Dulcimer Songbook: Bluegrass Classics

Thomas Balinger Dulcimer Songbook Bluegrass Classics 60 popular American Songs arranged for dulcimer in standard mixolydian tuning D-A-D (6 1/2 fret models, TAB fret numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 6+ 7). Progressively graded from simple melody playing on one or two strings to easy fingerpicking arrangements of 10 popular songs, this collection is aimed at the beginning player. Plus chord symbols, dulcimer and guitar chord diagrams and a collection of strumming patterns for song accompaniment. Songs: 1. A beautiful life 2. A cowboy’s life 3. Acres of clams 4. A horse named Bill 5. All the good times are past and gone 6. All the good times are past and gone (Arr.) 7. Angel Band 8. Arkansas Traveler 9. Beautiful brown eyes 10. Billy the kid 11. Blood on the saddle 12. Boil them cabbage down 13. Boil them cabbage down (Arr.) 14. Carry me back to old Virginny 15. Colorado trail 16. Come all ye fair and tender ladies 17. Come all ye fair and tender ladies (Arr.) 18. Cotton-eyed Joe 19. Cumberland Gap 20. Danville girl 21. Dink’s Song 22. Dink’s Song (Arr.) 23. Don’t this road look rough and rocky 24. Down the road 25. Down to the river to pray 26. Drifting too far from the shore 27. East Virginia Blues 28. Engine 143 29. Erie Canal 30. Foggy mountain top 31. Footprints in the snow 32. Frankie and Johnny 33. Git along little dogies 34. Goin’ across the mountain 35. Goin’ across the mountain (Arr.) 36. Going down this road 37. House of the Rising Sun 38. I ain’t gonna work tomorrow 39. I’m sad and I’m lonely 40. I never will marry 41. I never will marry (Arr.) 42. In the pines 43. I ride an old Paint 44. Jack of diamonds 45. Jesse James 46. John Hardy 47. Little Bessie 48. Little Bessie (Arr.) 49. Long journey home 50. Long journey home (Arr.) 51. Make me down a pallet 52. Midnight on the stormy deep 53. Midnight train 54. Molly and Tenbrooks 55. My home’s across the smoky mountains 56. New river train 57. Nine pound hammer 58. Old Dan Tucker 59. Pretty Polly 60. Roving gambler 61. Salty dog Blues 62. Salty dog Blues (Arr.) 63. Shady Grove 64. Shortnin’ bread 65. Soldier’s joy 66. Sweet bye and bye 67. Sweet bye and bye (Arr.) 68. Way down the Old Plank Road 69. Wildwood flower 70. Wreck of the old 97