This comprehensive collection has sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. It contains words and guitar chords to nearly 1200 songs, arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format for locating songs and working with groups. You won't find an array of songs like this anywhere else: * "Folk Revival" favorites popularized by Baez, Seeger, Collins, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dylan, Mitchell, Taylor, Donovan, and many others. * The best-known material of contemporary folk songwriters including Near, Staines, Williamson, Rogers, Bok and many more. * Broadway show tunes, Beatles songs, Motown hits * Hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards * Songs about peace, freedom, labor and the environment * Ballads, cowboy songs, shanties and blues 288 pages.
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"This is the best, most exhilarating and glorious history of the United States: a singing history. It is more than a lovely songbook--it's a play-work-fight-freedom hymnal." --Studs Terkel, author, "Hope Dies Last
--This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.