Artist & Tune
Version by Tom Paxton
Version by Pete Seeger
Version by The Tone Rangers Choir
Version by Cantor Daniel Mutlu
Version by Colleen Walsh
Version by Christine Lavin
Reference
About the Song
This song by Tom Paxton was the title track of an album first released in 1972. It was picked up by Pete Seeger and can be heard to this day at peace rallies across the world.
- The 3rd video above is from a 2008 album called "New Music, New Hope: Songs of hope & healing to benefit the Tsunami relief effort". Paxton is joined on this track by a children's chorus.
- The 4th video features a duet between Paxton & Pete Seeger. It is from a 1999 BBC radio program called "Still Ramblin'". The full program can be streamed at https://youtu.be/AauO8_zwcMA.
- The Tone Rangers are a community choir based near Brighton, England.
- Daniel Multu is the senior cantor at Central Synagogue in New York City, a 1st generation American born of Turkish Jewish parents. He lives with his family on the Upper West Side.
Paxton performed this song at the singalong concert celebrating Rise Again held in Arlington VA in March 2016, joined by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer.