Description
This collection of lead sheets includes history notes about each song as well as alternate versions for lever harp and pedal harps, taking into consideration harps without full levers. With this collection you’ll always have plenty of music for American holidays and plenty of options for a themed program about our great country, including a bit of history for program notes. With few exceptions, all are playable on lever harps of all sizes. Most songs include a history of the music, including dates.
Keys have been chosen with several things in mind: keys available to C and Eb tunings for lever harps, the range of therapy harps and singing range. Very often when I perform these I hear people singing or humming along so a good singing range is included for all these titles. If the original key was F, moving the piece to the key of C moves it out of the singing range for most people. Alternate keys are suggested only if the singable key is out of the range of your harp. There are sound samples below the list of titles.
America the Beautiful
Hush Little Baby
Dance to your Daddy
Bye Bye Bunting
Now the Day is Over
Rock-a-Bye-Baby
All the Pretty Little Horses
Hush Little Baby
Aura Lee
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Beautiful Dreamer
Because
Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
The Buffalo (The Banks of the Pleasant Ohio)
Careless Love
Chester
George M. Cohan
Yankee Doodle Dandy
You’re a Grand Old Flag
My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Cowboy’s Dream
Home on the Range
Streets of Laredo
Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Daisy Bell
Dixie
Hail Columbia
Home Sweet Home
Jenny Lind Polka
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
The Entertainer
I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
The Liberty Ball
Marine’s Hymn
Go Down Moses
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Goodnight Ladies
Goodnight Irene
Old Folks at Home
On Top of Old Smokey
Lakes of Pontchartrain
O Promise Me
House of the Rising Sun
The Rosary
Shenandoah
Sidewalks of New York
Simple Gifts
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
While Strolling Through the Park One Day
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
I Love You Truly
Wabash Cannon Ball
Wayfaring Stranger
Wondrous Love
Christmas Hornpipe
Yankee Doodle
Yellow Rose of Texas
Two sound files: Wondrous Love | Simple Gifts
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