Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer, p… Read Full Bio ↴Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer, political activist and author, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. He is particularly loved as the author (or co-author) of the songs Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer, and Turn, Turn, Turn. One of his brothers is Mike Seeger; Peggy Seeger is his half-sister.
As a member of The Weavers, Seeger had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. He was formerly a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and was a major contributor to folk and protest music in the 1950s and the 1960s.
Perhaps best known today as the author or co-author of the songs Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer, and Turn, Turn, Turn, songs that have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and which are still sung all over the world. Flowers was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn" in the mid-1960s.
Early work
Seeger dropped out of Harvard (where he had been studying journalism) in 1939, and he took a job in Washington, D.C. at the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress. In that capacity, he met and was influenced by many important musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. He met Woody at a "Grapes of Wrath" migrant workers concert on March 3, 1940 and the two thereafter began a musical collaboration.
In 1948, Seeger wrote the first version of his now-classic How to Play the Five-String Banjo, a book that many banjo players credit with starting them off on the instrument. He went on to invent the Long Neck or Seeger banjo. This instrument is three frets longer than a typical banjo, and slightly longer than a bass guitar at 25 Frets, and is tuned a minor third lower than the normal 5-string banjo.
As a self-described "split tenor" (between an alto and a tenor), he was a founding member of the folk groups the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie and the Weavers with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman. The Weavers had major hits in the early 1950s, before being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era.
On August 18, 1955, Pete was subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) where he refused to name personal and political associations stating it would violate his First Amendment rights... "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 think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this." Seeger's refusal to testify led to a March 26, 1957 indictment for contempt of Congress; for some years, he had to keep the federal government apprised of where he was going any time he left the Southern District of New York. He was convicted in a jury trial in March 1961, and sentenced to a year in jail, but in May 1962 an appeals court ruled the indictment to be flawed and overturned his conviction.
Seeger started a solo career in 1958, and is known for songs such as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," "If I Had a Hammer" (co-written with Lee Hays), "Turn, Turn, Turn," adapted from the Book of Ecclesiastes, and "We Shall Overcome" (based on a spiritual and later became the unofficial anthem for the civil rights movement). Seeger became influential in the 1960s folk revival centered in Greenwich Village. He helped found Broadside Magazine and Sing Out!. He was strongly associated with Moses Asch and Folkways Records. To describe the new crop of folk singers, many of whom were politically minded in their songs, he coined the phrase "Woody's children", alluding to his former bandmate Woody Guthrie, who by this time had become a legendary figure. He has often sung and is associated with the song "Joe Hill".
In the mid-sixties he hosted a regional folk music TV show called Rainbow Quest which featured folk musicians playing traditional folk music. Among his guests were Johnny Cash, June Carter, Mississippi John Hurt, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Roscoe Holcomb, The Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Richard Fariña and Mimi Fariña, and many others. Thirty-eight hour-long programs were recorded at new UHF station WNJU's Newark studios in 1965 and 1966, produced by Seeger and his wife Toshi with Sholom Rubinstein.
An early advocate of Bob Dylan, Seeger was supposedly incensed over the distorted electric sound Dylan brought into the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, especially with the inability to clearly hear the lyrics. There are many conflicting versions of exactly what ensued, some claiming that he actually tried to disconnect the equipment. He is often cited as one of the main opponents to Dylan at Newport 1965, but claimed in 2005:
"There are reports of me being anti-him going electric at the '65 Newport Folk festival, but that's wrong. I was the MC that night. He was singing 'Maggie's Farm' and you couldn't understand a word because the mic was distorting his voice. I ran to the mixing desk and said, 'Fix the sound, it's terrible!' The guy said 'No, that's how they want it.' And I did say that if I had an axe I'd cut the cable! But I wanted to hear the words. I didn't mind him going electric.
Later work
Seeger achieved some notoriety in 1967 and 1968 for his song "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", about a captain—a "big fool"—who drowned while leading a platoon on maneuvers in Louisiana during World War II. Seeger performed the song on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour after some arguments with CBS about whether the song's lyrics were objectionable. Although the song was cut from the Smothers Brothers show in September 1967, Seeger returned in January 1968 and sang the entire song. It was clearly an allegory about the U.S. under the leadership of Lyndon Johnson which was in over its head in the Vietnam War.
