Pete Seeger’s Songs

Pete Seeger helped to put together these songs mostly with the melodies or ideas of other folks.
A Little A’ This ‘N’ That
Abiyoyo
Adam the Inventor (with Santiago Genoves and Wolf Rilla)
All Mixed Up
All My Children Of The Sun
And I Am Still Searching
Andorra (with Malvina Reynolds)
Arrange and Rearrange
Baby Burping Song, The (with Judith Seeger)
Ballad of Harry Bridges (with the Almanac Singers)
Ballad of the Fort Hood Three
Beast, The (Song of the Punch Press Operator) (with Bernie Packer)
Bells Of Rhymney (with Idris Davies)
Bring ‘Em Home
Broad Old River
Business (with Walter Lowenfels)
C For Conscription
Calendar, The
Clean Up the Hudson
Compleat Angler, The
Crawly Creepy Little Mousie
Dear Mr. President
Deliver The Goods
Djankoye
Down A Shady Lane (with George Reginald Hake)
Drowned in Paper
Emperor Is Naked Today-O, The
Empty Pockets Blues (with Lee Hays)
English is Cur-ray-zee
Estadio Chile (with Victor Jara)
Everybody’s Got A Right To Live (New Verses with Reverend Fred Kirkpatrick)
False From True
Festival of Flowers
Foolish Frog, The (with Charles Seeger)
Franklin D. (with Millard Lampell and Lee Hays)
From Way Up Here (with Malvina Reynolds)
Full Fathom Five (from William Shakespeare)
Garbage (Bill Steele; last verse added by Pete Seeger)
Get Up And Go
God’s Counting on Me, God’s Counting on You
Goliath (A Nursery Rhyme)
Goofing Off Suite
Grey Ashes Falling (with Ken Keskinen)
Guantanamera (with Jose Marti, Hector Angulo)
He Lies In The American Land (with Andrew Kovaly)
Here’s To The Couple
Hold The Line (with Lee Hays)
Housewife Terrorists, The
How Are We Going To Save Tomorrow?
Huddie Ledbetter Was A Helluva Man
I Come and Stand at Every Door
If A Revolution Comes To My Country
If I Had A Hammer (with Lee Hays)
I’m Gonna Sing Me A Love Song
In Dead Earnest (with Lee Hays)
I’ve Packed Up My Bags (with Matt McGinn)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
King Henry
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (with the Weavers)
Land Of A Thousand Songs
Last Train To Nuremberg
Legs (Lee Hays)
Letter To Eve
Little Girl See Through My Window
Living In The Country
Maple Syrup Time
Men of Principle (with Frances Taylor)
Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter (with Malvina Reynolds)
My Father’s Mansion
My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage
My Rainbow Man
My Rainbow Race
Nameless Lick
New Hamburg Clockback, The
No Closing Chord (with Malvina Reynolds)
Odds On Favorite (with E. Y. Harburg)
Ode to a Composer (Bach at Treblinka)
Of Time And Rivers Flowing
Oh Had I A Golden Thread
Oh Yes I’d Climb (The Highest Mountain Just For You)
Old Devil Time
Old Father Hudson
Old Hundred (new verses)
Oleanna (with Ditmar Meidel)
One Grain of Sand
One Man’s Hands (with Alex Comfort)
Our Generation
Over The Hills
People Are Scratching, The (with Ernie Marrs and Harold Martin)
Pete’s Song
Plow Under (with Lee Hays)
Precious Friend
Quite Early Morning
Ring Like A Bell
River Of My People
Ross Perot Guide to Answering Embarrassing Questions, The
Round And Round Hitler’s Grave (with the Almanac Singers)
Sacco’s Letter To His Son
Sailing Down My Golden River
Sailing Up My Dirty Stream
Seventy Miles (with Malvina Reynolds)
Simple Gifts (additional verses)
Snow, Snow
Some Things A Man Can’t Do Alone
Song of the World’s Last Whale, The
Sour Cream
Sower Of Seeds
Spider’s Web, The (“Natural History”)
Spring Examinations
Starlight, Starbright
Story of Old Monroe
Strange Death of John Doe
Sweepy, Sweepy, Sweepy (with Mika Salter Seeger)
Sweet-A-Little Baby
Take It From Dr. King
Talking Union (with the Almanac Singers)
Tantalula (with Heinz Hector)
Teacher Uncle Ho
This Old Car
Those Three Are On My Mind (with Frances Taylor)
Times A-Getting Hard, Boys (with Lee Hays)
To Everyone In All The World
To Fight Perchance to Win
To My Old Brown Earth
Tomorrow Is A Highway (with Lee Hays)
Tomorrow’s Children (with Walter Lowenfels)
Torn Flag, The
Trouble At The Bottom
Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There Is A Season
Visions Of Children
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
Walking Down Death Row
Water Is Wide, The
We Shall Overcome (with Zilphia Horton, Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton)
We’ll All Be A-Doubling
Well May The World Go
When I Was Most Beautiful (with Noriko Ibaragi)
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Where’s My Pajamas
Who Killed Norma Jean (with Norman Rosten)
Who Knows
Wimoweh (with Solomon Linda and the Weavers)
Words, Words, Words
Other Songs Pete Seeger Sings
All My Trials
Amen
Banks of Marble
Blue Skies
Circles
Deportees
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Garden Song
Goodnight, Irene
Hobo’s Lullaby
How Can I Keep From Singing
I’m A Little Cookie
I’m Gonna Be An Engineer
Jacob’s Ladder
Joe Hill
Joy Unto the Earth
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Listen, Mr. Bilbo
Little Boxes
Mail Myself to You
The Mary Ellen Carter
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Midnight Special
Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
No Money, No War
Old Time Religion
Over the Rainbow
Passing Through
Pastures of Plenty
Peat Bog Soldiers
River of Jordan
Satisfied Mind
Sloop Clearwater, The
Somos El Barco
State of Arkansas
Talking Ben Tre Blues
The People Are Scratching
This Land Is Your Land
This Old Man
Wasn’t That A Time
Way Out There
Which Side Are You On?
For lyrics, music, and the stories behind most of these songs, look in “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” the musical autobiography of Pete Seeger, published by Sing Out!
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