If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle

by Pete Seeger

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Kamani If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle is a very good album. From its pro-union songs to anti-war songs to just songs about life, every song is excellent. Also, if you like singing along to songs, most of them are very good for singing along to.
Thank you for singing such excellent songs, and rest in peace. Favorite track: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream.

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1.	If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song) 01:56	buy track
2.	Banks of Marble 03:17	buy track
3.	Which Side are You On? 02:09	buy track
4.	Casey Jones (The Union Scab) 01:58	buy track
5.	Talking Union 03:05	buy track
6.	Joe Hill 02:32	buy track
7.	Union Maid 02:16	buy track
8.	Step by Step 01:37	buy track
9.	Solidarity Forever 02:54	buy track
10.	Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 02:05	buy track
11.	Talking Atom (Old Man Atom) 02:29	buy track
12.	Crow on the Cradle 02:25	buy track
13.	Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream 02:30	buy track
14.	Study War No More (Down by the Riverside) 03:12	buy track
15.	Bourgeois Blues 02:07	buy track
16.	River of My People 03:06	buy track
17.	Hold On (Keep Your Hand on the Plow) 03:21	buy track
18.	We Shall Overcome 04:42	buy track
19.	He Lies in the American Land 02:01	buy track
20.	Well May the World Go 02:40	buy track
21.	Turn, Turn, Turn 02:46	buy track
22.	Tomorrow is a Highway 03:31	buy track
23.	Oh, Had I a Golden Thread 03:29	buy track
24.	We'll All Be A-Doubling 01:58	buy track
25.	Arrange and Rearrange 04:52	buy track
26.	If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song) 02:10	buy track

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For over 50 years Pete Seeger's music has included songs on labor, civil rights, peace, and the hope for a better world. This CD contains 24 tracks selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and 2 new songs recorded especially for this collection. Pete plays the 5-string banjo and the 12-string guitar and appears on some tracks with Almanac Singers and his grandson Tao Rodriguez. Booklet contains detailed notes by Mark Greenberg and a complete discography of Pete Seeger on Folkways. 71 minutes.

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released May 19, 1998

1998, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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