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American labor songs of the nineteenth century / [selected by] Philip S. Foner.

Author/creator Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [1975] ©1974.
Description356 pages ; 28 cm & phonodisc (2 s. : 18 in. ; 33 1/3 rpm)
Subject(s)
Series Music in American life
Music in American life. ^A223005
Contents Colonial, revolutionary, and early national period -- The era of Jacksonian democracy, 1823-40 -- The pre-Civil War decades, 1840-60 -- Foreign-born and Black workers -- The Civil War and post-Civil War era, 1861-72 -- The long depression, 1873-79 -- The knights of labor -- The early American Federation of Labor -- The miners -- The eight-hour day and the Haymarket affair -- Boycotts, strikes, and unemployment demonstrations, 1880-1900 -- Labor parties, Labor-Farmers' Alliance Coalition, and Labor-populism, 1880-97 -- Socialism.
Contents Address to the Journeymen Cordwainers L. B. of Philadelphia -- After the commonweal march is over -- After the long strike -- After the strike -- The agrarian ball -- The all day system -- All for the cause -- America -- America-1895 -- Ancient nursery ballad -- Anti-monopoly war song -- Appeal to workingmen -- Arise! Ye sons of labor! -- Aristocrats<U+2019> election song -- The army of labor -- A.R.U. -- Association song -- The Avondale mine disaster -- Awake -- Awake! Be free! -- Awake! The torpor of this dream -- Ballad of the shop girl -- The ballot -- Bang! Bang! Bang! -- Bank melodies-no.1 -- Bank melodies-no.2 -- The battle hymn of freedom -- Battle hymn of the Proletariat -- Battle hymn of the wronged -- The battle song -- -- Battle song -- The battle song of reform -- The bay state shoemakers<U+2019> song -- Before I<U+2019>d be a slave (Oh, freedom) -- Be united, united, united -- Biddle, let the bank alone -- Blacklisted -- The boot makers<U+2019> great strike -- Boycott armour -- Boycott them -- Break the news to Morgan -- Brooklyn trollilee -- Buddy, won<U+2019>t you roll down the line -- Call to arms -- A campaign song -- Campaign song -- Capital and labor -- A carol -- The caucus -- A centennial wail -- Circumstances alter cases -- Closing ode -- Closing song -- The coal baron<U+2019>s hymn -- The coal creek rebellion -- Coal creek trouble -- Come brothers all -- Come, brothers, come -- Come, comrades, come -- Comin<U+2019> thro<U+2019> the rye -- Common sense exercises -- A cooperative song -- Cooper campaign song -- Cordwainers<U+2019> song (The cause of labor<U+2019>s gaining) -- Cordwainers<U+2019> song (Oh, what does make the bosses sigh) -- Cordwainers song (Shoemakers of Lynn, be brave) -- Cordwainers<U+2019> rallying song -- Coxey army -- Coxey<U+2019>s on the grass -- The cradle song of the poor -- The cry of the toilers -- Daddy MacNeven<U+2019>s somerset -- Dan Ragg -- Dare to be a union man -- The dawn of a new day -- The day of labor -- The day will come -- Death or freedom! -- Dedicated to old party voters -- Dedication hymn -- The demagogue<U+2019>s song -- Demand for perseverance -- The dirge of St. Malo -- Divide the day -- Don<U+2019>t forget the union label -- Don<U+2019>t tax the millionaire -- Down in a coal mine -- Down with the money king -- Eight and sixty thousand -- The eight-hour day -- The eight hour day -- Eight-hour lyrics -- Eight hours -- An eight hour song (Ho! my brothers! see the danger) -- Eight-hour song (Let us gather once again) -- Eight-hour song (We have toiled for others<U+2019> gains, and have robbed both purse and brains) -- Eight hours a day -- Eight hours a day, fellows, not a breath over it -- Eight hours the work day -- The eleventh of November, 1887 -- Epigram -- Equal rights for all -- Escape from slavery of Henry Box Brown -- Every man his own politician -- The factory ell -- The factory girl (<U+2018>Twas on a wintry morning) -- The factory girl (I am a poor little factory girl) -- The factor girl (She wasn<U+2019>t the least bit pretty) -- The factory girl<U+2019>s come-all-ye -- The factory slave - Factory song -- Fair prospect -- Far, far, away -- Father Gander<U+2019>s melodies -- Father was killed by the Pinkerton men -- Fireman<U+2019>s song -- The fisherman<U+2019>s church -- Fling to the breeze our banner -- For <U+2018>The Union<U+2019> -- The fort that Frick built -- Forward! -- Freedom -- Free silver -- The freight handler<U+2019>s strike -- The freight handlers<U+2019> strike -- From my album -- The future <U+2018>America<U+2019> -- The general strike -- Get off the track -- A glorious victory -- God bless our union -- God help me! cried the poor man -- Gold bugs go down before Bryan -- A gone case -- The good time coming (Come hither, lads, and hearken) -- The good time coming (There<U+2019>s a good time coming, boys) -- Go work in the union -- The grand labor cause -- A great country -- The greenback boys are waking -- The greenback yankee melody -- The grinner<U+2019>s lament -- Hail to the eight-hour day -- Hard times -- The hard working miner -- Hard-working miner -- Henry George campaign song -- Hip! Hip! for eight hours -- The homestead strike -- The homestead struggle, or Fort Frick<U+2019>s defenders.
