Song Swappers & Pete Seeger - Folk Songs of Four Continents - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Skip to My Lou 2. Blow the Man Down 3. Weave-Room Blues 4. The Farmer Is the Man 5. Wood-Chopping Song 6. Four Pence a Day 7. Vigndig a Fremd Kind 8. Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield 9. Pepsi-Cola 10. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 11. Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho 12. Oh, Worrycare 13. On Top of Old Smokey 14. Goodnight, Irene 15. John Henry 16. Dayenu 17. It Could Be a Wonderful World

In the original liner notes, Pete Seeger writes, Inch[This album] is influenced by the folk traditions of the American South, popular music of the airwaves, and recordings heard of ethnic music from Africa, Russia, Asia, the Caribbean, and also of the symphony.... The selections together tell, we hope, of our love for the many peoples, our neighbors in a small world.Inch Album Tracks 1. Meadowland 2. Nonesuch (Morris Dance) 3. Ragtime Annie 4. I Know My Love 5. Rye Straw 6. Lady Gay 7. Blues 8. Singing in the Country 9. Lord Randall 10. Chaconne 11. Pygmy Tune (Africa) 12. Pretty Little Widder 13. My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains 14. The Battle of New Orleans

This album exhibits Pete Seeger's omnivorous approach to music. Here, he plays a variety of instruments, and this collection features a far-ranging repertoire. Seeger's musical travels took him to workers' camps, military barracks, and to the Library of Congress's archives, collecting, learning, and singing songs all the way. Album Tracks 1. Johnny Comes Down to Hilo 2. Putting on the Style 3. Deep Blue Sea 4. Spanish Folk Song (Happy Birthday) 5. Delia's Gone 6. Go and Dig My Grave 7. Italian Christmas Song 8. Hoe Down (Whoa Mule) / I'm on My Way to Cannan's Land / Hey Li-Lee, Li-Lee-Lo (Medley) 9. Lullaby / Beans, Bacon and Gravy / Suliram (Indonesian Lullaby) / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (Medley)