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I Hear America Singing - Garden Songs

Well Spring weather has gardeners out weeding, planting, and working hard. Ross is doing his bit by harvesting songs about gardens to encourage them. Music this week comes from the likes of Pete Seeger, Big Bill Broonzy, and the Brandywine Singers.

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING - GARDEN SONGS

1. Garden Song by Pete Seeger
2. In Dead Earnest by Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger
3. Down in the Willow Gardens by The Everly Brothers
4. Keep Your Garden Clean by Jean Ritchie
5. Garden of Joy by Maria Muldaur
6. Fatal Flower Garden by Nelstone’s Hawaiians
7. Richi’s Garden by Tom Prasada-Ra
8. Plow Hand Blues by Big Bill Broonzy
9. The Ploughman by Lesley Hale
10. My Father Was a Farmer by Steve Byrne
11. Farmer’s Lament by Cisco Houston
12. The Cocky Farmer by Liam Clancy
13. The Green Leaves of Summer by The Brothers Four
14. Stop the World, I’ve Lost My Yo-yo by The Brandywine Singers
15. I Believed It All by The Pozo-Seco Singers
16. I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing by The Hillside Singers
17. Two Little Boys by The Shaw Brothers
18. Day the Tall Ships Came by The Shaw Brothers

A native of Austin, Texas, Ross grew up in the midst of the Urban Folk Revival of the 1950s and 60s. His first introduction to folk music was the Kingston Trio with their million selling albums. From there, he went forward, backwards and sideways collecting music all along the way. He is a retired librarian and a student of history.