An illustrated version of the cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse that the predicament when a cowpoke swallows an ant with a sting the size of Texas.

Features words, chords, and sources for 1,200 songs, ranging from ballads to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Broadway, and from camp songs to hymns.

"Let me introduce the world's most beloved singing doggie duo! Mother and daughter... Luna and Ranchera... born and raised in the Nuevo Wild West. Together they are the one and only Luna Ranchera. But life was not always so easy. Sit back and listen to an unforgettable story of hunger, struggle, music--and finally, worldwide stardom!"--Front jacket flap. "This spellbinding original story opens in a cantina crowded with desert animals, cowboys, and...

"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--

"The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder...

"This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)...