Peddler's Pack: A Collection of Early Colonial Songs sung by Jim Douglas

Folkways Records – FTS 32319

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1976
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Anglo-American
[Tracklist]
A1 The Girl I Left Behind Me / The Vicar of Bray / The British Grenadiers / Yankee Doodle (1:40)
A2 Plymouth Colony (Yankee Doodle) (2:50)
A3 Cape Cod Shanty (South Australia) (2:24)
A4 The Deer Song (2:01)
A5 Cape Ann (Three Jolly Huntsmen) (2:27)
A6 Counting Rhyme / The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn (1:39)
A7 Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn (2:01)
A8 The Connecticut Peddler (0:41)
A9 Jolly Old Roger (3:41)
B1 Work Rhymes (0:45)
B2 The Old Man Who Lived in the Woods (1:40)
B3 Jennie Jenkins (1:59)
B4 My Grandmother Lived in Yonder Green (1:41)
B5 Froggie Would A-Wooing Go (3:07)
B6 Maple Sweet (2:32)
B7 The Logger's Boast (2:23)
B8 Revolutionary Tea (3:02)
B9 Rolling Home (4:49)
[Credits]
Jim Douglas (guitar/vocals) Roger Sprung (banjo/vocals) Ann Mayo Muir (dulcimer/vocals) Betty Raynor (fiddle) Jan Domler (tin whistle)
Liner Notes: Jim Douglas and William L. Siegel, Designer: Mary Azarian, Engineer: Don Wade
[Notes]
Educator and minstrel Jim Douglas performs 18 songs that tell stories of America's early history. Many focus on New England—for example, "Plymouth Colony," "Cape Cod Shanty," "Maple Sweet," and "Revolutionary Tea." Other songs provide lively accounts of hunting, farming, crafts trades, and the Connecticut peddler trying to sell his wares. The best-known track is the popular children's folk song "Froggie Would A-Wooing Go," better known as "Froggy Went a Courtin'." Douglas is accompanied by fiddler Betty Raynor, tin whistlers Jan Domler and Tom Callinan, hammered dulcimer player Ann Mayo Muir, and singer Joan Sprung.