500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics500首最受欢迎歌曲的歌词

1998-10  

Dover Pubns  

Ronald Herder  

403  

"What are the words to that song?" is a common question, and trying hopelessly to remember a nagging, half-finished phrase can sometimes be enough to drive a person over the edge. It's a situation that 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, collected and edited by Ronald Herder, attempts to rectify. From "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" (by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan, 1914) to "Zum Gali Gali" (Israeli work song), it covers scads of folk songs, hymns, and old-time show tunes. In the case of songs with multiple versions, Herder has chosen, as he puts it in his introduction, "the text that is most memorable, that captures the spirit of the original song the way we remembered it, that is truly 'best-loved.'" However, if the lyrics you're trying to remember are from a tune along the lines of "Proud Mary" or the theme song from the Brady Bunch, you're out of luck: in keeping with Dover Publications' standard practice, all of the included words are out of copyright, and that means they must be over 50 years old. But for Christmas carols, patriotic songs (you'll find all four verses of "The Star-Spangled Banner"), folk music, and the kind of old-time popular songs that accompany vintage cartoons from Disney and Warner Bros., this is a very useful little collection. The index is in the front, and all the songs are arranged alphabetically. One caveat: although several songs in foreign languages are provided, translations are not. (So what does "Zum Gali Gali" mean, anyway? You'll have to seek the answer elsewhere.) --Sarah Bryan Miller.

A Aba Daba Honeymoon, The A-B-C-D (see The Alphabet Song) Abide with Me Ach, du Lieber Augustin Across the Wide Missouri(see Shenandoah) Adeste Fideles(see 0 Come, All Ye Faithful) After the Ball After You've Gone Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life Ah! Vous Diraioje, Maman Alexander's Ragtime Band Alice Blue Gown All God's Children Got Shoes All Night, All Day All Through the Night Alouette Alphabet Song, The Amazing Grace America (My Country! 'Tis of Thee) America the Beautiful Anchors Aweigh Angels, from the Realms of Glory Angels We Have Heard on High Annabel Lee Annie Laurie Ash Grove, The As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo Asleep in the Deep At a Georgia Campmeeting(A Song in Black) Au Clair de la Lune Auld Lang Syne Aupres de Ma Blonde Aura Lea Ave Maria Away in a MangerB Baa! Baa! Black Sheep Ballin' the Jack Bamba, La Band Played On, The Barbara Allen Battle Cry of Freedom, The Battle Hymn of the Republic Beautiful Dreamer Beautiful Isle of Somewhere Beautiful Ohio Because Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms Belle of Av'noo "A," The Bells of St. Mary's, The Be My Little Baby Bumblebee Bicycle Built for Two, A(see Daisy Bell) Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? Billy Boy Bird in a Gilded Cage, A Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair Blow the Man Down Blue Bells of Scotland, The Blue Tail Fly, The(see Jim Crack Corn) Boar's Head Carol, The Bobby Shaftoe Bowery, The Brahms' Lullaby ("Wiegenlied") Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heav'nly Light Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella Bringing in the Sheaves Brother, Come and Dance with Me Buffalo Gals By the Beautiful Sea By the Light of the Silvery MoonC Caissons Go Rolling Along, The Campbells Are Comin', The ……

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