Title:
Songs of the Pacific Northwest [music score]
Author:
Edition:
Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
Surrey, B.C. ; Blaine, WA : Hancock House, [2006]
©2006.
Physical Description:
1 score (208 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780888396105
General Note:
Chiefly folk songs, with historical commentary.
Words and unaccompanied melodies, with chord symbols.
Contents:
Pre-colonial times. The bold Northwestman ; The poor armourer boy ; Annexation -- Victoria, Vancouver Island. Chief Douglas's daughter ; The dredger ; Victoria Christmas song -- The Fraser River and the Cariboo gold rushes. Far from home ; The young man from Canada ; Old Faro ; Bonnie are the hurdies, O! ; Know ye the land? ; The skedaddler -- Towards Confederation. Cheer, boys, cheer for the Dominion nation ; Song of the "Dominion Boys" in B.C.
Pioneering, sod-busting and settling in. Seattle illahee (2 versions) ; Mary come home ; My name t'is Vernon Fetterly ; The old go-hungry hash house ; Klondike! ; Hip-hip-hoorah! for my native Canada! ; Pembina River homestead ; Where the great Peace River flows ; The banks of the Similkameen ; Moose hunter's blues ; Prohibition song ; Come all you coal miners -- Canada's army and navy. D'ye ken Sam Hughes? ; We are, we are, we are Canadians ; We are Sam Hughes's army ; We are the boys of the old Rainbow -- Transportation by land and water. Drill, ye tarriers, drill ; Teaming up the Cariboo road ; The wreck of the C.P. Yorke ; Where the Fraser River flows ; If I had a plane like Pattullo ; The P.G.E. song ; The Minto ; The Fort Nelson freighter's song.
Logging and sawmilling. Way up the Ucletaw ; Buck's camp down at Monroe ; The potlatch fair ; The Grand Hotel ; The greenhorn song ; Haywire outfit ; The greenchain song -- Mining : prospecting, coal and hard rock mines. Way up in the Monashee Range ; Are you from Bevan? ; Bowser's seventy-twa ; Taku miners ; Hard rock miner ; I'm only a broken-down mucker -- Fishing for salmon and halibut. The doryman ; The song of the sockeye ; Bank trollers ; The Pender Harbour fisherman ; Bring back that gill net to me -- Ranching dairy and cattle. The young British rancher ; Tying a knot in the devil's tail ; Sunset ; Hangin' in the barn -- Appendix. Sources of text, tunes, and emendations.
Language:
English