Contents
Introduction 1. The Windfall to the early 19th-century English melody "Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries" 2. Joy Will Keep Us a Christmas carol 3. The Long Grass to the 19th-century Scottish lament "Mist-Covered Mountains of Home" 4. He Will Wake to the Fire to the 1835 shape-note melody "The Babe of Bethlehem" 5. The Reason for the Light adapted from the 1860 parlor song "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" 6. My House Is an Orchestra to the 1701 longways dance "The Bishop of Bangor's Jig" 7. The Faeries' Farewell to the 1803 Shetland fiddle tune "Winyadepla" 8. The Western Gate to the sentimental 18th-century Irish melody "Snowy Breasted Pearl" 9. The Rain and Wind to the 18th-century Appalachian folk tune "The Golden Vanity" 10. Suzanne Asleep a pop song 11. The Dean in the End Will Rise to the scurrilous 1720 broadside "Duke Upon Duke" 12. Dream, Pretty Baby a lullaby 13. The Only Hurry Is Our Own to Michael Praetorius' 1612 Italian dance "Courante 183" 14. My Love Sees the Rain to the 18th-century Appalachian plaint "Pretty Saro" 15. The Apple Revels to the possibly 18th-century "Gower Wassail" 16. Down by the Greenwood to the 17th-century English ballad "Henry Martin" 17. Holdin' On a country-western song 18. The Rose Once Cut for Me to the 18th-century French folk tune "Sur les Bords de la Loire" 19. Such Joys Our Savior Brings to the 1871 Christmas anthem "Listen, Lordings, Unto Me" 20. Wherever She May Be a Nashville song 21. The Children to the late-medieval English ballad "Sir Lionel and the Boar" 22. The Lilac and the Rose a ballad 23. The Second Spring to the 13th-century Galician-Portuguese cantiga "Des Oge Mais" Appendix: The Soundtracking of America