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Title: American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5
Artist: Pete Seeger
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093074015520
Genre: Country, Folk
Release Date: 2009-04-21
Number of Discs: 5
Additional Details: BOXED SET

These 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!

Tracks:
1.1 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 Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the Railway]
3.21 Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [The Original Arkansas Traveler]
3.22 When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [I Wish
3.23 Wond'rous Love
3.24 Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog] [Road Hog]
3.25 Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue]
3.26 She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
3.27 Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen Miles on
4.1 Banks of the Ohio [The Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the Ohio] [D
4.2 You Are My Sunshine
4.3 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the Bum]
4.4 Foggy Dew [The Foggy, Foggy Dew] [The Bugaboo]
4.5 Molly Malone [In Dublin's Fair City] [Cockles and Mussels]
4.6 Old Maid's Song [Take Me Out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die An Old Maid] [T
4.7 Oh, How He Lied [The Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [The Villain
4.8 Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
4.9 Leatherwing Bat [The Bird Song] [The Birds' Courting Song] [The Birds'
4.10 Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Buttermilk H
4.11 Farther Along
4.12 Go Down, Moses
4.13 All My Trials
4.14 Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at TH
4.15 No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go]
4.16 Hole in the Bucket [The Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Leiwer Hei
4.17 What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [The Drunken Sailor] (Early in
4.18 Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Army]
4.19 Blue Mountain Lake [The Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fellers]
4.20 Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret and Swee
4.21 John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnn
4.22 Johnson [The Three Butchers] [The Two Butchers] [Young Butcher Boy]
4.23 John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [The Broken Token] [As I Walked Out Some
4.24 Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day]
4.25 Talking Blues [The Original Talking Blues]
4.26 Lolly Too Dum [The Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get Married
4.27 T. B. Blues
4.28 Summertime [Summertime An' the Livin' Is Easy]
5.1 Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail]
5.2 Red River Valley
5.3 Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark] [Round and Round]
5.4 St. James Infirmary [The Unfortunate Rake] [ST. James Hospital] [Gamble
5.5 Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim] [Lane
5.6 Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip]
5.7 Buffalo Gals
5.8 Joe Bowers [The Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Muskoka]
5.9 Texian Boys
5.10 My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
5.11 Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds of Morni
5.12 Cowboy Yodel
5.13 Sioux Indians
5.14 Ida Red
5.15 Holler
5.16 Cumberland Gap
5.17 Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler]
5.18 Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike]
5.19 Buffalo Skinners [The Buffalo Range] [The Range of the Buffalo] [Boggy
5.20 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain]
5.21 Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball]
5.22 Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Dogies]
5.23 Strawberry Roan
5.24 Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]
5.25 Play-Party
5.26 I Never Will Marry [The Damsel's Lament] [Down By the Sea-Shore] [One D
5.27 Riflemen of Bennington [The Bennington Riflemen]
5.28 Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [The Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [Lincoln'
5.29 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]