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Side by Side: Celebrating American Women’s Voices from Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways

1 I'm Gonna Be an Engineer Peggy Seeger 4:31

2 Ballad of the Era Kristin Lems 4:13

3 I Knew I Could Fly Our Native Daughters 3:42

4 But If I Ask Them Sis Cunningham 5:01

5 A Black/Woman/Speaks Sonia Sanchez 2:42

6 Girl Leyla McCalla 2:51

7 Rosie Jane Malvina Reynolds 3:13

8 Mal Hombre Lydia Mendoza 3:32

9 For My Lover Tracy Chapman 3:15

10 Working Class Woman Barbara Dane 6:26

11 The Rebel Girl Hazel Dickens 3:00

12 Shirley Chisholm Susan Kempler Doreen Rappaport 2:50

13 I've Endured Ola Belle Reed 5:50

14 All the Pretty Little Horses Fannie Lou Hamer 1:29

15 Miss D.D. Mary Lou Williams 2:33

16 Syrinx Ann McMillan 4:37

17 Angela Davis Statement Angela Davis 2:11

18 Fish Dance Song Joanne Shenandoah 1:06

19 Honor Song for an Older Sister Poldine Carlo 1:43

20 Not Yo' Butterfly Nobuko Miyamoto Tylana Enomoto 4:21

21 Ego Tripping Nikki Giovanni 1:50

22 Who's Gonna Be Your Man? Ella Jenkins 2:16

23 Tom's Diner Suzanne Vega 2:15

24 Advice to Young People Margaret Mead 1:13

25 The Suffrage Flag Elizabeth Knight 1:49

26 Fare You Well, My Darling Elizabeth Cotten 2:02

27 Read-In for Peace Statement Susan Sontag 4:06

28 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Maybelle Carter 2:34

29 Happy Woman Blues Lucinda Williams 3:12

30 Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton 3:01

31 For My People, A Jubilee Sarah Webster Fabio 2:47

32 Banjo Guzheng Pickin' Girls (天涯海角走一遍) Wu Fei Abigail Washburn 2:23

33 The Poor and Rambling Boy Jean Ritchie 3:51

34 Susan B. Anthony Susan Kempler Doreen Rappaport 5:05

35 Fifty-Nine Cents Bobbie McGee 2:27

36 Society's Child (Baby, I’ve Been Thinking) Janis Ian 2:45

37 I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow Sarah Ogan Gunning 1:41

38 Travelling Shoes Vera Hall Ward 1:43

39 I Am a Dangerous Woman / Crossing the Border Into Canada Joy Harjo 3:16

40 Sojourner Truth New Harmony Sisterhood Band 2:32

41 Inez Garcia Bev Grant and the Human Condition 3:02

42 Exploitation Sorrel Hays 4:04

43 Self-Praise Nancy Dupree 3:49

44 Jaybird March Etta and Cora Baker 1:50

45 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Hazel Dickens Alice Gerrard 2:54

46 I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again Maddox Brothers Rose Maddox 2:13

47 Which Side Are You on? Florence Reece The Almanac Singers 2:39

48 Coretta Scott King: The Right to a Decent Life and Human Dignity, 1971 Ruby Dee 7:54

49 Freedom in the Air Bernice Johnson Reagon 3:19

50 Mujer (Woman) Suni Paz 2:16

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