American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5

Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an iconic American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 1… more »

Year:: 2009

Disc	#	Song	Artist	Duration
1	1	John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues]	Pete Seeger	4:33
1	2	Shenandoah [the Rolling River] [the Wide Missouri]	Jean Ferris, Pete Seeger	1:52
1	5	Skip to My Lou	Pete Seeger	3:13
1	6	The Big Rock Candy Mountain	Pete Seeger	3:10
1	10	John Brown's Body	Pete Seeger	3:01
1	11	Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]	Pete Seeger	3:45
1	12	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	Pete Seeger	2:39
1	13	Oh, Susanna	Pete Seeger	1:19
1	14	Wayfaring Stranger [the Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Strang	Pete Seeger	1:18
1	15	Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep]	Pete Seeger	2:33
1	16	Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage]	Pete Seeger	3:47
1	17	The Wabash Cannon Ball	Pete Seeger	3:07
1	18	On Top of Old Smoky	Pete Seeger	2:21
1	20	I Ride an Old Paint	Pete Seeger	3:26
1	21	The Wreck of the Old 97	Pete Seeger	1:55
1	24	I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah]	Pete Seeger	1:29
1	25	Cielito Lindo	Pete Seeger	2:36
1	26	So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)	Pete Seeger	3:24
1	27	America the Beautiful	Pete Seeger	1:40
1	28	This Land Is Your Land [#]	Pete Seeger	2:51
2	29	Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen]	Pete Seeger	2:53
2	31	Midnight Special	Pete Seeger	3:08
2	32	House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck]	Pete Seeger	2:34
2	33	Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love]	Pete Seeger	3:08
2	34	Oh, What a Beautiful City [Twelve Gates to the City]	Pete Seeger	3:29
2	39	The Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow]	Pete Seeger	3:36
2	40	The Fox [the Fox and His Wife] [the Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipp	Pete Seeger	2:07
2	43	Jesse James [the Death of Jesse James] [the Life and Death of Jesse Jam	Pete Seeger	4:29
2	46	Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]	Pete Seeger	1:33
2	54	Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight]	Pete Seeger	3:03
2	55	Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well]	Pete Seeger	2:38
3	57	Deep Blue Sea	Pete Seeger	2:16
3	61	St. Louis Blues	Pete Seeger	2:24
3	72	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child]	Pete Seeger	4:34
3	81	She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain	Pete Seeger	1:58
4	86	The Foggy Dew [the Foggy, Foggy Dew] [the Bugaboo]	Pete Seeger	2:01
4	87	Molly Malone [in Dublin's Fair City]	Pete Seeger	2:23
4	95	All My Trials	Pete Seeger	3:10
4	96	Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at th	Pete Seeger	2:13
4	103	John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnn	Pete Seeger	3:34
4	105	John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked out Some	Pete Seeger	2:30
4	110	Summertime [Summertime an' the Livin' Is Easy]	Pete Seeger	3:40
5	112	Red River Valley	Pete Seeger	2:11
5	113	Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark]	Pete Seeger	3:58
5	117	Buffalo Gals	Pete Seeger	2:24
5	134	Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]	Pete Seeger	2:43
5	139	Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]	Pete Seeger	3:35

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