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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey, get your UNION songs and poetry here, link
Go Unions! Check out this great reference.
http://unionsong.com/songs.html
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Hey, get your UNION songs and poetry here, link (Original Post)
Miigwech
Nov 2019
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struggle4progress
(125,682 posts)1. Miner's Lifeguard!
Miner's life is like a sailor's aboard a ship to cross the waves.
Every day his life's in danger. Still he ventures being brave.
Watch the rocks:they're falling daily. Careless miners always fail.
Keep your hand upon the dollar and your eye upon the scale.
struggle4progress
(125,682 posts)2. Peg and awl!
They invented a new machine ... peg and awl.
They invented a new machine: prettiest thing I ever seen.
Throw away my peg, my peg and awl!
Pegs a hundred pair to my one ... peg and awl
struggle4progress
(125,682 posts)3. Don't be too polite, girls!
struggle4progress
(125,682 posts)4. 1913 massacre!
Well, a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights to play the piano, so you gotta keep quiet.
To hear all this fun you would not realize that the copper-boss thug-men are milling outside
The copper-boss thugs stuck their heads in the door. One of them yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire!"
struggle4progress
(125,682 posts)5. No Molly McGuire songs?
TomSlick
(12,937 posts)6. I still remember this union song from the 1980s.
Archae
(47,245 posts)7. Here's a classic...
From the Strawbs.
