Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People

by LOMAX,A

• ISBN13: 9780803279919
• ISBN10: 0803279914
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Twenty-seven years in the making (194067), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical researchAlan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator of three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. In his new afterword, seventy-nine-year-old Pete Seeger recounts the long history of collecting and publishing this anthology of Depression-era, union hopeful, New Deal melodies. With characteristic modesty he tells us what's missing and what's wrong with the collection. But more important, he tells us what's right and why it still matters, noting songs that have become famous the world over: "Union Made," "Which Side Are You On?," "Worried Man Blues," "Midnight Special," and "Tom Joad." "Now, at the turn of the century, the millennium, what's the future of these songs?" he asks. "Music is one of the things that will save us. Future songwriters can learn from the honesty, the courage, the simplicity, and the frankness of these hard-hitting songs. And not just songwriters. We can all learn."

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	8	(2)
John Steinbeck
PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD	10	(5)
Irwin Silber
INTRODUCTION	15	(6)
Woody Guthrie
ABOUT WOODY	21	(6)
I HARD LUCK ON THE FARM	27	(14)
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues	28	(1)
These Old Cumberland Mountain Farms	29	(1)
The Boll Weevil	30	(2)
The Farmer Is The Man	32	(2)
Down On Roberts' Farm	34	(2)
Lynchburg Town	36	(2)
Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat	38	(3)
II YOU'RE DEAD BROKE	41	(20)
Collector Man Blues	42	(2)
Insurance Man Blues	44	(1)
Depression Blues	45	(1)
Unemployment Stomp	46	(1)
No Job Blues	47	(1)
Fifteen Miles From Birmingham	48	(2)
Down and Out	50	(2)
No Dough Blues	52	(2)
One Dime Blues	54	(2)
All In and Down and Out Blues	56	(2)
New Stranger Blues	58	(1)
Starvation Blues	59	(2)
III SO YOU GOT TO HIT THE ROAD	61	(6)
66 Highway Blues	62	(2)
I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore	64	(1)
Hitch-Hike Blues	65	(1)
Wanderin'	66	(1)
IV AND YOU LAND IN JAIL	67	(20)
The Old Chain Gang	68	(2)
Crossbone Skully	70	(2)
Hard Times In Cryderville Jail	72	(2)
You're Bound To get Lousy In The Lousy Old Jail	74	(2)
Lord, It's All, Almost Done	76	(2)
Midnight Special	78	(2)
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues	80	(2)
Ruben	82	(1)
You Kick and Stomp and Beat Me	83	(1)
Take This Hammer	84	(2)
Things About Comin' My Way	86	(1)
V SOME FROM THE OLD WOBBLIES	87	(12)
Pie In The Sky	88	(2)
The Tramp	90	(2)
Casey Jones	92	(2)
Beans, Bacon and Gravy	94	(2)
The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life	96	(1)
The Commwealth of Toil	97	(2)
VI OLD TIME SONGS FROM ALL OVER	99	(40)
The Buffalo Skinners	100	(2)
The Old Chisholm Trail	102	(2)
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill	104	(2)
Skinnamalinkadoolium	106	(2)
John Brown's Body	108	(3)
Johnnie Woncha Ramble	111	(1)
Jesse James and His Boys	112	(2)
Pretty Boy Floyd	114	(2)
Matthew Kimes	116	(2)
When The Maid Comes To Town	118	(1)
Longshoreman's Strike	119	(1)
Cotton Mill Colic	120	(3)
Cotton Mill Blues	123	(1)
Hard Times in the Mill	124	(2)
No More Shall I Work in the Factory	126	(2)
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues	128	(2)
Weave Room Blues	130	(2)
Weaver's Life	132	(2)
Silicosis Is Killin' Me	134	(1)
It's Hard Times in These Mines	135	(1)
The Hard Working Miner	136	(2)
Roll On Buddy	138	(1)
VII HELL BUSTS LOOSE IN KENTUCKY	139	(48)
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues	141	(1)
I Am a Union Woman	142	(2)
Kentucky Miner's Wife's Hungry, Ragged Blues	144	(2)
I Love Coal Miners, I Do	146	(2)
Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch	148	(2)
The Kentucky Miners' Dreadful Fate	150	(2)
The East Ohio Miners' Strike	152	(1)
The Coal Creek Explosion	153	(1)
The Story of Sara Ogan	154	(2)
I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow	156	(2)
