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Title:
Music of the Alaska-Klondike gold rush : songs & history
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[compiled] by Jean A. Murray.
Publication Information:
Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, ©1999.
Physical Description:
xv pages, 440 pages of music : illustrations ; 29 cm.
ISBN:
9781889963143

9781889963136
General Note:
Principally songs with piano acc. and piano music.
Abstract:
"The heart of this book is the music talked about in diaries of the gold seekers"--Page xi.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-424) and indexes.
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Contents:
Songs and parodies by the gold seekers. Carmack song ; Just from Dawson ; The Mountie's song (Life on the ocean wave) ; Yukona ; Chilkoot march ; Banks of the Yukon (On the banks of the Wabash, far away) ; Song of the salmon (A hot time in the old town) ; The Klondike gold rush ; Wanted--my darling papa ; The old Green Mountain home ; Arctic brotherhood two-step ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; Cheechako Lil ; When the ice worms nest again -- Songs about the gold rush by professional musicians. He is sleeping in the Klondike vale tonight ; The Klondike, march of the gold miners ; In Klondyke's field of gold ; Billy Pike of Klondike ; To Klondyke we've paid our fare ; Golden nugget quick-step ; With the gold I'll bring from Klondike ; Klondike or bust! ; The man who struck it rich in Klondike ; The Klondike grand march ; The gold seeker : march and two step ; Klondyke : march and two step ; The gold hunters : march brillante ; Klondike : two-step ; Belle of the Klondike : two step ; The Washington post : march ; Dawson City dude march ; Klondyke frolic ; Klondike gold ; I've got the Klondike fever ; The belle of the Klondike (vocal) ; Rory, Bory, Alice ; In the far off Alaska clime ; Off to Klondyke ; The return from Klondyke ; On the Yukon's golden shore ; A Klondiker's sweetheart ; On the banks of the Yukon far away ; In the Klondyke ; Klondike rag -- Popular music recalled in diaries and other accounts of the gold rush. Ta-ra-ra boom-de-aye! ; Irish washerwoman ; The Irishman's shanty ; Dear Evelina, sweet Evelina ; Mountain canary ; Turkey in the straw ; Buffalo gals ; The girl I left behind me ; The miner's lament (Lilly Dale) ; Home, sweet home ; Throw out the life-line ; If you love me, darling, tell me with your eyes ; The fishermaiden ; Such a nice girl, too ; The cat came back ; She may have seen better days ; It don't seem like the same old smile ; I love you in the same old way ; She is more to be pitied than censured ; Keep a place at the table for Jack ; The flag that has never known defeat ; Marching through Georgia ; A bird in a gilded cage ; Break the news to mother ; Those wedding bells shall not ring out ; Two little girls in blue ; Sweet Marie ; Old folks at home ; Some folks ; Down went McGinty ; After the ball ; The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo ; Annie Laurie ; The beautiful blue Danube ; Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt ; Johnny Schmoker ; Let the sunshine in ; Beulah Land ; Though your sins be as scarlet ; Irish jubilee ; Just behind the times ; La donna è mobile ; Just one girl ; Sweet bunch of daisies ; Take back your gold ; You're not the only pebble on the beach ; All bound round with a woolen string ; Why don't you write a letter home ; In the baggage coach ahead ; Once in a purple twilight ; Asleep in the deep ; Boozer Brown (Bolsum Brown).
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