American Ballad Song 2 / Var American Ballad Song 2 / Var CD

Originally intended as a teaching aid for senior high school social studies and covering a broad scope of civic, government, economic, citizenship and immigration issues, this compilation provides a provocative mid-century impression of America culled from witnesses to the first half of the twentieth century. We are treated to songs from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds; speeches from Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr.. and Williams Jennings Bryan; so-called "brag talk" by cowboys; and pronouncement of an oath of loyalty by Chief John Oberly of the "Osage Tribe of Indians" affirming that he will not conspire with any political parties to overthrow the US government.

1. Skada in America 2. Bragg Talk 3. Immigrant Worker 4. He Lies in the American Land 5. German-American Loyalty 6. American Indian Loyalty Oath 7. Two Good Men 8. Ballad of Sherman Wu 9. Immortality 10. The Lord's Prayer 11. F.D.R's Back Again 12. Then and Now 13. Puerto Ricans in New York 14. Roll on Columbia 15. Conestoga Wagoner's Complaint 16. Trusts 17. Banks of Marble 18. The Farmer 19. The Farmer Is the Man (Who Feeds Us All) 20. One-Third of a Nation 21. Pastures of Plenty 22. Labor Strife 23. Ludlow Massacre 24. Money, Money, Money 25. Too Old to Work 26. Corruption 27. Teacher's Blues 28. The Taxation Tyranny 29. Van Buren 30. The Political Smear 31. If He's Good Enough for Lindy 32. I'm a Migrant 33. Keep Moving 34. Too Many Bookmakers 35. The Delinquent 36. Let's Move It 37. The Negro Voter 38. Desegregation at Little Rock 39. The State of Arkansas 40. The Supreme Court 41. The Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan 42. They Go Wild Over Me 43. First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments 44. The Communist 11 45. Land of the Daily Worker 46. Landing of the A.E.F 47. Let's Bury the Hatchet 48. The Spanish Civil War 49. Valley of Jarama (Jarama Valley) 50. Isolationism 51. Quarantine Speech 52. The Sinking of the Reuben James 53. The League of Nations 54. The United Nations 55. The Marshall Plan 56. Isolationism 57. The Red Issue 58. Little Joe the Rustler 59. The Baruch Plan 60. Strontium 90 61. Nuclear Control 62. Doomsday Blues 63. Inagural Address 64. Then We'll Have Peace