Another slight against Lyndon Johnson can be heard in his singing of Len Chandler's seemingly juvenile song, "Beans in My Ears" from his 1966 album Dangerous Songs!? in which he accuses "Mrs. Jay's little son Alby" (Alby Jay is meant to sound like LBJ) of having beans in his ears, or of not listening to the people.
In 1998 a double-CD tribute album was released - "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: the Songs of Pete Seeger". It contained contributions from Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Bruce Springsteen, Roger McGuinn, Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Dick Gaughan, Martin Simpson, Odetta and others.
Pete Seeger still performed occasionally in public until his death, and for a number of years appeared at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tennessee to tell stories, mostly children's stories such as Abiyoyo. He performed at MerleFest April 27-30, 2006 in Wilkesboro, NC.
On March 16, 2007, the 88-year old Pete Seeger performed with his siblings Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger, and other Seeger family members at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he had been employed as a folk song archivist 67 years earlier.
In April 2006, Bruce Springsteen released a collection of songs associated with Seeger or in Seeger's folk tradition, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Bruce Springsteen performed a series of concerts based on those sessions, to sellout crowds. Springsteen had previously recorded one Seeger favorite, "We Shall Overcome," on the 1998 "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" tribute album.
Seeger lived in the hamlet of Dutchess Junction in the Town of Fishkill, NY and remained very politically active in the Hudson Valley Region of New York, especially in the near-by City of Beacon, NY. He and Toshi purchased their land in 1949, and lived there first in a trailer, then in a log cabin they built themselves, and eventually in a larger house. Seeger joined the Community Church (a church practicing Unitarian Universalism), is considered a famous Unitarian Universalist, and often performed at functions for the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Seeger died in 2014 of natural causes.
Awards
Seeger has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions throughout his career, including:
A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993)
The National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994)
Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Honor (1994)
The Harvard Arts Medal (1996)
Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996)
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 for his record "Pete" (1997)
As a member of The Weavers, Seeger had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. He was formerly a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and was a major contributor to folk and protest music in the 1950s and the 1960s.
Perhaps best known today as the author or co-author of the songs Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer, and Turn, Turn, Turn, songs that have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and which are still sung all over the world. Flowers was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn" in the mid-1960s.
Early work
Seeger dropped out of Harvard (where he had been studying journalism) in 1939, and he took a job in Washington, D.C. at the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress. In that capacity, he met and was influenced by many important musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. He met Woody at a "Grapes of Wrath" migrant workers concert on March 3, 1940 and the two thereafter began a musical collaboration.
In 1948, Seeger wrote the first version of his now-classic How to Play the Five-String Banjo, a book that many banjo players credit with starting them off on the instrument. He went on to invent the Long Neck or Seeger banjo. This instrument is three frets longer than a typical banjo, and slightly longer than a bass guitar at 25 Frets, and is tuned a minor third lower than the normal 5-string banjo.
As a self-described "split tenor" (between an alto and a tenor), he was a founding member of the folk groups the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie and the Weavers with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman. The Weavers had major hits in the early 1950s, before being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era.
On August 18, 1955, Pete was subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) where he refused to name personal and political associations stating it would violate his First Amendment rights... "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 think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this." Seeger's refusal to testify led to a March 26, 1957 indictment for contempt of Congress; for some years, he had to keep the federal government apprised of where he was going any time he left the Southern District of New York. He was convicted in a jury trial in March 1961, and sentenced to a year in jail, but in May 1962 an appeals court ruled the indictment to be flawed and overturned his conviction.
Seeger started a solo career in 1958, and is known for songs such as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," "If I Had a Hammer" (co-written with Lee Hays), "Turn, Turn, Turn," adapted from the Book of Ecclesiastes, and "We Shall Overcome" (based on a spiritual and later became the unofficial anthem for the civil rights movement). Seeger became influential in the 1960s folk revival centered in Greenwich Village. He helped found Broadside Magazine and Sing Out!. He was strongly associated with Moses Asch and Folkways Records. To describe the new crop of folk singers, many of whom were politically minded in their songs, he coined the phrase "Woody's children", alluding to his former bandmate Woody Guthrie, who by this time had become a legendary figure. He has often sung and is associated with the song "Joe Hill".
