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American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1-5 (Bonus Tracks, Box Set, Single)

Pete Seeger

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Released: Jan 1957
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
At the height of the folk revival, between the years 1957 and '62, Pete Seeger released a five-volume collection titled American Favorite Ballads. Primarily sold to schools and libraries, they were intended as teaching guides, so kids could learn the basics of the American folk tradition. We're talking chestnuts like "Yankee Doodle," "Gypsy Davy," "You Are My Sunshine" and so on. In addition to the five original albums, this box set boasts a fat stack of bonus tracks culled from the same era.
- Justin Farrar
Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1-5 2009-02-01
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    Shenandoah
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    Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
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    Yankee Doodle
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    John Brown's Body
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    Goodnight, Irene
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    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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    Oh, Susanna
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    Wayfaring Stranger
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    Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
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    Down In The Valley
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    The Wabash Cannonball
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    On Top Of Old Smoky
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    Frankie and Johnny
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    I Ride An Old Paint
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    The Wreck Of The Old 97
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    Wagoner's Lad
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    Old Dan Tucker
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    I've Been Working On The Railroad
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    Cielito Lindo
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    So Long, It's Been Good To Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
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    America The Beautiful
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    This Land Is Your Land
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    Barbara Allen
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    Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
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    Midnight Special
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    House Of The Rising Sun
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    Careless Love
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    Oh, What A Beautiful City (Twelve Gates To The City)
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    Poor Boy
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    Sally Ann
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    The Riddle Song
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    Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
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    The Water Is Wide
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    The Fox
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    The Keeper and The Doe
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    Pretty Polly
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    Jesse James
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    Stagolee (Stagger Lee)
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    Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
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    Camptown Races
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    Blow The Man Down
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    Froggie Went A Courtin'
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    I Had A Rooster (Barnyard Song)
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    Putting On The Style
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    The Farmer's Curst Wife
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    Hard Travelin'
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    Alabama Bound
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    Dink's Song
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    Gypsy Davy
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    Deep Blue Sea
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    New River Train
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    St. James Hospital
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    E-Ri-E Canal
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    St. Louis Blues
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    Boll Weevil
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    The Girl I Left Behind
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    When I First Came To This Land
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    The Titanic
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    Elanoy
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    Lady Of Carlysle
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    My Good Man (Our Goodman)
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    Golden Vanity
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    Ain’T It A Shame
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    Swanee River
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    Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
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    The Boys From County Mayo
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    No Irish Need Apply
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    Paddy Works On The Railroad
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    Arkansas Traveler
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    When I Was Single
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    Wond’Rous Love
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    She’Ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain
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    Erie Canal
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    Banks Of The Ohio
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    You Are My Sunshine
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    Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
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    The Foggy Dew
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    Molly Malone
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    Old Maid's Song
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    Oh, How He Lied
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    Where The Old Allegheny and The Monongahela Flow
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    Leatherwing Bat
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    Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
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    Farther Along
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    Go Down, Moses
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    All My Trials
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    Monsieur Banjo
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    No More Auction Block
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    Hole In The Bucket
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    What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor
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    Army Life
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    Blue Mountain Lake
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    Lady Margret
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    John Hardy
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    Johnson
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    John Riley
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    Washer Lad
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    Talking Blues
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    Lolly Too Dum
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    T. B. Blues
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    Summertime
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    Trail To Mexico
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    Red River Valley
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    Old Joe Clark
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    St. James Infirmary
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    Greer County Bachelor
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    Ox Driver's Song
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    Buffalo Gals
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    Joe Bowers
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    Texian Boys
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    My Sweetheart Is A Mule In The Mines
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    Johnny Gray
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    Cowboy Yodel
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    Sioux Indians
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    Ida Red
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    Holler
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    Cumberland Gap
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    Wake Up Jacob
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    Sweet Betsy From Pike
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    Buffalo Skinners
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    Whiskey Rye Whiskey
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    Stewball
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    Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
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    Strawberry Roan
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    Jay Gould's Daughter
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    Play Party
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    I Will Never Marry
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    Riflemen Of Bennington
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    Kingdom Coming
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    Cumberland Moutain Bear Chase
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    My Gallant Black Bess (Bonus Track - Previously Unreleased)
    My Gallant Black Bess (Bonus Track - Previously Unreleased)