Folk songs

Oh where / Ramblin' boy / The butchers boy / Factory girl / Last kind words / I see the sign / Montagne, que tu es haute / Johnny has gone for a soldier / Lullaby

Pickin' & grinnin' [sound recording] : great folk songs for kids.

Picking and grinning

Great folk songs for kids

I had a rooster Garden song All I really need Skip to my Lou Shortnin' bread Fishin' blues Riding in my car Little red caboose Grandfather's clock Crawfish song Pick a bale o' cotton Catch that train I've been working on the railroad Corn, beans, & squash Little brown dog Home

Echoes of Africa in folk songs of the Americas

Badouma paddlers. Abatutsi girls. O, Desayo! Guess what I've got! Strength of the lion. Buffalo driver's song. Rise and stretch! Maiden's initiation. Youth's stick dance. Mind your bittnet -- Fai ogoun. Melissa. La place Congo. Bon soir dames. Mama send me. 'Gelique O! Choucoune. Panama'm tombé -- Michié Preval. Aurore Pradere. Carolin'. Sweet Patate. Michie Banjo. Oh, didn't he ramble. When the saints go marching in. [Jazz arrangement of] When the saints go marching in -- King of the river (Sikilanga). If you hit me. Ma Teodora. Chopping the cane. Guaracha. Maria-la-O. Congo passes. Last rumba -- Baquine. The seven daughters. We come from the mountains. Fresh fish today -- Tingalayo. Cordelia Brown. Water come a me eye. Hosanna. Linstead market. Day, dah light -- Tico Tico. Shepherdess -- Incantations: Xango ; Aba L'Ogum. Adeus, adeus. Sing! sing! sing! Bamba-lele. Boomba! Jesu is crying. Senhora of San Benito. Shoo! Shoo! Barata! Zinga-Za. Don Francisco. Jongo. Amapola, La Creole-a -- Cowboy dance. Goodbye Venezuela -- Viva Panama. A fair wind's blowing. Ay, Caramba! -- Sweet Oranges. Blueberries -- Somebody's knocking at your door. No hiding place. Down by the riverside. Every time I feel the spirit. Come an' go with me. That suits me. Rock-a my soul -- Looky yonder, where de sun done gone. Peas n' the rice. Long John. Chicka hanka. Bring me li'l' water, Silvy. Rock Island line -- Go 'way from my window. Chilly winds. Ten thousand miles. Ev'ry night when the sun goes in. Midnight special. Sugar Babe Blues. Darlin' Corey. Careless love. Joe Turner blues -- Short'nin' bread. Raise a ruckus tonight. Liza Jane. Buffalo Gals. Oh, dem golden slippers.

