Billy Bragg

The Roaring Forty | 1983–2023

Release date October 26, 2023

Tracklist

1
The Milkman of Human Kindness
2:49
2:49
2
To Have and to Have Not
2:33
2:33
3
Richard
2:51
2:51
4
A New England
2:14
2:14
5
The Man in the Iron Mask
2:14
2:14
6
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
1:58
1:58
7
Lover’s Town Revisited
1:19
1:19
8
Strange Things Happen (alternative version)
3:17
3:17
9
The Cloth (1)
2:50
2:50
10
Love Lives Here
1:42
1:42
11
Speedway Hero
2:38
2:38
12
Loving You Too Long
2:50
2:50
13
The Man in the Iron Mask (alternative version)
2:17
2:17
14
This Guitar Says Sorry (alternative version)
2:14
2:14
15
Love Gets Dangerous (alternative version)
2:32
2:32
16
The Cloth (2)
2:46
2:46
17
A13 (Trunk Road to The Sea)
2:27
2:27
18
Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
2:32
2:32
19
A New England
2:18
2:18
20
Strange Things Happen
2:43
2:43
21
This Guitar Says Sorry
2:35
2:35
22
Love Gets Dangerous
2:18
2:18
23
Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
2:40
2:40
24
A13 (Trunk Road to The Sea)
2:26
2:26
25
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
2:03
2:03
26
The Man in the Iron Mask
2:08
2:08
27
A New England
2:11
2:11
28
It Says Here
4:18
4:18
29
Love Gets Dangerous
2:25
2:25
30
The Myth of Trust
2:55
2:55
31
From a Vauxhall Velox
2:32
2:32
32
The Saturday Boy
3:32
3:32
33
Island of No Return
3:36
3:36
34
St. Swithin's Day
3:51
3:51
35
Like Soldiers Do
2:40
2:40
36
This Guitar Says Sorry
2:30
2:30
37
Strange Things Happen
2:40
2:40
38
A Lover Sings
3:52
3:52
39
It Must Be a River
2:18
2:18
40
Won’t Talk About It
5:05
5:05
41
Talking Wag Club Blues
2:58
2:58
42
You Got the Power
3:09
3:09
43
The Last Time
2:54
2:54
44
Back to the Old House
2:51
2:51
45
A Lover Sings (alternative version)
3:57
3:57
46
Between the Wars
2:29
2:29
47
Which Side Are You On?
2:34
2:34
48
The World Turned Upside Down
2:35
2:35
49
It Says Here (alternative version)
2:35
2:35
50
Days Like These
2:20
2:20
51
I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
1:57
1:57
52
Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
2:22
2:22
53
Between the Wars
2:31
2:31
54
Greetings to the New Brunette
3:33
3:33
55
Train Train
2:13
2:13
56
The Marriage
2:33
2:33
57
Ideology
3:29
3:29
58
Levi Stubbs' Tears
3:32
3:32
59
Honey I’m a Big Boy Now
4:09
4:09
60
There Is Power in a Union
2:50
2:50
61
Help Save the Youth of America
2:50
2:50
62
Wishing the Days Away
2:31
2:31
63
The Passion
2:56
2:56
64
The Warmest Room
3:59
3:59
65
The Home Front
4:11
4:11
66
Shirley
3:34
3:34
67
The Tracks of My Tears
2:55
2:55
68
Wishing the Days Away (alternate version)
2:31
2:31
69
The Clashing of Ideologies (alternate version)
2:50
2:50
70
A Nurse’s Life Is Full of Woe
2:47
2:47
71
Only Bad Signs
3:10
3:10
72
Hold the Fort
1:47
1:47
73
Think Again
3:33
3:33
74
Walk Away Renee (version)
2:25
2:25
75
The Tatler
3:39
3:39
76
Deportees
4:01
4:01
77
Jeane
2:52
2:52
78
Sin City
3:33
3:33
79
She’s Got a New Spell
3:25
3:25
80
Must I Paint You a Picture?
5:30
5:30
81
Tender comrade
2:48
2:48
82
The Price I Pay
3:33
3:33
83
Little Time Bomb
2:18
2:18
84
Rotting on Remand
