
Episode 2 takes the story of American folk music from the 1930s through the 1950s. The list below includes songs especially filmed for the documentary and commercially available recorded music.
The Carter Family When The World's On Fire
Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land
Lead Belly Goodnight Irene
Sonny Terry Pick a Bale of Cotton
Lead Belly Blind Lemon Blues
Lead Belly Alberta
Lead Belly Irene
Lead Belly Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
Lead Belly East Rider
Woody Guthrie Pretty Boy Floyd
Woody Guthrie Do-Re-Mi
Woody Guthrie So Long It's Been Good to Know You
Uncle Dave Macon Sail Away Ladies
Igor Stravinsky (cmpsr) Symphony in Three Movements - Con Moto
Aunt Molly Jackson Kentucky Miner's Wife (Ragged Hungry Blues) pt1
The Skillet Lickers Ride Old Buck to Water
Lead Belly 4, 5 & 9
Josh White Blood Red River
Lead Belly Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
Bookmiller Shannon Down in Arkansas Among the Sticks
Josh White Uncle Sam Says
Lead Belly Bourgeois Blues
Woody Guthrie Car Song
Woody Guthrie Train Blues
Geirge Spangler and Congregation Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
The Almanac Singers Union Maid
The Almanac Singers Billy Boy
The Almanac Singers Washington Breakdown
The Almanac Singers Dear Mr President
The Almanac Singers Round and Round Hitler's Grave
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Water Coast Blues
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Just a Spoonful
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Roamin' and Ramblin' Blues
Josh White Howling Wolf Blues
Josh White & Libby Holman Baby Baby
Pete Seeger The Bells of Rhymney
Pete Seeger We Shall Not Be Moved
Jean Ritchie  Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Pete Seeger My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away
Mississippi John Hurt Frankie
Woody Guthrie I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
The Weavers Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
Lead Belly There's A Man Going Around Taking Names
Woody Guthrie Sleep Eye
Dock Boggs Country Blues
Frank Sinatra Goodnight Irene
Paul Robeson Summertime
Josh White Lord, I Want to Die Easy
Pete Seeger There Once Was a Woman Who Swallowed a Lie
Buddy Thomas Yellow Barber
Bascom Lamar Lunsford I Wish I Was a Mole In The Ground
Dock Boggs Pretty Polly
Woody Guthrie Train Blues
Bob Dylan Song to Woody
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