Sample Poems
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Touch of the Master’s Hand
The Cremation of Sam McGee
And Other Classic Story Poems
$14.95
The formal reciting of narrative poems at family gatherings and other social events is a tradition with a long and cherished history but one that, alas, is fast disappearing in this high-tech, helter-skelter world of ours. Noted storyteller Joe McHugh has decided to revive this venerable tradition by offering a selection of such tried-and-true poems that each tells a story. They are recited in the old style with only the sound of the human voice to give them life. And perhaps you and your family and friends will find as much delight in their retelling as they once brought to those who came before us.
Tracks
01 The Cremation of Sam McGee – Robert Service
02 The Shooting of Dan McGrew – Robert Service
03 The Owl and the Fox – Anonymous
04 Boomer Johnson – Henry Herbert Knibbs
05 East Texas Red – Woody Guthrie
06 The Mountain Whippoorwill – Stephen Vincent Benet
07 The Touch of the Master’s Hand – Myra Brooks Welch
08 Dave Lilly – Joyce Kilmer
09 Tying Knots in the Devil’s Tail – Gail I. Gardner.
10 The Ballad of Captain Pye –
11 Fiddler Jones – Edgar Lee Masters
12 In the Droving Days – A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
13 Lost – A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
14 A Gentle Hint – Edward Harrington
15 The Day McArthur Farted – Rob Bath & Andrew Bleby
16 Albert and the Lion – Marriott Edgar
17 Albert’s Return – Marriott Edgar
18 Host of the Air – William Butler Yeats
19 The Song of the Wandering Aengus – William Butler Yeats
20 The Stolen Child – William Butler Yeats
21 Laurel Hill – Traditional Folksong
22 The Ballad of William Sycamore – Stephen Vincent Benet
23 Casey at the Bat – Ernest Thayer
24 “Brother, Can you Spare a Dime?” – Yip Harburg
25 Cupid and Cactus – Grif Crawford from Wild Horse Charlie of the Crossbar Lazy B
26 The Ballad of Salvation Bill – Robert Service
27 The Creation – James Weldon Johnson
28 Albert’s Second Return – Marriott Edgar
29 The Cowboy Fireman – Harry McClintock
30 The Hell-Bound Train – Anonymous
31 Harrison Town – Traditional Ballad
32 The Quitter & Grin – Robert Service
The Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Classic Story Poems contains 2 enjoyable hours, 32 recitations performed by Master storyteller Joe McHugh.
Become transported back to a grass-covered baseball field in the small town of Mudville listening to Ernest Thayer’s poem, Casey at the Bat, a haunted fishing hole tucked away in the Berkshire Mountains, Joyce Kilmer’s poem Dave Lilly, the stage of a fiddling contest in the hill country of Georgia, Stephen Vincent Benet’s poem The Mountain Whippoorwill, or, perhaps Robert Service’s poem about a raucous miner’s saloon in the shadow of the Arctic Circle, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. Or Myra Brooks Welch’s poem about how a worn and discarded violin at auction is magically brought back life by a gray-haired stranger, The Master’s Hand or a favorite from England written by Marriott Edgar, Albert and the Lion, of a precocious child while visiting the zoo is eaten by a toothless old lion only to return unharmed in the next poem. Plus many more!
These recitations so rich in imagery and word play and brimming with emotions of surprise, humor, love, and longing were a veritable feast for the mind and heart.
