Animal Folk Songs for Children

Selected from Ruth Crawford Seeger's Animal Folk Songs for Children

Folkways Records – FC 705

Format: Vinyl, LP, 10", Album
Country: US
Released: 1957
Genre: Children's, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Children's, Folk [Tracklist] A01 Little Brown Dog (2:13)
A02 Oh, Blue (1:45)
A03 The Big Sheep (The Darby Ram) (1:57)
A04 Riding Round the Cattle (2:05)
A05 The Old Cow Died (1:53)
A06 Raccoon and Possum (1:17)
A07 Cross-Eyed Gopher (0:37)
A08 Little Lap-Dog Lullaby (1:27)
A09 Jack, Can I Ride (1:52)
A10 Daddy Shot a Bear (0:55)
B01 The Deer Song (3:08)
B02 And We Hunted and We Hunted (1:55)
B03 Mister Rabbit (2:10)
B04 Peep Squirrel (1:52)
B05 A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing (1:25)
B06 Snake Baked a Hoecake (1:06)
B07 Old Lady Goose (1:23)
B08 My Old Hen's Good Old Hen (1:05)
B09 Of All the Beast-es (1:06)
[Credits]
Peggy Seeger (banjo/guitar/vocals)
[Notes]
It could not have been an easy task for Peggy Seeger to choose the 22 tracks for this album from the 43 featured in her mother's 1950 publication, Animal Folk Songs for Children. Her mother was the influential musician, educator, and folklorist Ruth Crawford Seeger, who drew on field recordings archived in the Library of Congress for the book. A joyful album for children and adults, the music on this recording tells tales of little brown dogs, old frogs, pretty squirrels, and cross-eyed gophers, while the liner notes divulge the songs' intriguing origins and lyrics. Although many of the songs have been passed down through generations with little more than perhaps some hand-clapping and foot-tapping, Seeger provides simple guitar, banjo, and fiddle accompaniment.