PETE SEEGER: American Favorite Ballads (5 CDS)

These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more - and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival. Here are all 139 folk ballads on 5 CDs, each with it's own booklet full of extensive notes; legendary songs and performances abound: John Henry; Clementine; Goodnight Irene; Yankee Doodle; Old Dan Tucker; Hole in the Bucket; This Land Is Your Land; America the Beautiful; Midnight Special; Froggie Went A-Courtin'; Boll Weevil; Erie Canal; Arkansas Traveler, and more!

 
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues]
2 Shenandoah [The Rolling River] [The Wide Missouri]
3 Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
4 Black Girl [In the Pines] [Where Did You Sleep Last Night?] [Little Gi
5 Skip to My Lou
6 Big Rock Candy Mountain
7 Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My Darling
8 Yankee Doodle
9 Home on the Range
10 John Brown's Body
11 Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]
12 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13 Oh, Susanna
14 Wayfaring Stranger [The Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Strang
15 Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep]
16 Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage]
17 Wabash Cannon Ball
18 On Top of Old Smoky
19 Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker] [Litt
20 I Ride An Old Paint
21 Wreck of the Old 97
22 Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin' Nancy]
23 Old Dan Tucker
24 I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah]
25 Cielito Lindo
26 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
27 America the Beautiful
28 This Land Is Your Land
- Disc 2 -
1 Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen]
2 Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [The You
3 Midnight Special
4 House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck]
5 Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love]
6 Oh, What a Beautiful City [Twelve Gates to the City]
7 Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [Green V
8 Sally Ann [Sandy Land]
9 Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtship]
10 Go Tell Aunt Rhody [The Old Gray Goose] [The Old Grey Goose Is Dead] [G
11 Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [The Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow]
12 Fox [The Fox and His Wife] [The Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipp
13 Keeper and the Doe [The Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down]
14 Pretty Polly [The Gosport Tragedy] [The Cruel Ship's Carpenter] [The SH
15 Jesse James [The Death of Jesse James] [The Life and Death of Jesse Jam
16 Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee]
17 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black] [Down B
18 Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]
19 Blow the Man Down
20 Froggie Went a Courtin' [The Frog and Mouse] [The Frog He Would a Wooin
21 I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [The Barnyard Song] [My Little Rooster]
22 Putting on the Style
23 Farmer's Curst Wife [The Farmer's Old Wife] [The Devil and the Farmer's
24 Hard Travelin'
25 Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here]
26 Wimoweh [The Lion Sleeps Tonight]
27 Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well] [If I Had Wi
- Disc 3 -
1 Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [The Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling Gypsy]
2 Deep Blue Sea
3 New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Green Riv
4 St. James Hospital [The Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [Streets O
5 E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [The E-Ri-E Was Rising] [The Canal Boat Song]
6 St. Louis Blues
7 Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi Boweavi
8 Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th Infantry
9 When I First Came to This Land
10 Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [The Sinking of the Titanic] [
11 El-A-Noy [Illinois] [The Plains of Illinois] [The State of Illinois] [S
12 Lady of Carlysle [In Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [The Bold Lieutenant]
13 My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights Drunk]
14 Golden Vanity [The Lowlands Low] [The Lonesome Sea Ballad] [The Sweet T
15 Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame]
16 Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River] [Old Folks at Home]
17 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child]
18 Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock]
19 No Irish Need Apply
20 Paddy Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the Railway]
21 Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [The Original Arkansas Traveler]
22 When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [I Wish
23 Wond'rous Love
24 Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog] [Road Hog]
25 Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue]
26 She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
27 Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen Miles on
- Disc 4 -
1 Banks of the Ohio [The Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the Ohio] [D
2 You Are My Sunshine
3 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the Bum]
4 Foggy Dew [The Foggy, Foggy Dew] [The Bugaboo]
5 Molly Malone [In Dublin's Fair City] [Cockles and Mussels]
6 Old Maid's Song [Take Me Out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die An Old Maid] [T
7 Oh, How He Lied [The Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [The Villain
8 Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
9 Leatherwing Bat [The Bird Song] [The Birds' Courting Song] [The Birds'
10 Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Buttermilk H
11 Farther Along
12 Go Down, Moses
13 All My Trials
14 Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at TH
15 No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go]
16 Hole in the Bucket [The Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Leiwer Hei
17 What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [The Drunken Sailor] (Early in
18 Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Army]
19 Blue Mountain Lake [The Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fellers]
20 Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret and Swee
21 John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnn
22 Johnson [The Three Butchers] [The Two Butchers] [Young Butcher Boy]
23 John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [The Broken Token] [As I Walked Out Some
24 Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day]
25 Talking Blues [The Original Talking Blues]
26 Lolly Too Dum [The Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get Married
27 T. B. Blues
28 Summertime [Summertime An' the Livin' Is Easy]
- Disc 5 -
1 Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail]
2 Red River Valley
3 Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark] [Round and Round]
4 St. James Infirmary [The Unfortunate Rake] [ST. James Hospital] [Gamble
5 Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim] [Lane
6 Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip]
7 Buffalo Gals
8 Joe Bowers [The Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Muskoka]
9 Texian Boys
10 My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
11 Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds of Morni
12 Cowboy Yodel
13 Sioux Indians
14 Ida Red
15 Holler
16 Cumberland Gap
17 Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler]
18 Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike]
19 Buffalo Skinners [The Buffalo Range] [The Range of the Buffalo] [Boggy
20 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain]
21 Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball]
22 Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Dogies]
23 Strawberry Roan
24 Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]
25 Play-Party
26 I Never Will Marry [The Damsel's Lament] [Down By the Sea-Shore] [One D
27 Riflemen of Bennington [The Bennington Riflemen]
28 Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [The Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [Lincoln'
29 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]