Festival (1967)

Pete Seeger: Self

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• Pete Seeger : Why have we done this? Because, we believe in the idea that the average man and woman can make his own music. In this machine age, it doesn't all have to come out of a loud speaker. You can make it yourself, whether you want shout or croon, sing sweet or rough. And it can be your own music. And when I say your own, music of your own kind, whether its your family or your town or your region, your race or your place, your religion or wherever it is.

• Pete Seeger : The songs they sing are not just being sung for the fun of hearing their own voices. They're not being sung for money. They're being sung for *freedom*. And I can't think of any more wonderful purpose.

• Pete Seeger : [singing]  I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, Down by the riverside

  Pete Seeger , Peter , Paul , Mary , Joan Baez , Odetta : Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside, I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield, Down by the riverside, I'm gonna study, war no more...