The folk songs of North America, in the English language Melodies and guitar chords transcribed by Peggy Seeger, with one hundred piano arrangements by Matyas Seiber and Don Banks. Illustrated by Michael Leonard. Editorial assistant, Shirley Collins
101 There's a Man Going Round Taking Names / (1:50)
102 Easy Rider / Guitar. (2:54)
103 Red Bird / Guitar. (2:59)
104 Line 'Em / Guitar. (1:17)
105 T.B. Blues / Guitar. (3:49)
201 Jim Crow Blues / Guitar. (2:30)
202 Bourgeois Blues / Guitar. (2:23)
203 Army Life / Guitar. (1:52)
204 Mr. Hitler (Hitler Song) / Guitar. (3:16)
Local Numbers:
FW02034
Folkways.2034
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Folkways 1953.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States.
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11. End of the Line 12. Pastures of Plenty 13. Grand Coulee Dam 14. Talking Columbia 15. Oregon Trail 16. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry) 17. Dying Miner 18. Waiting at the Gate 19. Rambling Round 20. New Found Land 21. Talking Columbia 22. Pastures of Plenty
110 New Found Land / Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
112 Pastures of Plenty / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
111 Talking Columbia / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0031
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), United States, New York.
General:
Folkways 5212
CDR copy
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5. Better World A-Comin' (Woody, Cisco) 6. Grassy Grass Grass 7. Grassy Grass Grass 8. Washy Wash Wash 9. Washy Wash Wash 10. Little Sack of Sugar 11. I Want My Milk (I Want it Now) 12. Choo Choo 13. Swimmy Swim Swim 14. I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You 15. I Want My Milk (I Want it Now) 16. Ship in the Sky (with Cisco Houston)
Track Information:
101 Better World A-Comin' / Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
102 Grassy Grass Grass / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
104 Washy Wash Wash / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
106 Little Sack of Sugar / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
107 I Want My Milk (I Want it Now) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
111 I Want My Milk (I Want it Now) / Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
112 Ship in the Sky / Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0032
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), United States, New York.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
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Tom Dooley--intro to Julie Jenkins--Fly around my pretty little miss--Gallis tree--Shull's mill--Beaver dam road--intro to John Hardy--Poor Ellen Smith--Kentucky bootlegger--Cellar boy--Story--George Collins--Bo Lamkin--Omie Wise--Marching on--Baby-o
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0121
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: United States, North Carolina.
General:
Folkways 2360
CDR copy
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No sir--Bury me--Ramblin' boy--Bury me--Rosweood casket--No sir--Precious memories--Orphan's last plea (2x)--Maple on the hill--Wreck on the highway--Pretty Betty Martin--Precious memories
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0122
General:
Folkways 2427
CDR copy
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202 Blue Tailed Fly, The (Jimmie Crack Corn) / Banjo.
203 Train is A-Coming / Banjo.
204 This Old Man / Banjo.
205 Froggie Went A-Courtin' / Banjo.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0346
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States 14, 1969.
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12. Sonny Terry and Rhythm 13. We Gonna Shout Right on That Shore- Sonny Terry and Pete Seeger 14. --- 15. John Henry- Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, and Pete Seeger 16. Go Tell Aunt Rhody- Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry 17. Louise- Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger 18. Instrumental- Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie 19. Worried Man Blues- Woody Guthrie
Track Information:
101 Untitled / Sonny Terry. Harmonica.
102 John Henry / Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger. Harmonica,Banjo.
103 Pick a Bale of Cotton / Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger. Harmonica,Banjo.
105 Louise / Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger. Harmonica,Banjo.
106 A Man is Nothing But a Fool / Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger. Harmonica,Banjo.
107 Going Down the Road Feeling Bad / Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie. Harmonica,Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0473
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States.
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Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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1. Red Bird 2. Sally Walker 3. Ha Ha This A-Way 4. Little Children's Blues 5. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down (with Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie) 6. Outskirts of Town (with Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie) 7. Ha Ha This A-Way
Track Information:
101 Rock Island Line / Guitar.
102 Parting Song (When You're Smiling) / Guitar.
103 Cotton Fields / Guitar.
104 Chicken Crowing for Midnight / Guitar.
105 Red Bird / Guitar.
106 Sally Walker / Guitar.
107 Ha-Ha This A-Way / Guitar.
108 Little Children's Blues / Guitar.
109 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down / Guitar.
