Columbus, USA

Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left: 1926–1953

Artist name
Various Artists
Release date 1996

Tracklist

1
The Boll Weevil
2
Patriotic Diggers
3
London’s Bridge Is Falling Down
4
Risselty Rosselty
5
Old Grey Mare
6
Hands
7
Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 1
8
Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 2
9
I’m Going to Organize, Baby Mine
10
I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister
11
Raggedy, Raggedy
12
No More Mourning
13
Join the Union Tonight
14
We’re Going to Roll the Union On
15
There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land
16
Farmer's Letter to the President
17
Farm Relief Blues
18
11 Cent Cotton, 40 Cent Meat
19
The Hootenanny Song
20
Bank Failures
21
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
22
The Poor Forgotten Man
23
The Soup Song
24
The Internationale
25
Rise Up (Comintern)
26
United Front
27
Forward, We’ve Not Forgotten
28
In Praise of Learning
29
On the Picket Line
30
Hold the Fort
31
Casey Jones
32
Sit Down
33
Write Me Out My Union Card
34
We Shall Not Be Moved
35
Join the Union
36
Solidarity Forever
37
The Strange Funeral in Braddock
38
Abraham Lincoln, Parts 1 & 2
39
Joe Hill
40
Spring Song
41
The Old Chisholm Trail
42
Old Paint (The Horse With the Union Label)
43
Capitalistic Boss, Parts 1 & 2
44
Little Theater on the Right
45
Little Theater on the Left
46
Nine Foot Shovel
47
Chain Gang Boun’
48
Trouble
49
Going Home, Boys
50
Cryin’ Who? Cryin’ You! Parts 1 & 2
51
Told My Captain
52
Jerry
53
Southern Exposure
54
Uncle Sam Says
55
Jim Crow Train
56
Bad Housing Blues
57
Hard Time Blues
58
Defense Factory Blues
59
Strange Death of John Doe
60
Billy Boy
61
C For Conscription
62
Washington Breakdown
63
Lisa Jane
64
Ballad of October 16th
65
Plow Under
66
Talking Union
67
Union Train
68
Which Side Are You On?
69
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
70
Union Maid
71
All I Want
72
Songs for Bridges
73
Babe o’ Mine
74
Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho
75
Haul Away, Joe
76
Blow the Man Down
77
The Golden Vanity
78
Away Rio
79
The Coast of High Barbary
80
Greenland Fishing
81
The Dodger Song
82
Ground Hog
83
State of Arkansas
84
Hard, Ain't It Hard
85
I Ride an Old Paint
86
House of the Rising Sun
87
The Weaver’s Song
88
Dear Mr. President
89
Belt Line Girl
90
Round and Round Hitler's Grave
91
Side by Side
92
Deliver the Goods
93
Reuben James
94
Boomtown Bill
95
Keep That Oil A-Rollin’
96
I’m Looking for a Home (Housing Song)
97
Amsterdam Maid
98
Song of the Free
99
In Washington
100
Overtime Pay
101
Quinte Brigada
102
Jarama Valley
103
Spanish Marching Song
104
Cook House / The Young Man From Alcala
105
Quinte Regimento
106
Quarter Master Song
107
Little Man on a Fence
108
Jim Crow
109
You Better Get Ready
110
Hold the Fort / We Shall Not Be Moved
111
U.A.W. – C.I.O.
112
Hold On
113
Solidarity Forever
114
Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore
115
Horace Greeley
116
Kevin Barry
117
The House I Live In
118
A Man’s a Man for a’That
119
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
120
The Frozen Logger
121
Jefferson and Liberty
122
Sweet Betsy From Pike / Dirty Miner
123
Grand Coolee Dam
124
Free and Equal Blues, Parts 1 & 2
125
The Century of the Common Man
126
I’m a Native American Nazi
127
Join the U.A.W.-C.I.O.
128
Keeping Score for ’44
129
The U.A.W. Train
130
Susan’s in the Union
131
The Rollback Blues
132
Mama Don’t Allow
133
Farmer-Labor Train
134
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (WWII version)
135
Talking Sailor
136
Sally Don't You Grieve
137
Citizen C.I.O.
138
No More Blues
139
We’ve Got a Plan
140
Social Worker’s Talking Blues
141
I’m Gonna Put My Name Down
142
Freedom Road
143
Landlord
144
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
145
Beloved Comrade
146
The Man Who Couldnt Walk Around
147
I'm the Guy
148
Little Man Sitting on a Fence
149
When the Country Is Broke
150
Money in the Pocket
