Early in the morning, just as the sun was rising, Adam started inventing things and the results were surprising Later in the morning, the sun was getting highe...

Just a few winters ago, I was out in the snow Gettin' some fire wood to start the fire 'Cause we heated our house with wood And I look at the sun peakin' up Ove...

I've travelled around this country From shore to shining shore And it really makes me wonder What the world is coming to I see the weary farmer Just plowing up...

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (Jimmy Driftwood; tune: Eighth of January, trad) Well, in 18 and 14, we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Miss...

Be kind To your parents Though they Don't deserve it Remember They're grown ups A difficult stage Of life They're apt To be nervous And overexcited Confused Fr...

Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone Since old Oklahoma's sand hills you did roam? Is it heaven's wide streets that you're tying your reins Or ...

'Tis advertised in Boston, New York, and Buffalo: Five hundred brave Americans a-whalin' for to go Chorus: Singing Blow ye winds in the morning, Blow ye winds,...

BOTH SIDES NOW (Joni Mitchell) Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But...

BUTCHER'S BOY She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother said Her mother she went upstairs too Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubl...

My name is Captain Kidd, as I sailed, as I sailed My name is Captian Kidd, as I sailed My name is Captian Kidd, God's laws I did forbid And most wickedly I did,...

Come all you rounders If you want to hear The story of a brave engineer Casey Jones Was the rounder's name On the big six wheeler Boys he made his fame Well th...

There's a cement octopus sits in Sacramento, I think, Gets red tape to eat, gasoline taxes to drin, And it grows by day and it grows by night And it rolls over ...

CHILD WATERS I warn you all you ladies fair that do wear red and brown That you don't leave your father's house to run with a boy from town For here am I, a lad...

CHYLDE OWLET Lady Erskine sits in her bower A sewing her silken seam A bonnie sark for Chylde Owlet As he gangs oot and in His face was fair, lang was his hair ...

COME FILL UP YOUR GLASSES (Peggy Seeger) Come fill up your glasses with whiskey and beer And drink a full glass to a happy new year To our sisters and brothers,...

Die gedanken sind frei My thoughts freely flower Die gedanken sind frei My thoughts give me power No scholar can map them No hunter can trap them No man can den...

DRAFT DODGER RAG (Phil Ochs) I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town I believe in God and Senator Todd and keeping old Castro down And when...

Everybody Loves Saturday Night Ev'rybody loves Saturday night Ev'rybody loves saturday night Ev'rybody, ev'rybody, ev'rybody ev'rybody, Ev'rybody loves Saturday...

FAIR ROSAMUND CLIFFORD I have a sister, young Clifford, he said A sister no man knows She hath a color in her cheek Like drops of blood in snow Like drops of bl...

When my songs turn to ashes on my tongue When I look at the mirror and see I'm no longer young Then I got to start again the job of separating false from true A...

The river is wide, I can't get o'er Nor do I have like wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two, And both shall cross my love and I Oh waly, waly, up the...

FLOWERS OF PEACE by Pete Seeger Oh the summertime is coming, and the leaves are sweet returning But those flowers of peace, it's for them I'm really yearning Wi...

by Malvina Reynolds God bless the grass that grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it to try and keep it back The concrete gets tired of what it ...

GREY COCK Johnny he promised to marry me I fear he's with some fair one and gone There's something that ails him and I don't know what it is But I'm weary of ly...

A noble rich man in Plymouth did dwell He had but one daughter, a beautiful girl A handsome young farmer with riches supplied He courted this fair maid to make ...

You know it may seem hard to imagine But once upon a time people didn't have Any such thing as television, didn't have any radios And if you wanted to have any ...

Go to sleep, you weary hobo Watch the towns go drifting by Can't you hear the rails a-singin'? That's the hobo's lullaby Don't you worry about tomorrow Let tom...

HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT (G) C - F C / G - G7 C / C - F C / G - G7 C One day I was walking, I heard a complaining And saw an old woman the picture of gloom She gaze...

(G) C F / C G / C F C / C G C / C - / C - / C F C / C G C My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation I hear the real, thought far off hymn That...

I MIND MY OWN BUSINESS by Pete Seeger tune: I once loved a lass King Henry marched forth, a sword in his hand Two thousand horsemen all at his command In a for...

Say goodbye, Why, I can barley say goodbye If I can hardly take my eyes from yours, How far can I go? Walk away, The thought would never cross my mind I couldn...

I'M GONNA BE AN ENGINEER When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys Everybody said I only did it to anno...

There's a valley in Spain called Jarama It's a place that we all know so well It was there that we gave of our manhood Where so many of our brave comrades fell ...

JELLON GRAEME Jellon Graeme sat in the wood, he whistled and he sang He called for his servant boy who quickly to him ran Hurry up, hurry up, my pretty little b...

John Henry was about three days old, Sittin' on his papa's knee He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel; Said, "Hammer's gonna be the death of me, Lor...

As I went out one morning early, To breathe the sweet and pleasant air, Who should I spy but a fair young maiden; She seemed to me like a lily fair I stepped t...

King Henry marched forth, a sword in his hand Two thousand horsemen all at his command In a fortnight the rivers ran red through the land The year fifteen hundr...

Last train to Nuremberg Last train to Nuremberg Last train to Nuremberg All on board Do I see Lieutenant Calley? Do I see Captain Medina? Do I see Gen'ral Kost...

Oh Eve, where is Adam - now you're kicked out of the garden? Oh Eve, where is Adam - now you're kicked out of the garden? been wanderin' from shore to shore, no...

Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes Little boxes Little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue ...

You know the guitar came to Europe with the gypsies 700 years ago Spain brought the guitar to Mexico 400 years ago USA picked a quarrel with Mexico and got Texa...

MOVING ON SONG (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) Born in the middle of an afternoon In a horse-drawn wagon on the old A5 The big twelve wheeler shook my bed You c...

My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs He is so very boring When I sit down in his chair Soon I am loudly snoring He is a New Age Dentist Guy He has his own website Ever...

Sailing down my dirty stream Still I love it and I'll keep the dream That some day, though maybe not this year My Hudson River will once again run clear It sta...

My Father's mansion's many rooms Have room for all of His children As long as we do share His love And see that all are free And see that all are free to grow ...

How do I know my youth is all spent? My get up and go has got up and went In spite of it all, I'm able to grin When I think of the places my get up has been Ol...

My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to bla...

One blue sky above us, one ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round, who could ask for more? And because I love you I'll give it one more try To...

Old Crumley or I can do more work in a day than my wife can do in three Old Crumley he began to swear As the leaf grows on the tree, tree That he could do as mu...

Old Devil Time (Pete Seeger) Old devil time, I'm gonna fool you now Old devil time, you'd like to bring me down When I feel low, my lovers gather round And hel...

Our generation has sandals like Vietnamese Our generation wears long hair With our clobbered minds, we still wink an eye to say Meet me, meet me at the bottom o...

Just when I thought All was lost, you changed my mind You gave me hope (not just the old soft soap) That we could learn to share in time (you and I and everybod...

by Woodie Guthrie Now gather round me, fellows A story I will tell Of Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw Oklahoma knew him well 'Twas in the town of Shawnee On a Sat...

RECLAIM THE NIGHT (Peggy Seeger) Though Eve was made from Adam's ri Nine months he lay within her cri How can a man of woman born Thereafter use her sex with s...

by Woodie Guthrie Green Douglas firs where the waters cut through Down her wild mountains and canyons she flew Canadian Northwest to the ocean, so blue, Roll o...

by Woodie Guthrie Have you heard of the ship called the good Ruben James Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame It flew the stars and strips of the...

SAILING DOWN MY GOLDEN RIVER Sailing down my golden river, Sun and water all my own, Yet I was never alone Sun and water, old life givers, I'll have them where ...

by Malvina Reynolds Chorus: Seventy miles of wind and spray, Seventy miles of water, Seventy miles of open bay-- It's a garbage dump What's that stinky creek ...

I heard the song Of the world's last whale As I rocked in the moonlight And reefed the sail It'll happen to you Also without fail If it happens to me Sang the ...

(D) G D7 / D7 G / C - / G - / D7 G +2 My name is Patrick Spudnut, photographer by trade I've traveled this world over; some think I got...

SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER Dm C Dm C In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Dm G Dm Down in the dark of the Cumb...

SUFFOLK MIRACLE or SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST (2) It's of an old and wealthy man He had a daughter and her name was Ann She were handsome, fine and tall She had a lo...

Tell you all a story from across the sea 'Bout a little town they call Ben Tre Set on a river bank peaceful as you please Till it got caught between two ideolog...

Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you You got to build you a union, got to make it strong...

THE FIRST TIME (Ewan MacColl) The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark...

Lyrics: The fox went out to the chase one night Prayed to the moon to give him light He had many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town-o, town-o t...

Young men an' maidens, pay attention To these here lines l'm a-goin' to tell, They are the truth, if ever spoken, About a young an' beautiful girl A young man ...

My name is Terry Roberts From Arkinsas I come I went down to the school The place they keep me from I went down to the school house And this is what I saw State...

Too Much of a Good Thing (Peggy Seeger) On Monday night he came to my door, and he made such a din ``Get up, get up you darling girl, and let your lover come in...

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn) And a time to every purpose, under Heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to plan...

Walking down death row I sang for three men destined for the chair Walking down death row I sang of lives and loves in other years Walking down death row I san...

The water is wide The water is wide, I cannot cross over And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I A...

Where have all the flowers gone, Long time passing, Where have all the flowers gone, Long time ago Where have all the flowers gone, Young girls picked them ever...

WINNIE AND SAM (Peggy Seeger) Here's a song about Winnie, she married handsome Sam He called her "My own little wife" and she called him "my man" Oh what a lo...

Words, words, words in my old bible How much of truth remains? If I only understood them while my lips pronounced them Would not my life be changed? Words, wor...

YOUNG PEGGY Whaur hae ye been, Peggy Whaur hae ye been? In the garden 'mong the gillyflooers 'Tween the hours o' twelve and ane Ye were nae yoursel', Peggy No' ...