This set presents the research of Folklorists and ethnomusicologists, who wrote authoritative essays; additional materials came from the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, particularly from the Smithsonian Folkways recordings and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Contains 131 enduring favorites in easy-to-sing arrangements with seprate melody lines, numbered notes, and chord symbols, all written in comfortable keys for young voices.

A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."