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Table of Contents:

• disc 1. Washer lad (1:12)
• Shamrock (2:23)
• When I was single (1:45)
• The ballad of the tea party (1:25)
• The liberty song (2:58)
• The dying sergeant (2:50)
• The battle of Saratoga (1:54)
• Cornwallis Burgoyned (2:23)
• The buffalo skinner (2:42)
• Davy Crockett (4:56)
• Sioux Indians (3:38)
• Greer County bachelor (2:35)
• Crossing the plains (4:06)
• The cowboy yodel (:52)
• Free elections (1:29)
• Jefferson and liberty (1:54)
• Andrew Jackson (2:19)
• Oh dear, what can the matter be? (1:55)
• No Irish need apply (1:53)
• The Harrison song (2:35).

• disc 2. Hail Africa band (1:53)
• Abolitionist hymn (1:24)
• The bonnie blue flag / Harry McCarthy (3:05)
• The Cumberland crew (2:48)
• General Patterson (2:21)
• In Charleston jail (1:44)
• All quiet along the Potomac / Ethel Beers (2:41)
• Lincoln and liberty / Jesse Hutchinson (1:22)
• Old rebel (1:45)
• Pittsburgh town / Almanac Singers (1:29)
• The blind fiddler (1:15)
• Eight hour day (1:00)
• My children are seven in number / Della Mae Graham (3:56)
• Let them wear their watches fine (3:39)
• Cotton mill colic (1:38)
• Mill mother's lament / Ella Mae Wiggin (1:36)
• The death of Harry Simms / Jim Garland (2:11)
• TVA song / George Rucker (2:01)
• Inflation (1:40)
• Sixty per cent / Les Rice (1:03).
• disc 3. Raggedy (2:30)
• Seven cent cotton and forty cent meat (1:57)
• Dust storm disaster / Woody Guthrie (3:12)
• Old England forty years ago (6:02)
• The hunters of Kentucky / Samuel Woodward (3:02)
• Santa Anna (1:24)
• Roll Alabama roll (2:04)
• The flood and the storm / Woody Guthrie (2:02)
• Well, what a time (3:25)
• Japanese Buddhist service (:45)
• Indian (Hindu) religious hymn (2:03)
• Moslem hymn (2:38)
• It's the same all over / Art Samuels (2:12)
• To i hola (2:03)
• Erdo (3:26)
• Ntabezikude (2:14).

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Contributors:

Barouh, Albert , writer of accompanying material

Cron, Theodore O. , writer of accompanying material

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014 , performer

Seeger, Peggy, 1935- , performer

Nye, Hermes , performer

McCurdy, Ed, 1919-2000

English, Logan , performer

Knight, Elizabeth (Singer) , performer

House, Wallace , performer

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967 , performer

Silverman, Jerry, 1931- , performer

Grail Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Songs chiefly in English.

Related Series:

Custom compact disc series

Subjects:

Folk songs, English — United States

United States — History — Songs and music

Folk songs, English

United States

Genres:

History

Songs and music

Performers:

Sung by Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Hermes Nye, Ed McCurdy, Logan English, Elizabeth Knight, Wallace House, Woody Guthrie, Jerry Silverman, and the Grail Singers.

General Notes:

Songs anonymous or unattributed except as noted.
Smithsonian Folkways: FH 5801; F-5801 on container spine.
Previous released on cassette and LP in 1960 as FH 5801.
Songs selected and grouped for use in social studies units in grades 7, 8, and 9, by Albert Barouh and Theodore O. Cron.
Includes instructions to teachers, a description of and questions about each song, and texts of most of the songs (23 p. ; 28 cm.) inserted in container.
Contents on container inaccurate as to spelling, position of Dust storm disaster (on disc 3, not disc 2) and occasional timings. Contents note is accurate.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 88001- 88002

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Smithsonian Folkways: FH 5801AB
Publisher Number, Smithsonian Folkways: FH 5801CD

OCLC Numbers:

42414218