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Guy Carawan

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About the artist

Guy Carawan ( July 27, 1927 - May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement, by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. A union organizing song based on a black spiritual, it had been a favorite of Zilphia Horton (d.

Top songs

  1. We Shall Overcome
  2. This Little Light of Mine
  3. Cripple Creek
  4. Katusha
  5. Sinner Man
  6. The Little Black Flies
  7. Lonesome Traveler
  8. Hava Na Gila - Hava Na Geela - Hava Nagila
  9. Old Blue
  10. Buffalo Gals
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  1. Chinese Flute
  2. Sail Away Lady
  3. Hold On
  4. The Water is Wide
  5. Hobo's Lullaby
  6. Weevily Wheat
  7. Boll Weevil
  8. Sail Away Ladies
  9. Old Joe Clark
  10. Ain't You Got a Right To The Tree of Life
  11. The Yellow Rose of Texas
  12. Whoa Buck!
  13. Three Little Pigs
  14. Freight Train
  15. Tell Old Bill
  16. Talking Atomic Blues
  17. Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)
  18. Come and Go With Me to That Land
  19. Oh, Lord, I've Got Some Singing To Do
  20. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
  21. Sourwood Mountain
  22. Cumberland Gap
  23. Salty Dog
  24. Weary Blues
  25. Jubilee
  26. Virgin Mary
  27. Don't Bother Me
  28. Where Are You Going?
  29. Skip to My Lou
  30. Black is the Color
  31. Been All Over This Country
  32. Big Rock
  33. Amen
  34. Brazos
  35. The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
  36. Tea Bag Blues
  37. This is the Way I Feel
  38. Jiggle Jiggle
  39. Bye 'n Bye
  40. Blue Eyed Girl - Fare You Well, My Blue Eyed Girl
  41. Black Eyed Susie
  42. Pretty Saro
  43. Kicking Mule
  44. White Oak Trees - White Oak Tree
  45. The Trail of Tears
  46. Black Flies
  47. I'm a Stranger Here
  48. Russian Song
  49. Cindy - Get Along Home, Cindy
  50. Red Rosy Bush
  51. Flop Eared Mule
  52. Take The Children And Run
  53. Rake and a Rambling Blade - The Rambling Boy
  54. All Night Long
  55. Ground Hog
  56. Yugoslav Love Song - Vronyonka
  57. The Dry Waltz
  58. Ain't You Got a Right
  59. Falls of Richmond
  60. We Shall Overcome [Live]
  61. A Fool for Love
  62. Sandy River Belle
  63. The New Land
  64. Mexican Lullaby - Duermete, Niño Lindo
  65. He Man Du
  66. If We Could Consider Each Other - Wonderful World
  67. Talking Aromic Blues
  68. High on a Mountain
  69. Lonesome Robin
  70. El Rio San Juan
  71. Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
  72. Toss The Feathers / Rev. Brothers Jig
  73. Somos El Barco
  74. The Parting Song
  75. Shoes And Stockings
  76. Hymn: Dia Do Bheatha
  77. A Fool for Love [#]
  78. Kalebrack Rambler / Sandpiper / Langstrom's Pony - Medley
  79. Planxty Irwin / Whiskey Before Breakfast
  80. Hava Nagila
  81. White Oak Tree
  82. Chinese Tune / Santa Anna's Retreat / O'Ryan's Jig - Medley
  83. Weevily Wheat (Charlie)
  84. Ain't You Got a Right To the Tree of Life (feat. Candie Carawan)
  85. Yugoslav Love Song
  86. Planxty Irwin
  87. Blue Eyed Girl, Fare You Well, My Blue Eyed Girl
  88. Hava Na Gila
  89. John Henry
  90. Black Betty

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