Contents The honest workingman -- Honor to our workmen -- Hope for the toiling -- Ho! workingmen! -- How the workers can be free -- How to become rich -- Hugh McGeehan -- Hurrah for our boys in blue-- Hurrah for the noble carpenter -- Huzza! huzza! forever for the land of coal mines -- The Hymn (Bitter and sad is the strain I sing) -- Hymn (Forward, though the night be stormy) -- Hymn for the unfortunate -- The hymn of the proletariat -- I am sold and going to Georgia -- I lie in the American land -- I<U+2019>m on my way to Canada -- In battle -- Independence day -- The independent man -- Industrial emancipation -- Industrial freedom -- In the army -- In union<U+2019>s might -- In the reign of justice -- Jackson and liberty -- James Brown -- John Chinaman (I thought you<U+2019>d cut your queue off, John) -- John Chinaman (Oh, Sam! You vain and silly fool) -- The journey to America -- The judiciary -- Just keep it before the people -- Keep it before the people -- Knights of labor (Ho, knights of labor, one and all) -- Knights of labor (I<U+2019>ll sing of an order that lately has done) -- Knights of labor new year song -- Knights of labor song -- The knights of labor strike -- Labor (Labor<U+2019>s noble! labor<U+2019>s holy!) -- Labor (There<U+2019>s a never dying chorus) -- Labor chant -- Labor day song -- The laborer<U+2019>s battle hymn -- The laborer<U+2019>s lament -- Labor free for all -- A labor hymn -- Labor in want -- Labor is honor -- Labor is honor! -- Labor, land and freemen -- Labor<U+2019>s chorus -- Labor<U+2019>s demand -- Labor<U+2019>s harvest home -- Labor<U+2019>s Marseillaise -- Labor<U+2019>s ninety and nine -- A labor song (From the busy mine and forge, from the mountain and the vale) -- Labor song (Start the music, brothers, we will sing a labor song) -- Labor song (Waken, toilers! light is breaking!) -- A labor song (Why should the toilers look sad in this land) -- Labor song (Why stand ye idly at the door) -- Labor<U+2019>s yankee doodle -- The landless -- The land of our fathers -- The land song -- The land that gives birth to freedom -- The last general march -- The last will -- Leave her, Johnny -- Leaving the party -- Let brotherly love continue -- The light is breaking -- Lines on the reduction of pay -- The little communist -- The little factory girl to a more fortunate playmate -- A loaf of bread -- The log of the lost -- The lonely miner of Wilkes-Barre -- The long-haired kings -- Long, long ago -- Longshoreman<U+2019>s strike -- Longshoremen<U+2019>s strike -- The long strike -- The Lowell factory girl -- The lullaby press -- Machine verses -- The maiden<U+2019>s prayer -- A man<U+2019>s a man for a<U+2019> that -- Many thousand gone -- Marching song -- Marching to freedom -- Marching to Coxey -- March! march! march! -- The march of labor -- The march of the toilers -- The march of the workers -- The march of union labor -- March of united labor -- Mary had a little lot -- May hit the road a welt yourself -- The mechanic -- Mechanic<U+2019>s song -- Me Johnny Mitchell man -- The men of Auld Lang Syne -- The men who work -- The mill has shut down -- Mind-a labor chant -- The miner -- The miners<U+2019> bewail and expected triumph -- Miner<U+2019>s lifeguard -- Modern heroism -- Modern missionary zeal -- My little boy -- My place -- My vote -- National anthem-God of the free -- The national grass plot -- A national hymn -- Nat Turner -- The new jubilee -- A new national anthem -- A new song (But if chang<U+2019>d in demeanor we look for the brave) -- A new song (Democrats, your country calls) -- A new song (Rejoice, Columbia<U+2019>s songs rejoice) -- New song to an old tune -- Nicodemus -- 1900-the bugles -- Noble knights of labor -- No home ; no home , said the little girl -- No Irish need apply -- The non-union chorus -- North and South -- Nullification-a song -- Nursery rhymes for the poor -- Odes for locals -- Ode for the fourth of July -- Ode to St. Crispin -- Oh, let the girls sit down -- The old miner<U+2019>s refrain -- An old song -- Oleana -- One Dawson -- One more battle to fight -- On Johnny Mitchell<U+2019>s train -- Only a man in overalls -- The only road to freedom.