110 Outskirts of Town / Guitar.
111 Ha-Ha This A-Way / Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0552
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States, 1988.
Restrictions:
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8. Moanin' 9. There's a Man Going Round Taking Names 10. Keep Your Hands Off Her 11. Mr. Jelly Roll Baker (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) 12. 4,5, and 9 (with Pops Foster, Willie the Lion Smith) 13. My Baby's Leaving Me (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) 14. Meeting at the Building/ Talking, Preaching/ We Shall Walk Through the Valley
Track Information:
101 Moaning / Lead Belly. Guitar.
102 There's a Man Going Round Taking Names / Lead Belly. Guitar.
103 Keep Your Hands Off Her / Lead Belly. Guitar.
104 Jelly Roll / Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry. Guitar,Harmonica.
105 4, 5 and 9 / Lead Belly. Guitar.
107 Meeting at the Building / Lead Belly. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-0553
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States, 1988.
Restrictions:
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Sir Hugh (Little boy Hugh)--Young hunting (Lady Margaret)--Suffolk miracle--Shooting of his dear (Molly Von)(2x)--Twa' brothers--Broken token (Pretty fair maid)--The cuckoo--Jackie went a-hunting--Young belchian (Turkish lady)--Earl Brand--On top of Yonders Mountain--Twelve days of Christmas
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0729
General:
REEL 1; CDR copy
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Adolphus Small-- The brown girl--The Daemon Lover (House carpenter)-; Lloyd Fitzgerald--John of Hazelgreen--Tree of the wood--Arise, arise--Lady dargoon (There was a little soldier); Hosie Fitzgerald--Mockingb ird; Lloyd Fitzgerald--The keys of heaven--Lord Randall; Oscar Allen--Two crows--Green bushes--Lord Randall--Rockabye baby--Sing rillico, rollico, nu--Someday, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone--The Daemon lover (House carpenter)--Down in the Meadow
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0730
General:
REEL 2; CDR copy
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Victoria Morris--12 days of Christmas; C.B. Wohlford--Arkansas traveller--Cumberland gap; Horton Barker--Hares on the mountain--The brown girl--Wondrous love--Farmer's curst wife; Monologue by Horton Barker; Noami Lydford---Little Musgrave--Mike tests--Little Musgrave--Sweet William--Lookin g for Johnny (Banks of the Claudie)--The Bold Lieutenant (Young Charlotte); Mrs. Frank Laws--Young hunting--Two sisters--Piano
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0731
General:
REEL 3; CDR copy
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Concerning of a soldier--Fair Magaret--Warfare is raging--Pretty Sar--Locks and bolts--Frog went a-courting--Birds song--Feed my horse--Bird's song
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0733
General:
REEL 5; CDR copy
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101 As I Walked Over London Bridge (Georgie) (Child No. 209) / S.F. Russell.
102 I'll Be Fourteen Next Monday (Seventeen Come Sunday) / S.F. Russell.
103 Gypsy Davy (Child 200) / Emma Dusenbury.
104 Lord Lovell (Child 75) / Emma Dusenbury.
105 Daemon Lover, The (House Carpenter)(Child 243) / Emma Dusenbury.
106 Barbara Allen (Child 84) / Emma Dusenbury.
107 Lord Randall (Child 12) / Emma Dusenbury.
108 Down in the Greenwood Side (Child 20) / Emma Dusenbury.
109 Edward (Child 13) / Emma Dusenbury.
110 Edward (Child 13) / Mr. Anderson.
111 Two Sisters (Child 10) / Mr. Anderson.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0801
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mena (Ark.), Arkansas, Marion (Va.), United States, Virginia.
General:
REEL 23; CDR copy
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110 Going Down the Road Feeling Bad / Warde H. Ford.
111 Mathy Groves (Matty Groves) (Child No. 81)/ George V. Graham.
101 Mermaid, The (Child 289) / Emma Dusenbury.
102 Captain Wederburn's Courtship / Warde H. Ford.
103 Lowlands Low (Child 286) / Warde H. Ford.
105 Andrew Batan (Henry Martin)(Child 250) / Warde H. Ford.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-0802
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mena (Ark.), Arkansas, San Jose (Calif.), Central Valley (Calif. : Valley), California, United States.
General:
REEL 24; CDR copy
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