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  1. American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5

    Release Date: 4/21/09
    Label: Smithonian

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Tracks Audio Video Lyrics
01. John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues]
02. Shenandoah [the Rolling River] [the Wide Missouri]
03. Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
04. Black Girl [in the Pines] [Where Did You Sleep Last Night?] [Little Gi
05. Skip to My Lou
06. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
07. Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My Darling
08. Yankee Doodle
09. Home on the Range
10. John Brown's Body
11. Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13. Oh, Susanna
14. Wayfaring Stranger [the Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Strang
15. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep]
16. Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage]
17. The Wabash Cannon Ball
18. On Top of Old Smoky
19. Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker] [Litt
20. I Ride an Old Paint
21. The Wreck of the Old 97
22. Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin' Nancy]
23. Old Dan Tucker
24. I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah]
25. Cielito Lindo
26. So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
27. America the Beautiful Lyrics
28. This Land Is Your Land [#]
29. Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen]
30. Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [the You
31. Midnight Special
32. House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck]
33. Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love] Lyrics
34. Oh, What a Beautiful City [Twelve Gates to the City] Lyrics
35. Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [Green V
36. Sally Ann [Sandy Land]
37. The Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtship]
38. Go Tell Aunt Rhody [the Old Gray Goose] [the Old Grey Goose Is Dead] [G
39. The Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow] Lyrics
40. The Fox [the Fox and His Wife] [the Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipp
41. The Keeper and the Doe [the Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down]
42. Pretty Polly [the Gosport Tragedy] [the Cruel Ship's Carpenter] [the Sh
43. Jesse James [the Death of Jesse James] [the Life and Death of Jesse Jam
44. Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee]
45. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black] [Down b
46. Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]
47. Blow the Man Down
48. Froggie Went a Courtin' [the Frog and Mouse] [the Frog He Would a Wooin
49. I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [the Barnyard Song] [My Little Rooster]
50. Putting on the Style
51. The Farmer's Curst Wife [the Farmer's Old Wife] [the Devil and the Farmer's
52. Hard Travelin'
53. Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here]
54. Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight]
55. Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well] [If I Had Wi
56. Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [the Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling Gypsy]
57. Deep Blue Sea
58. New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Green Riv
59. St. James Hospital [the Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [Streets o
60. E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [the E-Ri-E Was Rising] [the Canal Boat Song]
61. St. Louis Blues
62. Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi Boweavi
63. The Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th Infantry
64. When I First Came to This Land
65. The Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [the Sinking of the Titanic] [
66. El-A-Noy [Illinois] [the Plains of Illinois] [the State of Illinois] [S
67. Lady of Carlysle [in Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [the Bold Lieutenant]
68. My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights Drunk]
69. Golden Vanity [the Lowlands Low] [the Lonesome Sea Ballad] [the Sweet T
70. Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame]
71. Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River] [Old Folks at Home]
72. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child]
73. The Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock]
74. No Irish Need Apply
75. Paddy Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the Railway]
76. Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [the Original Arkansas Traveler]
77. When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [I Wish
78. Wond'rous Love
79. Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog] [Road Hog]
80. Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue]
81. She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
82. Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen Miles on
83. Banks of the Ohio [the Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the Ohio] [D
84. You Are My Sunshine
85. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the Bum]
86. The Foggy Dew [the Foggy, Foggy Dew] [the Bugaboo]
87. Molly Malone [in Dublin's Fair City] [Cockles and Mussels]
88. Old Maid's Song [Take Me out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die an Old Maid] [t
89. Oh, How He Lied [the Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [the Villain
90. Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
91. Leatherwing Bat [the Bird Song] [the Birds' Courting Song] [the Birds'
92. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Buttermilk H
93. Farther Along
94. Go Down, Moses
95. All My Trials
96. Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at th
97. No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go]
98. Hole in the Bucket [the Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Leiwer Hei
99. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [the Drunken Sailor] (Early in
100. Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Army]
101. Blue Mountain Lake [the Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fellers]
102. Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret and Swee
103. John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnn
104. Johnson [the Three Butchers] [the Two Butchers] [Young Butcher Boy]
105. John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked out Some
106. Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day]
107. Talking Blues [the Original Talking Blues]
108. Lolly Too Dum [the Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get Married
109. T. B. Blues
110. Summertime [Summertime an' the Livin' Is Easy]
111. Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail]
112. Red River Valley
113. Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark] [Round and Round]
114. St. James Infirmary [the Unfortunate Rake] [St. James Hospital] [Gamble
115. Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim] [Lane
116. Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip]
117. Buffalo Gals
118. Joe Bowers [the Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Muskoka]
119. Texian Boys
120. My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
121. Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds of Morni
122. Cowboy Yodel
123. Sioux Indians
124. Ida Red
125. Holler
126. Cumberland Gap
127. Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler]
128. Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike]
129. Buffalo Skinners [the Buffalo Range] [the Range of the Buffalo] [Boggy
130. Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain]
131. Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball]
132. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Dogies]
133. Strawberry Roan [#]
134. Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]
135. Play-Party
136. I Never Will Marry [the Damsel's Lament] [Down by the Sea-Shore] [One D
137. Riflemen of Bennington [the Bennington Riflemen]
138. Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [the Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [Lincoln'
139. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]