American favorite ballads

Author

Pete Seeger

Call Numbers

• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK VOL. 1 (CEN)
• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK VOL. 2 (CEN)
• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK VOL. 3 (CEN)
• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK VOL. 4 (CEN)
• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK VOL. 5 (CEN)

Performers

Pete Seeger, vocals, banjo, guitar.

Publication Information

Washington D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2009.

Physical Description

5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes

Compact discs.

Program notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon, track listings and notes about the compilers inserted in each of five accompanying booklets ; song lyrics available online.

Contents

• Vol. 1: John Henry (4:28)
• Shenandoah (1:47)
• Blue-tailed fly (Jimmie crack corn) (2:31)
• Black girl (2:29)
• Skip to my Lou (3:08)
• The big rock candy mountain (3:05)
• Clementine (3:02)
• Yankee Doodle (1:36)
• Home on the range (1:48)
• John Brown's body (2:56)
• Goodnight, Irene (3:39)
• Swing low, sweet chariot (2:33)
• Oh, Susanna (1:13)
• Wayfaring stranger (1:11)
• Oh, Mary, don't you weep (2:27)
• Down in the valley (3:42)
• The Wabash cannonball (3:01)
• On top of Old Smoky (2:14)
• Frankie and Johnny (4:24)
• I ride an old paint (3:20)
• The wreck of the old 97 (1:49)
• Wagoner's lad (1:22)
• Old Dan Tucker (2:11)
• I've been working on the railroad (1:23)
• Cielito lindo (2:30)
• So long, it's been good to know you (dusty old dust) (3:19)
• America the beautiful (1:35)
• This land is your land (2:50).

• Vol. 2: Barbara Allen (2:48)
• Young man who wouldn't hoe corn (1:34)
• Midnight special (3:02)
• House of the rising sun (2:30)
• Careless love (3:04)
• Oh, what a beautiful city (3:24)
• Poor boy (2:13)
• Sally Ann (1:28)
• The riddle song (2:23)
• Go tell Aunt Rhody (3:11)
• The water is wide (3:31)
• The fox (2:02)
• The keeper and the doe (2:10)
• Pretty Polly (3:35)
• Jesse James (4:25)
• Stagolee (2:10)
• Black is the color of my true love's hair (2:27)
• Camptown races (1:27)
• Blow that man down (2:00)
• Froggie went a courtin' (2:48)
• I had a rooster (barnyard song) (3:51)
• Putting on the style (2:45)
• The farmer's curst wife (2:47)
• Hard travelin' (2:40)
• Alabama bound (2:17)
• Wimoweh (2:57)
• Dink's song (2:37).

• Vol. 3: Gypsy Davy (5:03)
• Deep blue sea (2:16)
• New river train (3:00)
• St. James hospital (2:58)
• E-ri-e Canal (3:21)
• St. Louis blues (2:22)
• Boll weevil (3:56)
• The girl I left behind (1:11)
• When I first came to this land (2:40)
• The Titanic (3:47)
• El-a-noy (1:46)
• Lady of Carlysle (3:23)
• My good man (2:39)
• Golden vanity (3:56)
• Ain't it a shame (1:47)
• Swanee River (3:01)
• Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (4:31)
• The boys from County Mayo (2:21)
• No Irish need apply (1:56)
• Paddy works on the railroad (2:26)
• Arkansas traveler (2:39)
• When I was single (1:17)
• Wond'rous love (1:37)
• Ground hog (3:47)
• Old Blue (2:18)
• She'll be comin' round the mountain (1:51)
• Erie Canal (2:38).

• Vol. 4: Banks of the Ohio (3:32)
• You are my sunshine (1:46)
• Hallelujah, I'm a bum (1:40)
• The foggy dew (1:59)
• Molly Malone (2:22)
• Old maid's song (1:40)
• Oh, how he lied (1:43)
• Where the old Allegheny and the Monongahela flow (2:44)
• Leatherwing bat (3:11)
• Johnny has gone for a soldier (2:29)
• Farther along (2:34)
• Go down, Moses (2:57)
• All my trials (3:07)
• Monsieur Banjo (2:13)
• No more auction block (1:58)
• Hole in the bucket (2:22)
• What shall we do with the drunken sailor (2:18)
• Army life (2:08)
• Blue mountain lake (2:47)
• Lady Margaret (2:56)
• John Hardy (3:36)
• Johnson (2:54)
• John Riley (2:24)
• Washer lad (1:12)
• Talking blues (2:05)
• Lolly too dum (3:37)
• T.B. blues (4:04)
• Summertime (3:45).

• Vol. 5: Trail to Mexico (2:45)
• Red River Valley (2:05)
• Old Joe Clark (3:53)
• St. James infirmary (2:30)
• Green County bachelor (2:32)
• Ox driver's song (1:52)
• Buffalo gals (2:18)
• Joe Bowers (2:56)
• Texian boys (1:26)
• My sweetheart is a mule in the mines (0:25)
• Johnny Gray (1:51)
• Cowboy yodel (0:51)
• Sioux Indians (3:38)
• Ida Red (1:53)
• Holler (1:15)
• Cumberland Gap (1:18)
• Wake up, Jacob (0:17)
• Sweet Betsy from Pike (3:24)
• Buffalo skinners (2:42)
• Whiskey, rye whiskey (2:14)
• Stewball (4:51)
• Whoopie ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies (1:27)
• Strawberry roan (5:01)
• Jay Gould's daughter (2:37)
• Play-party (1:22)
• I never will marry (2:02)
• Riflemen of Bennington (2:10)
• Kingdom coming (year of jubilo) (2:32)
• Cumberland Mountain bear chase (3:35).