In the mid-sixties he hosted a regional folk music TV show called Rainbow Quest which featured folk musicians playing traditional folk music. Among his guests were Johnny Cash, June Carter, Mississippi John Hurt, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Roscoe Holcomb, The Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Richard Fariña and Mimi Fariña, and many others. Thirty-eight hour-long programs were recorded at new UHF station WNJU's Newark studios in 1965 and 1966, produced by Seeger and his wife Toshi with Sholom Rubinstein.
An early advocate of Bob Dylan, Seeger was supposedly incensed over the distorted electric sound Dylan brought into the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, especially with the inability to clearly hear the lyrics. There are many conflicting versions of exactly what ensued, some claiming that he actually tried to disconnect the equipment. He is often cited as one of the main opponents to Dylan at Newport 1965, but claimed in 2005:
"There are reports of me being anti-him going electric at the '65 Newport Folk festival, but that's wrong. I was the MC that night. He was singing 'Maggie's Farm' and you couldn't understand a word because the mic was distorting his voice. I ran to the mixing desk and said, 'Fix the sound, it's terrible!' The guy said 'No, that's how they want it.' And I did say that if I had an axe I'd cut the cable! But I wanted to hear the words. I didn't mind him going electric.
Later work
Seeger achieved some notoriety in 1967 and 1968 for his song "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", about a captain—a "big fool"—who drowned while leading a platoon on maneuvers in Louisiana during World War II. Seeger performed the song on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour after some arguments with CBS about whether the song's lyrics were objectionable. Although the song was cut from the Smothers Brothers show in September 1967, Seeger returned in January 1968 and sang the entire song. It was clearly an allegory about the U.S. under the leadership of Lyndon Johnson which was in over its head in the Vietnam War.
Another slight against Lyndon Johnson can be heard in his singing of Len Chandler's seemingly juvenile song, "Beans in My Ears" from his 1966 album Dangerous Songs!? in which he accuses "Mrs. Jay's little son Alby" (Alby Jay is meant to sound like LBJ) of having beans in his ears, or of not listening to the people.
In 1998 a double-CD tribute album was released - "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: the Songs of Pete Seeger". It contained contributions from Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Bruce Springsteen, Roger McGuinn, Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Dick Gaughan, Martin Simpson, Odetta and others.
Pete Seeger still performed occasionally in public until his death, and for a number of years appeared at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tennessee to tell stories, mostly children's stories such as Abiyoyo. He performed at MerleFest April 27-30, 2006 in Wilkesboro, NC.
On March 16, 2007, the 88-year old Pete Seeger performed with his siblings Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger, and other Seeger family members at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he had been employed as a folk song archivist 67 years earlier.
In April 2006, Bruce Springsteen released a collection of songs associated with Seeger or in Seeger's folk tradition, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Bruce Springsteen performed a series of concerts based on those sessions, to sellout crowds. Springsteen had previously recorded one Seeger favorite, "We Shall Overcome," on the 1998 "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" tribute album.
Seeger lived in the hamlet of Dutchess Junction in the Town of Fishkill, NY and remained very politically active in the Hudson Valley Region of New York, especially in the near-by City of Beacon, NY. He and Toshi purchased their land in 1949, and lived there first in a trailer, then in a log cabin they built themselves, and eventually in a larger house. Seeger joined the Community Church (a church practicing Unitarian Universalism), is considered a famous Unitarian Universalist, and often performed at functions for the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Seeger died in 2014 of natural causes.
