This (http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Up-Singing-Group-Songbook/dp/1881322149/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422549238&sr=8-1&keywords=rise+up+singing) is the edition I have currently (my third! I wore one out and lost another somewhere in my many moves). THey claim it's large print but the actual print size doesn't seem annoyingly or especially big to me - the book itself is larger but it may be thinner.
There was a homemade Quaker songbook somewhere in the 1970s called WInds of the People. Someone in my college dorm had, not the book, but photocopies of most of it, and we used to sing from those. Rise Up Singing, an expanded version of Winds of the People, was first issued somewhere in the 1980s. I came across it on a table at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and was literally jumping up and down in glee when I realized what it was and that I could buy my own copy. It's been reissued a couple of times since, with improvements made to it (better indexing, for one thing). If you google Rise Up Singing Project, you can find the Youtube project I mentioned earlier (the guy's name is Matthew Vaughan) which should give you more idea of the songs in it.
(Disclaimer: I have no relationships with the songbook or its editors; I just love it.)
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Date: 29 January 2015 04:42 pm (UTC)There was a homemade Quaker songbook somewhere in the 1970s called WInds of the People. Someone in my college dorm had, not the book, but photocopies of most of it, and we used to sing from those. Rise Up Singing, an expanded version of Winds of the People, was first issued somewhere in the 1980s. I came across it on a table at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and was literally jumping up and down in glee when I realized what it was and that I could buy my own copy. It's been reissued a couple of times since, with improvements made to it (better indexing, for one thing). If you google Rise Up Singing Project, you can find the Youtube project I mentioned earlier (the guy's name is Matthew Vaughan) which should give you more idea of the songs in it.
(Disclaimer: I have no relationships with the songbook or its editors; I just love it.)