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Record LabelSfw, Smithsonian Folkways

UPC0093074015520

eBay Product ID (ePID)15046068072

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2009

GenreCountry

ArtistSeeger, Pete

Release TitleAmerican Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5

Dimensions

Item Height1.20 in

Item Weight0.68 lb

Item Length5.23 in

Item Width5.04 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks139

Number of Discs5

Tracks1.1 John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues] 1.2 Shenandoah [The Rolling River] [The Wide Missouri] 1.3 Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn) 1.4 Black Girl [In the Pines] [Where Did You Sleep Last Night?] [Little Gi 1.5 Skip to My Lou 1.6 Big Rock Candy Mountain 1.7 Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My Darling 1.8 Yankee Doodle 1.9 Home on the Range 1.10 John Brown's Body 1.11 Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight] 1.12 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 1.13 Oh, Susanna 1.14 Wayfaring Stranger [The Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Strang 1.15 Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep] 1.16 Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage] 1.17 Wabash Cannon Ball 1.18 On Top of Old Smoky 1.19 Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker] [Litt 1.20 I Ride An Old Paint 1.21 Wreck of the Old 97 1.22 Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin' Nancy] 1.23 Old Dan Tucker 1.24 I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah] 1.25 Cielito Lindo 1.26 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) 1.27 America the Beautiful 1.28 This Land Is Your Land 2.1 Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen] 2.2 Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [The You 2.3 Midnight Special 2.4 House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck] 2.5 Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love] 2.6 Oh, What a Beautiful City [Twelve Gates to the City] 2.7 Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [Green V 2.8 Sally Ann [Sandy Land] 2.9 Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtship] 2.10 Go Tell Aunt Rhody [The Old Gray Goose] [The Old Grey Goose Is Dead] [G 2.11 Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [The Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow] 2.12 Fox [The Fox and His Wife] [The Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipp 2.13 Keeper and the Doe [The Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down] 2.14 Pretty Polly [The Gosport Tragedy] [The Cruel Ship's Carpenter] [The SH 2.15 Jesse James [The Death of Jesse James] [The Life and Death of Jesse Jam 2.16 Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee] 2.17 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black] [Down B 2.18 Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night] 2.19 Blow the Man Down 2.20 Froggie Went a Courtin' [The Frog and Mouse] [The Frog He Would a Wooin 2.21 I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [The Barnyard Song] [My Little Rooster] 2.22 Putting on the Style 2.23 Farmer's Curst Wife [The Farmer's Old Wife] [The Devil and the Farmer's 2.24 Hard Travelin' 2.25 Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here] 2.26 Wimoweh [The Lion Sleeps Tonight] 2.27 Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well] [If I Had Wi 3.1 Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [The Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling Gypsy] 3.2 Deep Blue Sea 3.3 New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Green Riv 3.4 St. James Hospital [The Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [Streets O 3.5 E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [The E-Ri-E Was Rising] [The Canal Boat Song] 3.6 St. Louis Blues 3.7 Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi Boweavi 3.8 Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th Infantry 3.9 When I First Came to This Land 3.10 Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [The Sinking of the Titanic] [ 3.11 El-A-Noy [Illinois] [The Plains of Illinois] [The State of Illinois] [S 3.12 Lady of Carlysle [In Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [The Bold Lieutenant] 3.13 My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights Drunk] 3.14 Golden Vanity [The Lowlands Low] [The Lonesome Sea Ballad] [The Sweet T 3.15 Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame] 3.16 Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River] [Old Folks at Home] 3.17 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child] 3.18 Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock] 3.19 No Irish Need Apply 3.20 Paddy

Sub-GenreFolk

NotesThese 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!