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

101	Little Brown Dog	Peggy Seeger	02:13
102	Oh, Blue	Peggy Seeger	01:45
103	The Big Sheep (The Darby Ram)	Peggy Seeger	01:57
104	Riding Round the Cattle	Peggy Seeger	02:05
105	The Old Cow Died	Peggy Seeger	01:53
106	Raccoon and Possum	Peggy Seeger	01:17
107	Cross-Eyed Gopher	Peggy Seeger	00:37
108	Little Lap-Dog Lullaby	Peggy Seeger	01:27
109	Jack, Can I Ride	Peggy Seeger	01:52
110	Daddy Shot a Bear	Peggy Seeger	00:55
201	The Deer Song	Peggy Seeger	03:08
202	And We Hunted and We Hunted	Peggy Seeger	01:55
203	Mister Rabbit	Peggy Seeger	02:10
204	Peep Squirrel	Peggy Seeger	01:52
205	A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing	Peggy Seeger	01:25
206	Snake Baked a Hoecake	Peggy Seeger	01:06
207	Old Lady Goose	Peggy Seeger	01:23
208	My Old Hen's Good Old Hen	Peggy Seeger	01:05
209	Of All the Beast-es	Peggy Seeger	01:06