Title American favorite ballads : tunes and songs as sung by Pete Seeger / [edited for publication by Irwin Silber and Ethel Rain]

Published New York : Oak Publications ; Melbourne : D. Davis, 1961

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Description 95 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm Contents Careless love -- The blue-tail fly -- When I first came to this land -- Que bonita bandera -- Wayfaring stranger -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Shenandoah -- House of the rising sun -- The hammer song -- Hold the fort -- My horses ain't hungry -- Four nights drunk -- Cielito lindo -- Come all you fair and tender ladies -- I ride an old paint -- Home on the range -- Clementine -- Little girl -- I never will marry -- This land is your land -- Passing through -- Strangest dream -- Down in the valley -- Buffalo gals -- Old Joe Clark -- Jesse James -- Joshua fought the battle of Jericho -- We shall not be moved -- Blow the man down -- The camptown races -- The streets of Laredo -- Young man who wouldn't hoe corn -- Fillimeeooreay -- Alabama bound -- Aunt Rhody -- Oh, Susanna -- Joe Bowers -- Irene, goodnight -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Study war no more -- Stagolee -- Old Dan Tucker -- Sally Ann -- Pick a bale of cotton -- Midnight special -- Froggie went a-courtin' -- The farmer is the man -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- The keeper -- On top of old smoky -- Cindy -- John Brown's body -- Buffalo skinners -- Frankie and Johnny -- Who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot? -- The big rock candy mountain -- Cumberland Gap -- Putting on the style -- Rye whiskey -- Devilish Mary -- Yankee Doodle -- Riddle song -- Darlin' Corey -- New river train -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- Deep blue sea -- The water is wide -- Oh, Mary don't you weep -- Barbara Allen -- The fox -- Twelve gates to the city -- John Henry -- Swanee river -- Reuben James -- The Wabash cannon ball -- Crawdad -- Erie Canal -- Dink's song -- Hard traveling -- Skip to my Lou -- Solidarity forever -- So long, it's been good to know you -- Kisses sweeter than wine -- Which side are you on? Analysis SPAN-M Notes Pl. no.: B.8498 Subject Ballads, English -- United States. Folk songs, American Folk songs, English -- United States. Author Rain, Ethel Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014. Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010. LC no. 61001008 ISBN 0825600286 9780825600289

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