D. "Stephen Foster for the Mountain Dulcimer”
Fifty-eight of America’s Troubadour’s finest compositions including lesser and well known Foster songs of the 1800’s. The companion CD contains thirty-three of the tunes in the book with guitar and banjo accompaniment to the lap dulcimer. The spiral bound book contains melody line in standard notation with chords and tablature for the mountain dulcimer mostly in DAD tuning (some in DAA and DGD). It is geared for the experienced beginner up to the intermediate/advanced player.
Tunes include: Angelina Baker, Beautiful Dreamer, Better Times are Coming, Comrades Fill No Glass for Me, De Camptown Races, Dolly Day, Don’t Bet Your Money on De Shanghai, Down Among the Cane Breaks, Ellen Bayne, Fairy Belle, Farewill My Lilly Dear, Gentle Lena Clare, Give the Stranger Happy Cheer, Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, Glendy Burk, Happy Hours at Home, Hard Times Come Again No More, I’ll Be a Soldier, I’ll Be Home Tomorrow, If You’ve Only Got a Moustache, Irene, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Jenny June, Jenny’s Coming O’er the Green, Kissing in The Dark, Little Belle Blair, Little Jenny Dow, Lou’siana Belle, Lula is Gone, Maggie By My Side, Mary Loves the Flowers, Merry Merry Month of May, Molly Dear Good Night, Molly Do you Love Me?, My Old Kentucky Home, Nelly and I, Nelly Bly, Nelly was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel, Old Black Joe, Old Dog Tray, Old Folks at Home, Old Memories, Open Thy Lattice Love, Ring De Banjo, Slumber My Darling, Song of All Songs, Summer Longings, Susanna, Sweet Little Maid of the Mountain, That’s What’s the Matter, The Hour for Thee and Me, Tioga Waltz, Under the Willow She’s Sleeping, Virginia Belle, We are Coming Father Abraam 300,000 More, Willie My Brave, Willie We Have Missed You.