If I Had a Hammer
*** Buy One / Get One Free. We provide a 2nd copy of this songbook with the purchase of this book in either format. (If you don't need it, please pass it along...) Also: we have enough of these that we're glad to donate copies of this for use in schools, congregations, unions, camps, Seeger celebrations, etc. for shipping only. If you're interested in this email us at rasongbook@gmail.com.
A Pete Seeger Singalong Songbook. Edited by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood (creators of Rise Up Singing and Rise Again songbooks)
"50 songs to remake the world"! With a moving foreword by Harry Belafonte
We created this book to celebrate the centennial of Pete Seeger's birth - and for use at in singalongs and other events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pete's birth this year.
The songbook is available now in two different formats:
- ORDER 8x11 Songbook (8x11 spiral bound songbook)
- ORDER as 6x9 song booklet (6x9 "saddle-stiched" song booklet)
- Order copies in bulk of the 6x9 songbooks for use at singalongs
- NEW! Inexpensive Package Specials for use in a variety of settings and size groups.
Both editions contain identical content, including words & chords to:
- 30 of the most important songs that Pete wrote, cowrote, or adapted
- 15 classic songs he regularly performed and taught audiences
- 5 songs honoring Pete's work and legacy
- along with quotations by Pete about many of the songs, taken from his autobiography Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Pete had an uncanny ability to get an audience singing their hearts out, even if they didn't know a word of the language the songs he was teaching and leading were in. It didn't matter whether he was leading a group of 20 or of 20,000 - or even a half a million as he did at some of the huge peace marches on the Washington Mall.
Songs written or co-written by Pete:
- A Little a' This 'n' That
- All Mixed Up
- Bells of Rhymney
- Bountiful River
- Bring ‘em Home
- Get Up & Go
- God’s Counting on Me
- If I Had a Hammer
- Kisses Sweeter than Wine
- Letter to Eve
- Of Time & Rivers Flowing
- Oh Had a Golden Thread
- Old Devil Time
- Precious Friend
- Quite Early Morning
- Rainbow Race
- Sailing Down My Golden River
- Sailing Up My Dirty Stream
- Step by Step
- Those Three Are on My Mind
- To Everyone in All the world
- To My Old Brown Earth
- Turn! Turn! Turn!
- Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- Well May the World Go
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Songs Pete adapted or added to:
- Guantanamera
- How Can I Keep from Singing
- Midnight Special (including a verse by Pete)
- Old Time Religion (“Filksong” verses - and a verse by Pete)
- Tzena Tzena (with lyrics in Hebrew, English & Arabic)
- The Water Is Wide (including a verse by Pete)
- We Shall Overcome
Songs that Pete performed & helped to reach a wide audience:
- Banks of Marble
- Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
- God Bless the Grass
- Goodnight Irene
- Healing River
- Hobo’s Lullaby
- Joe Hill
- Last Night I Had a Strangest Dream
- Lonesome Valley (Guthrie)
- Sailing Up, Sailing Down
- This Land Is Your Land
- Union Maid
- Viva la Quince Brigada
- Which Side Are You On?
Plus 5 songs about Pete:
And a postscript: "Love Call Me Home" by Peggy Seeger