New York Sings

Musicologist Jerry Silverman is one of America's outstanding folksingers and guitar teachers. He has published numerous folksong collections, anthologies, and method books for guitar, banjo, and fiddle, including The Baseball Songbook, The Guitarist's Guide and Almanac, Jerry Silverman's Folksong Encyclopedia, Ballads and Songs of the Civil War, and Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust. He has taught hundreds of people, young and old, the joys of making music on the guitar, and has performed in folksong concerts at schools, universities, and concert halls in the United States and abroad. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

"…a history of New York like no other." — 410Media.com"…a top pick for those who want to embrace [New York's] history through song." — Wisconsin Bookwatch"A great collection! Since the Dutch days in New Amsterdam, songs accompanied wars, elections, social movements, great events, as well as children's games and lovers courting. And songs are still being made up, even if they don't always get on radio or TV. Jerry Silverman is to be congratulated for getting so many in one book." — Pete Seeger

• ForewordOn A Personal NoteAN INVITATION TO NORTH AMERICA: Early New York Halve Maen/Half MoonEindelijk Onderweg/Underway at LastLand In Zicht/Land in SightAn Invitation to North AmericaCaptain KiddA Song Made upon the Election of New Magistrates for This CityA Song Made upon the Foregone OccasionYankee DoodleTHE RIFLE: New York at WarNathan HaleThe Rifle The Battle of Saratoga SpringsMad Anthony WayneBrave Paulding and the SpyYe Parliament of EnglandThe Patriotic DiggersErie and ChamplainAbraham's DaughterThe Death of Col. Elmer E. EllsworthBrownell, the Gallant ZouaveAs I Went Down to Port JervisPat Murphy of The Irish BrigadeThe Shoddy Cloth ContractorNew York 7th RegimentThat's What's the MatterThe Fighting Sixty-NinthGoodbye Broadway, Hello FranceNew York, New York, I Love YouOver ThereELECTION SONGS: We'll Beat 'Em Sixteen to One  Little VannyTippecanoe and Tyler TooFarmer GreeleyHold the Fort for TildenTammanyHooray for Bill McKinley and That Brave Rough Rider TedWe Want Teddy for Four Years MoreGood by! Teddy, You Must March! March! March!Everybody Loves Our AlBye Bye Landon, Goodbye!That's Why We're Voting for RooseveltRepublican Battle HymnA TRIP ON THE RIVER:  New York Waterways  The Hudson River Come-All-YeHudson River SteamboatSailing Up My Dirty StreamSailing Down My Golden RiverWhen the Clearwater Sails On ByA Trip on the RiverThe Meeting of the WatersThe E-ri-e CanalThe Raging Can-allA Trip on the ErieFifteen Years on the Erie CanalTO COME TO AMERICA: The Immigrant's Experience  Kesl Gardn/Castle GardenElis Ayland/Ellis IslandShikt A Tiket/Send a TicketLebn Zol Kolumbus/Long Life to ColumbusNew Yorker Trern/The Tears of New YorkDi Grine Kuzine/The Greenhorn CousinBantookhd Ar Groong/The Migrant to the CraneNun Ist Die Scheidestunde Da/The Hour of Parting Now Is HereO Yero Amerikanos/The Old AmericanAmerikansk Humbug/American HumbugThe Seven IrishmenNo Irish Need ApplyPaddy Works on the RailwayThe Bluestone QuarriesDall' Italia Noi Siamo Partiti/When from Italy We Did Take Our LeaveJechał Jeden Polak/A Pole Was TravelingAmerikavisan/America SongMoyi Mamtsia Doma/My Mother Is at HomeV Hameritsi Brama Maliuvana/In America's a Golden PortalProblema Social/Social Problem 158 Proschai, Rossiya/Farewell, O RussiaThe New ColossusTo Come to AmericaALL AROUND THE TOWN: New York City New York: O What a Charming CityCan't You Dance the Polka?The Knickerbocker LineI Love the Heights of BrooklynMichael RoyThe Regular Army, Oh!Jim FiskWeeping for Lost OnesBarrel of Porter at Tammany HallThe Freight-Handlers' StrikeThe Highway in the AirThe BoweryThe Sidewalks of New YorkThe Brooklyn Trolley StrikeOnly a Bowery BoyThe DesperadoMy Ann Elizer—The "Rag Time Girl"Mary Ellen Simpkins' BikeEverything Is Lovely on the BoweryTillie Tootie—The Coney Island BeautyJay Gould's DaughterGive My Regards to BroadwayThere's Only One Little Old New YorkI've Made My Plans for the SummerI Saw It in the B.R.T.Down in Dear Old Greenwich VillageWhy Do They All Take the Night Boat to Albany?Harlem BluesGeorge Washington BridgeI WALK THE ROAD AGAIN: New York State La Fayette's WelcomeNiagaraBenny Havens', Oh!Come, Life, Shaker LifeSimple GiftsBig Bill SnyderSing SingBuffalo GalsThe Murdered PedlarThe MontaukersBlue Mountain LakeJoe ThomasI Walk the Road AgainNiagara FallsLet Us All Speak Our MindsThe LeathermanHans and KatrinaBonny EloiseThe Bright Mohawk ValleyIn TarrytownThe City by the Dear Old GeneseeWhite House BluesOn Lake ChamplainThe New Hamburg ClockbackTAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME: New York Baseball Hurrah for Our National GameOur Noble Giant Nine!Steal! Slide! Anyway!McGuffin's Home RunTold between TicksSlide, Kelly, Slide!Take Me Out to the Ball GameI Can't Miss That Ball GameOh You, Babe RuthIndex of Song TitlesIndex of Composers and LyricistsIndex of First Lines