I'm Thinking Tonight of an Old Southern Town	158	(2)
Long, Long Ago	160	(1)
Win It	161	(1)
They Tell Us To Wait	162	(2)
I Hate the Capitalist System	164	(2)
Come All You Coal Miners	166	(1)
That Old Feeling	167	(1)
Come On Friends and Let's Go Down	168	(2)
The Murder of Harry Simms	170	(2)
Welcome the Traveler Home	172	(3)
The Greenback Dollar	175	(1)
Which Side Are You On?	176	(2)
Come All You Hardy Miners	178	(1)
The Striking Miners	179	(1)
Chief Aderholt	180	(3)
Up In Old Loray	183	(1)
The Mill Mother's Lament	184	(1)
All Around the Jailhouse	185	(1)
Toiling On Life's Pilgrim Pathway	186	(1)
VIII SO YOU HOLLERED FOR A NEW DEAL	187	(26)
The Chiseler's Sorrow	188	(2)
1928-1934	190	(1)
Don't Take Away My PWA	191	(1)
NRA Blues	192	(2)
CWA Blues	194	(1)
CCC Blues	195	(1)
Ballad of the TVA	196	(1)
Working for the PWA	197	(1)
Welfare Blues	198	(2)
Working on the Project	200	(2)
WPA Blues	202	(2)
You're On Your Last Go Round	204	(2)
I'm Looking for that New Deal Now	206	(2)
The Dickman Song	208	(2)
Waitin' On Roosevelt	210	(3)
IX THE OKIE SECTION	213	(26)
I'm Goin' Down that Road Feeling Bad	215	(1)
Blowin' Down This Road	216	(2)
Dust Storm Disaster	218	(2)
Dust Can't Kill Me	220	(2)
Dust Bowl Blues	222	(2)
Dust Bowl Refugee	224	(1)
You Okies and Arkies	225	(1)
So Long It's Been Good To Know You	226	(2)
Talkin' Dust Bowl	228	(2)
If You Ain't Got the Do Re Mi	230	(2)
When You're Down and Out	232	(2)
Vigilante Man	234	(2)
Tom Joad	236	(3)
X DETROIT SETS DOWN	239	(20)
The Fisher Strike	240	(2)
Bring Me My Robe and Slippers, James	242	(1)
Oh, Mister Sloan	243	(1)
Sit Down	244	(2)
We're The Guys	246	(2)
Collective Bargaining In Our Shops	248	(1)
Knuts To Knudsen	249	(1)
On The Picket Line	250	(2)
There's Something About a Worker	252	(2)
There Was a Rich Man and He Lived in Detroitium	254	(2)
Goody Goody	256	(2)
Rock-A-Bye-Baby	258	(1)
XI THE FARMERS GET TOGETHER	259	(22)
There Is Mean Things Happening In This Land	260	(2)
No More Mournin'	262	(2)
Ten Little Farmer Men	264	(1)
Raggedy Raggedy Are We	265	(1)
The Planter and the Sharecropper	266	(2)
Roll the Union On	268	(2)
Down In Old Henderson	270	(2)
It's Me, O Lord	272	(1)
Song of the Evicted Tenant	273	(1)
Mister Farmer	274	(2)
The Man Frank Weems	276	(2)
We Ain't Down Yet	278	(3)
XII ONE BIG UNION	281	(48)
Song of the West Virginia Miners	283	(1)
Powder Mill Jail Blues	284	(2)
Little David Blues	286	(2)
Davidson-Wilder Blues	288	(2)
The Ballad of Barney Graham	290	(1)
Union Train	291	(1)
My Children Are Seven In Number	292	(1)
Bonny of the Union	293	(1)
The Soup Song	294	(1)
Down the Street We Hold Our Demonstration	295	(1)
Ballad of the Blue Bell Jail	296	(1)
Write Me Out My Union Card	297	(1)
Roane County	298	(2)
Shirt Factory Blues	300	(2)
Got A Union in the Country	302	(2)
The Ballad of John Catchins	304	(2)
The Marion Massacre	306	(2)
The Marion Strike	308	(1)
Our Children They Were Sickly	309	(1)
The CIO Is Bigger Than It Used To Be	310	(1)
O, The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga	311	(1)
Goodbye Semaria	312	(2)
The Union Fights the Battle of Freedom	314	(1)
We'll Be Wearing Union Buttons	315	(1)
The Boss Is Having A Terrible Time, Parlez-Vous	316	(1)
We Pity Our Bosses Five	317	(1)
It Ain't Gonna Work No More	318	(1)
Ma and Pa (A Unionization Plan)	319	(1)
Calls for an Honest Square Dance	320	(2)
You Guys Got To Organize	322	(2)
Union Maid	324	(2)
Better Go Down and Jine the Union	326	(1)
Harry Bridges	327	(1)
Scabs in the Factory	328	(1)
XIII MULLIGAN STEW	329	(35)
Worried Man Blues	330	(2)
Ludlow Massacre	332	(2)
Don't Kill My Baby and My Son	334	(2)
Jesus Christ Was a Man	336	(2)
Mama Don't `Low No Bush-Wahs Hangin' Around	338	(2)
Hallelujah, I'm a Ku Klux	340	(2)
You Low Life Son of a Bitch	342	(2)
Bourgeois Blues	344	(2)
How About You?	346	(2)
We Shall Not Be Moved	348	(2)
Ain't Gonna Study War No More	350	(2)
Wartime Blues	352	(2)
Red Cross Store	354	(2)
Tom Mooney Is Free	356	(1)
Pity The Shape I'm In	357	(1)
Capitol City Cyclone	358	(2)
Mister Congressman	360	(1)
A Fool There Was	361	(1)
Why Do You Stand There In the Rain?	362	(2)
