Music

The following tracks appear on Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing? courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. If you would like more information or to purchase any of the albums, just click on the album title.

Tracks From:

Program I

Program II

Program III

PROGRAM I: ORIGINS
Title	Performer	Album
“Living In The Country”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“All The Pretty Little Horses”	Pete Seeger	Songs to Grow On, Vol. 2
Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”	Pete Seeger	Goofing Off Suite
“Kai-yo-wa-jin-eh”	Pete Seeger	Fifty Sail On Newburgh Bay
“Goofing Off Suite”	Pete Seeger	Goofing Off Suite
“John Henry”	Pete Seeger	Sing out! Hootenanny
“Leatherwing Bat”	Pete Seeger	America’s Favorite Ballads, #4
“Chinese Tune”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“Down in the Valley”	Bess Lomax & Pete Seeger	LonesomeValley
“Coal Creek March”	Pete Seeger	Pete & Sonny at Carnegie Hall
“Farther Along”	Pete Seeger	America’s Favorite Ballads, #4
“One Bright And Pleasant Morning”	Bascom Lunsford	Ballads, Blues, Sacred Songs
“When The Sun Goes Down”	Lead Belly	Leadbelly’s Last Sessions-III
“John Hardy”	Pete Seeger	Pete Seeger Sings American Ballads
“Talking Atomic Blues”	Pete Seeger	Gazette #1
“Pygmy”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“No Irish Need Apply”	Pete Seeger	Frontier Ballads
“Talking Union”	Pete Seeger	Hootenanny Tonight
“Tomorrow Is A Highway”	Pete Seeger	If I Had a Hammer
[ Back to Top ] PROGRAM II: FOLK SONGS AND BALLADS
Title	Performer	Album
“Living In The Country”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister”	Almanac Singers	Talking Union
“Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring”	Pete Seeger	Goofing Off Suite
“Hayseed Like Me”	Pete Seeger	American Industrial Ballads
“Bottle Up And Go”	Browning McGhee, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Bill Cook	CountyDance Band
“Haste To The Wedding”	Pete Seeger & Jean Carignan	Old Time Fiddle Tunes by Jean Carignan
“Wimoweh	Pete Seeger	Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall
“In Contempt”	Pete Seeger & The Hooteneers	Sing Out! Hootenanny
“I’m No Communist”	Lula Belle & Scotty	Bicentennial Series
“Step By Step”	Pete Seeger	American Industrial Ballads
“We Are Soldiers”	Pete Seeger	Wimoweh and Other Songs of Protest
“Jacob’s Ladder”	Pete Seeger	Pete Seeger at Village Gate with Memphis Slim
“Brandy Leave Me Alone”	Pete Seeger	With Voices Together We Sing
“Talking Un-American Blues”	Pete Seeger & The Hooteneers	Sing out! Hootenanny
“Jefferson and Liberty”	Pete Seeger	Sing out! Hootenanny
[ Back to Top ] PROGRAM III: PROTEST AND TOPICAL SONGS
Title	Performer	Album
“Meadowlands”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“Living In The Country”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“The Water Is Wide”	Pete Seeger	Pete Seeger Singalong
“Banks of Marble”	Pete Seeger	American Favorite Ballads, 2
“Cowboy Waltz”	Pete Seeger & Friends	LonesomeValley
“Indian Summer”	Pete Seeger	Indian Summer
“Intro + John Henry”	Pete Seeger	See Program I
“I Know My Love”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
“We Shall Overcome”	Pete Seeger	Sing Out! Hootenanny
“I’m On My Way”	The Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights. Choir	Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
“I Love Everybody”	Pete Seeger	WNEW-Selma
“Oh Wallace”	N/A	WNEW Selma
“This Little Light of Mine”	N/A	Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
“Woke Up This Morning”	Freedom Singers	Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
“We Shall Overcome”	Freedom Singers	Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
“Horizontal Lines”	Pete Seeger	Indian Summer
“Goofing Off Suite”	Pete Seeger	Goofing Off Suite
“Waist Deep In The Big Muddy”	Pete Seeger	Ford Hall Forum
“Well May The World Go”	Pete Seeger	If I Had A Hammer
“Didn’t Old John” (Tree-chopping song)	Pete Seeger	Folk Songs for Young People
“Turn, Turn, Turn”	Pete Seeger	If I Had A Hammer
“Bimini Gal”	Pete Seeger	Folksongs of Four Continents
“Over The Hills” (Londonberry Air)	Pete Seeger	Banks of Marble
“This Is A Land”	Pete Seeger	Banks of Marble
“Living In The Country”	Pete Seeger	Nonesuch
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