Singin' Texas by Francis Edward Abernethy

"Singin' Texas charts the lively course of folk music through Texas' past and contains the words and music for many old and newer tunes."—Texas Magazine, Houston Chronicle

"This book is worth every penny of the price tag. . . . It is a real joy . . . finding songs which one has known or heard throughout one's lifetime."—Karl E. Snyder, The Cattleman

"The sorrows and hardships of settlers, surges of patriotism . . . religious fervor at old-fashioned dinners-on-the-ground and love grown cold are popular subjects that Texans have sung about more than a century. . . . They're all her in beautiful layout and captivating pictures. . . . Stories behind the songs are interesting, revealing as they do the Texas temperament and emotional climate."—Louise Gregg, Wichita Falls Times

"Ab" Abernethy, Secretary/Editor of the Texas Folklore Society, says "I've come by most of the songs in Singin' Texas honestly. That is, they are either songs I've grown up and lived with or they are songs that I have collected from folks who have. . . . [These are] the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework."

This popular publication of the Texas Folklore Society is now available again.

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Singin' Texas
+ ISBN 0-929398-71-8 paper $29.95s

LC 93-39616. 8½x11. 183 pp. 92 song reproductions. 52 b&w photos.
Folklore. Performing Arts. Music.

Publication Date: February 1994.

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