Awards
Seeger has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions throughout his career, including:
A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993)
The National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994)
Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Honor (1994)
The Harvard Arts Medal (1996)
Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996)
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 for his record "Pete" (1997)
Mister Rabbit
Pete Seeger Lyrics
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Pete Seeger:
70 Miles Chorus: Seventy miles of wind and spray, Seventy miles of …
A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have…
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have…
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (Live) Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have…
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have…
A Little Brand New Baby I was pourin' coffee for table number one I couldn't help…
Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, yoyoyo, yoyoyo …
Aimee Semple McPherson Did you ever hear the story of Aimee McPherson? Aimee McPher…
Ain't It A Shame Ain't it a shame to beat Your wife on a Sunday?…
Alabama Bound I'm Alabama bound I'm Alabama bound And if the train don't…
All Around the Kitchen All around the kitchen! cocka-doodle-doodle doo All around …
All I Want I don't want your millions, Mister, I don't want your diamo…
All Mixed Up You know this language that we speak, Is part German, Latin…
All My Trials I had a little book was given to me, And every…
All Over The World I was watching the news tonight And all over the world Peopl…
Alleluya (Traditional) Alleluja, Alleluja. Alleluja, Alleluja, Al…
Amazing Grace Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like…
America O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For …
America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain Fo…
Andorra [Chorus after each verse:] I want to go to Andorra, Andorra…
Arrange And Re-Arrange Early in the morning, I first see the sun, I say…
Arrange and Rearrange Just a few winters ago, I was out in the…
Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt Rhody go tell Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt…
Autherine There's a girl I'm dreaming of I haven't met her yet There's…
Bach At Treblinka You're one of us now Johann Sebastian Bach Your statues st…
Ballad of Barney Graham On April the thirtieth Nineteen thirty-three Upon the stre…
Bank of the Marble I've traveled around this country From shore to shining shor…
Banks of the Ohio I asked my love to take a walk Just a little…
Barbara Allen Twas in the merry month of May When green buds all…
Battle Of Maxton Field Now brave the Klansmen rallied there In Maxton town that nig…
Battle of New Orleans BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (Jimmy Driftwood; tune: Eighth of Janu…
Be Kind To Your Parents Be kind to your parents Though they don't deserve it Remembe…
Beans Bacon and Gravy I was born long ago, in eighteen ninety four I've seen…
Beans In My Ears My mama says not to put beans in my ears Beans…
Bear Hunt Away, away, we're bound for the mountain Bound for the mount…
Belle Starr Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone Since…
Bells of Rhymney Oh what can you give me? Say the sad bells of…
Big Rock Candy Mountain One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fires…
Billy Barlow "Let′s go a-huntin'," says Risky Rob "Let′s go a-huntin'," s…
Black and White Oh, the ink is black, the page is white Together we…
Black Girl Songwriters: HUDDIE LEDBETTER Black girl, black girl, don…
Black Is the Color Black is the color of my true love's hair His face…
Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair Black is the color of my true love's hair His face…
Blow the Man Down As I was out walkin' down paradise street To me way,…
Blow Ye Winds 'Tis advertised in Boston, New York, and Buffalo: Five hundr…
Blowin How many roads most a man walk down Before you call…
Blue Mountain Lake Come all you bold fellers Where'er you may be Come set down…
Blue Skies Blue skies smilin' at me Nothin' but blue skies do I…
Boll Weevil Have you heard the latest, the latest of the song, 'Bout…
Both Sides Now Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in…
Bottle Up and Go How do I know my youth is all spent? My get…
Bought Me a Cat I bought me a cat The cat pleased me I fed my…
Bourgeois Blues Lord, in a bourgeois town It's a bourgeois town I got the…
Bring Them Home If you love this land of the free Bring 'em home,…
Buffalo Gals As I was walking down the street Down the street, down…
Buffalo Skinners 'Twas in the town o' Jacksboro, in the spring o'…
