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<title> Flatpicker Hangout Top 20 Folk Songs</title>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com</link>
<copyright>2026 Flatpicker Hangout</copyright>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:01:00 CST</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:01:00 CST</lastBuildDate>
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<itunes:subtitle>Another member-generated podcast of great flatpicked guitar tunes.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Flatpicker Hangout Members</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary>Top 20 Folk Songs flatpicked guitar songs which Flatpicker Hangout members have uploaded to the website.</itunes:summary>
<description>Top 20 Folk Songs flatpicked guitar songs which Flatpicker Hangout members have uploaded to the website.</description>
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>Flatpicker Hangout</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>eric@flatpickerhangout.com</itunes:email>
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<webMaster>eric@flatpickerhangout.com</webMaster>

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<title>Wildwood Flower Collaboration</title>
<itunes:author>ccravens</itunes:author>
<author>ccravens</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/8223</link>
<itunes:summary>Since Tom had a couple guitar breaks I thought I&amp;#39d try to add a couple of different things. 
It&amp;#39s certainly nothing to brag about on my part, but it was fun.</itunes:summary>
<description>Since Tom had a couple guitar breaks I thought I&amp;#39d try to add a couple of different things. 
It&amp;#39s certainly nothing to brag about on my part, but it was fun.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:53:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Smokey's Delight</title>
<itunes:author>1833</itunes:author>
<author>1833</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/8234</link>
<itunes:summary>A change of pace- a  relaxing Sunday Morning start to the day...
triple tracked on the D-28</itunes:summary>
<description>A change of pace- a  relaxing Sunday Morning start to the day...
triple tracked on the D-28</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:31:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>The Farmer is the Man</title>
<itunes:author>G-no</itunes:author>
<author>G-no</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/9167</link>
<itunes:summary>This song came out after the civil war when the Midwest was filling up with farmers turning it into the breadbasket of the world. When the railroads raised their freight and storage rates and the price of corn and wheat tumbled the railroads and the banks began to forecdlose on the newly developed farmlands. This gave birth to the Farmer Alliance and the Greenback-Labor Party. The Great West , a paper distributed at  the first Populist convention said &quot;Men of the West, the party of the common people has come ande it's a giant at birth. It's sledge hammer swings with the muscle and the toil of an army , it's songs will come out of the oppressed.&quot; Songs were sang at the convention undeer placards that reade &quot; WE DO NOT ASK FOR SYMPATHY OR PITY. WE ASK FOR JUSTICE &quot; This song is one of the songs from the Populist conventions. And the farmer is still the man who feeds us all. I got two guitars going. Flat picking on the 12 string and finger picking a 6 stringer</itunes:summary>
<description>This song came out after the civil war when the Midwest was filling up with farmers turning it into the breadbasket of the world. When the railroads raised their freight and storage rates and the price of corn and wheat tumbled the railroads and the banks began to forecdlose on the newly developed farmlands. This gave birth to the Farmer Alliance and the Greenback-Labor Party. The Great West , a paper distributed at  the first Populist convention said &quot;Men of the West, the party of the common people has come ande it's a giant at birth. It's sledge hammer swings with the muscle and the toil of an army , it's songs will come out of the oppressed.&quot; Songs were sang at the convention undeer placards that reade &quot; WE DO NOT ASK FOR SYMPATHY OR PITY. WE ASK FOR JUSTICE &quot; This song is one of the songs from the Populist conventions. And the farmer is still the man who feeds us all. I got two guitars going. Flat picking on the 12 string and finger picking a 6 stringer</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:39:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Over The Waterbrook</title>
<itunes:author>Fstpicker</itunes:author>
<author>Fstpicker</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/5717</link>
<itunes:summary>A song I wrote many years ago in the key of A played on my Stanford PSD10. This song is flatpicked entirely with no fingerpicking done.</itunes:summary>
<description>A song I wrote many years ago in the key of A played on my Stanford PSD10. This song is flatpicked entirely with no fingerpicking done.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:25:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Sweet Hour of Prayer</title>
<itunes:author>Fstpicker</itunes:author>
<author>Fstpicker</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/5718</link>
<itunes:summary>Played on my Stanford PSD10 capo'ed on the 3rd fret in the key of Bb.</itunes:summary>
<description>Played on my Stanford PSD10 capo'ed on the 3rd fret in the key of Bb.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:28:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Hard Times Come Again No More</title>
<itunes:author>Stephen Foster</itunes:author>
<author>Stephen Foster</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/6927</link>
<itunes:summary>Performing this at a local gig.</itunes:summary>
<description>Performing this at a local gig.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:11:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Lost Sailor</title>
<itunes:author>Rosie Clegg</itunes:author>
<author>Rosie Clegg</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/2487</link>
<itunes:summary>Rosie, vocals / guitar, Ian Fairbairn. mandolin.
  Traditional Folk Song About   A Young Woman`s search for her lover, lost at sea.</itunes:summary>
<description>Rosie, vocals / guitar, Ian Fairbairn. mandolin.
  Traditional Folk Song About   A Young Woman`s search for her lover, lost at sea.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:31:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Elzic's Farewell</title>
<itunes:author>montanaokie</itunes:author>
<author>montanaokie</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/9682</link>
<itunes:summary></itunes:summary>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:36:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Lowlands Of Holland</title>
<itunes:author>Rosie Clegg</itunes:author>
<author>Rosie Clegg</author>
<link>https://www.flatpickerhangout.com/song/2485</link>
<itunes:summary>Rosie, vocals / guitar. Tom McConville, fiddle.Chris Parkinson Keyboards.
  A Traditional Folk Song relating the anguish of love lost, due to war.,</itunes:summary>
<description>Rosie, vocals / guitar. Tom McConville, fiddle.Chris Parkinson Keyboards.
  A Traditional Folk Song relating the anguish of love lost, due to war.,</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:27:00 CST</pubDate>
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