Developed as a teaching guide for junior high school social studies classes, this compilation features 57 songs, mainly about American history and culture. They are organized thematically, with topics including Colonial America, the Civil War, and frontier life. A section on "The World of Man" includes Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim prayers as well as a Polish, Hungarian, and Zulu song. Most of the tracks originally appeared on other Folkways recordings. Artists include Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Hermes Nye, Wallace House, Ed McCurdy, Woody Guthrie, and the Grail Singers. Liner notes offer song lyrics and lesson plan ideas.
12 Greer County Bachelor (Starving to Death on My Government Claim)
13 Crossing the Plains
14 Cowboy Yodel
15 Free Elections
16 Jefferson and Liberty
17 Andrew Jackson
18 Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
19 No Irish Need Apply
20 The Harrison Song
- Disc 2 -
1 Hail Africa Band
2 Abolitionist Hymn
3 The Bonnie Blue Flag
4 Cumberland Crew
5 General Patterson
6 In Charleston Jail
7 All Quiet Along the Potomac
8 Lincoln and Liberty
9 Old Rebel
10 Pittsburgh Town
11 The Blind Fiddler
12 Eight-Hour Day
13 My Children Are Seven in Number
14 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
15 Cotton Mill Colic
16 Mill Mother's Lament
17 The Faith of Harry Simms
18 The Tva Song
19 Inflation
20 Sixty Percent
- Disc 3 -
1 Raggedy
2 Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
3 Dust Storm Disaster
4 Old English Forty Years Ago
5 The Hunters of Kentucky
6 Santa Anna
7 Roll Alabama Roll
8 Cuba Libre
9 The Flood and the Storm
10 Well, What a Time
11 Japanese Buddhist Service
12 Indian (Hindu) Religioushymn
13 Moslem Hymna Time
14 It's the Same All Over
15 To I Hola
16 Erdo
17 Ntabezikude
Developed as a teaching guide for junior high school social studies classes, this compilation features 57 songs, mainly about American history and culture. They are organized thematically, with topics including Colonial America, the Civil War, and frontier life. A section on "The World of Man" includes Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim prayers as well as a Polish, Hungarian, and Zulu song. Most of the tracks originally appeared on other Folkways recordings. Artists include Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Hermes Nye, Wallace House, Ed McCurdy, Woody Guthrie, and the Grail Singers. Liner notes offer song lyrics and lesson plan ideas.
