New Briton Gazette, Vol. 1
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

The husband-and-wife folk duo of Scotsman Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) and American Peggy Seeger (b. 1935) sing a collection of original “contemporary British songs.” Many of MacColl and Seeger’s songs, which utilize traditional and original folk melodies, focus on the economic and political struggles of the working class in mid-20th-century Great Britain. Of note are Seeger’s songs “The Crooked Cross,” about the reappearance of swastikas on synagogues in Germany in the 1950s, and “There’s Better Things For You,” an anti-nuclear-bomb marching song. Song lyrics are in the liner notes.
Track Listing
101
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Come Fill Up Your Glasses | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 4:16 | |
102
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Ballad of the Carpenter | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 4:52 | |
103
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The Ballad of Springhill | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 3:53 | |
104
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The Lifeboat Mona | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 4:27 | |
105
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The Trafford Road Ballad | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:17 | |
106
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The Fireman's Not for Me | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 1:43 | |
107
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When I Was a Young Lad | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:46 | |
201
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The Crooked Cross | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:18 | |
202
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There's Better Things to Do | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:33 | |
203
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Brother, Won't You Join in the Line | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:38 | |
204
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The Space Girl's Song | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 3:14 | |
205
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Come All You Gallant Colliers | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 2:22 | |
206
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Come Me Little Son | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 3:30 | |
207
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The Fitter's Song | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 1:47 | |
208
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The Exile Song | Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger | 1:28 |