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If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

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If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle

Compilation album by Pete Seeger
Released	May 19, 1998 (1998-05-19)
Genre	Folk
Length	1:09:36
Label	Smithsonian Folkways

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If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle is a 1998 compilation album by Pete Seeger and was released on Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40096.

This collection is a compilation of 24 songs selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and two 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 Rodríguez-Seeger. The booklet contains detailed notes by Mark Greenberg explaining the origins of each song, as well as how their structures have evolved over the years.^[2]

The album is divided into segments addressing "unions and labor," "peace," "civil rights," and "hope."^[3]

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)"	1:56
2.	"Banks of Marble"	3:17
3.	"Which Side Are You On?"	2:09
4.	"Casey Jones (The Union Scab)"	1:58
5.	"Talking Union"	3:05
6.	"Joe Hill"	2:32
7.	"Union Maid"	2:16
8.	"Step by Step"	1:37
9.	"Solidarity Forever"	2:54
10.	"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"	2:05
11.	"Talking Atom (Old Man Atom)"	2:29
12.	"Crow on the Cradle"	2:25
13.	"Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"	2:30
14.	"Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)"	3:12
15.	"Bourgeois Blues"	2:07
16.	"River of My People"	3:06
17.	"Hold On (Keep Your Hand on the Plow)"	3:21
18.	"We Shall Overcome"	4:42
19.	"He Lies in the American Land"	2:01
20.	"Well May the World Go"	2:40
21.	"Turn, Turn, Turn"	2:46
22.	"Tomorrow is a Highway"	3:32
23.	"Oh, Had I a Golden Thread"	3:29
24.	"We'll All Be A-Doubling"	1:58
25.	"Arrange and Rearrange"	4:52
26.	"If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)"	2:10
Total length:		1:09:36

Notes

I'd Hammer In The Morning (Introduction): Track 1
Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Tracks 2-9
Study War No More (Peace): Tracks 10-14
We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights): Tracks 15-18
I'd Hammer In The Evening (Hope): Tracks 19-26

References[edit]

^ Unterberger, Richie. "Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle". Allmusic.com. Retrieved July 15, 2019.

^ "If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Music catalog entry).

^ "Pete Seeger - If I Had A Hammer: Songs Of Hope & Struggle". Discogs.

v t e Pete Seeger
Studio albums	American Folk Songs for Children American Industrial Ballads American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 Gazette, Vol. 1 Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories God Bless the Grass Dangerous Songs!? Rainbow Race At 89 Pete Remembers Woody
Live albums	We Shall Overcome
Compilations	Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Songs	"The Bells of Rhymney" "Gotta Travel On" "If I Had a Hammer" "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus" "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" "Little Boxes" "My Rainbow Race" "Pittsburgh Town" "Turn! Turn! Turn!" "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy "We Shall Overcome" "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You"
Almanac Singers	Songs for John Doe Talking Union Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads Sod Buster Ballads Songs of the Lincoln Battalion Dear Mr. President
The Weavers	The Weavers at Carnegie Hall The Weavers at Carnegie Hall Vol. 2 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!
Other	Union Boys Precious Friend (with Arlo Guthrie)
Related	Discography People's Songs Rainbow Quest Sing Out! Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Hudson River Sloop Clearwater The Great Hudson River Revival We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Family	Toshi Seeger (wife) Mika Seeger (daughter) Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (grandson) Charles Seeger (father) Ruth Crawford Seeger (stepmother) Mike Seeger (half-brother) Peggy Seeger (half-sister) Alan Seeger (uncle) Ewan MacColl (brother-in-law) John Cohen (brother-in-law) Kirsty MacColl (stepniece)

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