These are dramatic, unique art song settings of folksongs for the recital stage. Contents: How Can I Keep from Singing • Beware, Oh, Take Care • Sail Around • Once I Had a Sweetheart • Nine Hundred Miles • I Gave My Love a Cherry • Bill Groggin’s Goat • Shenandoah • Single Girl • The Streets of Laredo • Johnny Songs (a 4 song cycle): I Know Where I’m Goin’ • The Cruel War Is Raging • Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier • When Johnny Comes Marchin’ Home.