(John Fischer) The paint is old and peeling The shutters show some cracks There's a heavy limb on the apple tree That's got to be cut back There's some water i...

(Cheryl Wheeler) In the year of the yellow ca In the shadow of the great world war The third kid grandmom had Came into this world On a rolling farm in Marylan...

(Pete Seeger) You know this language that we speak, is part german , latin and part greek Celtic and arabic all in a heap, well amended by the people in the st...

(YarrowStookeyOkun) All my trials Lord, soon be over I had a little book was given to me, And every page spelled Liberty All my trials Lord, soon be over If ...

(Laura Nyro) [Refrain:] And when I die, and when I'm dead, dead and gone, There'll be one child born and a world to carry on, There'll be one child born to carr...

(Noel Paul Stookey) I would like to apologize for my friend, here; He hasn't been himself for a long, long time From the beginning of his minding other people'...

(Peggy SeegerEwan MacColl) In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia, Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine, There's blood on the coal and miners lie In the r...

(Van Ronk) You take a stick of bamboo, you take a stick of bamboo, you take a stick of bamboo, you throw it in the water, Oh, oh, Hanaah You take a stick of b...

(BachGlazer) Because all men are brothers wherever men may be One Union shall unite us forever proud and free No tyrant shall defeat us, no nation strike us do...

(David Buskin) Some things are different, some the same Some turn over, some don't change Time and music all forgive And in the best of friends the spirit live...

(StookeyLaneOkunMezzetti) I went up the levee to pack some sacks And I thought I'd bring me some money back Big boat up the river and she can't come down My wo...

(YarrowStookeyTravers) [Spoken by Peter:] "We'd like to sing a children's song for you now, that's unique It's the only children's song that we've ever encounte...

(Shel Silverstein) I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor And I don't like ...

(Mary Travers Noel Paul Stookey) Memory moves us past each other Time is a ribbon without end Love is the lesson we keep learning Death but a moment we must sp...

(Noel Paul StookeyElaine SutherlandPeter Yarrow) I'd like to take you by surprise at the grocery store Grab you by the hand and step on the electric door Leave...

(Woody Guthrie) [This song is a combination of spoken segments with vocal sound effects and singing This will be the basic lyric only as the performance is far ...

(Noel Paul Stookey) And it came to pass on a Christmas evening While all the doors were shuttered tight Outside standing, a lonely boy-child Cold and shivering...

(Billy Edd Wheeler) Now that our mountain is growing with people hungry for wealth How come it's you that's a-going and I'm left all alone by myself? We used t...

(Stan Rogers) How early is beginning? From when is there a soul? Do we discover living, Or somehow are we told? In sudden pain, in empty cold In blinding light...

(Woody GuthrieMartin Hoffman) The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting The oranges piled in their creosote dumps They're flying us back to the Mexican bor...

(Steven Sher) Dodi li va-ani lo, ha-roeh Bashoshanium dodi li Mi zot ola min hamidbar Mi zot ola min hamidbar Dodi li va-ani lo, ha-roeh Bashoshanium dodi li ...

(Traditional Adapted and arranged by Robert DeCormier, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers) I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, Down by the ri...

(Paul Stookey) Well early in the morning, about the break of day, I ask the Lord, "Help me find the way!" Help me find the way to the promised land This lonely...

(Noel Paul Stookey and Jim Wallis) There's a sunny little country south of Mexico Where the winds are gentle and the waters flow But breezes aren't the only th...

(StookeyMilsteinYarrow) Every flower's reachin' for the sun Every petal opens when the day has just begun Even in the city where they grow up through the stree...

(RenshawYarrow) They build bombs and aim their pistols in the shadow of the cross And they swear an oath of vengeance to the martyrs they have lost But they pr...

(StookeyTraversMezzetti) When first I came to Louisville, my fortune there to find, I met a fair young maiden there, her beauty filled my mind Her rosy cheek, ...

(John Denver) It's by far the hardest thing I've ever done, To be so in love with you and so alone [Chorus:] Follow me where I go, what I do, and who I know ...

(John Denver) I'll walk in the rain by your side, I'll cling to the warmth of your tiny hand I'll do anything to help you understand, I'll love you more than a...

(Noel Paul Stookey) In the beginning, as life became form, The oceans heaved, the mountains were cleaved, The firmament stormed At the center of being, immense...

(Bob Dylan) May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to t...

(All songs are traditional, adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow) I woke up this mornin' with my mind, set on freedom I woke up this mornin' with my mind, set ...

(David Mallett) [Chorus:] Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground Inch by inch, row...

(Peter Yarrow -Silver Dawn Music -ASCAP) As I was a goin' over Gilgarra Mountain I spied Colonel Farrell and his money he was countin' First I drew me pistols,...

(Tom Paxton) Daddy's takin' us to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow Daddy's takin' us to the zoo tomorrow and we can stay all day! [Chorus:] We're...

(New words and music by YarrowStookeyTravers) There was a ship that sailed all on the lowland sea And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity And we feared ...

(LeadbetterLomax) [Chorus:] Irene, goodnight Irene, goodnight Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams Well last saturday night I got married...

(GilbertHaysHellermanSeeger) When the whale get strike and the line runs out And the whale makes a flunder with its tail And the boat capsized and I lost my da...

(Peter Yarrow) I've seen a thousand people kneel in silence And I've seen them face the rifles with their songs I always thought that we could end the killing ...

(Sally Fingerett) On the corner there's this nice man His name is Mark, He's always smiling He's got this mom who comes on Wednesdays In the evening with soup ...

(Traditional, adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow) Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam And the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discour...

(New words and music by Mary Travers) There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many poor girls And me, oh God, am one If...

(Robert DeCormierPeter YarrowNoel Paul StookeyMary Travers Bob Franke) My life rolls on in endless song Above earth's lamentations I hear the real though far-...

(RobinsonHarburg) My seed is sown now, my field is plowed; My flesh is bone now, my back is bowed [Refrain:] So hurry, sundown, be on your way, And hurry me ...

(YarrowStookey) Hush-a-bye, don't you cry, go to sleep you little baby When you wake you shall have all the pretty little horses Dapples and greys, pintos and ...

(GoldMasonStookey) Sunday morning, very bright, I read Your book by colored light That came in through the pretty window picture I visited some houses where t...

(ManilowPanzer) I am your child Wherever you go, you take me too Whatever I know, I learned from you Whatever I do, you taught me to do I am your child And I ...

(StookeyMasonDixon) I dig Rock and Roll music And I love to get the chance to play (and sing it) I figure it's about the happiest sound goin' down today The m...

I have a song to sing, O! (Sing me your song, O!) It is sung to the moon by a love-lorn loon Who fled from the mocking throng-o It's the song of a merry man mop...

(Rose Bonne and Alan Mills) I know an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed ...

(Peter YarrowLarry Weiss) Hey Jess, I heard you talkin' on the telephone And I wish that you could say it to my face I know you think I've changed and I don't ...

(Bob Dylan) They say everything can be replaced Yet every distance is not near So I remember every face Of every man who put me here [Chorus:] I see my light...

(John J Niles) I wonder, as I wander out under the sky How Jesus the Saviour had come for to die For poor orn'ry creatures like you and like I I wonder as I wa...

(SeegerHayes) If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening, All over this land I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning, I'd ...

(YarrowYardley) If I had wings no one would ask me should I fly The bird sings, no one asks why I can see in myself wings as I feel them If you see something e...

(Travis Edmonson) [Chorus:] If I were free to speak my mind, I'd tell a tale to all mankind Of how the flowers do bloom and fade Of how we've fought and how we'...

(Bob Dylan) Snow was piled up the stairs an onto the street that first winter when I laid around New York City It was a different street then- It was a differen...

(JohnTaupin) As he awoke that evening with the smell of wood-smoke clinging Like a gentle cobweb hangin' upon a painted teepee He went to see his chieftain wit...

(HillStookey) Let's say you're at a pie contest, let's say that you're the judge And there's lemon, lime and watermelon rind, and one that looks like fudge You ...

(Gene Nelson Craig Carothers) We came to a new world Tired of the old one Hungry for freedom And heavy with prayer It was a beautiful treasure Ours for the t...

(Thea Hopkins) Run down church Red clay River covered In a smoky haze Sunday morning The fire is out Sunday morning No one about The earth is soft This time ...

(GilbertHaysHellermanNewmanSeeger) When I was a young man and never been kissed I got to thinking it over what I had missed I got me a girl, I kissed her and t...

(Traditional Adapted and arranged by Robert DeCormier, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers) Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumb...

(Boris VianHarold Berg) [Peter does this solo entirely in French, after giving a shortened English translation] ["The Pacifist" (translation):] Men whose name...

(John Denver) All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go I'm standing here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breakin', it's e...

(Peter Yarrow) Light one candle for the Maccabee children With thanks that their light didn't die Light one candle for the pain they endured When their right t...

(Peter Yarrow) After all is said and done we need each other For a million reasons we can't even name All our roads still lead to one another And for all we've...

(Bob and Adrienne Claiborne) [Chorus:] Listen, Mr Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate Ar...

(Jimmy Driftwood) One night as I lay on my pillow, moonlight as bright as the dawn I saw a man come a walking, he had a long chain on I heard his chains a clan...

