Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child is a collection of children's music

Children's music

Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...

 by folk singer

Folk Singer

Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

 Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

. Recorded in 1947 and first released in 1956, a remastered recording was issued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1991. Several songs in the collection are instructional, helping children learn to count. Others are songs of adoration written by Guthrie with his own children in mind. For example, the last song on the list was written for his son Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...

who would have been nine years old at the time of the release.

"I really did try to slant these songs at all of your citizens from 4 to 6, but I spilled over a little on every side" - Woody Guthrie.

Track listing

1. "Grassy Grass Grass (Grow, Grow, Grow)"
2. "Swimmy Swim"
3. "Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)"
4. "Rattle My Rattle"
5. "I Want My Milk (I Want It Now)"
6. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"
7. "One Old Day"
8. "Wash-y Wash Wash (Warshy Little Tootsy)"
9. "I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You"
10. "Make A Blobble"
11. "Who's My Pretty Baby (Hey Pretty Baby)"
12. "I'll Write And I'll Draw"
13. "Why, Oh Why"
14. "Pick It Up"
15. "Pretty And Shiny-O"
16. "Needle Sing"
17. "Bling-Blang"
18. "Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')"

External links

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Release