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    John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues] – Pete Seeger 04:33
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    Shenandoah [the Rolling River] [the Wide Missouri] – Pete Seeger 01:52
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    Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn) – Pete Seeger 02:37
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    Black Girl [in the Pines] [Where Did You Sleep Last Night?] – Pete Seeger 02:35
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    Skip to My Lou – Pete Seeger 03:13
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    The Big Rock Candy Mountain – Pete Seeger 03:10
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    Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My Darling – Pete Seeger 03:07
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    Yankee Doodle – Pete Seeger 01:42
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    Home on the Range – Pete Seeger 01:53
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    John Brown's Body – Pete Seeger 03:01
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    Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight] – Pete Seeger 03:45
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    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Pete Seeger 02:39
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    Oh, Susanna – Pete Seeger 01:19
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    Wayfaring Stranger [the Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Strang – Pete Seeger 01:18
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    Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep] – Pete Seeger 02:33
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    Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage] – Pete Seeger 03:47
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    The Wabash Cannon Ball – Pete Seeger 03:07
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    On Top of Old Smoky – Pete Seeger 02:21
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    Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker] [Litt – Pete Seeger 04:29
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    I Ride an Old Paint – Pete Seeger 03:26
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    The Wreck of the Old 97 – Pete Seeger 01:55
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    Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin' Nancy] – Pete Seeger 01:27
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    Old Dan Tucker – Pete Seeger 02:16
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    I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah] – Pete Seeger 01:29
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    Cielito Lindo – Pete Seeger 02:36
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    So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) – Pete Seeger 03:24
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    America the Beautiful – Pete Seeger 01:40
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    This Land Is Your Land [#] – Pete Seeger 02:51
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    Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen] – Pete Seeger 02:53
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    Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [the You – Pete Seeger 01:39
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    Midnight Special – Pete Seeger 03:08
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    House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck] – Pete Seeger 02:34
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    Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love] – Pete Seeger 03:08
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    Oh, What a Beautiful City [Twelve Gates to the City] – Pete Seeger 03:29
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    Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [Green V – Pete Seeger 02:19
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    Sally Ann [Sandy Land] – Pete Seeger 01:33
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    The Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtship] – Pete Seeger 02:28
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    Go Tell Aunt Rhody [the Old Gray Goose] [the Old Grey Goose Is Dead] [G – Pete Seeger 03:16
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    The Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow] – Pete Seeger 03:36
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    The Fox [the Fox and His Wife] [the Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipp – Pete Seeger 02:07
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    The Keeper and the Doe [the Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down] – Pete Seeger 02:14
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    Pretty Polly [the Gosport Tragedy] [the Cruel Ship's Carpenter] [the Sh – Pete Seeger 03:39
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    Jesse James [the Death of Jesse James] [the Life and Death of Jesse Jam – Pete Seeger 04:29
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    Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee] – Pete Seeger 02:15
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    Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black] – Pete Seeger 02:33
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    Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night] – Pete Seeger 01:33
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    Blow the Man Down – Pete Seeger 02:05
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    Froggie Went a Courtin' [the Frog and Mouse] [the Frog He Would a Wooin – Pete Seeger 02:53
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    I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [the Barnyard Song] [My Little Rooster] – Pete Seeger 03:56
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    Putting on the Style – Pete Seeger 02:51
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    The Farmer's Curst Wife [the Farmer's Old Wife] [the Devil and the Farmer's – Pete Seeger 02:52
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    Hard Travelin' – Pete Seeger 02:46
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    Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here] – Pete Seeger 02:22
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    Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight] – Pete Seeger 03:03
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    Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well] – Pete Seeger 02:38
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    Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [the Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling Gypsy] – Pete Seeger 05:02
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    Deep Blue Sea – Pete Seeger 02:16
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    New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Green Riv – Pete Seeger 03:01
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    St. James Hospital [the Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [Streets o – Pete Seeger 02:57
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    E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [the E-Ri-E Was Rising] [the Canal Boat Song] – Pete Seeger 03:23
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    St. Louis Blues – Pete Seeger 02:24
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    Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi Boweavi – Pete Seeger 03:54
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    The Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th Infantry – Pete Seeger 01:12
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    When I First Came to This Land – Pete Seeger 02:42
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    The Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [the Sinking of the Titanic] [ – Pete Seeger 03:45
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    El-A-Noy [Illinois] [the Plains of Illinois] [the State of Illinois] [S – Pete Seeger 01:50
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    Lady of Carlysle [in Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [the Bold Lieutenant] – Pete Seeger 03:21
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    My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights Drunk] – Pete Seeger 02:40
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    Golden Vanity [the Lowlands Low] [the Lonesome Sea Ballad] [the Sweet T – Pete Seeger 03:52
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    Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame] – Pete Seeger 01:49
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    Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River] – Pete Seeger 03:04
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    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child] – Pete Seeger 04:34
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    The Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock] – Pete Seeger 02:26
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    No Irish Need Apply – Pete Seeger 01:56
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    Paddy Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the Railway] – Pete Seeger 02:27
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    Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [the Original Arkansas Traveler] – Pete Seeger 02:43
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    When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [I Wish – Pete Seeger 01:19
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    Wond'rous Love – Pete Seeger 01:40
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    Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog] – Pete Seeger 03:50
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    Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue] – Pete Seeger 02:24
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    She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain – Pete Seeger 01:58
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    Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen Miles on – Pete Seeger 02:35
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    Banks of the Ohio [the Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the Ohio] [D – Pete Seeger 03:32
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    You Are My Sunshine – Pete Seeger 01:47
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    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the Bum] – Pete Seeger 01:41
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    The Foggy Dew [the Foggy, Foggy Dew] [the Bugaboo] – Pete Seeger 02:01
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    Molly Malone [in Dublin's Fair City] – Pete Seeger 02:23
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    Old Maid's Song [Take Me out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die an Old Maid] [t – Pete Seeger 01:45
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    Oh, How He Lied [the Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [the Villain – Pete Seeger 01:43
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    Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow – Pete Seeger 02:46
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    Leatherwing Bat [the Bird Song] [the Birds' Courting Song] [the Birds' – Pete Seeger 03:12
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    Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Buttermilk H – Pete Seeger 02:28
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    Farther Along – Pete Seeger 02:35
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    Go Down, Moses – Pete Seeger 02:58
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    All My Trials – Pete Seeger 03:10
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    Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at th – Pete Seeger 02:13
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    No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go] – Pete Seeger 01:58
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    Hole in the Bucket [the Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Leiwer Hei – Pete Seeger 02:19
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    What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [the Drunken Sailor] (Early in – Pete Seeger 02:18
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    Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Army] – Pete Seeger 02:08
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    Blue Mountain Lake [the Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fellers] – Pete Seeger 02:50
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    Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret and Swee – Pete Seeger 02:56
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    John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnn – Pete Seeger 03:34
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    Johnson [the Three Butchers] [the Two Butchers] [Young Butcher Boy] – Pete Seeger 02:53
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    John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked out Some – Pete Seeger 02:30
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    Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day] – Pete Seeger 01:16
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    Talking Blues [the Original Talking Blues] – Pete Seeger 02:07
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    Lolly Too Dum [the Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get Married – Pete Seeger 03:37
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    T. B. Blues – Pete Seeger 04:06
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    Summertime [Summertime an' the Livin' Is Easy] – Pete Seeger 03:40
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    Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail] – Pete Seeger 02:51
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    Red River Valley – Pete Seeger 02:11
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    Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark] – Pete Seeger 03:58
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    St. James Infirmary [the Unfortunate Rake] [St. James Hospital] [Gamble – Pete Seeger 02:36
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    Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim] [Lane – Pete Seeger 02:38
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    Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip] – Pete Seeger 01:57
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    Buffalo Gals – Pete Seeger 02:24
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    Joe Bowers [the Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Muskoka] – Pete Seeger 03:02
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    Texian Boys – Pete Seeger 01:32
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    My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines – Pete Seeger 00:30
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    Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds of Morni – Pete Seeger 01:56
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    Cowboy Yodel – Pete Seeger 00:56
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    Sioux Indians – Pete Seeger 03:43
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    Ida Red – Pete Seeger 01:59
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    Holler – Pete Seeger 01:21
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    Cumberland Gap – Pete Seeger 01:24
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    Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler] – Pete Seeger 00:22
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    Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike] – Pete Seeger 03:29
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    Buffalo Skinners [the Buffalo Range] [the Range of the Buffalo] [Boggy – Pete Seeger 02:48
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    Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain] – Pete Seeger 02:20
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    Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball] – Pete Seeger 04:58
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    Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Dogies] – Pete Seeger 01:33
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    Strawberry Roan [#] – Pete Seeger 05:07
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    Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones] – Pete Seeger 02:43
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    Play-Party – Pete Seeger 01:27
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    I Never Will Marry [the Damsel's Lament] [Down by the Sea-Shore] [One D – Pete Seeger 02:08
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    Riflemen of Bennington [the Bennington Riflemen] – Pete Seeger 02:16
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    Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [the Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [Lincoln' – Pete Seeger 02:37
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    Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase] – Pete Seeger 03:35

