Animal Folk Songs for Children: Selected from Ruth Crawford Seeger's Animal Folk Songs for Children

It could not have been an easy task for Peggy Seeger to choose the 22 tracks for this album from the 43 featured in her mother’s 1950 publication, Animal Folk Songs for Children. Her mother was the influential musician, educator, and folklorist Ruth Crawford Seeger, who drew on field recordings archived in the Library of Congress for the book.
A joyful album for children and adults, the music on this recording tells tales of little brown dogs, old frogs, pretty squirrels, and cross-eyed gophers, while the liner notes divulge the songs’ intriguing origins and lyrics. Although many of the songs have been passed down through generations with little more than perhaps some hand-clapping and foot-tapping, Seeger provides simple guitar, banjo, and fiddle accompaniment.
Track Listing
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Little Brown Dog | Peggy Seeger | 2:13 | |
102
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Oh, Blue | Peggy Seeger | 1:45 | |
103
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The Big Sheep (The Darby Ram) | Peggy Seeger | 1:57 | |
104
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Riding Round the Cattle | Peggy Seeger | 2:05 | |
105
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The Old Cow Died | Peggy Seeger | 1:53 | |
106
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Raccoon and Possum | Peggy Seeger | 1:17 | |
107
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Cross-Eyed Gopher | Peggy Seeger | 0:37 | |
108
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Little Lap-Dog Lullaby | Peggy Seeger | 1:27 | |
109
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Jack, Can I Ride | Peggy Seeger | 1:52 | |
110
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Daddy Shot a Bear | Peggy Seeger | 0:55 | |
201
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The Deer Song | Peggy Seeger | 3:08 | |
202
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And We Hunted and We Hunted | Peggy Seeger | 1:55 | |
203
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Mister Rabbit | Peggy Seeger | 2:10 | |
204
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Peep Squirrel | Peggy Seeger | 1:52 | |
205
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A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing | Peggy Seeger | 1:25 | |
206
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Snake Baked a Hoecake | Peggy Seeger | 1:06 | |
207
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Old Lady Goose | Peggy Seeger | 1:23 | |
208
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My Old Hen's Good Old Hen | Peggy Seeger | 1:05 | |
209
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Of All the Beast-es | Peggy Seeger | 1:06 |