COMPILER'S POSTSCRIPT	364	(4)
Alan Lomax
AFTERWORD 1999	368	(5)
Pete Seeger
INDEX OF SONGS	373
ILLUSTRATIONS
FSA, Walker Evans, Alabama	9
FSA, Arthur Rothstein, Oregon	14
Woody Guthrie	26
FSA, Ben Shahn, Arkansas	31
FSA, Evans, Sharecropper Family	35
FSA, Dorothea Lange, Alabama	37
FSA, John Vachon, Alabama	40
FSA, Jack Delano, Georgia	43
Library of Congress	49
FSA, Lange, San Francisco	51
FSA, Russell Lee, Oklahoma	53
FSA, Lange, San Francisco	55
Uncle Dave Macon, courtesy Lyle Lofgren	57
FSA, Lange, Migratory Worker, California	60
FSA, Lee, California	63
FSA, Evans, Atlanta, Ga.	65
FSA, Lange, Oklahoma	66
FSA, Delano, Georgia	69
FSA, Evans	71
FSA, Delano, Georgia	73
Library of Congress, North Carolina, 1910	75
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	77
FSA, Lange, Oklahoma	81
Ford Strike, Kansas City, Life	83
Leadbelly, Sid Grossman	84
FSA, Rothstein, Alabama	85
Joe Hill, courtesy Barrie Stavis	89
FSA, Vachon, Washington DC	91
FSA, Lange, San Francisco	95
FSA, unidentified	103
FSA, Delano, Georgia	105
FSA, Shahn, Pennsylvania	107
FSA, Evans, Alabama	109
FSA, Shahn, West Virginia	117
Sing Out! Photo Library	119
FSA, Delano, South Carolina	122
Lewis W. Hine, Carolina Cotton Mill, 1909	125
FSA, Lange, California	127
FSA, Shahn	129
Dorsey Dixon(r.) with Miss John Hurt, Dave Gahr	131
FSA, Delano, Pennsylvania	137
Aunt Molly Jackson, about 1935, courtesy Jim Garland	140
FSA, Evans, Alabama	143
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	145
FSA, Rothstein, Alabama	147
FSA, Marion Post, Hazard, Kentucky	149
FSA, Lee	151
Sara Ogan Gunning, 1965, Dave Gahr	155
FSA, Evans, Alabama	159
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	165
FSA, Delano, Textile Workers Union Meeting, Georgia	169
Jim Garland, 1963, Dave Gahr	171
FSA, Delano, North Carolina	173
FSA, Lange, California	174
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University	177
Cotton-Mill Strikers, Gastonia, N.C., 1930	181
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	184
FSA, Carl Mydans	185
FSA, Rothstein, Pennsylvania	186
FSA, Vachon, Iowa	187
FSA, Delano, Georgia	189
Charles H. Kerr Publishing	197
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	199
Charles H. Kerr Publishing	201
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	203
FSA, Shahn, Ohio	205
FSA, Lange, California	207
FSA, Delano, Georgia	209
FSA, Rothstein, Minnesota	211
FSA, Lange, California	214
Detail from above	217
FSA, Rothstein, Oklahoma	219
FSA, Lange, California	221
FSA, Rothstein, Oklahoma	223
FSA, Rothstein, Oklahoma	229
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	233
FSA, Lange, Local vigilantes, California	235
FSA, Lange	237
FSA, Lange, Texas	238
Strikers camp out at Governor's Mansion, Detroit, 1937	241
Sit-Down Strikers, Flint, Michigan, 1937	245
Striking miners, Western Pa., 1933	247
General Motors Strike, 1937	249
FSA, Vachon, Chicago	251
Charles H. Kerr Publishing	253
Charles H. Kerr Publishing	255
CIO leaflet, Ford Strike	257
FSA, Delano, Georgia	259
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	261
FSA, Delano, Alabama	263
FSA, Rothstein, Alabama	267
Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, courtesy Moses Asch	269
FSA, Shahn, Arkansas	271
FSA, Lee, North Dakota	275
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	277
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	279
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma, Sis Cunningham	282
FSA, Post, Kentucky	285
FSA, Evans, West Virginia	287
FSA, Lange, California	297
FSA, Lange, Jobless	299
FSA, Vachon, Coca Cola Strike, Missouri	301
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University	303
FSA, Ross Kam, New Jersey	305
FSA, Delano, Georgia	313
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	321
FSA, Vachon, 1940	329
FSA, Lee, Oklahoma	331
South Carolina	335
FSA, Evans, Tennessee	337
FSA, Lange, California	339
Ku Klux Klan	341
FSA, Rothstein, Alabama	343
FSA, Lange, Mississippi	347
FSA, Lange, California	349
FSA, Lee	351
FSA, Lange, San Francisco	353
FSA, Rothstein, Missouri	355
Herbert Hoover	359