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Rider Cielito Lindo Circles City of New Orleans [Live] Cobbler's Song Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies Crawly Creepy Little Mousie Cryderville Jail Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase Danville Girl Dark as a Dungeon De Colores Dear Mr. President Deep Blue Sea Deliver The Goods Deportee Die Gedanken Sind Frei Dink's Song Down by the Riverside Down by the Riverside [African American Spiritual] Down by the Riverside [Bonus Track] Down by the Riverside [Previously Unreleased Track] Down in the Valley Draft Dodger Rag East Virginia East Virginia Blues Emperor Is Naked Today-O Empty Pockets Blues English Is Cuh-Ray-Zee English is Cur-ray-zee Estadio Chile Everybodys Got A Right To Live False From True False Love Festival Of Flowers Follow the Drinking Gourd Foolish Frog Forever Young Frankie and Johnny Franklin D. Freight Train Froggie Went A-Courtin From Way Up Here Full Fathom Five Garbage Garden Song Get Up And Go Goliath Goodnight Irene Guantanamera Guantanamera Politicians Gypsy Davy Hard, Ain't It Hard Harry Simms Harry Sims Henry My Son Hey Lolly Lolly Hobos Lullaby Hold The Line House of the Rising Sun How Are We Going To Save Tomorrow? How Can I Keep From Singing How Soon? Huddie Ledbetter Was A Helluva Man I Am a Pilgrim I Come And Stand At Every Door I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly) If A Revolution Comes To My Country If I Had A Hammer If It Cant Be Reduced If This World Survives (If You Love Your Uncle Sam) Bring Them Home Ill Never Say Goodbye Im A Little Cookie I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler Im Gonna Be An Engineer In Dead Earnest In the Evening In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) Interlude Interlude #1: Living in the Country It Could Be a Wonderful World Its A Long Haul I've Been Working on the Railroad Jacobs Ladder Jarama Valley Jay Gould's Daughter Jesse James Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring Joe Hill John Brown's Body John Hardy John Henry John Riley Johnny Gray Johnny Riley Joy Upon The Earth King Henry Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Kumbaya Land Of A Thousand Songs Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream Last Train To Nuremberg Legs Letter To Eve Lisa Kalvelage Listen Mister Bilbo Little Boxes Little Fat Baby Living in the Country Lonesome Traveler Lou Marsh Mail Myself To You Maple Syrup Time Mary Don't You Weep May There Always Be Sunshine Men Of Principle Michael Row The Boat Ashore Midnight Special Molly Malone More Pretty Girls Than One Mrs. Clara Sullivans Letter Mrs. McGrath My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song) My Fathers Mansion My Father's Mansions My Fathers Mansions Many Rooms My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage My Name Is Liza Kalvelage My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) [Previously Unreleased Track] My Rainbow Race Nameless Banjo Riff Never Wed an Old Man Nicaragua Nicaraguita No Closing Chord No Money No War Now We Sit Us Down Ocean Crossing Odds On Favorite Ode to a Composer Of Time And Rivers Flowing Oh, Freedom Oh Had I A Golden Thread Oh Mary, Don't You Weep Oh Mary, Don't You Weep [Previously Unreleased Track] Oh, Susanna! Oh Susanna [Previously Unreleased Track] Oh, Susannah Oh, What a Beautiful City! Oh Yes Id Climb Old Devil Time Old Father Hudson Old Hundred Old Joe Clark Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke; Ole Joe Clark] Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies) Old Time Religion Oleanna On Top of Old Smokey On Top of Old Smoky One Mans Hands One Percent Phosphorous Banjo Riff Or Else! Our Generation Over The Hills Over The Rainbow Passing Through Pastures Of Plenty Peat Bog Soldiers Pete Speaks About Involvement Pete Speaks About WWII Pete Talks About Clearwater Petes Extroduction Petes Greeting Petes Intro To If It Cant Be Reduced Petes Song Pick a Bale of Cotton Pickin' Time Plow Under Poor Boy Precious Friend Precious Friend You Will Be There Pretty Boy Floyd Put Your Finger in the Air Queen Anne Front Quiet Early Morning Quite Early Morning Red River Valley Ring Like A Bell River Of Jordan River Of My People Ross Perot Guide to Answering Embarrassing Questions Round And Round Hitlers Grave Saccos Letter To His Son Sailing Down My Golden River Sailing Down This Golden River Sailing Up My Dirty Stream Satisfied Mind Seventy Miles Shenandoah Simple Gifts Sinking of the Reuben James Sixteen Tons