Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj

Post to this Thread - Sort Descending - Printer Friendly - Home


Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song

DigiTrad:
BIG MUDDY
DON'T ASK WHAT A RIVER IS FOR
FLOWERS OF PEACE
I MIND MY OWN BUSINESS
MRS. ROOSEVELT
MY GET UP AND GO HAS GOT UP AND WENT
MY OLD BROWN EARTH
OH, HAD I A GOLDEN THREAD
OLD DEVIL TIME
ONE GRAIN OF SAND
PRECIOUS FRIEND
QUITE EARLY MORNING
SAILING DOWN MY DIRTY STREAM
SAILING DOWN MY GOLDEN RIVER
SOUR CREAM
TURN, TURN, TURN or TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
WALKING DOWN DEATH ROW
WELL MAY THE WORLD GO


Related threads:
(origins) Origins: My Get Up and Go - not by Seeger? (23)
Lyr/Chords ADD: If I Had a Hammer (Seeger/Hays) (22)
Pete Seeger songs (47)
Lyr Req: One Grain Of Sand (by Pete Seeger) (8)
(origins) Origins: Monsieur Banjo (2)
Lyr Req: Snow Snow (Pete Seeger) (9)
Toshi's verses to turn, turn, turn (5)
The Joe Stalin Blues (Pete Seeger) (46)
Origins: To My Old Brown Earth (Seeger) (6)
(origins) Origin: Letter to Eve (Pete Seeger) (11)
(origins) Origins: Seeger's 'All My Children of the Sun' (7)
(origins) Origins: Seeger's Old Devil Time - data request (12)
Lyr Req: Burning of Kingston (5)
Lyr Add: Those Three Are on My Mind (Pete Seeger) (12)
Pete Seeger playing the recorder (19)
(origins) Origins: You'll Sing to Me Too (Pete Seeger) (11)
Lyr Req: Pete Seeger We Shall Overcome performnce (12)
Pete Seeger's Banjo Transcriptions/Tab. (16)
40,000 Norwegians Sing Seeger Peace Song (36)
Origins: Pete Seeger: Abiyoyo (9)
Lyr Add: All Mixed Up (Pete Seeger) (3)
Seeger's 'Long May The World Go' (3)
Lyr/Tune Add: Quite Early Morning (Pete Seeger) (9)
Chords Req: Old Devil Time (Pete Seeger) (13)
Chords?: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Pete Seeger) (45)
Lyr/Chords Add: Bring 'em Home (Pete Seeger) (10)
Lyr Req: Autherine (Pete Seeger) (5)
Lyr ADD: My Rainbow Race (Pete Seeger) (12)
historical reference: Knee Deep in the Big Muddy (13)
Pete Seeger song tabs (3)
Lyr Req: Pete Seeger's Old Hundredth Verses (18)
Lyr Req: pete seeger: arrange and rearrange (3)
(origins) Origins: Turn, Turn, Turn (Pete Seeger) (113)
Pete Seeger Group - never too late to start living (4)
Pete Seeger's 'Both Sides' version (3)
Lyr Req: Who Killed Norma Jean? (Rosten, Seeger) (8)
Lyr Add: Well May the World Go (Pete Seeger) (5)
Lyr Req: Flowers Are Red (Harry Chapin) (6)
Lyr Req: Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie) (9)
Lyr Req: Little Girl in a Blue Dress? (3)
ADD: Precious Friend (Pete Seeger) (9)


GUEST 26 Aug 16 - 03:07 PM
Thomas Stern 26 Aug 16 - 06:28 PM
EBarnacle 27 Aug 16 - 11:52 AM
GUEST 27 Aug 16 - 01:51 PM
Mark Ross 27 Aug 16 - 07:52 PM
Share Thread
more
Lyrics & Knowledge Search [Advanced]
DT  Forum Child
Sort (Forum) by:relevance date
DT Lyrics:





Subject: Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 16 - 03:07 PM

I've just finished watching the "Song and A Stone" documentary about Pete. In the film,Pete sings a song with the lyrics:

Here I am, here I am, here I'll stand
Though I'm told it's stolen land
Too long, too long I've been a rover
The time for stealing is over

I can't find out anything else about this song, can someone help me out?


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 26 Aug 16 - 06:28 PM

the following found at: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=498
perhaps this relates to your question....
Best wishes, Thomas.

At Resurrection City, the Washington, D.C. shantytown set up as part of the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, Pete Seeger and an Afro-American singer named Jimmy Collier were about to sing this. Lakotah spiritual leader Henry Crow Dog came up and poked Collier in the chest saying "Hey, you're both wrong. It belongs to me." Collier respectfully asked "Should we not sing it?" Crow Dog smiled and replied "No, it's okay. Go ahead and sing it. As long as we are all down here together to get something done!"

Seeger was profoundly affected by the incident and spoke of it often, saying he had a hard time performing the song after that. Each time he played it, he would repeat the story about Chief Crow Dog and add a verse about the theft of Indian land, composed by activist Carolyn "Cappy" Israel.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 11:52 AM

As one who sang with Pete a lot, I never heard this verse although it seems to go with This Land is Your Land. We sang TLIYL a lot, though.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 01:51 PM

The melody didn't sound like This Land Is Your Land. Did Pete ever perform songs in concert he hadn't recorded?


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Looking for a Pete Seeger song
From: Mark Ross
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 07:52 PM

The song Pete & Jimmy were set to sing was THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND. I was there when that happened. Somehow I ended up with a shack all to myself, and when Pete came down with Toshi & Tinya I turned it over to them for the week they were there. I moved into the Highlander tent.

Mark Ross


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate
  Share Thread:
More...

Reply to Thread
Subject:  Help
From:
Preview   Automatic Linebreaks   Make a link ("blue clicky")


Mudcat time: 9 November 8:35 AM EST

[ Home ]

All original material is copyright © 2022 by the Mudcat Café Music Foundation. All photos, music, images, etc. are copyright © by their rightful owners. Every effort is taken to attribute appropriate copyright to images, content, music, etc. We are not a copyright resource.