American Folk Anthology

Compilation by Pete Seeger

Released 2008

Tracklist

  • CD 1: American Ballads
  • 1
    Pretty Polly
    3:37
  • 2
    The Three Butchers
    2:49
  • 3
    John Henry
    4:29
  • 4
    The Titanic Disaster
    3:41
  • 5
    Fair Margaret and Sweet William
    2:52
  • 6
    John Hardy
    3:31
  • 7
    The Golden Vanity
    3:48
  • 8
    Gypsy Davy
    4:58
  • 9
    The Farmer's Curst Wife
    2:49
  • 10
    Down in Carlisle
    3:18
  • 11
    St. James Hospital
    2:54
  • 12
    Jesse James
    4:27
  • 13
    Barbara Allen
    2:51
  • 14
    Sioux Indians
    3:41
  • 15
    Texian Boys
    1:30
  • 16
    Hold the Fort
    2:26
  • 17
    Groud Hog
    2:37
  • 18
    The Derby Ram
    2:23
  • CD 2: American Favourite Ballads
  • 1
    Down in the Valley
    3:45
  • 2
    Mary Don't You Weep
    2:31
  • 3
    The Blue Tail Fly
    2:35
  • 4
    Yankee Doodle
    1:39
  • 5
    Cielito Lindo
    2:34
  • 6
    Wabash Cannonball
    3:04
  • 7
    So Long It's Been Good to Know You
    3:22
  • 8
    Skip to My Lou
    3:10
  • 9
    The Wagoner's Lad
    1:26
  • 10
    The Wreck of the Old '97
    1:54
  • 11
    Old Dan Tucker
    2:16
  • 12
    I Ride an Old Paint
    3:24
  • 13
    Frankie and Johnnie
    4:26
  • 14
    On Top of Old Smokey
    2:18
  • 15
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain
    3:07
    3.0 ★
  • 16
    Home on the Range
    1:52
  • 17
    Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
    3:00
  • 18
    She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
    1:54
  • CD 3: American Industrial Ballads
  • 1
    Peg and Awl
    2:22
  • 2
    The Blind Fiddler
    1:13
  • 3
    Buffalo Skinners
    2:36
  • 4
    Eight Hour Day
    1:01
  • 5
    Hard Times in the Mill
    2:16
  • 6
    Roll Down the Line
    3:07
  • 7
    Hayseed Like Me
    1:14
  • 8
    The Farmer Is the Man
    1:42
  • 9
    Come All You Hardy Miners
    2:01
  • 10
    He Lies in the American Land
    1:56
  • 11
    Casey Jones
    2:13
  • 12
    Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
    3:42
  • 13
    Cotton Mill Colic
    1:41
  • 14
    Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
    1:59
  • 15
    Mill Mother's Lament
    1:37
  • 16
    Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch
    2:11
  • 17
    Beans, Bacon and Gravy
    2:47
  • 18
    The Death of Harry Simms
    2:07
  • 19
    Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
    1:06
  • 20
    Ballad of Barney Graham
    1:43
  • 21
    My Children Are Seven in Number
    3:47
  • 22
    Raggedy
    2:26
  • 23
    Pittsburgh Town
    1:26
  • 24
    Sixty Per Cent
    1:01

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Release credits

  • 12 string guitar [16], banjo [15], vocal [15-16]

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