Rise Again Songbook | Words and Chords to 1200 Folk Songs for Sing Alongs, Campfires, and Music Groups | Vocal Fake Book for Community Singing and Musicians | Spiral Bound Edition

If you enjoy Rise Up Singing, you will enjoy Rise Again. More songs with chords. If you don't have some guitar playing ability, and don't already know the songs. You will be disappointed. The book is lyrics and a list of chords only. It is simply the way the compilers do it. You can buy an accompanying CD to learn the songs with.

This book is unbelievably good. You won’t believe how many of the songs you love they got the rights for and included. And the compact chord notation is my favorite way to learn and remember songs with a guitar because it gives you the rhythm of the chord changes (eg how many measures to play before changing and aligns it to the lyrics.) rather than just the letters. I think this volume might be even better than its beloved predecessor, rise up singing, because it has more recent favorites and slightly better chord notation. But I consider both Rise Again and Rise Up Singing essential, and have multiple copies of each to pass around. Note that the songs are mutually exclusive between the two books.

I've used "Rise up Singing" for many years and this book is a worthy successor. As it's name and appearance suggest, the book uses the same format as the older book. Even though the Internet can provide words, basic and tabs to practically any song, I like this book, and not just because I'm nostalgic. The Rise Again Songbook presents a curated list of songs in compact form under handy categories. Browsing through the lists makes me want to grab my guitar on practically every page. I can skip or skim categories I'm not interested in. The Internet can do most of that, but I like the book's editorial sensibilities, which are similar to the original book. The result is a wonderful song list. I have spent an hour looking through the book so far, and I'm just 30 pages in. I'm looking forward to paging through the whole thing.

This is the sequel to the Rise Up Singing book which I've enjoyed for many years. In fact I seem to have lost that book so I recently ordered that one too. All of the songs in this book are different from the ones in the first book. My copy arrived yesterday and I spent about an hour going through about a third of the book to find songs I like. There are many songs I know and like but also many I don't happen to know. If you already have Rise Up Singing, you definitely want to get this book too. To be clear, it's just a book of lyrics with cords written in. So you need to either play an instrument by ear or use it to sing, preferably with a group of people or just your family.

Love this book, which I use to refresh my memory of older songs and strum along on guitar. Wish the print was just a bit darker, or a bit larger, but I can overlook this. Spiral bound so the pages lay flat as you sing and play. Very pleased with this songbook.

I have always loved this series of books by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson (I have signed copies now!!). This is the latest one. My friends and I rely on them for our many gatherings where we share songs and music in circles, around campfires, to teach others songs, and just when a couple of us get together with our guitars. The chord arrangements aren't always perfect, but the compilation is excellent--both comprehensive and wide-ranging, including not only "trad" (folk) songs but rock, blues, kids' songs, old classics, etc.--and the organization is relatively easy to use, with several different indexes. There is no other guide that is as useful or as loved among my friends as these, and I recommend them highly to keep this music alive and encourage people to not just listen, but play!

I love these books. Rise Up Singing is my goto book when I want to drag out the guitar and sing for awhile. Now I have all kinds of new choices. I have to say that there are more songs that I'm not familiar with in Rise Again, but I imagine I'll be looking them up and listening so I can be playing them. The layout is great. The songs are sorted by theme (sort of). I would probably put some in different categories, but that's just personal opinion. Anyway, great fun if you love to sing and revisit old friends (or songs).

Great collection of songs. Given the Chords for the songs is good, however, they do not indicate where these notes/chords are in the song.

Excellent follow up to Rise Up Singing. With 1200 songs, can't fault it for choice and the ring binding makes it easy to use. No notation. Just words and chords, which, if you can't read music, like me, is all you need. Obviously you have to know the song in the first place..... Recommended

Good for a more contemporary (i.e. younger) crown around the camp fire.

A great selection, of wisely chosen arrangements. Easy to pickup and start playing a tons of songs that will be familiar.

Huge range of songs but very little actual stave music only guitar cords. I have it to a friend who plays guitar.

Gave this book to my 15 year old niece as a present, she's learning to play guitar. She absolutely loves it - lots of songs she is familiar with, and everything is laid out in an easy to understand way. Definitely recommend!!