Easy to Play Cello Airs and Ballads is a collection of 25 nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century folk and popular songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. All of the songs are written in easy rhythms, entirely in first position, with bowing indications and suggested guitar chords. Each tune corresponds with the same song in Easy to Play Violin Airs and Ballads and Easy to Play Viola Airs and Ballads.
1. All the Pretty Horses
2. Barbara Allen
3. Bonnie Dundee
4. Botany Bay
5. In the Days of Forty-Nine
6. George Collins
7. Handsome Molly
8. I Am a Pilgrim
9. I Ride an Old Paint
10. In the Good Old Summertime
11. Listen to the Mockingbird
12. The Little Old Log Cabin in the Woods
13. Lynchburg Town
14. The Old Oaken Bucket
15. Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage
16. Over the Garden Wall
17. Pretty Saro
18. Sweet Polly Oliver
19. The Banks of the Ohio
20. The Letter Edged in Black
21. The Mermaid’s Song
22. The Mist-Covered Mountains
23. The Parting Glass
24. The Rose of Tralee
25. The Wagoner’s Lad
