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Thread #53984   Message #833838
Posted By: saulgoldie
24-Nov-02 - 10:12 AM
Thread Name: Top 100 folk songs
Subject: RE: Top 100 folk songs
OK, then. But this will likely be difficult to properly document, being based on our memories, yes? Is that allright? Here are some of mine, in what order I cannot truthfully say:

Blowing in the Wind (Dylan, but probably the PPM version)
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (by himself, El Gordo)
If you Could Read My Mind (again)
Early Morning Rain (and again)
Marvelous Toy (Paxton, but probably PPM version)
Puff (amazingly not actually about *that* "puff" by PPM)
Banana Boat Song (Harry Belafonte--sp?)
Jamaica Farewell (Kingston Trio?)
This Land is Your Land (Guthrie; Weavers version, maybe? But without that "problem verse!")

Not on the list: "How the hell could a country of presumably decent people allow so many genuinely caring folksingers and other artists to be denounced and hounded as 'enemies of the state'?"

Oh, sorry. I let that slip out. That thought is inextricably intertwied with my on-topic thoughts. Yes, the list...

Morningtown Ride (Seekers?)
Never Find Another You (them, fer shur)
You Were On My Mind (Sylvia Tyson, but the We Five version, I 'spect)
Hobo's Lullaby (Hearing Unca Petey singing in my mind)
Hard, Ain't it Hard (K-3o?)

Oh, goodness, memory blanking. Let's see what the others contribute. Might trigger some other thoughts.