• This vintage softcover volume is Folk Songster by Leon & Lynn Dallin, published by Wm. C. Brown Company, Dubuque, Iowa, in 1967 as part of the Music Series.
• Format: Collection-style folk songbook for solo singer with chordal accompaniment, presenting melody line in treble clef, full lyrics, and chord names above the staff.
• Repertoire spans traditional ballads, sea chanteys, cowboy songs, spirituals, and gospel favorites, with selections such as Boston Come-All-Ye, Black Is the Color, Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane, Pat Works on the Railway, Mister Banjo, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, The Ship That Never Returned, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Soon I Will Be Done, La Cucaracha, Little Bitty Baby, Kumbaya, When the Saints Go Marching In, Worried Man Blues, Yellow Rose of Texas, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and many others.
• A prefatory essay discusses the folk-song tradition, variant versions, sources, and copyright acknowledgments, noting that much of the material is drawn from the public-domain treasury of American music.
• An alphabetical index of titles at the back lists hundreds of songs with page references, and a thematic guide highlights categories such as chantey, cowboy, fun, hallelujah songs, love, narrative, railroad, and work.
• An appendix provides chord diagrams for guitar, banjo, and ukulele in multiple keys, with fingering charts for common major, minor, and seventh chords and symbols for open strings.
• The copyright page notes 1967 copyright by Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers and Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-21318; printed in the United States.
• This American folk and spiritual anthology offers versatile material for acoustic guitarists, banjo and ukulele players, solo singers, folk ensembles, classrooms, and campfire or church gatherings.
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• Condition: Softcover songbook shows some typical age and usage, but nothing severe. The front cover has surface rubbing, light soiling, corner and edge creases, and small chips at spine ends. Back cover displays scattered foxing specks, surface soiling, and corner wear. Inside front pages show age toning, a small stain along the lower inner margin, and a penciled price notation in the upper right corner. Inside rear cover has areas of foxing and age spotting along the outer edge. One interior spread near Pat Works on the Railway and Mister Banjo has an old tape repair at the lower inner margin. Page edges have light tanning but staff notation and lyrics remain clear, pages secure in the binding, and the book is fully usable for performance or study.

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