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• Blaine and Logan song book : a collection of Republican campaign songs, national songs, war songs, rallying songs, &c. adapted to the popular melodies of the day. (S. Brainard's Sons, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln campaign songster : for the use of clubs : containing all of the most popular songs. (Mason & Co., 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Granite songster : comprising the songs of the Hutchinson family, without the music. (A.B. Hutchinson ;, 1847), by Asa B. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocky Mountain song book (Du Dah & Co., 1856), by Fremont Flying Artillery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connecticut Wide-Awake Songster, ed. by John W. Hutchinson and B. Jepson (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Garfield and Arthur Campaign Song Book (Washington: Republican Congressional Committee, 1880) (page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers)
• Personal and Political Ballads, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• Personal and political ballads (G. P. Putnam, 1864), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our rude forefathers : American political verse, 1783-1788 (Torch Press, 1937), by Louie May Miner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The liberty minstrel ... (Published by the Author, 1846), by George Washington Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home, sweet home (Lee and Shepard, 1880), by John Howard Payne, Andrew, and Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blaine and Logan songster : popular campaign songs. (T. Hunter, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• South I wonder every heart (s.n., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• I'm afloat (s.n., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• White rose (s.n., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the fellowship, for use in socialist gatherings, propaganda, labor mass meetings, the home, and churches of the social faith (The Socialist literature co., 1912), by Bouck White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wearing of the Grey (A.E. Blackmar, 1865), by A. E. Blackmar, Henri Wehrmann, and Georgius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeff Davis' last ditch (Oliver Ditson & Co., 1865), by J. W. Turner and H. F. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs for freemen: a collection of campaign and patriotic songs for the people, adapted to familiar and popular melodies, and designed to promote the cause of "free speech, free press, free soil, free men, and Fremont." (H.H. Hawley, 1856), by H. H. Hawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Did you ever hear of the farmer whose cabin's in the west (Parker & Ditson, 1840), by Parker & Ditson and B.W. Thayer & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• In days of old, as we've been told (Parker & Ditson, 1840), by N. J. Sporle, Thomas Powers, and B.W. Thayer & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A health! to the farmer who follows the plough (J.G. Osbourn, 1843), by Philadelphian, Thomas S. Sinclair, M. S. Schmitz, and J. G. Osbourn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh, who will strike the recreant blow (Lee & Walker, 1851), by Charles Collins, Henry Clay, and T. Sinclair's Lith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Greenback labor songster : containing original, practical, patriotic, progressive, and stirring songs, adapted to the most popular airs ; in addition to which will be found choice and humorous readings ... (New York : D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House, [1878], 1878), by B. M. Lawrence, Archie Green, William Jarvis Wetmore, and De Robigne Mortimer Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• I.W.W. songs to fan the flames of discontent (Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. : Industrial Workers of the World, [1922 or 1923], 1922), by Archie Green, John Neuhaus, Minnie Abbott Dalton, Katie Phar, and Industrial Workers of the World (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anti-slavery melodies : for the friends of freedom (Elijah B. Gill, 1843), by Jairus Lincoln and Hingham Anti-slavery Society (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vote for Abraham : campaign song of '64 (H.L. Story, 1864), by Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier (Leo Feist, 1915), by Al Piantadosi and Alfred Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• American folksongs of protest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), by John Greenway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• We Shall Not be Moved/No Nos Moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016), by David Spener (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• American folksongs of protest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), by John Greenway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ballads of the wine mad town (The author, 1916), by Florence Wobber and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads and Other Ballads and Poems (New York: Brentano's, c1920), by Harry Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form (privately printed, 1927), ed. by Arthur Mackay (HTML at horntip.com)
• Ballads of American bravery (Silver, Burdett, 1900), by Clinton Scollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs sung by the "singing school" of the Missouri Commandery. (W. R. Hodges], 1905), by Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Missouri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classic heroic ballads (Roberts Bros., 1883), by Mary Wilder Tileston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of heroic ballads (Little, Brown and company, 1900), by Mary Wilder Tileston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tony Pastor's book of six hundred comic songs and speeches : being an entire collection of the humorous songs, stump speeches, burlesque orations and funny dialogues, as sung and given (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867), by Tony Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Put's original California songster : giving in a few words what would occupy volumes, detailing the hopes, trials and joys of a miner's life. (D. E. Appleton, 1868), by John A. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern and western songster : being a choice collection of the most fashionable songs, many of which are original. (J. Grigg, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Camp fire songs (Egan Print. Co., 1920), by Colorado Mountain Club (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traditional ballads of Virginia (Harvard University Press, 1929), by Arthur Kyle Davis and Virginia Folklore Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Picked up here and there ([Burlington, North Carolina?] : [G.D. Stutts?], [1907], 1907), by G. D. Stutts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The soldier's companion, dedicated to the defenders of their country in the field by their friends at home. (American Unitarian Association, 1865), by American Unitarian Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs for the union : a collection of patriotic, national, original, and selected songs; several of which have been written to suit the times. (A. Winch, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• War songs for community meetings (University of Texas, 1918), by Edwin Du Bois Shurter and E. D. Shurter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stars and stripes songster: original patriotic songs and marching choruses, written to popular operartic airs and well-known melodies. no. 2. (R.M. De Witt, 1864), by Henry B. Anthony and R. M. De Witt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flying cloud, and one hundred and fifty other old time songs and ballads of outdoor men, sailors, lumber jacks, soldiers, men of the Great Lakes, railroadmen, miners, etc. (The Quickprint, 1922), by Michael Cassius Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American songbag (Harcourt, Brace & company, 1927), by Carl Sandburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the free and hymns of Christian freedom (I. Knapp, 1836), by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Read 'em and weep; the songs you forgot to remember (Halcyon House, 1939), by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tony Pastor's book of six hundred comic songs and speeches : being an entire collection of the humorous songs, stump speeches, burlesque orations and funny dialogues, as sung and given (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867), by Tony Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hutchinson family's book of poetry : containing sixty-seven of their most popular songs. (S. Chism, Franklin Printing House, Hawley Street, corner Franklin, 1858), by P. X. Keating and Asa Burnham Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Dandy Pat" songster (Dick and Fitzgerald, 1866), by Will Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fred Shaw's American diadem. (R.M. De Witt, in the 1860s), by Johannsen Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

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