Peggy Seeger

Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger. She is also well known in Britain, where she has lived for more than 30 years and was married to the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989.

First American period

Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), an important folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953), a modernist composer who was one of the first women to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. One of her brothers was Mike Seeger, and the well-known Pete Seeger was her half-brother. One of her first recordings was American Folk Songs for Children (1955).

In the 1950s, left-leaning singers such as Paul Robeson and The Weavers began to find that life became difficult because of the influence of McCarthyism. Seeger visited Communist China and as a result had her US passport withdrawn. The US State Department, which had been opposed to Seeger's 1957 trip to Moscow (where the CIA had monitored the US delegation), was vigorously critical about her having gone to China against official "advice".

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Podcasts:

Peggy Seeger

ALBUMS

Bring Me Home

Released 2008

Classic Scots Ballads

Released 2005

Heading for Home

Released 2003

The Travelling People

Released 1999

Folk On 2

Released 1996

An Odd Collection

Released 1996

The Folkways Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics

Released 1992

Animal Folk Songs For Children

Released 1992

Freeborn Man

Released 1983

The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Volume 2

Released 1972

Steam Whistle Ballads

Released 1964

Animal Folk Songs for Children

Released 1958

Chorus from the Gallows

Scottish Traditional Songs

The Jacobite Rebellions

American Folk Songs For Christmas

The Big Hewer

Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men and Women

Naming of Names

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Reclaim The Night

by: Peggy Seeger

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Reclaim The Night
RECLAIM THE NIGHT
(Peggy Seeger)
Though Eve was made from Adam's rib
Nine months he lay within her crib
How can a man of woman born
Thereafter use her sex with scorn?
For though we bear the human race
To us is given but second place
And some men place us lower still
By using us against our will
If we choose to walk alone
For us there is no safety zone
If we're attacked we bear the blame
They say that we began the game
And though you prove your injury
The judge may set the rapist free
Therefore the victim is to blame
Call it nature, but rape's the name
CHORUS: Reclaim the night and win the day
We want the right that should be our own
A freedom women have seldom known
The right to live, the right to walk alone without fear
A husband has his lawful rights
Can take his wife whene'er he likes
And courts uphold time after time
That rape in marriage is no crime
The choice is hers and hers alone
Submit or lose your kids and home
When love becomes a legal claim
Call it duty, but rape's the name
And if a man should rape a child
It's not because his spirit's wild
Our system gives the prize to all
Who trample on the weak and small
When fathers rape, they surely know
Their kids have nowhere else to go
Try to forget, don't ask us to
Forgive them -- they know what they do (CHORUS)
When exploitation is the norm
Rape is found in many forms
Lower wages, meaner tasks
Poorer schooling, second class
We serve our own, and, like the men
We serve employers -- it follows then
That bodies raped is nothing new
But just a servant's final due
We've raised our voices in the past
And this time will not be the last
Our bodies' gift is ours to give
Not payment for the right to live
Since we've outgrown the status quo
We claim the right to answer "No!"
If without consent he stake a claim
Call it rape, for rape's the name
(CHORUS)
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