3:38
3:38
85
Valentine's Day Is Over
4:54
4:54
86
Life With the Lions
3:05
3:05
87
The Only One
3:23
3:23
88
The Short Answer
4:56
4:56
89
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
4:35
4:35
90
The Price I Pay (demo)
3:58
3:58
91
Love Has No Pride
3:33
3:33
92
That’s Entertainment
3:51
3:51
93
She’s Got a New Spell (alt version)
2:42
2:42
94
Little Time Bomb (demo)
2:19
2:19
95
Bad Penny (demo)
3:04
3:04
96
Reason to Believe
2:09
2:09
97
Raglan Road
3:44
3:44
98
She’s Leaving Home
3:00
3:00
99
Wishing the Days Away (ballad version)
4:34
4:34
100
Won’t Talk About It
4:22
4:22
101
The Internationale
3:49
3:49
102
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
1:30
1:30
103
The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
4:01
4:01
104
Blake’s Jerusalem
2:33
2:33
105
Nicaragua Nicaraguita
1:09
1:09
106
The Red Flag
3:14
3:14
107
My Youngest Son Came Home Today
3:08
3:08
108
Joe Hill
8:23
8:23
109
This Land Is Your Land
4:35
4:35
110
Never Cross a Picket Line
3:37
3:37
111
A Change Is Gonna Come
3:57
3:57
112
A Miner’s Life
3:00
3:00
113
Introduction
0:58
0:58
114
Help Save the Youth of America (live)
2:37
2:37
115
Think Again (live)
4:23
4:23
116
Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (live)
3:11
3:11
117
Days Like These (DC remix)
2:42
2:42
118
To Have and to Have Not (live)
2:49
2:49
119
There Is Power in a Union
3:27
3:27
120
Levi Stubbs’ Tears (live)
3:48
3:48
121
Ideology
4:54
4:54
122
The Short Answer (live)
4:41
4:41
123
Seven and Seven Is
2:10
2:10
124
Accident Waiting to Happen
4:00
4:00
125
Moving the Goalposts
2:33
2:33
126
Everywhere
4:59
4:59
127
Cindy of a Thousand Lives
4:14
4:14
128
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
3:10
3:10
129
Trust
4:11
4:11
130
God’s Footballer
3:04
3:04
131
The Few
3:27
3:27
132
Sexuality
3:46
3:46
133
Mother of the Bride
3:34
3:34
134
Tank Park Salute
3:29
3:29
135
Dolphins
4:19
4:19
136
North Sea Bubble
3:18
3:18
137
Rumours of War
2:49
2:49
138
Wish You Were Her
2:47
2:47
139
Body of Water
3:54
3:54
140
Bad Penny
2:31
2:31
141
Ontario Quebec and Me
2:42
2:42
142
Bread and Circuses
4:26
4:26
143
Heart Like a Wheel
2:44
2:44
144
Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star version)
3:46
3:46
145
Sulk
3:46
3:46
146
Revolution
1:49
1:49
147
From Red to Blue
3:22
3:22
148
Upfield
4:07
4:07
149
Everybody Loves You Babe
3:11
3:11
150
Sugardaddy
4:37
4:37
151
A Pict Song
4:56
4:56
152
Brickbat
3:14
3:14
153
The Space Race Is Over
4:26
4:26
154
Northern Industrial Town
2:59
2:59
155
The Fourteenth of February
3:27
3:27
156
King James (alternative version)
3:22
3:22
157
Goalhanger
3:46
3:46
158
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (demo)
4:56
4:56
159
The Boy Done Good
3:22
3:22
160
Run Out of Reasons
5:30
5:30
161
Just One Victory
3:22
3:22
162
The Boy Done Good
1:49
1:49
163
Qualifications
4:46
4:46
164
Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets in Your Ears mix)
3:39
3:39
165
Never Had No One Ever
3:12
3:12
166
Rule nor Reason
4:13
4:13
167
Thatcherites
1:42
1:42
168
Walt Whitman’s Niece
3:53
3:53
169
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
