It's
1927, the jazz age, with poet Carl Sandburg toting a funny little
guitar and strumming carelessly to the old tunes: "Whisky Johnny,"
"Where O Where Is Old Elijah?" The Galesburger/Chicagoan
published his wildly popular American
Song Bag with 280 songs
from sailors, cowboys, railroad hands, pioneers, prisoners, and
preachers. Sandburg, motivated by
The People, Yes, finds
democratic merit in these common songs.
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