American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4

Pete Seeger

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.

LYRICS

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Track Listing

101	Banks of the Ohio	Pete Seeger	3:26
102	You are My Sunshine	Pete Seeger	1:42
103	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum	Pete Seeger	1:36
104	The Foggy Dew	Pete Seeger	1:55
105	Molly Malone	Pete Seeger	2:18
106	Old Maid's Song	Pete Seeger	1:40
107	Oh, How He Lied	Pete Seeger	1:38
108	Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow	Pete Seeger	2:40
109	Leatherwing Bat	Pete Seeger	3:06
110	Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier	Pete Seeger	2:22
111	Farther Along	Pete Seeger	2:29
112	Go Down, Moses	Pete Seeger	2:52
113	All My Trials	Pete Seeger	3:03
114	Monsieur Banjo	Pete Seeger	2:07
115	No More Auction Block	Pete Seeger	1:53
116	Hole in the Bucket	Pete Seeger	2:14
117	What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor	Pete Seeger	2:13
118	Army Life	Pete Seeger	2:02
119	Blue Mountain Lake	Pete Seeger	2:44
120	Lady Margaret	Pete Seeger	2:51
121	John Hardy	Pete Seeger	3:29
122	Johnson	Pete Seeger	2:48
123	John Riley	Pete Seeger	2:25
124	Washer Lad	Pete Seeger	1:11
125	Talking Blues	Pete Seeger	2:01
126	Lolly Too Dum	Pete Seeger	3:31
127	T. B. Blues	Pete Seeger	4:00
128	Summertime	Pete Seeger	3:40