An American folk song best known through the various recordings of the Carter Family. They first recorded it in 1928…
Written by Pete Seeger and first recorded in 1959, this song became an international hit in 1965 when it was…
Although tabbed by Rudi Vandeputte for the Merlin, this song by Neil Young is also playable on the Strumstick. Simply…
An American folk song responding with humorous sarcasm to people who moralize unhelpfully about the circumstance of being a hobo.…
A 1976 hit song by Canadian singer/songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot, to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald…
This song written by Merle Travis is a lament about the danger and drudgery faced by coal miners. It became…
A traditional Welsh lullaby written by an anonymous composer and first recorded in print around 1800. “Suo gan” means “lull…
This is an English folk ballad from the 1700’s. It disappeared in England, but was rediscovered in the Appalacian Mountains…
A traditional Jamaican “call and response” work song. The best-known version was released by Harry Belafonte in 1956 and it…
A anti-war song written in 1950 by folk singer, Ed McCurdy, and perhaps best-known in the cover by Simon &…