Songs for Our Times
Learning Activities
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Songs for our Times: Resources
Library of Congress: Resources for Songs Used in the Activity
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
Casey Jones
- Casey
Jones, the Brave Engineer
1909 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.n0202))
- Casey
Jones
Textual transcription
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+casey))
- Casey
Jones
Audio file – fiddle and banjo
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+a4226b1))
- Casey
Jones
Vocal recording – Byron Collin)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+a3823b1))
- Casey
Jones
1932 vocal recording - Scroll down on this page for a link to an mp3
file. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/AnnotationsandTexts.html
- Casey
Jones
Vocal performance by Jom Holbert
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(4136a2))
- Interview
about Casey Jones
Jom Holbert talks about his version of Casey Jones
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(4136a1))
- Casey
Jones
Audio file – harmonica and guitar
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+a4225a3))
Over There
- Over
There
overview page with historical background and links to sheet music and
sound recordings http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000015/default.html
- Over
There, Over Here
Cartoon drawing
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/cd:@field(NUMBER+@band(acd+2a09737))
- Over-there
1944 cartoon drawing by Edwin Marcus
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/cd:@field(NUMBER+@band(acd+2a10518))
- If
They Can Do It Over There -- It Should Be Simple Over Here
1944 political cartoon by Clifford Berryman
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/cd:@field(NUMBER+@band(acd+2a06079))
- Over
There - Over Here
1919 educational poster
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g03807))+@field(COLLID+cph))
- Our
Country Needs Ships to Carry Our Boys "OverThere" …
1917 poster
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3g07926))+@field(COLLID+wwipos))
- Three
Wonderful Letters from Home
1918 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.a6631))
- The
Stars and Stripes
Paris, France. March 8, 1918, Vol. 1 No. 05. Advertisement on bottom
right.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgp&agg=sgpsas&iss=19180308&page=6
- Good-bye
Sally, Good Luck to You
1919 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.b0487))
- The Yanks
Are Coming!
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm085.html
Library of Congress: Additional Resources for Other Historical
Periods
Westward Expansion
Great Depression
- Sunny
California
1941 recording
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(5100a1))
- Associated
Farmers Have A Farm
1940 recording sung to the tune of Old MacDonald
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(4140b2))
- Government
Camp Song
1941 sound recording
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(5099a1))
- Fight
for Union Recognition
1940 song recording sung to the tune of I’ve Been Working on
the Railroad http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(4141a2))
Elections and Political Campaigns
- Political
Campaigns 1820-1860
Background info and links
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sm2html/sm2essay2.html
- Seymour
and Blair!
National Democratic campaign song in abc format
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.24401600
- Bourbon
Ballads
Written for the New York Tribune by W.A. Croffut. Extra No. 52
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as101480))
- Freedom's
songs! For the Campaign of 1856!
John C. Fremont. An Acrostic. 1856 song sheet
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as104140))
- Breckinridge & Lane,
Campaign Song
1860. Tune - Yankee Doodle. 1860 song sheet
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(cw200320))
- Clear
the track!
As sung by the Democratic clubs. Music- "Begone dull care!" c.1856
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.23301700
- We'll
go for Hayes and Wheeler
Air:- "Yankee Doodle" 1876 song
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.0750110a
- Tilden
and Reform
1876 song
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.a0027))
- Mr.
Harding We're All for You
1920 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.a2272))
Social Cultural Movements for Change (Suffrage, Temperance,
Prohibition)
Overview Sites
Prohibition
- Prohibition
Blues
1917 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.b0920))
- Everyone
Wants a Key to My Cellar
1919 sheet music
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.a2053))
- Goodbye,
Booze
1939 audio file
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afccc+a4218b2))
Temperance
Suffrage
Library of Congress: Additional Resources
Resources Outside of the Library of Congress
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