4:06
4:06
170
Birds & Ships
2:14
2:14
171
She Came Along to Me
3:27
3:27
172
Ingrid Bergman
1:51
1:51
173
I Guess I Planted
3:34
3:34
174
Eisler on the Go
2:57
2:57
175
The Unwelcome Guest
5:07
5:07
176
My Flying Saucer
1:46
1:46
177
Hot Rod Hotel
3:18
3:18
178
Stetson Kennedy
2:39
2:39
179
All You Fascists
2:45
2:45
180
Meanest Man
3:46
3:46
181
Black Wind Blowing
3:00
3:00
182
Bugeye Jim
3:15
3:15
183
My Thirty Thousand
2:38
2:38
184
Ought to Be Satisfied Now
3:32
3:32
185
Go Down to the Water
4:33
4:33
186
Jailcell Blues
2:25
2:25
187
Don’t You Marry
3:16
3:16
188
Give Me a Nail
1:40
1:40
189
Union Prayer
4:10
4:10
190
Be Kind to the Boy on the Road
3:44
3:44
191
I’m Out to Get
3:58
3:58
192
St. Monday
3:02
3:02
193
Jane Allen
3:57
3:57
194
Distant Shore
2:28
2:28
195
England, Half English
2:26
2:26
196
NPWA
5:30
5:30
197
Some Days I See the Point
4:57
4:57
198
Baby Faroukh
3:03
3:03
199
Take Down the Union Jack
3:18
3:18
200
Another Kind of Judy
3:42
3:42
201
He’ll Go Down
3:20
3:20
202
Dreadbelly
3:31
3:31
203
The Tracks of My Tears
3:52
3:52
204
Mystery Shoes
3:08
3:08
205
England, Half English (7″ remix)
3:55
3:55
206
Take Down the Union Jack (band version)
3:21
3:21
207
Yarra Song
3:32
3:32
208
You Pulled the Carpet Out
2:37
2:37
209
Christ for President (live in the studio)
4:12
4:12
210
California Stars (live in the studio)
3:58
3:58
211
Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (live in the studio)
5:20
5:20
212
My Father’s Mansions
2:57
2:57
213
England Half English Meets John Barleycorn
2:53
2:53
214
I Keep Faith
4:35
4:35
215
I Almost Killed You
2:38
2:38
216
M for Me
2:43
2:43
217
The Beach Is Free
2:43
2:43
218
Sing Their Souls Back Home
3:28
3:28
219
You Make Me Brave
3:04
3:04
220
Something Happened
2:38
2:38
221
Mr Love & Justice
3:13
3:13
222
If You Ever Leave
3:01
3:01
223
O Freedom
4:05
4:05
224
The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
4:15
4:15
225
Farm Boy
3:37
3:37
226
Ash Wednesday
2:02
2:02
227
Like Soldiers Do (acoustic version)
3:42
3:42
228
The Price of Oil
4:50
4:50
229
Down in the Willow Garden
2:51
2:51
230
Old Clash Fan Fight Song
2:34
2:34
231
The Big Lie
2:04
2:04
232
Home
3:20
3:20
233
Same Again
2:05
2:05
234
There Will Be a Reckoning
3:44
3:44
235
All You Fascists 2010
1:52
1:52
236
Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day
2:53
2:53
237
The Battle of Barking
2:16
2:16
238
A New England (From a Concert for Kirsty Maccoll)
4:07
4:07
239
January Song
2:21
2:21
240
No One Knows Nothing Anymore
4:32
4:32
241
Handyman Blues
3:02
3:02
242
I Ain't Got No Home
3:34
3:34
243
Swallow My Pride
2:51
2:51
244
Do Unto Others
4:08
4:08
245
Over You
3:15
3:15
246
Goodbye, Goodbye
3:15
3:15
247
There Will Be a Reckoning
3:30
3:30
248
Chasing Rainbows
3:38
3:38
249
Your Name on My Tongue
4:50
4:50
250
Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day
3:11
3:11
251
We're Following the Wrong Star
4:10
4:10
252
Never Buy the Sun
3:45
3:45
253
Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
2:06
2:06
254
Constituition Hill
2:30
2:30
255
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
