If I Had a Hammer - links to songpages and melodies
Here is a list the order in which they appear of all the songs included in the songbook If I Had a Hammer: A Pete Seeger Singalong Songbook.
Each songpage has information about the song and links to one or more YouTube videos of the song. Note: The links may be to recordings in different keys than the chords provided in the songbook.
The following songs were often performed by Pete, but in many cases were written by others (as noted)
- A Little a' This 'n' That (about his wife Toshi Seeger)
- All Mixed Up
- Banks of Marble by Les Rice
- Bells of Rhymney (set to poem by Idris Davies)
- Bountiful River (with Lorre Wyatt)
- Bring ‘em Home
- Deportee (Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffman)
- Get Up & Go (set to an early 19th c. poem)
- God Bless the Grass by Malivina Reynolds
- God’s Counting on Me
- Goodnight Irene by Huddie Ledbetter & John Lomax
- Healing River by Fred Hellerman & Fran Minkoff
- Hobo’s Lullaby by Goebel Reeves
- Guantanamera by José Marti, José Fernández Dias & Julian Orbon, adap. & popularized by Pete
- How Can I Keep from Singing (19th c. gospel adap. by Pete with new verse by Ann Warner)
- If I Had a Hammer (with Lee Hayes)
- Joe Hill by Alfred Hayes & Earl Robinson
- Last Night I Had a Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy
- Letter to Eve
- Lonesome Valley by Woody Guthrie
- Kisses Sweeter than Wine by Huddie Ledbetter & the Weavers
- Midnight Special by Huddie Ledbetter, with new verse by Pete
- Of Time & Rivers Flowing
- Oh Had a Golden Thread
- Old Devil Time
- Old Time Religion (new “Filksong” verses - with a verse by Pete)
- Precious Friend
- Quite Early Morning
- Rainbow Race
- Sailing Down My Golden River
- Sailing Up My Dirty Stream
- Sailing Up, Sailing Down by Lorre Wyatt
- Step by Step (set to preamble to a mid-19th c. union constitution)
- This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
- Those Three Are on My Mind (with Frances Taylor)
- To Everyone in All the world
- To My Old Brown Earth
- Turn! Turn! Turn! (set to lyrics from Book of Ecclesiastes)
- Tzena Tzena trad. Israeli with lyrics in Hebrew, English & Arabic
- Union Maid by Woody Guthrie
- Viva La Quince Brigada trad. from Spanish Civil War
- Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- The Water Is Wide (including a verse by Pete)
- We Shall Overcome trad. Black gospel, adap. by Civil Rights Movement
- Well May the World Go
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone
- Which Side Are You On? by Florence Reece
Songs about Pete by other artists:
- High Over the Hudson by Reggie Harris
- Let Me Sing You a Song by Joe Jencks
- Sing People Sing by Pat Humphris & Sandy O
- Spoon of Sand by Charlie King
- We’ll Pass Them On by Sally Rogers
And a postscript: Love Call Me Home by Peggy Seeger
