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

101	Wall Street Rag Ann Charters	03:51
102	Empty Pocket Blues Pete Seeger	01:29
103	Do-Re-Mi Woody Guthrie	02:31
104	Bill Morgan and His Gal The New Lost City Ramblers	02:55
105	One Meat Ball Josh White	03:09
106	Jim Fisk June Lazare	02:51
107	Gallis Pole Lead Belly	02:44
108	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Joe Glazer	03:59
109	Yankee Dollar Lord Invader	02:28
110	If I Had a Million Dollars Speckled Red	04:25
111	Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt	04:46
112	If I Lose, I Don't Care The New Lost City Ramblers	02:57
113	Banks of Marble Pete Seeger	03:13
114	The Old Arm Chair Gale Huntington	03:36
115	The Money Rolls In Derek Lamb	01:18
116	Business Pete Seeger	02:04
117	If You Lose Your Money Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	02:40
118	Union Maid Almanac Singers	02:08
119	Greenback Dollar Kilby Snow	01:45
120	The Miller and His Sons Horton Barker	03:12
121	Penny's Farm Pete Seeger	01:47
122	Billy Grimes the Rover The New Lost City Ramblers	02:28
123	Ida Mae Joe Glazer	02:20
124	Last Gold Dollar Bascom Lamar Lunsford	01:15
125	Black Dog Blues The Stoneman Family	02:10
126	I Don't Want Your Millions Mister Almanac Singers	02:54
127	Pretty Boy Floyd Woody Guthrie	03:03