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Hedy West

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Hedy West (April 6, 1938 - July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter. West was of the same generation as Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and others of the American folk music revival. Her most famous song "500 Miles" is one of America's best loved and best known folk songs. She was described by the English folk musician A.L. Lloyd as "far and away the best of American girl singers in the [folk] revival." See wikipedia.

Top songs

  1. The Wife Wrapt In Wether's Skin
  2. 500 Miles
  3. Little Sadie
  4. The House Carpenter
  5. The Unquiet Grave
  6. Pretty Saro
  7. Barbara Allen
  8. The Sheffield Apprentice
  9. The Wife Of Usher's Well
  10. Fair Rosamund
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  1. Little Matty Groves
  2. Gambling Man
  3. The Cruel Mother
  4. Old Joe Clark
  5. Polly
  6. Blow Ye Gentle Winds
  7. Shady Grove
  8. The Foggy Dew
  9. Old Smokey
  10. Brother Ephus
  11. Shut Up In The Mines At Coal Creek
  12. Girl I Left In Danville
  13. The Coalminer's Child
  14. The Rich Irish Lady
  15. Lucy Wan
  16. Beaulampkin
  17. Down In Adairsville
  18. Lament For Barney Graham
  19. Promised Land
  20. The Davidson-Wilder Blues
  21. Erin's Green Shore
  22. Over There
  23. Love Henry
  24. My Soul's Full of Glory
  25. Rake and the Rambling Boy
  26. Single Girl
  27. The Texan Rangers
  28. Cotton Mill Girls
  29. Whistle Daughter, Whistle
  30. George Collins
  31. Johnny Sands
  32. Joe Bowers
  33. Pans of Biscuits
  34. My Good Old Man
  35. Frankie Silvers
  36. Lee Tharin's Bar Room
  37. Drowsy Sleeper
  38. I'm An Ols Bachelor
  39. Tisic Mil
  40. Molly Bawn
  41. Fare Thee Well
  42. The Brown Girl
  43. Sweet Jane
  44. Letter From Down the Road
  45. Little Willie
  46. Fragments
  47. The Davison-Wilder Blues
  48. The Coal Miner's Child
  49. Whore's Lament
  50. Green rolling hills of West Virginia
  51. Bury Me Not On The Lonely Prairie
  52. Born in North Carolina
  53. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
  54. Anger In The Land
  55. Devil Perceived
  56. Come All Ye Lewiston Factory Girls
  57. Shady Grove - Instrumental
  58. Babies In The Mill
  59. Little Lump Of Coal
  60. Free Little Bird
  61. Miner's Farewell (Poor Hardworking Miners)
  62. Hobo's Lullaby
  63. Queen Jane
  64. When I Lay My Burdens Down
  65. Der Graben
  66. Roll On, Weary River, Roll On
  67. Sally Carter
  68. I'll Never Get Drunk Anymore
  69. Little Birdie
  70. Willie Taylor
  71. Red River Valley / Rio Jarama
  72. Two Sisters
  73. Cotton Mill Blues
  74. Boston Burglar
  75. Once I Had an Old Grey Mare
  76. There'll Be No Distinction
  77. Lil' Old Mountain Shack
  78. The Plains of Waterloo
  79. Blue Monday
  80. Whitehouse Blues
  81. Lady Beauty Bright
  82. My Hearts Tonight in Texas
  83. Moonshiner's Lament
  84. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
  85. The Uncloudy Day
  86. Maid On The Shore
  87. Drunkard's Lament
  88. The Little Carpenter
  89. Bush Whacker
  90. The Three Friends

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