American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5

These are the songs Pete Seeger sang for America, songs every school child and summer camp attendee learned to sing and now sing with their children and grandchildren. The five-volume American Favorite Ballads (issued 1957 to 1962) is a cornerstone of Seeger’s work with Folkways Records. This CD concludes this reissue series of digitally remastered recordings, including not only the complete original set but many more songs from other Seeger albums of the same era, including the 1954 Frontier Ballads collection, which makes up most of this volume. 36-page booklet, 29 tracks, 67 minutes.

Track Listing

101	Trail to Mexico	Pete Seeger	02:45
102	Red River Valley	Pete Seeger	02:05
103	Old Joe Clark	Pete Seeger	03:53
104	St. James Infirmary	Pete Seeger	02:30
105	Greer County Bachelor	Pete Seeger	02:32
106	Ox Driver's Song	Pete Seeger	01:52
107	Buffalo Gals	Pete Seeger	02:18
108	Joe Bowers	Pete Seeger	02:56
109	Texian Boys	Pete Seeger	01:26
110	My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines	Pete Seeger	00:25
111	Johnny Gray	Pete Seeger	01:51
112	Cowboy Yodel	Pete Seeger	00:51
113	Sioux Indians	Pete Seeger	03:38
114	Ida Red	Pete Seeger	01:53
115	Holler	Pete Seeger	01:15
116	Cumberland Gap	Pete Seeger	01:18
117	Wake Up Jacob	Pete Seeger	00:17
118	Sweet Betsy from Pike	Pete Seeger	03:24
119	Buffalo Skinners	Pete Seeger	02:42
120	Whiskey Rye Whiskey	Pete Seeger	02:14
121	Stewball	Pete Seeger	04:51
122	Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get along Little Dogies	Pete Seeger	01:27
123	Strawberry Roan	Pete Seeger	05:01
124	Jay Gould's Daughter	Pete Seeger	02:37
125	Play Party	Pete Seeger	01:22
126	I Will Never Marry	Pete Seeger	02:02
127	Riflemen of Bennignton	Pete Seeger	02:10
128	Kingdom Coming	Pete Seeger	02:32
129	Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase	Pete Seeger	03:35