Skip to My Lou Snow Snow Solidarity Forever Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Somos El Barco Song of the Worlds Last Whale Sour Cream Sower Of Seeds Sowing on the Mountain Spring Fever St. James Infirmary [DVD] St. Louis Blues Starlight Starbright State Of Arkansas Stealin' Strange Death Of John Doe Summertime Sweepy Sweepy Sweepy Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Take It From Dr. King Talking Ben Tre Blues Talking Dust Bowl Blues Talking Fishing Blues Talking Union Teacher Uncle Ho The Ballad Of Harry Bridges The Ballad of Ira Hayes The Bells Of Rhymney The Calendar The Cowboy's Lament The D Minor Flourish / Cindy The D Minor Flourish / Cindy The Darktown Strutter's Ball The Dying Miner The Emperor Is Naked Today-O! The First Noel The First Settlers The Foggy Dew The Foolish Frog The fox The Grey Goose The Housewife Terrorists The Mary Ellen Carter The Midnight Special The People Are Scratching The Pill The Power and the Glory The Ross Perot Guide To Answering Embarrassing Questions The Roving Kind The Sloop Clearwater The Song Of The Worlds Last Whale The Spiders Web The Spider's Web (Natural History) The Story Of Tzena Tzena Tzena The Torn Flag The Water Is Wide The Wreck of the Old 97 There was mule in our town This Land Is Your Land This Old Man Those Three Are On My Mind Throw Away That Shad Net To Everyone In All The World To Fight Perchance To Win To My Old Brown Earth Tomorrow Is A Highway Tomorrows Children Torn Flag Trouble At The Bottom Turn Turn Turn Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There Is A Season Two from Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five/Perchance to Wing Tzena Tzena Tzena Tzena Tzena Visions Of Children Viva la Quince Brigada (Long Live the 15th Brigade) Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Waist Deep In The Big Muddy (Live) Walking Down Death Row Wasnt That A Time Way Out There We Shall Not Be Moved We Shall Overcome We Will Love Or We Will Perish Well All Be A-Doubling Well May The World Go What Did You Learn in School Today? When a Soldier Makes It Home When I Was Most Beautiful When Johnny Comes Marching Home When the Saints Go Marching In Where Have All The Flowers Gone Which Side Are You On? Who Killed Norma Jean Will the Circle Be Unbroken Wimoweh Wimoweh (Mbube) Wimoweh (Mbube) [Live] Wonderful Friends Words Words Words Wreck of the John B Wreck of the Old 97
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Pete Seeger Info:

Pete Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.

Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture and environmental causes. He was responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome".

He remained engaged politically and maintained an active lifestyle in the Hudson Valley Region of New York throughout his life. Pete Seeger died in New York City on January 27, 2014, of natural causes. -Wikipedia
Birth Name: Peter Seeger
Born: May 3, 1919
in New York City, New York, U.S.

Died: January 27, 2014 (at age of 94)
in New York City, New York, U.S.

Siblings: Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, John Seeger, Charles Seeger III, Barbara Seeger, Penelope Seeger
Spouse(s): Toshi Seeger (m. 1943-2013)
(Passed away on July 9, 2013)

Genre(s): American folk music, Protest music, Americana
Instrument(s): Banjo, guitar, recorder, tin whistle, mandolin, piano, ukulele
Occupation(s): Musician, songwriter, activist, television host
Active From: 1939-2014
Associated Acts: The Weavers, The Almanac Singers, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Tao Rodríguez-Seeger, Lead Belly Education: Avon Old Farms boarding school in Connecticut Harvard College

Quotes:
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.


Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.


I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.


I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.


I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.


I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.


I fought for peace in the fifties.


I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.


I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.


I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.


I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.


I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.


I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.


Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.


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