Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book Author:Jean Ritchie Jean Ritchie is among the best-known and most respected singers and collectors of traditional ballads in the United States. Her Swapping Song Book, originally published in 1952, was one of her first efforts to share in print the music of her childhood. These twenty-one songs, accompanied by photographs taken at the Hindman Settlement School b... more »y Ritchie?s husband, George Pickow, capture the life of a people now mostly lost to us. Even though some of these songs have long English pedigrees, all of them were known and sung by children in our time. They include nursery rhymes, the game-songs that Ritchie?s parents and grandparents played as children, and even some tunes still favored by bluegrass bands today.« less