Pete Seeger : American Favorite Ballads

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Recorded during the heart of the great “folk song revival” of the 1950s and 1960s, Pete Seeger’s American Favorite Ballads was, and is, a classic series of albums.

Ballads contains definitive bits of Americana that have been a part of our lives for more than a half century, including songs like This Land is Your Land, America the Beautiful, John Henry, and Shenandoah.

Volume 1 Tracklist :

1 - John Henry
2 - Shenandoah
3 - Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
4 - Black Girl
5 - Skip To My Lou
6 - The Big Rock Candy Mountain
7 - Clementine
8 - Yankee Doodle
9 - Home On The Range
10 - John Brown’s Body
11 - Goodnight, Irene
12 - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13 - Oh, Susanna
14 - Wayfaring Stranger
15 - Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep
16 - Down In The Valley
17 - The Wabash Cannonball
18 - On Top Of Old Smoky
19 - Frankie And Johnny
20 - I Ride An Old Paint
21 - The Wreck Of The Old 97
22 - Wagoner’s Lad
23 - Old Dan Tucker
24 - I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
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

Volume 2 Tracklist :

1 - Barbara Allen
2 - Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn
3 - Midnight Special
4 - House Of The Rising Sun
5 - Careless Love
6 - Oh, What A Beautiful City
7 - Poor Boy
8 - Sally Ann
9 - The Riddle Song
10 - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
11 - The Water Is Wide
12 - The Fox
13 - The Keeper And The Doe
14 - Pretty Polly
15 - Jesse James
16 - Stagolee
17 - Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair
18 - Camptown Races
19 - Blow The Man Down
20 - Froggie Went Acourtin’
21 - I Had A Rooster (Barnyard Song)
22 - Putting On The Style
23 - The Farmer’s Curst Wife
24 - Hard Travelin’
25 - Alabama Bound
26 - Wimoweh
27 - Dink’s Song

Volume 3 Tracklist :

1 - Gypsy Davy
2 - Deep Blue Sea
3 - New River Train
4 - St. James Hospital
5 - E-ri-e Canal
6 - St. Louis Blues
7 - Boll Weevil
8 - The Girl i Left Behind
9 - When I First Came To This Land
10 - The Titanic
11 - El-A-Noy
12 - Lady Of Carlysle
13 - My Good Man
14 - Golden Vanity
15 - Ain’t It A Shame
16 - Swanee River
17 - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
18 - The Boys From County Mayo
19 - No Irish Need Apply
20 - Paddy Works On The Railroad
21 - Arkansas Traveler
22 - When I Was Single
23 - Wond’rous Love
24 - Ground Hog
25 - Old Blue
26 - She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain
27 - Erie Canal

Volume 4 Tracklist :

1 - Banks Of The Ohio
2 - You Are My Sunshine
3 - Hallelujah, I’m A Bum
4 - The Foggy Dew
5 - Molly Malone
6 - Old Maid’s Song
7 - Oh, How He Lied
8 - Where The Old Allegheny And The Monongahela Flow
9 - Leatherwing Bat
10 - Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
11 - Farther Along
12 - Go Down, Moses
13 - All My Trials
14 - Monsieur Banjo
15 - No More Auction Block
16 - Hole In The Bucket
17 - What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor
18 - Army Life
19 - Blue Mountain Lake
20 - Lady Magaret
21 - John Hardy
22 - Johnson
23 - John Riley
24 - Washer Lad
25 - Talking Bleus
26 - Lolly Too Dum
27 - T. B. Blues
28 - Summertime

Volume 5 Tracklist :

1 - Trail To Mexico
2 - Red River Valley
3 - Old Joe Clark
4 - St. James Infirmary
5 - Greer County Bachelor
6 - Ox Driver’s Song
7 - Buffalo Gals
8 - Joe Bowers
9 - Texian Boys
10 - My Sweetheart Is A Mule In The Mines
11 - Johnny Gray
12 - Cowboy Yodel
13 - Sioux Indians
14 - Ida Red
15 - Holler
16 - Cumberland Gap
17 - Wake Up, Jacob
18 - Sweet Betsy From Pike
19 - Buffalo Skinners
20 - Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
21 - Stewball
22 - Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
23 - Strawberry Roan
24 - Jay Gould’s Daughter
25 - Play-Party
26 - I Never Will Marry
27 - Riflemen Of Bennington
28 - Kingdom Coming (Year Of Jubilo)
29 - Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase

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