Echoes of Africa in folk songs of the Americas

Songs of man : the international book of folk songs

All my trials -- Amen -- As I me walked -- Ballad of the boll weevil -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- Barb'ra Ellen -- Beyond the mountain -- Billy McGee McGaw -- The Blaydon races -- Blow away the mountain dew -- The bonnie Earl of Murray -- The Boston come-all-ye -- Buffalo skinners -- Bury me beneath the willow -- Caller herrin' -- Can ye sew cushions? -- A capital ship -- Captain Jinks -- Carmen Carmela -- Chairs to mend -- The Christ child's lullaby -- Clear the track -- Click go the shears -- Collier laddie -- Colorado trail -- Come all ye fair and tender ladies -- The cowboy's prayer -- The crawdad song -- The cruise of the Bigaler -- The cuckoo (U.S.) -- Cuckoo's advice -- The cuckoo is a pretty bird -- The cuckoo's spring song -- The cuckoo's welcome -- Dance to your daddy -- The dark eyed sailor -- Dashing away with the smoothing iron -- Delia's gone -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- Dona nobis pacem -- Down in a coal mine -- Down by the Salley Gardens -- Down by the Embarras -- Edward -- Everybody loves Saturday night -- The farmer is the man -- The fairy's love song -- Farewell to Liverpool -- The four Marys -- The fox -- Frog went a-courting -- Gaudeamus igitur -- Geordie -- Gipsum Davy -- Go to sleep -- Goober peas -- The great silkie -- Green grow the rushes, Oh -- Greenland whale fishery -- Gypsy rover -- Hal Far Biss -- Hallelujah -- Hangman -- He' gone away -- Hop up and jump up -- The housewife's lament -- I know my love -- I know where I'm going -- I love my rooster -- I never will marry -- If you want to write to me -- Ilkley moor baht hat -- I'm a stranger here -- I've got no use for the women -- John Henry -- Johnny, I hardly knew yuh -- The keeper would a-hunting go -- Kemo, kimo -- Kum ba yah -- Kum bachur atzel -- La firolera -- The leprechaun -- Lift a glass -- The Lincolnshire poacher -- Little Billee -- Little bird at my window -- Little Moses -- Little wee croodin doo -- Looby loo -- Look Mister Cuckoo -- The Lord is my shepherd -- Lord Rendall -- Lovely moon -- The lover's cuckoo -- Lydia Pinkham -- Mariani -- Mary Ann -- Meadowland -- Meadows green -- The merry golden tree -- Metamorphosis -- Mi caballo blanco -- Milking croon I -- Milking croon II -- The miller's will -- Mister Rabbit -- Molly Brannigan -- The murdered brother -- My boy Willie -- My dame hath a lame tame crane -- My Lagan love -- My little Mohee -- My pigeon house -- New oysters -- Nick nack paddy whack -- Nine hundred miles -- No more auction block -- Oh dear mama, I'm feeling so badly -- Oh, Sally, my dear -- Old Dan Tucker -- Old Grumble -- Old time religion -- Old Vermeland -- One man shall mow my meadow -- One more day -- Over in the meadow -- Peat bog soldiers -- Poor lonesome cowboy -- Poor old horse -- Poor young girl -- Poor young man -- The rakes of Mallow -- The ransomed soldier -- Red iron ore -- The road to the isles -- Robin Hood and the tanner -- Sakura -- Searching for lambs -- The seeds of love -- Shoo-fly -- Single girl -- Simple gifts -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Softly calls the cuckoo -- The speckled fish -- Spin, spin -- Stranger -- Suliram -- Summer is a comin' in -- Tanz fraylach -- Ten thousand cattle -- Tender love -- That's a lie -- There was a man and he was mad -- This little light of mine -- The three horsemen -- The three ravens -- The three tailors -- The Titanic -- The trees they do grow high -- Twelve gates to the city -- The two magicians -- The two sisters -- Un deux trois -- Valencianita -- Valiant marine -- The vicar of Bray -- Vigolin -- The Virgin Mary had one son -- Vive la compagnie -- Wanderin' -- The wark of the weavers -- The water is wide -- A wee drappie o't -- When Jesus wept -- Whiskey, Johnny -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- White coral bells -- Who built the ark -- Who did? -- Will ye go lassie? -- The willow tree -- The wine testers -- Winter's night -- Wondrous love -- The wren boys.

Classic folk songs for kids : from Smithsonian Folkways. [sound recording]

Froggie went a-courtin’ Polly Wolly doodle Skip to my Lou I've been working on the railroad She'll be comin' 'round the mountain John Henry Brown girl in the ring Old King Cole Green grass grows all around La rana (The frog) I had a rooster Go tell Aunt Rhody Miss Mary Mack Yankee Doodle Rock Island line Big Rock Candy Mountain On top of Old Smoky Crawdad hole Oh Susannah Goober peas Arroz con leche = Rice and milk Riding in my car Whoopie ti-yi-yo, get along little dogies Home on the range Shenandoah

Along came a giant [sound recording] : traditional American folk songs for young folks

The NPR curious listener's guide to American folk music

Foreword by Linda Ronstadt -- What is American folk music? -- Story of American folk music -- Varieties of American folk music -- Performers -- Songs -- Folk music on CD -- Language of American folk music -- Resources for curious listeners --

I believe I'll go back home : roots and revival in New England folk music

To Make a Better World We Came Mere for to Sing -- When First unto This Country Settlement and Song in New England, 1600-1820 -- There's a Good Time Corning Reform in New England, 1810-1900 -- The Sound of Young America America Westward and Southward, 1800-1900 -- Down in the Groove Recorded Music in America, 1890-1960 -- Rolling Home to Old New England The Beginnings of the New England Folk Revival, 1940-1962 -- Tenting Tonight oil the Banks of the Charles Boston and Cambridge, 1960-1963 -- The Lay of the Land folk Music from across the New England Countryside -- The Hour That the Ship Comes In Boston and Cambridge, 1963-1964 -- The Chords of Fame Boston and Cambridge, 1965-1966 -- Stayed Around This Old Town Too Long The Revival Tosses Along, 1967-1968 -- Where -- Did You Come From, Where Do You Go? Winning Back Our Own Hearts and Minds -- VOICES -- Coffeehouses in. New England, 1958-1968 -- Music Recordings in the Folk New England Collection, 1948-1968 -- A Sampler of Songs from the Folk Revival -- Contra Dance at Newport, 1965.-- Machine generated contents note

Woody at 100 [sound recording].

