American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5
American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5

American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5

Compilation by Pete Seeger

Released 21 April 2009
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Tracklist

  • Digital Media 1: Volume 1
  • 1
    John Henry
    4:31
  • 2
    Shenandoah
    1:50
  • 3
    Blue‐Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
    2:35
  • 4
    Black Girl
    2:33
  • 5
    Skip to My Lou
    3:11
  • 6
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain
    3:08
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Clementine
    3:05
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    Yankee Doodle
    1:40
  • 9
    Home on the Range
    1:51
  • 10
    John Brown’s Body
    2:59
  • 11
    Goodnight, Irene
    3:43
  • 12
    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
    2:37
  • 13
    Oh, Susanna
    1:17
  • 14
    Wayfaring Stranger
    1:15
  • 15
    Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep
    2:31
  • 16
    Down in the Valley
    3:45
  • 17
    The Wabash Cannon Ball
    3:05
  • 18
    On Top of Old Smoky
    2:19
  • 19
    Frankie and Johnny
    4:27
  • 20
    I Ride an Old Paint
    3:24
    3.0 ★
  • 21
    The Wreck of the Old 97
    1:53
  • 22
    Wagoner’s Lad
    1:25
  • 23
    Old Dan Tucker
    2:14
  • 24
    I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
    1:27
  • 25
    Cielito lindo
    2:34
  • 26
    So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
    3:22
  • 27
    America the Beautiful
    1:38
  • 28
    This Land Is Your Land
    2:50
  • Digital Media 2: Volume 2
  • 1
    Barbara Allen
    4:33
  • 2
    Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn
    1:15
  • 3
    Midnight Special
    2:54
  • 4
    House of the Rising Sun
    2:36
  • 5
    Careless Love
    3:08
  • 6
    Oh, What a Beautiful City
    2:58
  • 7
    Poor Boy
    2:19
  • 8
    Sally Ann
    1:33
  • 9
    The Riddle Song
    2:28
  • 10
    Go Tell Aunt Rhody
    3:17
  • 11
    The Water Is Wide
    3:36
  • 12
    The Fox
    1:49
  • 13
    The Keeper and the Doe
    2:14
  • 14
    Pretty Polly
    3:36
  • 15
    Jesse James
    4:31
  • 16
    Stagolee
    2:15
  • 17
    Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
    2:31
  • 18
    Camptown Races
    1:33
  • 19
    Blow the Man Down
    2:06
  • 20
    Froggie Went a Courtin'
    4:28
  • 21
    I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song)
    3:57
  • 22
    Putting on the Style
    2:49
  • 23
    The Farmer’s Curst Wife
    2:52
  • 24
    Hard Travelin'
    2:47
  • 25
    Alabama Bound
    2:22
  • 26
    Wimoweh
    1:50
  • 27
    Dink’s Song
    2:37
  • Digital Media 3: Volume 3
  • 1
    Gypsy Davy
    5:00
  • 2
    Deep Blue Sea
    2:14
  • 3
    New River Train
    2:59
  • 4
    St. James Hospital
    2:56
  • 5
    E‐ri‐e Canal
    3:21
  • 6
    St. Louis Blues
    2:23
  • 7
    Boll Weevil
    3:52
  • 8
    The Girl I Left Behind
    1:11
  • 9
    When I First Came to This Land
    2:41
  • 10
    The Titanic
    3:43
  • 11
    El‐a‐noy
    1:49
  • 12
    Lady of Carlysle
    3:19
  • 13
    My Good Man
    2:39
  • 14
    Golden Vanity
    3:51
  • 15
    Ain’t It a Shame
    1:48
  • 16
    Swanee River
    3:02
  • 17
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    4:32
  • 18
    The Boys From County Mayo
    2:24
  • 19
    No Irish Need Apply
    1:55
  • 20
    Paddy Works on the Railroad
    2:26
  • 21
    Arkansas Traveler
    2:41
  • 22
    When I Was Single
    1:17
  • 23
    Wond'rous Love
    1:38
  • 24
    Ground Hog
    3:49
  • 25
    Old Blue
    2:22
  • 26
    She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
    1:57
  • 27
    Erie Canal
    2:34
  • Digital Media 4: Volume 4
  • 1
    Banks of the Ohio
    3:30
  • 2
    You Are My Sunshine
    1:46
  • 3
    Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
    1:40
  • 4
    The Foggy Dew
    1:59
  • 5
    Molly Malone
    2:21
  • 6
    Old Maid’s Song
    1:44
  • 7
    Oh, How He Lied
    1:42
  • 8
    Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
    2:44
  • 9
    Leatherwing Bat
    3:10
  • 10
    Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
    2:26
  • 11
    Farther Along
    2:33
  • 12
    Go Down, Moses
    2:56
  • 13
    All My Trials
    3:08
  • 14
    Monsieur Banjo
    2:11
  • 15
    No More Auction Block
    1:56
  • 16
    Hole in the Bucket
    2:17
  • 17
    What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor
    2:17
  • 18
    Army Life
    2:07
  • 19
    Blue Mountain Lake
    2:48
  • 20
    Lady Margaret
    2:55
  • 21
    John Hardy
    3:33
  • 22
    Johnson
    2:51
  • 23
    John Riley
    2:29
  • 24
    Washer Lad
    1:14
  • 25
    Talking Blues
    2:05
  • 26
    Lolly Too Dum
    3:35
  • 27
    T. B. Blues
    4:05
  • 28
    Summertime
    3:40
  • Digital Media 5: Volume 5
  • 1
    Trail to Mexico
    2:49
  • 2
    Red River Valley
    2:10
  • 3
    Old Joe Clark
    3:57
  • 4
    St. James Infirmary
    2:34
  • 5
    Greer County Bachelor
    2:36
  • 6
    Ox Driver’s Song
    1:55
  • 7
    Buffalo Gals
    2:22
  • 8
    Joe Bowers
    3:00
  • 9
    Texian Boys
    1:31
  • 10
    My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
    0:29
  • 11
    Johnny Gray
    1:55
  • 12
    Cowboy Yodel
    0:55
  • 13
    Sioux Indians
    3:42
  • 14
    Ida Reed
    1:57
  • 15
    Holler
    1:19
  • 16
    Cumberland Gap
    1:23
  • 17
    Wake Up, Jacob
    0:21
  • 18
    Sweet Betsy From Pike
    3:28
  • 19
    Buffalo Skinners
    2:46
  • 20
    Wiskey, Rye Whiskey
    2:18
  • 21
    Stewball
    4:57
  • 22
    Whoopie Ti‐Yi‐Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies
    1:31
  • 23
    Strawberry Roan
    5:05
  • 24
    Jay Gould’s Daughter
    2:42
  • 25
    Play‐Party
    1:26
  • 26
    I Never Will Marry
    2:07
  • 27
    Riflemen of Bennington
    2:14
  • 28
    Kingdom Coming
    2:36
  • 29
    Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
    3:35
  • 30
    My Gallant Black Bess
    2:35

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Release credits

  • 12 string guitar [2.7, 1.3-4, 1.9-10, 1.20, 1.24], banjo [3.1-4, 3.9, 4.25, 5.23, 1.1-2, 1.5-8, 1.12-13, 1.15-18, 1.21-23, 1.25-26, 1.28, 2.2-6, 2.8-9, 2.27], guitar [1.11, 1.19, 1.27, 4.15], performer [4], vocal [2.1-3, 2.5-9, 2.24, 2.27, 4.15, 4.25, 1.1-28, 3.1-4, 3.9, 5.23]

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