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Album • 1998

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle

Pete Seeger26 songs • 1 hour, 11 minutes

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle is a 1998 compilation album by Pete Seeger and was released on Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40096. This collection is a compilation of 24 songs selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and two new songs recorded especially for this collection. Pete plays the 5-string banjo and the 12-string guitar and appears on some tracks with Almanac Singers and his grandson Tao Rodríguez-Seeger. The booklet contains detailed notes by Mark Greenberg explaining the origins of each song, as well as how their structures have evolved over the years. The album is divided into segments addressing "unions and labor," "peace," "civil rights," and "hope." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ha...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
  2. 2
    Banks of Marble
  3. 3
    Which Side are You On?
  4. 4
    Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
  5. 5
    Talking Union
  6. 6
    Joe Hill
  7. 7
    Union Maid
  8. 8
    Step by Step
  9. 9
    Solidarity Forever
  10. 10
    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  11. 11
    Talking Atom (Old Man Atom)
  12. 12
    Crow on the Cradle
  13. 13
    Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
  14. 14
    Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)
  15. 15
    Bourgeois Blues
  16. 16
    River of My People
  17. 17
    Hold On (Keep Your Hand on the Plow)
  18. 18
    We Shall Overcome
  19. 19
    He Lies in the American Land
  20. 20
    Well May the World Go
  21. 21
    Turn, Turn, Turn
  22. 22
    Tomorrow is a Highway
  23. 23
    Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
  24. 24
    We'll All Be A-Doubling
  25. 25
    Arrange and Rearrange
  26. 26
    If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)

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