Contents On the banks of the railroad -- On to Washington -- Onward brothers -- Opening ode for K. of L. -- Opening song (Brothers, let us give thanks) -- Opening song (We here have now in council met) -- Organize the hosts of labor -- An original song -- Original song -- Our battle song -- Our brave little band -- Our cause -- Our country<U+2019>s gratitude -- Out they come -- The patriotic diggers -- Pat works on the railway -- Peace song -- The Pennsylvania miner -- People<U+2019>s party song -- The people<U+2019>s rally cry -- Picayune butler -- The plight of a miner<U+2019>s widow -- Poll your vote -- The poor man<U+2019>s family -- The poor voter on election day -- The poor white slave -- The popular creed -- Poverty and wealth -- The power of thought -- The price of freedom -- The printer<U+2019>s song -- The producer<U+2019>s election hymn -- The producers<U+2019> hymn -- A psalm of labor-for the workingmen -- The Pullmen strike -- The raising: a new song for federal mechanics -- Rally, boys, for greenbacks -- Rallying song (Come, brothers, raise a hearty song) -- Rallying song (Comrades! we are all united) -- Rallying song of the eight-hour league -- Rally song -- The red flag (Do you ask from whence I have come?) -- The red flag (O, the red flag, the red flag is flying) -- The red flag (<U+2018>Tis in the red flag true Republicans glory) -- The red flag is unfurled -- The reign of labor -- Revolution (Do you know me, O you masses?) -- Revolution (I come like a comet newborn, like the sun that arises at morning -- The right will prevail -- Ring the bells of freedom -- Rise in your native strength -- Rouse and rally -- Run to Jesus -- The sailor<U+2019>s farewell to the sea -- Sambo<U+2019>s opinion -- The scab<U+2019>s death -- The scab<U+2019>s lament -- The seamen<U+2019>s loyal standard -- A sea song -- The sewing machine -- The shoemakers -- The shoemaker<U+2019>s song -- Shouting the battle-cry of labor -- A shout of protest -- Since the Chinese ruint the thrade -- Sing them, songs of labor! -- Six to six -- Slavery chain -- The slave<U+2019>s revenge -- Social freedom -- The Socialists are coming -- The Socialist wagon -- Sold off to Georgy -- Song (Apprentices and journeymen -- Song (Come, all you noble workingmen, and listen to my yarn) -- Song (Fair independence wakes the song) -- Song (I dreamt a dream the other night) -- Song (Oh! believe not the slanders invention has framed) -- Song (O, the shoe jours, they are rising) -- Song (Sons of patriotic sires) -- A song (Sons whose sires for freedom bled!) -- Song (Sweet are thy principles and truth) -- Song (When science and freedom, oppressed and amazed) -- Song (Who is<U+2019>t edits the blanket sheet) -- A song for all good men -- A song for hatters - A song for the bank men -- Song for the million -- A song for the people -- A song for the union -- Song for white slaves -- Song for workingmen<U+2019>s unions -- Song for working voters -- A song made upon the election of new magistrates for this city -- A song made upon the foregoing occasion -- Song of a working girl -- A song of eight hours -- Song of labor -- Song of the abolitionist -- Song of the Boston eight-hour league -- Song of the conscripts -- Song of the exile -- Song of the factory girls -- Song of the land pirate -- Song of the lower classes -- Song of the miners -- Song of the Pennsylvania miners -- The song of the Proletaire -- Song of the shirt -- A song of the starving -- Song of the ten hour workingman -- Song of the toilers -- Song of the times -- The song of the trust -- Song of the unenfranchised -- The song of the workers (I sing the song of the workers, the men with the brawny arm) -- The song of the workers (We drift along the streets and hear our masters in their mirth) -- The song of toil -- Songs of brotherhood -- Songs of the Socialists -- Song-the emigrant<U+2019>s home -- A song written for the fourth of July 1828 -- The sons of art -- Speak out! -- Spread the light -- A squib -- Stand by us -- Stand for the right -- Stand out, ye miners -- Stand up! -- Star spangled banner -- Stick to your union -- Storm the fort -- Storm the fort, ye knights -- The strange and wonderful account of a Dutch hog.