151
Our Fight Is Yours
152
Moses Green
153
The Rankin Tree
154
Talking Bilbo
155
This Old World
156
No. 1 Stooge
157
Song of My Hands
158
Mad as I Can Be
159
Jackie Robinson
160
High Price Blues
161
Black, Brown & White
162
Nix on Mundt/Nixon
163
The Daily Worker’s Song
164
Taft-Hartley Blues
165
Parnell Thomas Blues
166
Turn Me Loose
167
Snowball
168
Swingin’ on a Scab
169
On to Sacramento
170
Atomic Talking Blues
171
Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People
172
Passing Through
173
Listen Mr. Bilbo
174
Joe Hill
175
O.P.A. Shout
176
Voting Union
177
Get Out the Vote
178
A Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore
179
A Dollar for P.A.C.
180
Oh, What Congress Done to Me
181
Four P.A.C. Nursery Rhymes
182
D.D.T.
183
Fare Ye Well, Bad Congressman
184
No, No, No Discrimination
185
Voter, Oh Voter
186
Intro: Commonwealth of Toil
187
We’ve Got Our Eyes on You
188
Talking Union
189
The Preacher and the Slave
190
Which Side Are You On?
191
Solidarity Forever
192
The Whole Wide World Around
193
Hold the Fort / Conclusion
194
Talking P.A.C.
195
Conversation With a Mule
196
The Farmer Is the Man
197
Join the Farmer’s Union
198
Talking Atom
199
Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People
200
Skillet Good & Greasy
201
T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
202
Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
203
Walk in Peace, Part 1
204
Walk in Peace, Part 2
205
Atomic Energy
206
Old Lady With a Rolling Pin
207
Red Boogie
208
Unity Rhumba
209
Elephant and the Ass
210
Hungry Rhapsody
211
Housing
212
Ballad of F.D.R.
213
Jim Crow
214
Mein Shtelele Belz
215
Zhonkoye
216
Travelin’
217
Black, Brown and White Blues
218
The Death of Harry Simms
219
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
220
No Irish Need Apply
221
Unemployment Compensation Blues
222
The Fireship
223
Johnny, I Hardly Knew You
224
The Peekskill Story, Parts 1 & 2
225
Wasn't That a Time
226
Dig My Grave
227
Freight Train Blues
228
Love Song Blues
229
If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
230
We’re Keeping Score ’44
231
No More Blues
232
Lay That Ballot Down, Parts 1 & 2
233
Fertilizer Song
234
Talking F.T.A.
235
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
236
Round and Round the Canneries
237
My Name Is Cannery Bill
238
The Bosses’ Gang
239
Bye, Bye Bosses
240
New Walls of Jericho (Wallace Fit the Battle of America)
241
Henry Wallace Is the Man
242
Corrido to Wallace and Taylor
243
Second Corrido to Wallace and Taylor
244
Battle Hymn of ’48
245
Same Old Merry Go-Round
246
I’ve Got a Ballot
247
Great Day
248
Wallace Button / Goodbye, Harry
249
Henry Wallace
250
We Can Win With Wallace
251
Work With Wallace
252
Century of the Common Man
253
Wallace Is the Man for Me
254
Yankee Doodle, Tell the Boss
255
Intro: New York City
256
Marcantaonio for Me
257
Skip to the Polls
258
Marc Antonio for Mayor
259
Now, Right Now
260
We Shall Not Be Moved
261
Oh, Freedom
262
Ben Davis
263
M.T.A.
264
People’s Choice
265
Keep a-Goin’ and a-Growin’
266
The Riddle of Thurman Towns
267
Grapes to Pick
268
Medley: I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted / Stand Up and Be Counted / We Will Overcome / The Progressive Party Is Here to Stay
269
Pity the Downtrodden Landlord
270
The Hammer Song
271
Banks of Marble
272
Spring Song
273
Songs of My Hands
274
My Old Man
275
I'm on My Way
276
In Contempt
277
Die gedanken sind frei
278
Walk Along Together
279
Put My Name Down
280
Hold On
281
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
282
I've Got a Right
283
We Shall Overcome
284
Talking Un-American Blues
285
Old Bolshevik Song
286
The Cloakmaker’s Union
287
Land of the Daily Worker
288
Our Line’s Been Changed Again
289
In Old Moscow
290
Unite for Unity
291
Bill Bailey
292
The Last Internationale
293
The Giveaway Boys in Washington
294
Joe McCarthy’s Band
295
I've Got To Know
296
This Land Is Your Land (alternate take)
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