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The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Pete Seeger
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The Smithsonian Folkways Collection is a career-spanning anthology of one of America’s most quintessential, celebrated, and influential musicians. Featuring classic recordings, 20 previously unreleased tracks, historic live performances, and special collaborations, this set encompasses over 60 years of Pete’s Folkways catalog, released on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

He was a singer, a rebel, and a voice of the people. With a banjo and a selfless dedication to justice and the transformative power of music, he inspired all of humanity to question the status quo, to sing out and speak up against oppression wherever they witnessed it. His body of work reflects a deep reverence for the earth and all of those who walk on it; you can hear it in his voice and in the voices of the thousands of people who sang and continue to sing with him every day.

This collection features a large-format 200-page book with hundreds of pages of essays, commentary, photographs, history, and liner notes, alongside 6 CDs of classic and unreleased music pulled from throughout Seeger’s career.

Track Listing

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We Shall Overcome Pete Seeger 04:43
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If I Had a Hammer Pete Seeger 01:55
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Turn Turn Turn Pete Seeger 02:48
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Goodnight, Irene Pete Seeger 03:45
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Guantanamera Pete Seeger 05:57
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The Bells of Rhymney Pete Seeger 05:25
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone Pete Seeger 02:06
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Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Pete Seeger 03:01
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Little Boxes Pete Seeger 02:01
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Tzena, Tzena, Tzena Pete Seeger 02:19
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So Long It’s Been Good to Know You Pete Seeger 03:23
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Mrs. McGrath Pete Seeger 04:19
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Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Pete Seeger 02:46
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Banks of Marble Pete Seeger 03:18
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Talking Atom Pete Seeger 02:29
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116
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Pete Seeger 05:24
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117
Puttin’ on the Style Pete Seeger 02:50
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118
Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Pete Seeger 04:14
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119
Viva la Quince Brigada Pete Seeger 03:03
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120
Living in the Country Pete Seeger 02:31
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This Land Is Your Land Pete Seeger 05:51
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Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line A-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today Pete Seeger 05:46
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You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge)  /John Henry Pete Seeger 06:15
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Sea Chanties: Boston “Come-All-Ye” (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler/ Johnny Come Down to Hilo  Pete Seeger 05:44
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Down in the Valley Pete Seeger 02:35
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Buffalo Gals Pete Seeger 01:46
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UAW-CIO Pete Seeger 02:03
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Dinky Die Pete Seeger 02:37
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Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam Pete Seeger 02:17
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Moorsoldaten Pete Seeger 02:19
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Listen Mr. Bilbo Pete Seeger 02:57
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211
Joe Hill Pete Seeger 02:40
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Roll the Union On Pete Seeger 02:39
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OPA Shout Pete Seeger 02:45
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214
Talking Union Pete Seeger 03:01
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215
John Riley Pete Seeger 02:27
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216
Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark  Pete Seeger 02:37
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217
Jam on Jerry’s Rocks Pete Seeger 01:39
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218
Lonesome Traveler Pete Seeger 02:35
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219
Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme Pete Seeger 01:11
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Chorale from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Pete Seeger 01:26
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221
Suliram Pete Seeger 02:17
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222
Babevuya Pete Seeger 01:51
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223
Blue Mountain Lake Pete Seeger 02:47
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224
Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won’t You Roll Down the Line  Pete Seeger 05:39
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225
Wasn’t That a Time Pete Seeger 03:32
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226
Which Side Are You On? Pete Seeger 02:11
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Foolish Frog Pete Seeger 07:24
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I Had a Rooster Pete Seeger 03:54
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Mr. Rabbit Pete Seeger 02:06
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304
Oh, Worrycare Pete Seeger 05:32
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Hard Times in the Mill Pete Seeger 02:16
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306
Casey Jones (the Union Scab) Pete Seeger 01:54
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The Death of Harry Simms Pete Seeger 02:14
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308
The Preacher and the Slave Pete Seeger 02:52
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I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister Pete Seeger 03:40
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Passing Through Pete Seeger 03:23
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Kumbaya Pete Seeger 03:08
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Black and White Pete Seeger 03:10
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Didn’t Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore Pete Seeger 06:22
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Midnight Special Pete Seeger 01:53
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315
Que Bonita Bandera Pete Seeger 03:46
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The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be Pete Seeger 01:33
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In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down Pete Seeger 04:27
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Hold On Pete Seeger 03:27
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Down by the Riverside Pete Seeger 05:14
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Wimoweh Pete Seeger 02:16
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Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation) Pete Seeger 03:12
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In Tarrytown Pete Seeger 03:43
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Oleanna Pete Seeger 02:03
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Deep Blue Sea Pete Seeger 03:30
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Barbara Allen Pete Seeger 02:48
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Big Rock Candy Mountain Pete Seeger 03:05
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House of the Rising Sun Pete Seeger 02:30
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Shenandoah Pete Seeger 01:47
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Go Tell Aunt Rhody Pete Seeger 03:15
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Bottle Up and Go Pete Seeger 05:11
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Hard Travelling Pete Seeger 02:40
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Dink’s Song Pete Seeger 02:37
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When I First Came to This Land Pete Seeger 02:40
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The Half Hitch Pete Seeger 05:20
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I Never Will Marry Pete Seeger 04:41
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Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase Pete Seeger 01:43
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No More Auction Block Pete Seeger 01:58
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Talking Blues Pete Seeger 02:05
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St. James Infirmary Pete Seeger 02:58
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Strawberry Roan Pete Seeger 05:01
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Follow the Drinking Gourd Pete Seeger 03:15
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Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh) Pete Seeger 01:30
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The Banks of Champlain Pete Seeger 02:16
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My Gallant Black Bess Pete Seeger 02:37
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Nonesuch Pete Seeger 03:33
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Battle of New Orleans Pete Seeger 02:46
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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Pete Seeger 02:32
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Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol) Pete Seeger 02:06
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The Quiz Show Pete Seeger 03:14
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Eight-Hour Day Pete Seeger 01:00
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The Popular Wobbly Pete Seeger 02:32
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Bourgeois Blues Pete Seeger 02:03
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Garbage Pete Seeger 02:57