Peggy Seeger
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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 Seeger visited Communist China and as a result had her US passport withdrawn.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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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 released:
- Scottish Traditional Songs released:
- The Jacobite Rebellions released:
- American Folk Songs For Christmas released:
- The Big Hewer released:
- Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men and Women released:
- Naming of Names released:
The Travelling People
Released 1999- My mother said I never should...
- I am tired of always having to shift...
- Born in the middle of the afternoon...
- If you took a traveller...
- Don't I wish the old times would come back again...
- I like to settle in the wintertime...
- We never did travel much in the wintertime...
- The auld ways are changing...
- These days have gone...
- I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area...
- People get the impression, o those gypsies they're rogues...
- Thy can't read or write...
- Bloody isn't it...
- Can't see no way out...
The Folkways Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics
Released 1992- Pretty Saro
- Lady, What Do You Do All Day?
- Broomfield Hill
- The Squire and the Colic
- Jellon Graeme
- Going to the West
- Jane Jane
- When I Was Single
- The Wedding Dress Song
- Freight Train Blues
- Song of Myself
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- My Son
- Song for Calum
- Little Girl Child
- Gonna Be an Engineer
- Song of Choice
- Talking Wheelchair Blues
- Nobody Knew She Was There
- Thoughts of Time
- Garden of Flowers
Animal Folk Songs For Children
Released 1992- Raccoon and Possum
- Mister Rabbit
- Peep Squirrel
- A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing
- Cross-Eyed Gopher
- Muskrat
- Old Ground Hog
- Snake Baked a Hoecake
- Mole in the Ground
- Little Dog Named Right
- Little Lap Dog Lullabye
- Little Brown Dog
- Oh, Blue
- Old Fox
- The Deer Song
- And We Hunted and We Hunted
- The Gray Goose
- Old Lady Goose
- The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster Laid the Egg
- My Old Hen's a Good Old Hen
- Turkey Song
- Shake That Little Foot, Dinah-O
- There Was an Old Frog
- Little Pig
- The Old Sow
- The Little Black Bull
- The Old Cow Died
- Black Sheep, Black Sheep
- The Big Sheep
Freeborn Man
Released 1983- North Sea Holes
- The Shoals of Herring
- The Lags' Song
- Come, Me Little Son
- The Moving-On Song
- Sweet Thames, Flow Softly
- I'm A Rambler
- Freeborn Man
- The Driver's Song
- The Ballad of Springhill
- Thirty-Foot Trailer
- Down The Lane
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- The Big Hewer
- The Battle Is Done With
- Dirty Old Town
Steam Whistle Ballads
Released 1964- The Wark O' the Weavers
- Droylsden Wakes
- The Four Loom Weaver
- The Calton Weaver
- Oh, Dear Me
- The Coal-Owner and the Pitman's Wife
- Fourpence a Day
- The Gresford Disaster
- Will Caird
- The Iron Horse
- Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
- Cannily, Cannily
- The Song of the Iron Road
- The Blantyre Explosion
- The Collier Laddie
- Moses of the Mail
Animal Folk Songs for Children
Released 1958- Little Brown Dog
- Oh, Blue
- The Big Sheep
- Riding Round the Cattle
- The Old Cow Died
- Raccoon and Possum
- Cross-Eyed Gopher
- Little Lap Dog Lullaby
- Jace, Can I Ride
- Daddy Shot a Bear
- The Deer Song
- And We Hunted and We Hunted
- Mister Rabbit
- Peep Squirrel
- A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing
- Snake Baked a Hoe Cake
- Old Lady Goose
- My Old Hen's Good Old Hen
- Of All the Beast-Es
Scottish Traditional Songs
- The Barnyards of Delgaty
- The Highland Muster Role
- The Wee Wee German Lairdie
- Friendless Mary
- The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie
- Roy's Wife
- Charlie o Charlie
- Tail Toddle
- Lassie Wi' the Yellow Coatie
- Kissin's No Sin
- Bonnie Annie
- Johnnie Cope
- The Wars of Germany
- Maggie Lauder
- Nicky Tams
- Johhn Lad
- Eppie Morrie
- The Reel of Stumpie
The Jacobite Rebellions
- Ye Jacobites by Name
- Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
- Will Ye Go to Sherrifmuir
- Wae's Me for Prince Charlie
- Charlie Is My Darling
- The Haughs of Cromdale
- The Bonnie Moorhen
- Johnnie Cope
- Came Ye O'Er Frae France
- There's Three, Brave Loyal Fellows
- This Is No My Ain House
- The Piper O' Dundee
- Donald MacGillavry
- MacLean's Welcome
- Will Ye No Come Back Again?
American Folk Songs For Christmas
- Stars in the Heaven
- Oh, Watch the Stars
- Great Big Stars
- Shine Like a Star in the Morning
- Bright Morning Stars Are Rising
- Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow
- Shepherd, Shepherd
- Don’t You Hear the Lambs A’Crying
- Found My Lost Sheep
- Look Away to Bethlehem
- How Many Miles to Bethlehem
- Jehovah Hallelujah
- Joseph and Mary
- A Virgin Most Pure
- Baby Born Today
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Shepherds, Rejoice
- The New Born Baby
- Oh, Mary and the Baby
- Star in the East
- Babe of Bethlehem
- Child of God
- Cradle Hymn
- Ain’t That A’Rocking All Night
- Sing a Lamb
- Mary, What You Going to Name That Pretty Little Baby
- Sing Hallelu
- Mary Had a Baby
The Big Hewer
- When you hew a lump of coal
- Out of the dirt and darkness I was born
- Schoolday's over; come on then, John
- Now don't be late
- You're at the pit bank
- Oh dear, the experience to go down the pit
- When I am down the pit
- So now you know how coal is got
- Jimmy, come back, come back
- Yes... he was working next to me
- And yet it's good to come from the pit
- Three hundred years I hewed at the coal by hand
- Down in the dark
- In Durham and Northumberland, I'm sorry for to say
- A miner has to possess that sense of humour
- Coal is a thing that's cost life to get
- Today, safety is the prime factor
- Deep down in a man's heart
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Reclaim The Night
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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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