The American Songbag
The American Songbag is an anthology of American folksongs compiled by the poet Carl Sandburg and published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1927. It was enormously popular[1] and was in print continuously for more than seventy years.[2] Melodies from it were used in Alec Wilder's Names from the War (1961).
According to the musicologist Judith Tick: