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If You Ain't Got The Do-Re-Mi

Various Artists
If You Ain't Got The Do-Re-Mi

As a subject, money has always generated great interest. If You Ain't Got the Do Re Mi celebrates the songs and singers whose words express the human side of money: hope or frustration, criticism or humor, desire or avowed disinterest. This compilation from the Smithsonian Folkways archive marks the opening of the Museum of American Finance on New York City’s Wall Street, and lets the voices of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and other folk music legends ring out their stories of rags and riches. 24-page booklet. 74 minutes.

LYRICS

Lyric transcriptions available here.

Track Listing

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Ann Charters
03:51
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102
Pete Seeger
01:29
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103
Woody Guthrie
02:31
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104
The New Lost City Ramblers
02:55
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105
Josh White
03:09
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106
June Lazare
02:51
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107
Lead Belly
02:44
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108
Joe Glazer
03:59
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109
Lord Invader
02:28
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110
Speckled Red
04:25
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111
Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt
04:46
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112
The New Lost City Ramblers
02:57
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113
Pete Seeger
03:13
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114
Gale Huntington
03:36
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115
Derek Lamb
01:18
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116
Pete Seeger
02:04
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117
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
02:40
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118
Almanac Singers
02:08
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119
Kilby Snow
01:45
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120
Horton Barker
03:12
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121
Pete Seeger
01:47
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122
The New Lost City Ramblers
02:28
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123
Joe Glazer
02:20
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124
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
01:15
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125
The Stoneman Family
02:10
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126
Almanac Singers
02:54
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127
Woody Guthrie
03:03