The Best of the War Years

~ Release by Woody Guthrie (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1Hey Lolly Lolly (1944)
2:48
2Buffalo Skinners (1945)
recording of:
Buffalo Skinners (Woody Guthrie lyrics)
additional lyricist:
Ephraim Braley (Canadian logger in the mid 1850's) and Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
version of:
Buffalo Skinners
version of:
Buffalo Skinners
3:19
3John Henry (1944)
2:39
4Gypsy Davy (1944)
recording of:
Gypsy Davy (arr. Woody Guthrie)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
version of:
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (aka The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O / The Gypsy Laddie / Black Jack Davy / Seven Yellow Gypsies)
2:54
5Worried Man Blues (1944)
2:58
6More Pretty Girls Than One (1944)
2:21
7Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) (1944)
3:22
8Ranger's Command (1944)
recording of:
Ranger's Command
writer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
2:50
9Poor Boy (1944)
2:52
10Lonesome Day (1944)
2:55
11Pretty Boy Floyd (1944)
3:07
12Hard, Ain't It Hard (1944)
recording of:
Hard, Ain't It Hard
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
2:38
13Stackolee (1947)
2:44
14Cumberland Gap (1944)
recording of:
Cumberland Gap
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3413)
2:21
15Sourwood Mountain (1944)
recording of:
Sourwood Mountain
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 754)
2:59
16Lost John (1947)
4:07
17Columbus Stockade (1944)
2:27
18Bury Me Beneath the Willow (1944)
2:28
19Chain Gang Special (1947)
2:56
20Red River (1947)
4:04
21Rock Me Momma (1947)
3:51
22Pick a Bale of Cotton (1947)
3:19
23Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (1947)
recording of:
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
composer:
William Levi Dawson (composer)
2:13