Songs & Places: Themes-W

Delta Road, oil on cardboard, 2001


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