Folksong Festival Sampler

1967

Track Listing:

1. I Wanna Die Easy: Sam Hinton
2. Pretty Peggy-O: George And Gerry Armstrong
3. East Virginia: Cisco Houston

1. Where Have All The Flowers Gone: Pete Seeger
2. Que Bonita Bandera: The Harvesters
3. The Boll Weevil: Leadbelly

Six songs from FOLKSONG FESTIVAL
Edited by Irwin Silber and published by Scholastic Book Services.

LP Notes

"I'd rather be in some dark holler, where the sun would never shine, than to see you with another...." An old, plaintive love song.

Notes

About 12 minutes of music. Hope it was cheap. And not my favorite Cisco song or performance. Why this one? For schoolkids? A song about love and jealousy? And why does it list a 1965 copyright on the LP? But there's more.... why the 1967 PC line about the boll weevil? I've heard lots of white performers, including Cisco, do this song. Was it only Negro farmers who laughed at it?

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