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.

Track Listing

101	Banks of the Ohio	Pete Seeger	03:26
102	You are My Sunshine	Pete Seeger	01:42
103	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum	Pete Seeger	01:36
104	The Foggy Dew	Pete Seeger	01:55
105	Molly Malone	Pete Seeger	02:18
106	Old Maid's Song	Pete Seeger	01:40
107	Oh, How He Lied	Pete Seeger	01:38
108	Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow	Pete Seeger	02:40
109	Leatherwing Bat	Pete Seeger	03:06
110	Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier	Pete Seeger	02:22
111	Farther Along	Pete Seeger	02:29
112	Go Down, Moses	Pete Seeger	02:52
113	All My Trials	Pete Seeger	03:03
114	Monsieur Banjo	Pete Seeger	02:07
115	No More Auction Block	Pete Seeger	01:53
116	Hole in the Bucket	Pete Seeger	02:14
117	What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor	Pete Seeger	02:13
118	Army Life	Pete Seeger	02:02
119	Blue Mountain Lake	Pete Seeger	02:44
120	Lady Margaret	Pete Seeger	02:51
121	John Hardy	Pete Seeger	03:29
122	Johnson	Pete Seeger	02:48
123	John Riley	Pete Seeger	02:25
124	Washer Lad	Pete Seeger	01:11
125	Talking Blues	Pete Seeger	02:01
126	Lolly Too Dum	Pete Seeger	03:31
127	T. B. Blues	Pete Seeger	04:00
128	Summertime	Pete Seeger	03:40