The American Songbag

Michael J O'Brien said The American Songbag. I was looking forward to seeing this work by Sandburg. I just recently heard of the Songbag.Unfortunatly, the product offered by Amazon is an amazingly poor xerox copy of the original book. ULAN Press, who ever they are produced this book. The copy is so poor that the music is not readable sitting at the piano. The text is also out of focus and barely legible. I get a headache tring to read it.Sandburg work is amazing and I am anxious to uptain a better copy. I hope to find. One of the best compendiums of American folk music Mark J. Murdock The book itself is priceless, and one of the best of nearly original sources of American folk songs that I've ever seen. There is a newer edition of this book available (1990, from Amazon as well) and in terms of the musical material, that book is just as good. But sometimes it's very cool to have an old book on the shelf.. One American's Collection of great old songs Steven Cunningham The book appears brand new but was advertised as used. It truly is an American Classic and the songs are arranged so they can be played on piano or with an orchestra. I agree with Garrison Keilior that it would have been nice to have the guitar chords, but Sandburg only used the old stand by 3 or 4 anyway. Love it

495 page songbook with introduction and comments by Carl Sandburg.