Sing Out, Sweet Land!

• Original Broadway Production (1944)
  New York, NY
• Theatre Guild on the Air Radio Broadcast (1945)

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Original score

• Who Is the Man?
• As I Was Going Along
• Way Down the Ohio
• Mountain Whippoorwill
• Country Dance
• When I Was Single
• Foggy, Foggy Dew
  • aka The Foggy Dew [no note]
• Hardly Think I Will
• The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
  • aka The Farmers Curst Wife [no note]
• Little Mohee
• Oregon Trail
• Oh Susannah
  • aka Oh! Susanna [no note]
  • aka Oh, Susannah [no note]
• Springfield Mountain
  • aka On Springfield Mountain [no note]
• Hammer Ring
• Watermelon Cry
• You Better Mind
• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
• The Roving Gambler
• Louisiana Gals
• Camptown Races
• Frankie and Johnnie
  • aka Frankie and Johnny [alternate title]
• Polly Wolly Doodle
• Cap't Jinks
  • aka Captain Jinks [no note]
• Blue Tail Fly
  • aka Jimmy Crack Corn [no note]
  • aka The Blue-Tail Fly [no note]
• Marching Down This Road
  • aka I'm Goin' Down the Road [no note]
• Casey Jones
• Rock Candy Mountain
  • aka Big Rock Candy Mountain [no note]
• I Have Been a Good Boy
• Wanderin'
  • aka Wand'rin' [no note]
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
• Jesse James
• While Strolling Through the Park One Day
• Bicycle Built for Two
  • aka Daisy Bell [no note]
  • aka Daisy, Daisy [no note]
• Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
• Hot Time in Old Town
• Trouble, Trouble
• By the Sea
• Come Josephine
• Maxixe
• Funny Bunny Hug
• Temptation Rag
• Hey, Mr. Bossman
• Basement Blues
• Some of These Men
• I've Got Rhythm
  • aka I Got Rhythm [no note]
• At Sundown
• My Blue Heaven
• Yes Sir, That's My Baby
  • aka Yes Sir, She's My Baby! [no note]
• The Charleston
• Sea Chanty
• Where
• More Than These

An anthology revue traces American life through the songs people sang, as a salute to American folk and popular music. Scenes move from colonial towns and frontier cabins to factory floors and city parks, each introduced by narration and verse. Traditional ballads (“Foggy, Foggy Dew,” “Polly Wolly Doodle”), spirituals (“Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”), work songs (“Hammer Ring”), and Tin Pan Alley tunes (“I Got Rhythm,” “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby”) chart love, labor, legend, and change. Modern-dance interludes connect the tableaux, building to a communal finale that salutes the nation’s many voices.