Business King Henry marched forth, a sword in his hand Two thousand…
C for Conscription Well it's C for Conscription, C for Capitol Hill. C for Co…
Camptown Races Well, I came down there with my hat caved in Oh…
Can The Circle Be Unbroken I was standing by my window, On one cold and cloudy…
Careless Love Oh love, ooh love Oh, careless love Yes, oh love, oh lov…
Carol of the Beasts Encore Et Encore Givmeall Feat Saik & Pompis Télécharge l…
Casey Jones Casey Jones Come all you rounders If you want to hear The st…
Casey Jones (The Union Scab) Come all you rounders if you wanna hear The story of…
Cement Octopus There's a cement octopus sits in Sacramento, I think, Gets …
Cielito Lindo De la sierra, morena Cielito lindo vienen bajando Un par de …
Circles Chorus: All my life's a circle Sunrise and sundown Moon r…
Clap Your Hands Clap, clap, clap your hands Clap your hands together Clap, c…
Clementine In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a…
Cobbler's Song Oh, me name is Dick Darby, I'm a cobbler I served…
Come All Fair Maids Come all ye fair and tender ladies Take warning how you…
Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies Come all ye fair and tender ladies Take warning how you…
Come All You Bold Sailor Men Come all you bold sailormen, listen to me I'll sing you…
Come All You Hardy Miners Come all ya hardy miners and help us sing this…
Cotton Mill Colic When you go to work well you work like the…
Coyote Coyot', coyote what have they done? Little brother, where wh…
Crow on the Cradle The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is…
Cryderville Jail Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone Since…
Cumberland Bear Mountain Away, away, we're bound for the mountain, Bound for the…
Cumberland Gap Lay down boys take a lil' nap We're all going down…
Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase Away, away, we're bound for the mountain, Bound for the…
Danville Girl I went down to the railroad yard, watch that train…
Dark As A Dungeon Oh come all you young fellers so young and so…
Darling Corey Wake up wake up darling Corey What makes you sleep so…
De Colores Traditional De colores, de colores se visten los campos en …
De Grey Goose Well, las' Monday mornin', Lawd, Lawd, Lawd Well, las' Monda…
Dear Mr. President Dear Mr. President, I set me down, To send you greetings…
Declaration of Independence We will just do nothing at all We would just sit…
Deep Blue Sea Deep Blue Sea, Baby, Deep Blue Sea (3x) It was Willy…
Delia's Gone Tony shot his Delia on a Christmas night First time he…
Deliver the Goods It's gonna take everybody to win this war, The butcher and…
Demi Song The first time I made it up The demi said to…
Die gadanken sind Frei Die gedanken sind frei My thoughts freely flower Die gedanke…
Die Gendanken Sind Frei Die gedanken sind frei My thoughts freely flower Die gedan…
Dink If I had wings like Noah's dove I'd fly up the…
Dink's Song If I had wings like Noah's dove I'd fly up the…
Do as the Doukhobors Do There's a new tactic to use, my dear, If you have…
Doctor Freud Oh it happened in Vienna Not so very long ago When not…
Down By The River Words and music by Pete Seeger Sailng down my golden river …
Down By the River Side I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, Down by the…
Down by the Riverside I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, Down by the…
Down in Carlisle Down in the valley valley so low Hang your head over…
Down-a-Down Here's a song for one and all (down-a-down and down-a-down) …
Dr. King on Violence Down in Alabama, 1955 Not many of us here tonight were…
Draft Dodger Rag I'm just a typical American from a typical American town I…
East Virginia I was born and raised in east Virginia, North Carolina I…
East Virginia Blues I was born in East Virginia North Carolina I did go There…
Eight Hour Day We're brave and gallant miner boys Who work in underground F…
Eight-Hour Day We're brave and gallant miner boys, who work in underground …
Empty Pocket Blues I never had a pocket full of money, I never had…
English Is Cuh-ray-zee English is the most widely spoken language in the history…
Equinoxial Equinoxial swore by the green leaves on the tree That he…
Erie Canal I've got a mule and her name is Sal Fifteen miles…
Estadio Chile We are 5,000 - here in this little part of…
Eyes on the Prize Paul and Silas bound in jail Had no money for to…
Fair Margaret and Sweet William Lady Margaret sitting in her high hall door Combing her…
False From True When my songs turn to ashes on my tongue, When I…
Fare Thee Well Fare thee well my darlin' true I'm leavin' in the hours…
Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch Fare ye well old Ely Branch, fare ye well I…
