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.