Songs of Conscience and Concern: A Retrospective Collection is a 1999 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by folk group Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk-singing trio whose nearly 50-year career began with their rise to become a paradigm for 1960s folk music. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers...

. It was the group's second compilation, following 1970's Ten Years Together: The Best of Peter, Paul & Mary. Drawn primarily from the trio's '80s and '90s material, it's a profile of the group's most serious songs from their second phase. The sole new song, "Don't Laugh At Me", has since become a classic in its own right, evidenced by its inclusion on their most recent greatest hits album from Rhino Records.

Track listing

1. Wasn't That a Time
2. Pastures of Plenty
   Pastures of Plenty
   "Pastures of Plenty" is a 1941 composition by Woody Guthrie. Describing the travails and dignity of migrant workers in North America, it is evocative of the world described in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The tune is based on the ballad "Pretty Polly," a traditional English-language folk...
   
   
3. Power
4. If I Were Free
5. Coming of the Roads
6. El Salvador
   El Salvador (Peter, Paul and Mary)
   "El Salvador" is a 1982 protest song about United States involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War, written by Noel Paul Stookey and performed by Peter, Paul and Mary...
   
   
7. The Great Mandala
8. All My Trials
   All My Trials
   All My Trials was a folk song during the social protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on a Bahamian lullaby that tells the story of a mother on her death bed, comforting her children, "Hush little baby, don't you cry./You know your mama's bound to die," because, as she explains,...
   
   
9. All Mixed Up
10. Danny's Downs
11. Don't Laugh at Me
    Don't Laugh at Me
    "Don't Laugh at Me" is the title of a song written by Allen Shamblin and Steve Seskin. It was recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills and released in July 1998 as the second single from his 1998 album Wish You Were Here. Like "I Do " before it, "Don't Laugh at Me" was a number 2 hit on...
    
    
12. Home Is Where the Heart Is
13. There But for Fortune
    There but for Fortune (song)
    "There but for Fortune" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter from the 1960s. Ochs wrote the song in 1963. He recorded it twice, for New Folks Volume 2 and Phil Ochs in Concert...
    
    
14. Old Coat
15. Because All Men Are Brothers