Fare You Well Polly My horses ain't hungry They won't eat your hay So fare you…
Flowers of Peace Oh the summertime is coming, and the leaves are sweet…
Foggie Went a-Courtin Frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh Frog went a-co…
Follow the Drinkin When the Sun comes back And the first quail calls Follow t…
Follow the Drinkin' Gourd When the Sun comes back And the first quail calls Follow the…
Foolish Frog There was once a farmer, walking down the road whistling…
Forever Young May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all…
Forty Two Kids Some people say a teacher is Made out of steel But a…
Frankie and Johnny Now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts Oh Lord, how they di…
Frog Went A-Courtin Froggie went a-courtin' and he did ride Uh huh, uh huh Frogg…
Frog Went A-Courtin' Frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh Frog went a-cou…
Frog Went A-Courting Frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh Frog went …
Froggie Went a Courtin' Frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh Frog went a-cou…
Froggie Went A-Courtin' Froggie went a-courtin' and he did ride Uh-huh, uh-huh Frogg…
From Way Up Here From way up here the earth looks very small, It's just…
From Way up There From way up here the earth looks very small It's just…
Garbage Mister Thompson calls the waiter, orders steak and baked pot…
Gee But I Want to Go Home Well the coffee that they give you They say is mighty…
Get Along Little Dogies It's early one morning I was riding for pleasure I spied a…
Get Up And Go How do I know my youth is all spent? My get…
Ghost of Tom Joad Men walking 'long the railroad tracks Going someplace, ther…
Go Down Moses When Israel was in Egypt land Let my people go Oppressed so…
Go Tell Aunt Rhodie Go tell Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt Rhody Tha…
Go Tell Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt Rhody go tell Aunt Rhody Go tell Aunt…
God Bless the Grass God bless the grass that grows through the crack. They roll…
Going Across The Mountains I'm goin' across the mountains, oh fare ye well Goin' 'cros…
Going to Boston Goodbye girls, I′m going to Boston Goodbye girls, I'm going …
Golden Vanity There was a lofty ship And she put out to sea And…
Goodnight Irene Irene, goodnight Irene, goodnight Goodnight, Irene Goodnight…
Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme Ooh what a mixture Sunshine vivid picture Ooh what a mixture…
Greer County Bachelor My name is Tom Hight, an old bachelor I am, You‟ll…
Grey Goose Last Monday morning, Lawd, Lawd, Lawd Preacher went a huntin…
Ground Hog Whet up your axe and whistle up your dog, (repeat) We're…
Groundhog Whet up your axe and whistle up your dog, (repeat) We're…
Guantanamera The words mean, I am a truthful man From the land…
Guantanamera (Live) Guantanamera Guajira, Guantanamera Guantanamera Guajira, Gua…
Gypsy Davy It was late last night when the boss come home He's…
Ha Ha Thisaway Ha Ha this away, Ha ha that away Ha Ha this…
Hard Times in the Mill Every mornin' at half-past four You hear the cooks hop on…
Harry Simms Come and listen to my story, come and listen to…
Hayseed Like Me I once was a tool of opression As green as a…
He Lies in the American Land Ah, my God what is this land of America? So many…
Henry My Son Where have you been all the day, Henry my son? Where have…
Hieland Laddie Was you ever in Quebec? Bonny laddie, Hieland laddie, Stowin…
Hobo o to sleep you weary hobo Let the towns drift slowly…
Hobo's Lullaby o to sleep you weary hobo Let the towns drift slowly…
Hold On Let me tell you the story of A line that was…
Hold the Line Let me tell you the story of a line that…
Holler Go down, go down you little red Red rising sun And don't…
Home On the Range Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam Where the…
House of the Rising Sun There is a house in New Orleans You call the…
How Can I Keep from Singing My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation. …
Huddie Ledbetter Huddie Ledbetter was a helluva man. Huddie got his music fr…
I I know an old lady who swallowed a fly But I…
I Ain't Scared of Your Jail I ain't a-scared of your jail 'Coz I want my freedom I…
I Come and Stand at Every Door I come and stand at every door But no one hears…
I Had a Rooster I had a rooster, my rooster pleased me I fed my…
I Had a Wife If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning…
I Ride an Old Paint I ride an old paint, I lead an old dan I'm…
I'm Gonna Walk and Talk With Jesus I traveled the banks of the River of Jordan To find…
and many more tracks by Pete Seeger.
The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos
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