| Title | Singing soldiers / [compiled] by John J. Niles illustrated by Margaret Thorniley Williamson.
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| Published | New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1927.
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| Description | 1 score (x, 171 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
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| General Note | Songs sung by African-American soldiers during World War I; with or without piano acc.
Includes extensive historical information, in English.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Going home song -- Whale song -- Don't close dose gates -- Crap-shootin' Charley -- Diggin' -- I'm a warrior -- I don't want to go -- Lordy, turn your face -- Good-bye, Tennessee -- He's a burden-bearer -- I don't want any more France -- For I'se weary -- Ole ark -- Gimmie song -- Scratch -- The soldier man blues -- Deep-sea blues -- Chicken butcher -- Jackass song -- We wish the same to you -- Grave-diggers -- Ghost song -- Jail house -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- Long gone -- Pray for forgiveness -- Clean clothes song -- Destroyer song -- Georgia.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- Songs and music.
Folk songs, English.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music.
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| Other Authors | Niles, John Jacob, 1892-
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| LC Card Number | 27-7596 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: M 1629 M69
mq134295: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 74675] |
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