American Favorite Ballads, Volume 3

Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. Armed with a silken, irresistible voice, bold faith in the power of song and a five-string banjo or twelve-string guitar, he offers up his music not just as entertainment, but as a means of making the world a better place. This third volume in a series of compilations of songs from the Folkways Records classic American Favorite Ballads series of the 1950s and 1960s again features Pete Seeger interpreting some of the classic songs from America’s history. These are the songs that children sing at camp and learn at school like their parents before them. This recording includes extensive notes on the history of these songs. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.

Songlist:
1. Gypsy Davy
2. Deep Blue Sea
3. New River Train
4. St. James Hospital
5. E-ri-e Canal
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Boll Weevil
8. The Girl I Left Behind
9. When I First Came to This Land
10. The Titanic
11. Elanoy
12. Lady of Carlysle
13. My Good Man (Our Goodman)
14. Golden Vanity
15. Ain’t It a Shame
16. Swanee River
17. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
18. The Boys from County Mayo
19. No Irish Need Apply
20. Paddy Works on the Railroad
21. Arkansas Traveler
22. When I Was Single
23. Wond’rous Love
24. Ground Hog
25. Old Blue
26. She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
27. Erie Canal

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