Since it came out in 1981 thousands of people have enjoyed and learned from the pages of The Backpocket Bluegrass Songbook. In addition to the lyrics and melody line the book also includes guitar chords tips on choosing theright key using the capo bluegrass music history information on each song and vintage photos. Includes words music and history of: A Beautiful Life All the Good Times Are Past and Gone Banks of the Ohio Bury MeBeneath the Willow Cumberland Gap Darling Cory Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky Down in the Willow Garden East Virginia Give Me the Roses Now Handsome Molly I'll Be All Smiles Tonight John Hardy Just Over in theGloryland Knoxville Girl Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Life's Railway to Heaven Little Maggie Little Log Cabin in the Lane Lonesome Road Blues Long Journey Home Lord I'm Coming Home Maple on the Hill Midnight on theStormy Deep My Home's Across the Smokey Mountains Old Joe Clark Poor Ellen Smith Pretty Polly Put My Little Shoes Away Rabbit in the Log Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms Roving Gambler Sally Goodin Seeing Nelly Home ShortLife of Trouble Sweet Sunny South The Girl I left in Sunny Tennessee When the Bees Are in the Hive Where the Soul of Man Never Dies Wildwood Flower.

Kenneth Simpson. This collection is divided into ten sections: music - learning music - times and seasons - Christmas - greetings - gusto - drollery - getting around - birds and beasts - and miscellanea. Most of the items are musically straightforward and of moderate compass. / Voix