From heavy to humorous, songs about $$$ abound in roots music. Smithsonian Folkways digs into the pockets of the past and comes up with Do-Re-Mi Woody Guthrie; Business Pete Seeger; Gallis Pole Leadbelly; One Meat Ball Josh White; Union Maid Almanac Singers; Greenback Dollar Kilby Snow 27 vintage tracks!
1) Wall Street Rag - Ann Charters
2) Empty Pocket Blues (Barrel of Money Blues) - Pete Seeger
3) Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
4) Bill Morgan and His Gal - the New Lost City Ramblers
5) One Meat Ball - Josh White
6) Jim Fisk - June Lazare
7) Gallis Pole - Lead Belly
8) Brother Can You Spare a Dime? - Joe Glazer
9) Yankee Dollar - Lord Invader
10) If I Had a Million Dollars - Speckled Red
11) Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Rolf Cahn ; Eric Von Schmidt
12) If I Lose I Don't Care - the New Lost City Ramblers
13) Banks of Marble - Pete Seeger
14) The Old Arm Chair - Gale Huntington
15) The Money Rolls in - Derek Lamb
16) Business - Pete Seeger
17) If You Lose Your Money - Sonny Terry ; Brownie McGhee
18) Union Maid - the Almanac Singers
19) Greenback Dollar - Kilby Snow
20) The Miller and His Sons - Horton Barker
21) Penny's Farm - Pete Seeger
22) Billy Grimes the Rover - the New Lost City Ramblers
23) Ida Mae (The Social Security Song) - Joe Glazer
24) Last Gold Dollar - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
25) Black Dog Blues - the Stoneman Family
26) I Don't Want Your Millions - the Almanac Singers
27) Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie