Lake Rhymes: Folk Songs of the Great Lakes Region Paperback – June 30, 2004

It's 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 ABC’s in the Workplace The Sailor’s Alphabet; The Lumberman’s Alphabet Chapter 4: Anthems, Songs of Celebration The Deep Blue Horizon; The Great Lakes Song Chapter 5: The Oral Tradition Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd; Shenandoah–Shenandore Chapter 6: Lament for the Lost at Sea The Persia’s Crew; Lost on the Lady Elgin Chapter 7: Tall Tales and Exaggerated Circumstances Yankee Brown; The Housewife’s 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 Bigler’s Crew; The Crack Schooner Moonlight Read more