PETE SEEGER: 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.



1 Trail to Mexico
2 Red River Valley
3 Old Joe Clark
4 St James Infirmary
5 Green County Bachelor
6 Ox Driver's Song
7 Buffalo Gals
8 Joe Bowers
9 Texian Boys
10 My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
11 Johnny Gray
12 Cowboy Yodel
13 Sioux Indians
14 Ida Red
15 Holler
16 Cumberland Gap
17 Wake Up, Jacob
18 Sweet Betsy from Pike
19 Buffalo Skinners
20 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
21 Stewball
22 Whoopie Ti-Yo-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies
23 Strawberry Roan
24 Jay Gould's Daughter
25 Play-Party
26 I Never Will Marry
27 Riflemen of Bennington
28 Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo)
29 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase