Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5 [5 CD]

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!

Tracklist:

1. John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry
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?]
5. Skip to My Lou
6. Big Rock Candy Mountain, The
7. Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My
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
15. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep]
16. Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a
17. Wabash Cannon Ball, The
18. On Top of Old Smoky
19. Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker
20. I Ride an Old Paint
21. Wreck of the Old 97, The
22. Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin'
23. Old Dan Tucker
24. I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with
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 - (previously unreleased)
29. Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen]
30. Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [
31. Midnight Special
32. House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck]
33. Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love]
34. Oh, What a Beautiful City
35. Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [
36. Sally Ann [Sandy Land]
37. Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtshi
38. Go Tell Aunt Rhody [the Old Gray Goose] [the Old Grey Goose Is D
39. Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the
40. Fox [the Fox and His Wife] [the Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Mis
41. Keeper and the Doe [the Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down], The
42. Pretty Polly [the Gosport Tragedy] [the Cruel Ship's Carpenter]
43. Jesse James [the Death of Jesse James] [the Life and Death of Je
44. Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee]
45. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black]
46. Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]
47. Blow the Man Down
48. Froggie Went a Courtin' [the Frog and Mouse] [the Frog He Would
49. I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [the Barnyard Song] [My Little R
50. Putting on the Style
51. Farmer's Curst Wife [the Farmer's Old Wife] [the Devil and the F
52. Hard Travelin'
53. Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here]
54. Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight]
55. Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well]
56. Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [the Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling
57. Deep Blue Sea
58. New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Gr
59. St. James Hospital [the Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [St
60. E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [the E-Ri-E Was Rising] [the Canal Boa
61. St. Louis Blues
62. Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi
63. Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th I
64. When I First Came to This Land
65. Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [the Sinking of the Tit
66. El-A-Noy [Illinois] [the Plains of Illinois] [the State of Illin
67. Lady of Carlysle [in Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [the Bold Lieu
68. My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights
69. Golden Vanity [the Lowlands Low] [the Lonesome Sea Ballad] [the
70. Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a
71. Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River]
72. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child]
73. Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock], The
74. No Irish Need Apply
75. Paddy Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the R
76. Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [the Original Arkansas Tra
77. When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [
78. Wond'rous Love
79. Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog]
80. Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue]
81. She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
82. Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen M
83. Banks of the Ohio [the Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the O
84. You Are My Sunshine
85. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the
86. Foggy Dew [the Foggy, Foggy Dew] [the Bugaboo], The
87. Molly Malone [in Dublin's Fair City]
88. Old Maid's Song [Take Me out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die an Old M
89. Oh, How He Lied [the Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [the V
90. Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
91. Leatherwing Bat [the Bird Song] [the Birds' Courting Song] [the
92. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Butte
93. Farther Along
94. Go Down, Moses
95. All My Trials
96. Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Loo
97. No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go]
98. Hole in the Bucket [the Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Lei
99. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [the Drunken Sailor] (E
100. Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Arm
101. Blue Mountain Lake [the Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fe
102. Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret a
103. John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man]
104. Johnson [the Three Butchers] [the Two Butchers] [Young Butcher B
105. John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked ou
106. Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day]
107. Talking Blues [the Original Talking Blues]
108. Lolly Too Dum [the Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get M
109. T. B. Blues
110. Summertime [Summertime an' the Livin' Is Easy]
111. Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail]
112. Red River Valley
113. Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark]
114. St. James Infirmary [the Unfortunate Rake] [St. James Hospital]
115. Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim]
116. Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip]
117. Buffalo Gals
118. Joe Bowers [the Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Mus
119. Texian Boys
120. My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
121. Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds o
122. Cowboy Yodel
123. Sioux Indians
124. Ida Red
125. Holler
126. Cumberland Gap
127. Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler
128. Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike]
129. Buffalo Skinners [the Buffalo Range] [the Range of the Buffalo]
130. Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain]
131. Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball]
132. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Do
133. Strawberry Roan - (previously unreleased)
134. Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]
135. Play-Party
136. I Never Will Marry [the Damsel's Lament] [Down by the Sea-Shore]
137. Riflemen of Bennington [the Bennington Riflemen]
138. Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [the Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [L
139. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]

UPC: 093074015520
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 4.21.09
Format: CD