American Folk Songs for Christmas

Mike, Peggy and Penny Seeger and members of their families

Rounder

Recordings of songs that were collected in a book of the same name by Ruth Crawford Seeger, the mother of Mike, Penny and Peggy Seeger.

Tracks

• Stars in the Heaven (Traditional)
• Oh, Watch the Stars (Traditional)
• Great Big Stars (Traditional)
• Shine Like a Star in the Morning (Traditional)
• Bright Morning Stars Are Rising (Traditional)
• Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow (Traditional)
• Shepherd, Shepherd (Traditional)
• Don't You Hear the Lambs A-Crying (Traditional)
• Found My Lost Sheep (Traditional)
• Look Away to Bethlehem (Traditional)
• How Many Miles to Bethlehem? (Traditional)
• Jehovah Hellelujah (Traditional)
• Joseph and Mary (Traditional)
• A Virgin Most Pure (Traditional)
• Baby Born Today (Traditional)
• Got Tell It on the Mountain (Traditional)
• Shepherds Rejoice (Traditional)
• The New Born Baby (Traditional)
• Oh, Mary and the Baby, Lamb (Traditional)
• Star in the East (Traditional)
• Baby of Bethlehem (Traditional)
• Child of God (Traditional)
• Cradle Hymn (Traditional)
• Ain't That a Rocking All Night (Traditional)
• Sing a Lamb (Traditional)
• Mary, What You Going to Name That Pretty Little Baby? (Traditional)
• Sing Hallelu (Traditional)
• Mary Had a Baby (Traditional)
• Jesus Borned in Bethlea (Traditional)
• Wasn't That a Might Day (Traditional)
• January, February the Last Month of the Year (Traditional)
• Poor Little Jesus (Traditional)
• Heard from Heaven Today (Traditional)
• 'Twas a Wonder in Heaven (Traditional)
• Mariner's Hymn (Traditional)
• O May, Where Is Your Baby? (Traditional)
• Yonder Comes Sister Mary (Traditional)
• The Blessings of Mary (Traditional)
• Awake (Traditional)
• Exultation (Traditional)
• Children of the Heavenly King (Traditional)
• Singing in the Land (Traditional)
• Rejoice My Friends (Traditional)
• The Twelve Apostles (Traditional)
• Holy Babe (Traditional)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (Traditional)
• The Angel Band (Traditional)
• Almost Day (Traditional)
• Heaven Bell Ring (Traditional)
• A Mince Pie or a Pudding (Traditional)
• Christmas Day in the Morning (Traditional)
• Turkey Run Away (Traditional)
• Breaking up Christmas (Traditional)

• Mike Seeger - banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, autoharp, shaker, jaw harp, vocals
• Peggy Seeger - banjo, guitar, piano, concertina, vocals
• Penny Seeger - dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, bells, vocals
• Sonya Cohen - guitar, vocals
• Calum MacColl - guitar, vocals
• Kim Seeger - dulcimer, spoons, vocals
• Ewan MacColl - vocals
• Kirsty MacColl - vocals
• Kitty MacColl - vocals