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This is a book of songs Joan Baez sings on her Vanguard recordings and at her concerts. Here are 21 spirituals, hymns, songs of protest and other songs for our time and of our time. Many of these songs appeared in print for the first time in the Joan Baez Songbook. The texts are complete. The Vocal Lines and arrangements for piano and guitar have been kept as close as is possible to the way Joan Baez performs them. They have a simplicity and directness which brings them within everyone’s reach. [Includes]: “All My Trials” * “Kumbaya” * “12 Gates to the City”, * “Virgin Mary”, * “We Are Crossing Jordan River”, * “Somebody Got Lost in a Storm”, * “We Shall Overcome”, * “Hush Little Baby”, * “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, * “Amazing Grace”, * “Portland Town”, * “Danger Waters”, * “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”, * “The Tramp on the Street”, * “Three Fishers”, * “Donna Donna”, * “What Have They Done to the Rain?”, * “Annabel Lee”, * “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, * “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream”, and * “Plaisir d’ Amour”. — from book’s back cover