Rainbow Quest — Season 1, Episode 28: Penny and Sonya Cohen

Episode synopsis

The subject of this show is work songs and lullabies, the latter occasionally being the former, as when sung by a babysitter. We hear and see films of men singing as they work: boatmen in Ghana and woodsmen at Texas State Prison. Seeger welcomes to the show his sister Penny and her infant daughter Sonya, and mother and uncle sing a medley of lullabies, including "Hush Little Baby," "By and By" and "All the Pretty Little Horses." After the prisoners in the film sing "Long Gone," "Jody" and "Down by the Riverside," Seeger himself reprises "Down by the Riverside."

About Rainbow Quest

Legendary folk musician Pete Seeger shares stories and songs with some of the folk and country music greats of the 1960s such as Johnny Cash, June Carter, Mississippi John Hurt, The Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Tom Paxton, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
• E2'Leadbelly'
• E3Elizabeth Cotton, Rosa Valentin and Rafael Martinez
• E4Ruth Rubin
• E5Jean Ritchie and Bernice Reagon
• E6Malvina Reynolds and Jack Elliott
• E7Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School
• E8New Lost City Ramblers
• E9The Beers Family
• E10Herbert Manana
• E11Martha Schlamme
• E12Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price