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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #498508 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-28
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Spiral-bound
- 288 pages
Customer Reviews
Don't leave home without it.
Invaluable. This has all the best English language folk music, plus some highlights from other languages. Two hundred and eighty-one pages, averaging several songs per page.
The indexes are jewels in and of themselves: the songs are indexed by title, first line, ethnicity, subject, and writer (or major artist associated with the song). The songs themselves are organized according to broad subject: the Sea, Struggle, Women, Love, and so forth.
There are a few inaccuracies, some in the words, a few more in the guitar chords. Also, some of the chords are simplified, which I suppose is reasonable but can be a little annoying. Finally, some of the songs marked as Anonymous (Wabash Cannonball, for example) simply weren't researched hard enough, and there are a couple of misattributions as well. However, these complaints are piddling compared to the overall quality of the book.
This is the book I bring with me if I can't bring a bunch of books but think I might be doing some singing. If there were a version I could load into my PDA, I'd cheerfully take this thing everywhere I went.
Rise Up Singing is, to my knowledge, the only music book ever to have a song written ABOUT it. And, well, it deserves it
The best Source songbook ever!
This book is a must for anyone interested in popular/folk/acoustic music. As an acoustic guitarist/singer it has proved invaluable to me. it has more songs than you can ever hope to play and sing. If you are going to buy a songbook make it this one!
The best song book I always wished I had!
This book has, it seems, it all! All the words to all those fun songs that I have heard, sang when I was a kid, that my dad sang when he was a kid, and more. I really felt I had found a jewel when I found this at the library and now of course am rushing to have my own copy.