Contents The strike (Aye listen, ye millionaires, listen!) -- Strike! (I<U+2019>ve a liking for this “striking”) -- The strike (That<U+2019>s a fact that needs no arg<U+2019>in<U+2019>) -- A strike (Once upon an evening dreary) -- The strikers -- A strike song -- The strikers<U+2019> story -- Suffrage pledge -- The summons -- The sweatshop -- Swell our ranks -- The Swiss referendum -- Table prayer (Grace) of the Communists in the United States -- Take up the union label -- The Tarriers<U+2019> song -- The tar<U+2019>s election song -- The teardrop millionaire -- The ten hour banner -- Tenth ward battle song -- Then who on Earth<U+2019>s to blame? -- There are ninety and nine -- There comes a reckoning day -- There must be something wrong -- There<U+2019>s spirit abroad -- Thieves and stealin<U+2019> -- Thirty cents a day -- Those dirty mechanics -- Throw off the workman<U+2019>s burden -- The time has come -- A toast for labor -- The toiler<U+2019>s national anthem -- The toilers of men -- To labor -- To the polls -- To the Proletarian -- To the toilers -- To the women workers -- To the worker -- To the workingmen -- A tramp<U+2019>s thoughts -- Tramp, tramp, tramp! -- True freedom -- Turner song -- Twelve hundred more -- Two cent coal -- Uncle Thad. Stevens -- Union all along the line -- Union is strength -- The unionist<U+2019>s song -- The union rallying song -- Unity -- Up and do -- The uprising of labor -- The victory -- The victory song -- The Virden martyrs -- The voice of toil -- Vote him out -- War between Democracy and Aristocracy -- W.B.A. -- We are coming (We are coming! We are coming!) -- We are coming (We are coming! We are coming! cry the people. and they come) -- We are marching to Canaan -- We'll all have enough and to spare -- We'll not give up on our union -- We'll own the earth -- Western federation of miners -- What is it to be a slave -- What's wrong -- What we want (We want to see reform go marching right along) -- What we want (When what we want comes uppermost -- When labor has come to its own -- When the gov'nment milks the cows -- When the revolution comes! -- When the strike was on -- When we're united for freedom -- When workingmen combine -- Who were they? -- Why coal goes up -- Words of thanks to the 'Gesanverein' of the workers' confederation in Philadelphia -- The worker -- Workers' song (The cock is crowing for the first time) -- Workers' song (Europe, the mighty, is trembling) -- Workers' song (Like a spirit with fiery flames) -- The working class -- The working man's prospect -- The workingman's train -- The working men -- The workingmen -- The workingmen's army -- Workingmen's centennial song -- The working men's fourth of July anthem -- The working men's league -- The workingmen's Marseillaise -- Workman's hymn -- Workmen, arouse ye! -- Yankee boodle -- Ye gentle boy-cat -- You are free -- Young workers' song -- Your work, my work.
General noteWithout the music.
General noteIncludes indexes.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. [327]-334.
LCCN 74020968
ISBN0252001877 :

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