American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4

Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. This fourth volume in the popular series compiled from the Folkways Records American Favorite Ballads series of the 1950s and 1960s features Seeger's versions of classic folk songs from America’s past. Extensive liner notes by folk song scholar Guy Logsdon describes their origins in an emerging nation and their place in the American folk song movement. American Favorite Ballads is a classic among classics.
Lyric transcriptions as permissible by the publisher available.
LYRICSLyric transcriptions as permissible by the publisher available here.
Track Listing
101
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Banks of the Ohio | Pete Seeger | 3:26 | |
102
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You are My Sunshine | Pete Seeger | 1:42 | |
103
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | Pete Seeger | 1:36 | |
104
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The Foggy Dew | Pete Seeger | 1:55 | |
105
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Molly Malone | Pete Seeger | 2:18 | |
106
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Old Maid's Song | Pete Seeger | 1:40 | |
107
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Oh, How He Lied | Pete Seeger | 1:38 | |
108
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Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow | Pete Seeger | 2:40 | |
109
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Leatherwing Bat | Pete Seeger | 3:06 | |
110
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Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier | Pete Seeger | 2:22 | |
111
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Farther Along | Pete Seeger | 2:29 | |
112
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Go Down, Moses | Pete Seeger | 2:52 | |
113
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All My Trials | Pete Seeger | 3:03 | |
114
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Monsieur Banjo | Pete Seeger | 2:07 | |
115
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No More Auction Block | Pete Seeger | 1:53 | |
116
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Hole in the Bucket | Pete Seeger | 2:14 | |
117
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What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor | Pete Seeger | 2:13 | |
118
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Army Life | Pete Seeger | 2:02 | |
119
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Blue Mountain Lake | Pete Seeger | 2:44 | |
120
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Lady Margaret | Pete Seeger | 2:51 | |
121
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John Hardy | Pete Seeger | 3:29 | |
122
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Johnson | Pete Seeger | 2:48 | |
123
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John Riley | Pete Seeger | 2:25 | |
124
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Washer Lad | Pete Seeger | 1:11 | |
125
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Talking Blues | Pete Seeger | 2:01 | |
126
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Lolly Too Dum | Pete Seeger | 3:31 | |
127
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T. B. Blues | Pete Seeger | 4:00 | |
128
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Summertime | Pete Seeger | 3:40 |