American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5

Pete Seeger's life, music, and legacy encapsulate nearly a century of American history and culture. He has immersed himself in folk music and used it, like Johnny Appleseed, to "plant the seeds of a better tomorrow in the homes across our land." The songs in this collection of 139 American Favorite Ballads narrate tales of ordinary people and their extraordinary deeds, and show Pete at the crossroads of the past and the future putting his own stamp on America's folk song heritage while bequeathing it to generations to come.

Track Listing

101	John Henry	Pete Seeger	04:34
102	Shenandoah	Pete Seeger	01:50
103	Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)	Pete Seeger	02:35
104	Black Girl	Pete Seeger	02:33
105	Skip to My Lou	Pete Seeger	03:11
106	The Big Rock Candy Mountain	Pete Seeger	03:08
107	Clementine	Pete Seeger	03:05
108	Yankee Doodle	Pete Seeger	01:40
109	Home on the Range	Pete Seeger	01:51
110	John Brown's Body	Pete Seeger	02:59
111	Goodnight, Irene	Pete Seeger	03:43
112	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	Pete Seeger	02:37
113	Oh, Susanna	Pete Seeger	01:17
114	Wayfaring Stranger	Pete Seeger	01:16
115	Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep	Pete Seeger	02:31
116	Down in the Valley	Pete Seeger	03:45
117	The Wabash Cannonball	Pete Seeger	03:05
118	On Top of Old Smoky	Pete Seeger	02:19
119	Frankie and Johnny	Pete Seeger	04:27
120	I Ride an Old Paint	Pete Seeger	03:24
121	The Wreck of the Old 97	Pete Seeger	01:53
122	Wagoner's Lad	Pete Seeger	01:25
123	Old Dan Tucker	Pete Seeger	02:14
124	I've Been Working on the Railroad	Pete Seeger	01:27
125	Cielito Lindo	Pete Seeger	02:34
126	So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)	Pete Seeger	03:22
127	America the Beautiful	Pete Seeger	01:38
128	This Land is Your Land	Pete Seeger	02:52
201	Barbara Allen	Pete Seeger	02:54
202	Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn	Pete Seeger	01:37
203	Midnight Special	Pete Seeger	03:06
204	House of the Rising Sun	Pete Seeger	02:32
205	Careless Love	Pete Seeger	03:06
206	Oh, What a Beautiful City (Twelve Gates to the City)	Pete Seeger	03:27
207	Poor Boy	Pete Seeger	02:17
208	Sally Ann	Pete Seeger	01:31
209	The Riddle Song	Pete Seeger	02:26
210	Go Tell Aunt Rhodie	Pete Seeger	03:14
211	The Water is Wide	Pete Seeger	03:34
212	The Fox	Pete Seeger	02:05
213	The Keeper and the Doe	Pete Seeger	02:12
214	Pretty Polly	Pete Seeger	03:37
215	Jesse James	Pete Seeger	04:27
216	Stagolee (Stagger Lee)	Pete Seeger	02:13
217	Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair	Pete Seeger	02:31
218	Camptown Races	Pete Seeger	01:31
219	Blow the Man Down	Pete Seeger	02:03
220	Froggie Went a Courtin'	Pete Seeger	02:51
221	I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song)	Pete Seeger	03:54
222	Putting On the Style	Pete Seeger	02:49
223	The Farmer's Curst Wife	Pete Seeger	02:50
224	Hard Travelin'	Pete Seeger	02:44
225	Alabama Bound	Pete Seeger	02:20
226	Wimoweh	Pete Seeger	03:01
227	Dink's Song	Pete Seeger	02:39
301	Gypsy Davy*	Pete Seeger	05:02
302	Deep Blue Sea	Pete Seeger	02:14
303	New River Train	Pete Seeger	02:59
304	St. James Hospital	Pete Seeger	02:55
305	E-ri-e Canal	Pete Seeger	03:21
306	St. Louis Blues	Pete Seeger	02:22
307	Boll Weevil	Pete Seeger	03:52
308	The Girl I Left Behind	Pete Seeger	01:10
309	When I First Came to This Land	Pete Seeger	02:40
310	The Titanic	Pete Seeger	03:43
311	Elanoy	Pete Seeger	01:48
312	Lady of Carlysle	Pete Seeger	03:19
313	My Good Man (Our Goodman)	Pete Seeger	02:38
314	Golden Vanity	Pete Seeger	03:50
315	Ain’t It a Shame	Pete Seeger	01:47
316	Swanee River	Pete Seeger	03:02
317	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	Pete Seeger	04:32
318	The Boys from County Mayo	Pete Seeger	02:24
319	No Irish Need Apply	Pete Seeger	01:54
320	Paddy Works on the Railroad	Pete Seeger	02:25
321	Arkansas Traveler	Pete Seeger	02:41
322	When I Was Single	Pete Seeger	01:17
323	Wond’rous Love	Pete Seeger	01:38
324	Ground Hog	Pete Seeger	03:48
325	Old Blue	Pete Seeger	02:22
326	She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain	Pete Seeger	01:56
327	Erie Canal	Pete Seeger	02:34
401	Banks of the Ohio	Pete Seeger	03:32
402	You are My Sunshine	Pete Seeger	01:45
403	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum	Pete Seeger	01:39
404	The Foggy Dew	Pete Seeger	01:59
405	Molly Malone	Pete Seeger	02:21
406	Old Maid's Song	Pete Seeger	01:43
407	Oh, How He Lied	Pete Seeger	01:41
408	Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow	Pete Seeger	02:44
409	Leatherwing Bat	Pete Seeger	03:10
410	Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier	Pete Seeger	02:26
411	Farther Along	Pete Seeger	02:33
412	Go Down, Moses	Pete Seeger	02:56
413	All My Trials	Pete Seeger	03:08
414	Monsieur Banjo	Pete Seeger	02:11
415	No More Auction Block	Pete Seeger	01:56
416	Hole in the Bucket	Pete Seeger	02:17
417	What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor	Pete Seeger	02:16
418	Army Life	Pete Seeger	02:06