Walt Robertson
About the artist
Walt Robertson (Omaha, Nebraska September 1928 - September 23, 1994) was an American folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. Robertson was raised on Bainbridge Island, and went to school at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. While at Haverford, he attended a number of folk festivals at nearby Swarthmore College where he heard John Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Susan Reed, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Leadbelly, John Jacob Niles and many others. He won a Talent USA contest, then in 1952-53 he had his own weekly show on KING-TV.
Top songs
- Railroad Bill
- Wandering
- Puget Sound
- Moonshiner
- Hooroo, Johnny
- Life is a Toil
- Sugar Hill
- The Portland County Jail
- Frozen Logger
- I Have Led a Good Life
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- Bile Them Cabbage Down
- The Sow Took the Measles
- John Hardy
- Pretty Little Miss
- Leatherwing Bat
- Devlish Mary
- Sad and I'm Lonely
- What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?
- John B. Sails (Sloop John B.)
- Old Dan Tucker
- Turtle Dove
- The Fox
- Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
- Virginia Gals
- I Ride an Old Paint
- Blue Mountain Lake
- What You Gonna Do?
- Drunken Sailor
- World's Shortest Folksong
- Railroad Bill - Walt Robertson
- John B. Sails
- What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
- The Mule in the Mines
- Johnny Hooroo
- John B. Sails (Sloop John B)
- Railraod Bill
- 05 - Railroad Bill
- Walt Robertson - Railroad Bill
- Sloop John B
- Walt Robertson / Railroad Bill
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