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Americana–Patriotic and Folk Songs
June 21, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
At our session this week we will celebrate America by playing and singing some American patriotic and folksongs. This is our last session before July 4.
Oh Susanna, Stephen F. Foster (1848)
America the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates & Samuel A. Ward (1910)
You’re a Grand Old Flag/I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan (1906/1904)
God Bless America, Irving Berlin (1918)
This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie
(1940—Guthrie was tired of hearing God Bless America on the radio)
Paradise, John Prine (1971)
Angel From Montgomery, John Prine (1971)
On the Road Again, Willie Nelson (1979)
Crawdad Song
(“very old”–sung by levee builders on Mississippi River, sung by Woody Guthrie, Andy Griffith, Foggy Bottom Boys, etc.)
City of New Orleans, Steve Goodman (1971)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, original 1907,
reworked in 1937 as a funeral hymn by A.P. Carter (Carter Family)