American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3

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

Tracklist

1▼CD
#TitleRatingLength
1Gypsy Davy
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (aka The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O / The Gypsy Laddie / Black Jack Davy / Seven Yellow Gypsies) (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Mews Music
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 1) and Child Ballads (number: 200)
5:00
2Deep Blue Sea
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1954)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1954)
recording of:
Deep Blue Sea (traditional) (in 1954)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3119)
2:14
3New River Train
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
New River Train
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4568)
2:59
4St. James Hospital
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
St. James Infirmary
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:56
5E‐ri‐e Canal
recording of:
The Erie Canal
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 6598)
3:21
6St. Louis Blues
recording of:
St. Louis Blues
lyricist and composer:
William Christopher Handy (in 1913)
publisher:
Handy Bros. Music Co., Inc.
sub-publisher:
Reuter & Reuter Förlags AB
2:23
7Boll Weevil
recording of:
Boll Weevil (traditional)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:52
8The Girl I Left Behind
recording of:
The Girl I Left Behind
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
1:11
9When I First Came to This Land
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
cover recording of:
When I First Came to This Land
lyricist:
Oscar Brand
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:41
10The Titanic
recording of:
The Titanic (aka "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down")
publisher:
William & Versey Smith (in 1927)
writer:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.) (from 1915 until 1916)
3:43
11El-A-Noy
1:49
12Lady of Carlysle
3:19
13My Good Man
2:39
14Golden Vanity
recording of:
Golden Vanity
publisher:
Peter Kennedy (co-author Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland), Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist) and Samuel Pepys (in 1682)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 122) and Child Ballads (number: 286)
3:51
15Ain't It A Shame
1:48
16Swanee River
3:02
17Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
recording of:
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 10072)
4:32
18The Boys From County Mayo
2:24
19No Irish Need Apply
recording of:
No Irish Need Apply
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger
1:55
20Paddy Works On The Railroad
2:26
21Arkansas Traveler
recording of:
The Arkansas Traveler (former Arkansas state song)
lyricist:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist) and Colonel Sanford C. “Sandy” Faulkner
2:41
22When I Was Single
recording of:
When I Was Single
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
1:17
23Wondrous Love
recording of:
Wondrous Love
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist) and Brooks Williams (acoustic guitarist & singer‐songwriter)
publisher:
Red Guitar Blue Music (publisher, do not use as release label)
part of:
The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition (number: 159) and Roud Folk Song Index (number: 5089)
1:38
24Ground Hog
recording of:
Ground Hog
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:49
25Old Blue
recording of:
Old Blue
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4313)
2:22
26She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain
recording of:
She’ll Be Coming ’round the Mountain
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4204)
1:57
27Erie Canal
recording of:
Low Bridge, Everybody Down (or Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal)
lyricist and composer:
Thomas S. Allen (Vaudeville composer) (in 1905)
2:34