Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook (1988)

I grew up looking at this book and it highly speaks to me because of my love for music! :) it shares hundreds of songs and the chords to each one! Thus I can play them on the piano, ukulele, and guitar! It is a great book for a young musician.

A folk songbook with words, chords, and sources to 1200 songs designed for group singing.

1992 printing

This is a great collection of song lyrics, but I find the lack of musical notation is a major drawback. You have to already know the tunes pretty well to use this book for singing, but it's a pretty good reference even if you can't remember the tunes. ( )

Great range of songs of all sorts - but no music (except guitar chords). For an extra $200 +, you can get a set of 20 CDs with which to overcome this problem. With all these fascinating songs (& so many tunes unknown to me) it's tempting. ( )