4:19
4:19
256
Song of the Iceberg
3:50
3:50
257
There Is Power in a Union
2:51
2:51
258
Hope St.
3:38
3:38
259
Kilroy Was Here
4:12
4:12
260
Sunday Morning
2:52
2:52
261
Rock Island Line
2:56
2:56
262
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
4:29
4:29
263
The Midnight Special
3:35
3:35
264
Railroad Bill
2:49
2:49
265
Lonesome Whistle
2:54
2:54
266
KC Moan
2:40
2:40
267
Waiting for a Train
2:47
2:47
268
In the Pines
3:30
3:30
269
Gentle on My Mind
3:39
3:39
270
Hobo’s Lullaby
3:57
3:57
271
Railroading on the Great Divide
3:08
3:08
272
John Henry
2:41
2:41
273
Early Morning Rain
4:15
4:15
274
Why We Build the Wall (live)
3:45
3:45
275
The Midnight Special (live)
3:36
3:36
276
The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (live)
4:46
4:46
277
The Sleep of Reason
4:33
4:33
278
King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
3:00
3:00
279
Why We Build the Wall
3:30
3:30
280
Saffiyah Smiles
3:33
3:33
281
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
4:14
4:14
282
Full English Brexit
4:04
4:04
283
Should Have Seen It Coming
3:24
3:24
284
Mid-Century Modern
5:28
5:28
285
Lonesome Ocean
3:35
3:35
286
Good Days and Bad Days
4:41
4:41
287
Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free
3:21
3:21
288
Reflections on the Mirth of Creativity
3:08
3:08
289
The Million Things That Never Happened
3:46
3:46
290
The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here No More
4:44
4:44
291
I Believe in You
3:02
3:02
292
Pass It On
3:52
3:52
293
I Will Be Your Shield
3:31
3:31
294
Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained
3:39
3:39
295
Sulk (live)
3:45
3:45
296
Moving the Goalposts (live)
2:58
2:58
297
Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained (live)
3:19
3:19
298
The Million Things That Never Happened (live)
3:49
3:49
299
King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood (live)
2:56
2:56
300
Mid‐Century Modern (live)
4:55
4:55
301
Cindy of a Thousand Lives (live)
4:22
4:22
302
Lonesome Ocean (live)
3:42
3:42
303
Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (live)
2:44
2:44
304
The Internationale
3:32
3:32
305
Salt of the Earth
2:55
2:55
306
My Youngest Son Came Home Today
3:39
3:39
307
PF Sloan Billy Bragg
4:25
4:25
308
Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby
2:47
2:47
309
If I Had a Hammer
3:05
3:05
310
Slipknot
4:34
4:34
311
Marching Out From Selma
3:07
3:07
312
When the Ship Comes In (live)
3:25
3:25
313
Don’t Do It Liza
3:54
3:54
314
The Drugs Don’t Work
4:13
4:13
315
I Ain’t Got No Home
4:03
4:03
316
On a Good Day
2:17
2:17
317
Talkin’ World War III Blues
3:11
3:11
318
The Rebels of ’48 (live)
3:17
3:17
319
An English Revolutionary (live)
3:30
3:30
320
Ballots and Bread (live)
4:01
4:01
321
Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3:22
3:22
322
If We Make It Through December
3:13
3:13
323
Springhill
4:51
4:51
324
Can’t Be There Today
3:41
3:41

Current tour

Billy Bragg is on tour now!

Billy Bragg will be next performing at Light House Arts Centre on Wednesday 17 June 2026, and is scheduled to play 34 concerts across 3 countries in 2026.

Upcoming Concerts