If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

~ Release by Pete Seeger (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
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1If I Had a Hammer
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
If I Had a Hammer
writer:
Lee Hays (in 1949) and Pete Seeger (in 1949)
1:56
2Banks of Marble
guitar:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Banks of Marble
lyricist and composer:
Les Rice (US farmer and songwriter) (from 1948 until 1949)
3:18
3Which Side Are You On
banjo:
Pete Seeger
guitar:
Josh White (American folk-blues singer/songwriter)
vocals:
Bess Lomax Hawes, Sam Gary, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Pete Seeger, Carol White and Josh White (American folk-blues singer/songwriter)
recording of:
Which Side Are You On? (original version by Florence Reece)
lyricist:
Florence Reece
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:10
4Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Erik Darling, Tom Geraci, Pete Seeger and Mary Travers (American folk singer-songwriter)
recording of:
Casey Jones—the Union Scab
lyricist:
Joe Hill (early 1900s US songwriter) (in 1911)
parody version of:
The Ballad of Casey Jones
1:58
5Talking Union
guitar:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
3:05
6Joe Hill
2:33
7Union Maid
recording of:
Union Maid
lyricist:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1940)
composer:
Kerry Mills
is based on:
Red Wing
2:17
8Step by Step
1:37
9Solidarity Forever
2:55
10Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
additional lyricist:
Joe Hickerson (in 1960-05)
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger (in 1955-10)
publisher:
The Bicycle Music Company (part of Concord Bicycle Music since 2015/04/01, overseeing publishing and rights management) (in 1961)
2:06
11Talking Atom
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Talking Atom
writer:
Vern Partlow
2:30
12Crow on the Cradle
2:25
13Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
lyricist and composer:
Ed McCurdy
2:30
14Study War No More
3:13
15Bourgeois Blues
cover recording of:
The Bourgeois Blues
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
arranger:
Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist) and John A. Lomax
2:07
16River of My People
3:07
17Hold On (Hand on the Plow)
3:21
18We Shall Overcome
guitar:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
We Shall Overcome
lyricist:
Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton (folk musician), Zilphia Horton and Pete Seeger
composer:
Charles Albert Tindley
4:42
19He Lies in the American Land
recording of:
He Lies in an American Land
lyricist:
Andrew Kovaly and Pete Seeger
composer:
Andrew Kovaly
2:01
20Well May the World Go
banjo:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Well May the World Go
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger
2:40
21Turn, Turn, Turn
guitar:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
publisher:
TRO Essex Music Ltd.
2:47
22Tomorrow Is a Highway
3:32
23Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
recording engineer:
Moses Asch
recording of:
Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
lyricist and composer:
Pete Seeger
3:30
24We'll All Be A-Doubling
goblet drum [dumbek]:
David Amram
guitar:
Pete Seeger
vocals:
Tao Rodríguez‐Seeger and Pete Seeger
1:58
25Arrange and Rearrange
banjo:
Pete Seeger
goblet drum [dumbek]:
David Amram
vocals:
Tao Rodríguez‐Seeger and Pete Seeger
4:52
26If I Had a Hammer
2:10