American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5

~ Release by Pete Seeger (see all versions of this release, 4 available)

Annotation

Copyright: © 2007 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
℗ 2007 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Annotation last modified on 2026-01-06 16:33 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1Trail to Mexico
2:49
2Red River Valley
recording of:
Red River Valley
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 756)
2:10
3Old Joe Clark
recording of:
Old Joe Clark
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3594)
3:57
4St. James Infirmary
recording of:
St. James Infirmary (Joe Primrose’s arrangement)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Joe Primrose
publisher:
EMI Harmonies Limited
arrangement of:
St. James Infirmary
version of:
The Unfortunate Lass (Bad Girl's Lament)
2:34
5Greer County Bachelor
2:36
6Ox Driver’s Song
recording of:
Ox Driver's Song
writer:
Hoyt Axton
1:55
7Buffalo Gals
recording of:
Buffalo Gals (American trad.)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:22
8Joe Bowers
recording of:
Joe Bowers
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:00
9Texian Boys
recording of:
Texian Boys
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
1:31
10My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
recording of:
My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
0:29
11Johnny Gray
1:55
12Cowboy Yodel
recording of:
Cowboy Yodel
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
0:55
13Sioux Indians
3:42
14Ida Red
recording of:
Ida Red
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3429)
1:57
15Holler
1:19
16Cumberland Gap
recording of:
Cumberland Gap
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3413)
1:23
17Wake Up Jacob
0:21
18Sweet Betsy From Pike
recording of:
Sweet Betsy from Pike
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:28
19Buffalo Skinners
recording of:
Buffalo Skinners (Woody Guthrie lyrics)
additional lyricist:
Ephraim Braley (Canadian logger in the mid 1850's) and Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
version of:
Buffalo Skinners
version of:
Buffalo Skinners
2:46
20Whiskey Rye Whiskey
recording of:
Rye Whiskey
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Blackwing Music
2:18
21Stewball
recording of:
Skewball (aka Skewbald)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 456)
4:57
22Whoopie Ti‐Yi‐Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
recording of:
Whoopie Ti Yi Yo (Git Along, Little Dogies)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 827)
1:31
23Strawberry Roan
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
The Strawberry Roan
lyricist and composer:
Curley Fletcher
5:05
24Jay Gould’s Daughter
2:42
25Play Party
1:26
26I Will Never Marry
recording of:
I Never Will Marry
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 466)
2:07
27Riflemen of Bennington
recording of:
The Riflemen's Song at Bennington
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
John W. Allison (American folk singer-songwriter)
2:14
28Kingdom Coming
2:36
29Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
recording of:
Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
writer:
David Harrison Macon (Banjo) and Pete Seeger
3:35