(Noel Paul Stookey) Hey, Margaret, I left you a note, did you get what I wrote? I laid it between your records It said I'm changing my mind, and I'm leaving to...

(YarrowMezzetti) In Make-Believe Town, In Make-Believe Town, In Make-Believe Town, Oh, yes, In Make-Believe Town, Oh, Make-Believe Town, Oh, Make-Believe Town...

(HellermanMinkoff) There is a man come into Egypt, and Moses is his name When he saw the grief upon us, in his heart there burned a flame In his heart there bu...

(Traditional Adapted and arranged by Robert DeCormier, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers) Michael row the boat ashore, hallelujah Michael row th...

(Trad arrangement: YarrowStookeyTravers) Hush little baby, don't say a word Pappa's gonna buy you a mockingbird If that mockingbird don't sing Pappa's gonna b...

(Peter Yarrow) Moments of the soft persuasion Chiming bells, the first occasion Tell the rest a smile awaken Till the last reminder shaken From whatever rude a...

(YarrowStookeyTravers) La la la Dans mes reves j'entends une voix Qui me dit "Ne pleure pas", Quel dommage mes yeux sont des source claires Dans mes reves j'en...

(Elaina Mezzetti) I'm goin' home on the morning train I'm goin' home on the morning train I'm goin' home on the morning train If you don't see me you can hear ...

(Peter Yarrow) You're not Ms Rheingold or Ms Clairol Or an ad for "Learn To Draw" And you don't have the prettiest pair of legs I ever saw But cellophane don't...

(PaynePeaseScarpiello) [Chorus:] Music speaks louder than words It's the only thing that the whole world listens to Music speaks louder than words, When you sin...

(Peter Yarrow and Margery Tabankin) Brother Martin was walkin with me, And every step I heard liberty Tho he's fallin', come a million behind! Glory, Halleluja...

(Noel Paul Stookey) Know me by the light of a fire shinin' bright, Know me by your bed where I've lain Know me, and you might, if just for a night You'll know ...

(Noel Paul Stookey) There's someone, you've got to meet him An' you see him every day, His face will look familiar, But in a most unusual way He's Norman Norm...

(Becca Christel Tracey Spring Janis Carper) I can ease the suffering of this world I can ease the suffering of this world I can ease the suffering of this wo...

(Pete Seeger) Oh, had I a golden thread And needle so fine I'd weave a tapestry Of rainbow design Of rainbow design Far over the water I'd weave my magic stra...

(Peter Yarrow) Peter performs this song by leading the audience to sing along He divides them into three groups, each with their own part The lyrics are provid...

(StookeyTraversMezzettiSears) Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves, Life is a hard road to travel, I believe I look to the east, I look to the west...

(Noel Paul Stookey) [Excerpt from "Talking Union" Words by Lee Hayes, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger - inspired by Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dustbowl" "Talking ...

(Peter Yarrow) The kids just went to sleep and I thought I'd play this old time record Darling, come and dance with me together Though I look a little older, y...

(StookeyKniss) one and a-two and a-three Ya-tya-da tya tya da tya tya da tya Ta dee-da-dum On a desert island, a magic yours and my land Everyday's a holiday ...

(YarrowStookey) There's one kind favor I'll ask of you There's one kind favor I'll ask of you Yeah, there's one kind favor I'll ask of you See that m' grave is...

(FarinaMarden) [Refrain:] Well, if somehow you could pack up your sorrows, And give them all to me You would lose them, I know how to use them, Give them all to...

(Woody Guthrie) It's a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed My poor feet have traveled that hot dusty road Out of the dust bowl and westward we rolled ...

(Mary Travers) [Spoken:] Erika with the windy yellow hair Dancing through the day or moping by the stair My joy to know my Erika with the windy yellow hair Yes...

(John and Johanna Hall) [Chorus:] Just give me the warm power of the sun Give me the steady flow of a waterfall Give me the spirit of living things as they retu...

(StookeyMezzettiOkun) My horses ain't hungry, they won't eat your hay, So fare thee well darlin' I'm goin' away Your parents don't like me, they say I'm too p...

(Bob Dylan) You can read out your Bible, You can fall down on your knees pretty momma And pray to the Lord but it ain't gonna do you no good [Chorus:] Cause ...

(Tim Hardin) If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried Still I look to f...

(John Denver) So you speak to me of sadness and the coming of the winter Fear that is with-in you now that seems to never end And the dreams that have escaped ...

(Willy Welch) Saturday summers, when I was a kid We'd run to the schoolyard and here's what we did We'd pick out the captains and we'd choose up the teams It w...

(Peter Yarrow) I traveled the banks of the River of Jordan To find where it flows to the sea I looked in the eyes of the cold and the hungry And I saw I was lo...