American Folk Songs for Christmas by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Barbara Cooney Woodland Journal Pub Date: March 29

Pub Date: March 29

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"How often do you literally stop and smell the roses

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American Folk Songs for Christmas by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Barbara Cooney Woodland Journal Pub Date: March 29Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to America and neatly trimmed fir trees bloomed with tinsel. These are the folk songs, the ballads that sprang from a need to express the Christmas spirit, and they are a part of our heritage. The songs are as varied as the singers who have given them