Lake Rhymes: Folk Songs of the Great Lakes Region

About this book

Its a songbook with a new 18-song CD musical scores for all 18 songs historic photos maps and illustrations stories behind the songs and ideas for teachers to use this music in history English and geography classes. The 71-minute CD comes packaged inside the 146-page book. Softcover. The songs are arranged in pairs two songs in each chapter: Chapter 1: Towpaths Through History The Erie Canal; The Illinois and Michigan Canal Chapter 2: Heaving and Hauling and Singing Haul Away Joe; Rolling Home Chapter 3: The ABCs in the Workplace The Sailors Alphabet; The Lumbermans Alphabet Chapter 4: Anthems Songs of Celebration The Deep Blue Horizon; The Great Lakes Song Chapter 5: The Oral Tradition Follow the Drinkin Gourd; ShenandoahShenandore Chapter 6: Lament for the Lost at Sea The Persias Crew; Lost on the Lady Elgin Chapter 7: Tall Tales and Exaggerated Circumstances Yankee Brown; The Housewifes Lament Chapter 8: The Ballad Classic Stories in Song The Red Iron Ore (E.C. Roberts); The Christmas Ship (featuring underwater photos of the Rouse Simmons in Lake Michigan) Chapter 9: Off to the Races The Biglers Crew; The Crack Schooner Moonlight