Well, this has been a good exercise. I found the more I worked on my list the more painfully aware that now I should go and learn these 50 songs myself. At the least, this is what I consider are a fairly well rounded, excluding much of the european, mid-east, far east, south american, central american and anywhere else but here in the good ole USA. Sorry world, we have adopted many of your good songs and forgotten the rest. My list follows. Eatin Goober Peas When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again Elephant Fair, Bessie Jones Juba, Bessie Jones Where are you Going, My Pretty Little Miss? Jean Ritchie Shady Grove, almost anyone's version Froggie Went a Courtin, Wooing, etc., at least two versions Mary Mack, the British version Coonshine, Bessie Jones The Beggarman, Clancy Brothers Sittin' on the dock of the Bay, Otis St. James Infirmary, both in a minor and a major key Minnie the Moocher, Cab Callaway Motherless Children What a Day for a Daydream, John Sebastian In the Pines, In the Pines African American Spirituals 1 of 5 - you pick em African American Spirituals 2 of 5 - you pick em African American Spirituals 3 of 5 - you pick em African American Spirituals 4 of 5 - you pick em African American Spirituals 5 of 5 - you pick em Black Jack Davie Blues Stay Away from Me, Doc Precious Lord, Doc's version Keep on the Sunny Side Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad Star in the East (sacred harp song) Almeeda Riddle Beryuzoviye Kalyechke, Russian Gypsy, Theodore Bikel Rock-a-bye Baby Wondrous Love Wayfarin' Stranger Hame afore the gale, Murray Shoolbraid The Purple People Eater The Drunken Sailor Draw Me a Bucket of Water, Bessie Jones Ring a round the Rosie Home, Home on the Range America the Beautiful Hatikvoh Virgin Mary, Joan Baez As I Went Down in the Valley to Pray, Doc The Parting Glass Auld Lang Syne Broom o'er the Cowdenknowes I Wished I was a Rock. Alex Campbell Eileen Aroon All Along the Watchtower Oh Death, Dock Boggs Hush Little Baby All the Pretty Little Horses
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