Songs. Selections

Woody at one hundred

Woody Guthrie centennial collection

Centennial collection

This land is your land Pastures of plenty Riding in my car (Car song) The Grand Coulee Dam Talking dust bowl So long, it's been good to know yuh (Dusty old dust) Ramblin' round Philadelphia lawyer Hard travelin' Pretty Boy Floyd Hobo's lullaby Talking Columbia The sinking of the Reuben James Jesus Christ Gypsy Davy New York town Going down the road (feeling bad) Hard, ain't it hard The biggest thing that man has ever done (The great historical bum) This land is your land Jarama Valley Why, oh why? I've got to know Better world a-comin' When that great ship went down (The great ship) A dollar down and a dollar a week Talking Centralia 1913 massacre Dirty overalls My daddy (flies a ship in the sky) Worried man blues Hangknot, slipknot Buffalo skinners Howdi do Jackhammer John The ranger's command So long, it's been good to know you What are we waiting on? Lindbergh Ludlow massacre Bad Lee Brown (Cocaine blues) Two good men Farmer-labor train The jolly banker We shall be free The Los Angeles recordings. I ain't got no home (in this world anymore) Them big city ways Do re mi Skid row serenade Radio program : the Ballad Gazette with Woody Guthrie. This land is your land ; What did the deep sea say? ; Blow ye winds ; Trouble on the waters ; Blow the man down ; Normandy was her name ; The sinking of the Reuben James BBC Children's hour, July 7, 1944. Intro ; Wabash Cannonball ; 900 miles ; Stagger Lee ; Pretty Boy Floyd People's songs hootenanny. Ladies auxiliary ; Weaver's life WNYC radio program : Folk songs of America, December 12, 1940. John Hardy ; Jesse James ; Tom Joad Reckless talk All work together My little seed Goodnight little Cathy

Pete remembers Woody [sound recording]

Woody's ghost, part 1 (2:45) / Pete meets Woody [spoken] (2:34) -- Are there any mountains near here? [spoken] (1:11) -- Woody writes "This land is your land" [spoken] (1:53) -- America learns "This land is your land" [spoken] (1:15) -- My big education [spoken] (1:28) -- 66 highway blues (2:14) / How to sing in saloons [spoken] (1:10) -- Riding the freights [spoken] (1:25) -- Rambling the Appalachians [spoken] (3:12) -- Which side are you on? / You'd better get them singing [spoken] (1:45) -- Union maid (2:07) / Songs Woody liked [spoken] (2:00) -- New York town (2:35) / Reading and writing [spoken] (3:31) -- The minstrel song [spoken] (1:46) -- On the radio, Tom Mooney and Will Gear [spoken] (3:03) -- Do re mi (3:25) / Woody sez [spoken] (1:09) -- Why do you stand there in the rain? [spoken] (1:25) -- The flip-flop [spoken] (1:10) -- The Almanacs go west [spoken] (2:54) -- The sinking of the Reuben James (3:25) / The folk process [spoken] (0:21) -- Woody trilogy (1:25) / Fighting fascism starts right here [spoken] (1:14) -- If I had a hammer (2:19)

Woody's ghost, part 2 (1:31) / From WWII to the Weavers [spoken] (2:44) -- Just make it a general song [spoken] (0:53) -- So long it's been good to know yuh! (1:31) / The last time I heard Woody sing [spoken] (1:45) -- Pastures of plenty (4:33) / The freest place on earth [spoken] (1:40) -- This machine kills fascists [spoken] (1:04) -- Little Arlo writes things down [spoken] (1:25) -- Woody in the balcony [spoken] (1:47) -- This land is your land (5:04) / The last visit [spoken] (1:08) -- My peace (2:34) / Woody lives on [spoken] (0:41) -- I ain't got no home (4:51) / Howdy little newlycome (4:14) / Peace pin boogie (3:38) / Woody's "rulin's" (4:01) / I've got to know (5:41) / Woody's ghost, part 3 (1:22)

Santiago [sound recording]