Pete Seeger : American Favorite Ballads

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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