Folk Songs We Grew Up With

[SeaBreeze]

Please add any you remember from the past...

 

[That Guy]

 

[That Guy]

 

[That Guy]

 

[Ozarkgal]

Blowin' in the Wind..Peter, Paul and Mary

 

[Ozarkgal]

Stewball (was a racehorse)..Peter, Paul and Mary

 

[Ozarkgal]

IN MEMORY OF MARY TRAVERS ~ There Is A Ship ~

 

[GDAD]

 

[GDAD]

SLIM DUSTY...AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Pinky]

 

[Signe The Survivor]

 

[Pepper]

 

[Pepper]

 

[JaniceM]

 

[Pepper]

 

[jakbird]

The Byrds - My Back Pages (Audio) - Bing video

Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach

Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

No one has a talent for lyrics like Bob Dylan. The songs were gems...as long as he wasn't the one singling.

 

[Signe The Survivor]

 

[Pepper]

I love Bob's singing The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, particularly the very end.

 

[Pinky]

 

[Signe The Survivor]

 

[AnnieA]

Dixie of course in Mississippi. Then we went to church and frequently sang the abolutionist anthem The Battle Hymn of the Republic--it was called "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" in our hymnal--and being Southern Baptist, we only sang the first, second and last stanza ...of this and all other hymns and I have no idea why...

Here's a Mississippi guy blending the two songs in American Trilogy:

 

[AnnieA]

Kumbaya ...over and over and over in children's choir, youth choir and at camp. I got enough of it to last a lifetime. Usually skip through it when listening to Peter Paul & Mary's Around the Campfire.

 

[JimBob1952]

How about some English folk music?

 

[Pam]