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Country and Western Songbook
Country and Western Songbook
Author: Robert Dolezal (Editor)
The book is a compendium of country and western songs from the turn of the century to the present. You will find the parlor songs of the 1900's, the first commercial favorites of the 1920's, the railroading and prison songs so popular in the '30s, the lost love and cheating songs of the '40s, the ballads and rockabilly hits of th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780895771476
ISBN-10: 0895771470
Publication Date: 5/1/1983
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Readers Digest
Book Type: Hardcover
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Easy to moderate arrangements for keyboard, guitar and voice. Although a hardback book, the pages are spiral bound so that book remains open for playing. A separate small lyric booklet accompanies the songbook.
Section 1 contains the most-loved Hank Williams Hits including Lovesick Blues, Your Cheatin' Heart, Cold, Cold Heart, and more.
Section 2 contains newer Country Classics including Lucille, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Delta Dawn, and others.
In Section 3 are Country Hits of the '60s, Welcome to My World, Gentle on My Mind, Flowers on the Wall, El Paso, My Last Date, and more.
Section 4 has Country Hits of the '50s including Singing the Blues, Release Me, I Can't Stop Loving You, Fraulein, Send Me the Pillow You Dream On, Blue Suede Shoes, If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time), and I Don't Hurt Anymore, among others.
Section 5 is filled with Golden Memories of the '40s: Jealous Heart, Tennessee Waltz, Slipping Around, Cigareetes, Whusky and Wild, Wild Women, I Love You So Much It Hurts, Any Time, Beautiful Brown Eyes, Pistol Packin' Mama, Candy Kisses and more.
Section 6 is filled with Western Classics such as Wagon Wheels, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Don't Fence Me In, Back in the Saddle Again and others.
Section 7 has the All-Time Old-Time Classics such as Are You from Dixie?,
When It's Springtime in the Rockies, In the Jailhouse Now, Orange Blossom Special, The Wabash Cannonball, I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, and more.
Section 8 is entitled The Touch of God's Hand and has that song, plus Wings of a Dove, His Hands, and several others.


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