Description

This collection includes 100 songs from the history of the labor movement, together with the stories of the genuine situations from which they sprang. Includes songs by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Joe Glazer, Merle Travis, Woody Guthrie, the Almanac Singers, and others from around the globe. “Union Maid,” “Joe Hill,” “We Shall Not Be Moved,” and many more.

Contents

1. I’m A Bum
2. A Man’s A Man For A’ That
3. A Miner’s Life
4. A New Jerusalem
5. Acres Of Clams
6. Automation
7. Beans, Bacon, And Gravy
8. Blow Ye Winds In The Morning
9. Bread And Roses
10. Brother John
11. Canaday-i-o
12. Casey Jones [Newton, Eddie]
13. Dark As A Dungeon
14. Down In A Coal Mine
15. Down On Penny’s Farm
16. Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
17. Eleven Cent Cotton
18. Everybody Saturday Night
19. Fourpence A Day
20. Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
21. Go Down, Moses
22. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
23. Going To Study War No More
24. Great Day
25. Hallelujah
26. Hard Times In The Mill
27. Hard Travelling
28. Hey Ho, Nobody Home
29. Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous
30. Hold The Fort
31. I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister
32. It Could Be A Wonderful World
33. Jefferson And Liberty
34. Jerry, Go Oil That Car
35. Joe Hill
36. John Brown’s Body
37. John Henry
38. Kevin Barry
39. Leave Her, Johnny
40. Let Us All Speak Our Minds
41. Life Is A Toil
42. Low Bridge, Everybody Down
43. Men Of The Soil
44. My Sweetheart’s The Mule In The Mines
45. No Irish Need Apply
46. No More Auction Block
47. O Freedom!
48. Old Ma Bell
49. On The Line
50. One Happy Swede
51. Pat Works On The Railway
52. Planting Rice
53. Roll The Union On
54. Sixteen Tons
55. So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You
56. Solidarity Forever
57. Take This Hammer
58. Talking Union
59. The Abolitionist Hymn
60. The Anthem Of The Ilgwu
61. The Battle Hymn Of The Republic
62. The Blantyre Explosion
63. The Boll Weevil
64. The Buffalo Skinners
65. The Commonwealth Of Toil
66. The Cutty Wrenl Die Gedanken Sind Frei
67. The Death Of Mother Jones
68. The Dodger
69. The Eight Hour Day
70. The Farmer Is A Man
71. The Man That Waters The Workers’ Beer
72. The Merseillaise
73. The Mill Wasmade Of Marble
74. The Old Chisholm Trail
75. The Peatbog Soldiers
76. The Preacher And The Slave
77. The Red Flag
78. The Rich Man And The Poor Man
79. The Scabs Crawl In
80. The Song Of The Guaranteed Wage
81. The Soup Song
82. The Teacher’s Lament
83. The Uaw-cio
84. The West Virginnia Hills
85. The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blus
86. These Things Shall Be!
87. Times Is Mighty Hard
88. Too Old To Work
89. Union Maid
90. Union Man
91. Union Trade
92. United Steelworkers Are We
93. We Are Building A Strong Union
94. We Are Marching On To Victory
95. We Shall Be Moved
96. We Will Overcme
97. When Wilt Thou Save The People?
98. Which Side Are Yu On?
99. You’ve Got To Go Down And Join The Union
100. Zum Gali Gali