the attractions of the nation's capital.
West Virginia
- The West Virginia Hills (X)
- This Is My West Virginia
- West Virginia, My Sweet Home
- Country Roads1 - John Denver
- The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia (X) - Emmylou Harris
- West Virginia, My Home - - Hazel Dickens
- West Virginia Mining Disaster
(X)
- John Henry (railroad steel driver)
- Battle of Shiloh Hill
- Get Up and Bar the Door
Wisconsin
- On Wisconsin
- Away to Wisconsin
(X)
Wyoming
- Wyoming
- Take Me Back to Old Wyoming - - Chris LeDoux
- Song of Wyoming - - John Denver
- My Sweet Wyoming Home - - Bill Staines
Across the World
- Hiroshima
(X)
- Bay of Fundy
(X)
- 1853 - Greenland Whale Fisheries (X)
- Intolerance - Listen, Mr. Bigot (X)
- Bound to Australia
(X)
- Places for songs (X)
Songbook resources:
- All American Patriotic Songbook [sheet music]
- American Folksongs & Spirituals [sheet music]
- Songs of America - David Ewen
- A Calvacade of Popular Songs
- Songs of America (videocassette) (See and Sing)
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