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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook

Phil Ochs (Contributor), Utah Phillips (Contributor), Woody Guthrie (Contributor), Pete Seeger (Introduction by), Annie Patterson (Editor), and Peter Blood (Editor)
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781881322122
Publisher: Sing Out
Release Date: 2004-11-01
ITEM OVERVIEW
Words, chords, and sources for 1,200 songs! The songbook! Easily indexed by author, title, type. You'll find everyone from Leonard Cohen to Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan to Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie to Malvina Reynolds. Hymns, spirituals, sea shanteys—songs about peace, freedom, labor, struggle, the environment, and so much more. What a book! Includes a foreword from Pete Seeger, who, of course, has several contributions. Ring-bound for easier use.
"Worth devouring by all those who love to sing." —Joan Baez
"This is the best, most exhilarating and glorious history of the United States: a singing history. It is more than a lovely songbook—it's a play-work-fight-freedom hymnal." —Studs Terkel