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Sandburg’s poetry has been set by many American composers. Sandburg was also a folk singer, and many popular and folk bands have been influenced by his work, including Bob Dylan and Bread and Roses.
Sandburg published one of the first collections of American folk music in 1927. Entitled The American Songbag, it included 280 folk songs, many of them printed for the first time.
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Dove Sta Amore
Song CollectionJohn Musto
James Agee
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Carl Sandburg
Echo's Songs
Song CollectionDaron Aric Hagen
Anonymous
William Blake
E. E. Cummings
Benjamin Jonson
Edgar Allan Poe
Kenneth Rexroth
Carl Sandburg
Gertrude Stein
Sara Teasdale
Walt Whitman
Five Songs
Song CollectionRuth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Roy Harris
Carl Sandburg
Great Memories
Elinor Remick Warren
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Singing Earth
Home Thoughts
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Illinois Farmer
Daniel Steven Crafts
Carl Sandburg
In Tall Grass
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Three Songs
Joy
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Loam
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Lost
Daron Aric Hagen
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Maybe
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Omaha
Ernst Bacon
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Six Songs
Prayers of Steel
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Three Songs
Rat Riddles
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Three Songs
Sea Chest
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Singing Earth
Song CollectionElinor Remick Warren
Carl Sandburg
Six Songs
Song CollectionErnst Bacon
Carl Sandburg
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz
Simon Sargon
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Patterns in Blue
Summer Stars
Elinor Remick Warren
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Singing Earth
Sunsets
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Tawny Days
Elinor Remick Warren
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Singing Earth
The Hangman at Home
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
The Long Shadow of Lincoln
Stephen Paulus
Carl Sandburg
The Wind Sings Welcome
Elinor Remick Warren
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Singing Earth
Theme In Yellow
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Robert Frost
Amy Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Carl Sandburg
Three Songs
Song CollectionRuth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Under the Harvest Moon
Charles Naginski
Carl Sandburg
White Moon
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Recordings
The Opera America Songbook--Volume 1
(Mark Campbell, Richard Danielpour, Daron Aric Hagen, Lowell Liebermann, Amy Lowell, John Musto, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson)
2012
Songs of America
(William Bolcom, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Sergius Kagen, Theodore Roethke, Ned Rorem, Carl Sandburg, William Jay Smith and Gertrude Stein)
1988
Books
Sheet Music
Echo's Songs
Composer(s): Daron Aric Hagen
Song(s): 1. Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
2. I Am Not Yours
3. A Dream Within a Dream
4. Echo's Song
5. I Am Rose
6. Lost
7. Why Did You Go
8. Since You Went Away
9. Thou Wouldst Be Loved
10. Look Down, Fair Moon
11. The Mild Mother
Five Songs
Composer(s): Ruth Crawford Seeger
Song(s): 1. Home Thoughts
2. White Moon
3. Joy
4. Loam
5. Sunsets
Six Songs
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): 1. The Banks of the Yellow Sea
2. Ancient Christmas Carol
3. Omaha
4. No Dew Upon the Grass
5. A Clear Midnight
6. World, Take Good Notice
Selected Songs by Elinor Remick Warren
Composer(s): Elinor Remick Warren
Song(s): Includes Singing Earth, If You Have Forgotten, Lonely Roads, Sailing Homeward
Buy via Sheet Music PlusThree Songs
Composer(s): Ruth Crawford Seeger
Song(s): 1. Rat Riddles
2. Prayers of Steel
3. In Tall Grass