In his 60-some years as a public performer, Pete Seeger has left an indelible footprint on popular music. As a member of the Almanac Singers in the '40s and the Weavers a decade later, Seeger helped midwife the urban folk boom of the '60s. His comfortable voice and graceful banjo style give his many compositions and folk adaptations an easy and elegant dignity, and on the political front, well, he's been a kind of canary in the coal mine for decades, speaking (and singing) out on any number of vital issues. This wonderful five-disc set (each disc comes with its own booklet) shows Seeger at his calm, plainspoken best as he runs through the American folk songbook accompanied only by guitar or banjo. The discs were originally released by Moses Asch's Folkways Records as individual LPs between 1957 and 1962 (in all, Seeger recorded some 40 albums for Folkways between 1950 and 1964), and Smithsonian Folkways reshuffled and reissued them as stand-alone CDs in the digital era, but put together like this, they make a grand and sweeping survey of the songs America has been singing for a century or two, all filtered through Seeger's wise, politically aware perspective. It adds up to some six hours of music, history, and memories, a fine testament to Seeger, Asch, Folkways, and the grand music of the American people. Steve Leggett, Rovi

  • Genre: Kids, Folk
  • Subgenre: Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk
  • Category Traditional Folk, Political Folk, Kids' Folk, Folksongs, Folk Revival
  • Release Date: April 21, 2009
  • Artist: Seeger Pete [Folk Singer]
  • Additional Artist: Pete Seeger (Vocals)

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