Pete Seeger's life, music, and legacy encapsulate nearly a century of American history and culture. He has immersed himself in folk music and used it, like Johnny Appleseed, to "plant the seeds of a better tomorrow in the homes across our land." The songs in this collection of 139 American Favorite Ballads narrate tales of ordinary people and their extraordinary deeds, and show Pete at the crossroads of the past and the future putting his own stamp on America's folk song heritage while bequeathing it to generations to come.
CD1 (01:12:00) (Recording Date 1950 - 1962)
1. Jonn Henry
2. Shenandoah
3. Blue-Tailed Fly
4. Black Girl
5. Skip to my Lou
6. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
7. Clementine
8. Yankee Doodle
9. Home on the Range
10. John Brown's Body
11. Goodnight, Irene
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13. Oh, Susanna
14. Wayfaring Stranger
15. Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
16. Down in the Valley
17. The Wabash Cannon Ball
18. On Top of Old Smokey
19. Frankie and Johny
20. I Ride an Old Paint
21. The Wreck of the Old 97
22. Wagoner's Lad
23. Old Dan Tucker
24. I've Been Working on the Railroad
25. Cielito Lindo
26. So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
27. America the Beautiful
28. This Land Is Your Land
CD2 (01:13:22) (Recording Date 1958)
1. Barbara Allen
2. Young Man Who Would't Hoe Corn
3. Midnight Special
4. House of the Rising Sun
5. Careless Love
6. Oh, What a Beautiful City
7. Poor Boy
8. Sally Ann
9. The Riddle Song
10. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
11. The Water Is Wide
12. The Fox
13. The Keeper and the Doe
14. Pretty Polly
15. Jesse James
16. Stagolee
17. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
18. Camptown Races
19. Blow the Man Down
20. Froggie Went a Courtin'
21. I Had a Rooster
22. Putting on the Style
23. The Farmer's Curst Wife
24. Hard Travellin'
25. Alabama Bound
26. Wimoweh
27. Dink's Song
CD3 (01:14:12) (Recording Date 1954 - 1962)
1. Gipsy 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. El-A-Noy
12. Lady of Carslile
13. My Good Man
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 Traveller
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
CD4 (01:11:28) (Recording Date 1961)
1. Banks of the Ohio
2. You Are My Sunnshine
3. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
4. The Foggy Dew
5. Molly Malone
6. Old Maid's Song
7. Oh, How He Lied
8. Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
9. Leatherwing Bat
10. Johny Has Gone for a Soldier
11. Farther Along
12. Go Down, Moses
13. All My Trials
14. Monsieur Banjo
15. No More Auction Block
16. Hole in the Bucket
17. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
18. Army Life
19. Blue Mountain Lake
20. Lady Margaret
21. John Hardy
22. Johnson
23. John Riley
24. Washer Lad
25. Talking Blues
26. Lolly Too Dum
27. T.B. Blues
28. Summertime
CD5 (01:09:22) (Recording Date 1962)
1. Trail to Mexico
2. Red River Valley
3. Old Joe Clark
4. St.James Infirmary
5. Green County Bachelor
6. Ox Driver's Song
7. Buffalo Gals
8. Joe Bowers
9. Texian Boys
10. My Sweerheart Is the Mule in the Mines
11. Johny Gray
12. Cowboy Yodel
13. Siouz Indians
14. Ida Red
15. Holler
16. Cumberland Gap
17. Wake Up, Jacob
18. Sweet Betsy from Pike
19. Buffalo Skinners
20. Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
21. Stewball
22. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Doggies
23. Strawberry Roan
24. Jay Gould's Daughter
25. Play-Party
26. I Never Will Marry
27. Rifflemen of Bennington
28. Kingdom Coming
29. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
