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SONGS FROM THE MINES
Child labor in the coal mines (Lewis W. Hine, early 1900s)
BALLAD OF BARNEY GRAHAM
(DELLA MAE GRAHAM) (1933)
COAL MINER'S BLUES
(trad./
A. P. CARTER
) (1930s)
COME ALL YOU COAL MINERS
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1960s)
DARK AS A DUNGEON
(
MERLE TRAVIS
) (1946)
DEATH OF THE BLUE EAGLE
(GEORGE DAVIS?) (1930s)
DISASTER AT THE MANNINGTON MINE
(HAZEL DICKENS) (1970s)
DON'T GO DOWN IN THE MINE, DAD
(ROBERT DONNELLY/WILL GEDDES) (1910)
DOWN ON THE PICKET LINE
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1930s)
DREADFUL MEMORIES
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1930s)
THE DREAM OF THE MINER'S CHILD
(ANDREW JENKINS/IRENE SPAIN) (1926)
THE DYING DOCTOR
(aka THE COMPANY TOWN DOCTOR) (
WOODY GUTHRIE
) (1945)
EXPLOSION IN THE FAIRMOUNT MINES
(BLIND ALFRED REED) (1927)
HAZARD, KENTUCKY
(
PHIL OCHS
) (c. 1963)
HELLO, COAL MINER
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1979)
THE HIGH SHERIFF OF HAZARD
(
TOM PAXTON
) (1964)
I'M GOING TO ORGANIZE
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
)
(VERSION 1)
(VERSION 2)
(1930s)
I AM A GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1930s)
I DON'T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER
(
JIM GARLAND
) (1930s) (as recorded by
THE ALMANAC SINGERS
, 1941)
I HATE THE COMPANY BOSSES
(I HATE THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM) (
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1930s)
LOUIS TIKAS, LABOR MARTYR
(poem; UMWJ, May 28, 1914)
LUDLOW MASSACRE
(
WOODY GUTHRIE
) (c. 1944)
MINER'S LIFEGUARD
(AKA "A MINER'S LIFE") (trad.) (1900-1910)
MRS. CLARA SULLIVAN'S LETTER
(MALVINA REYNOLDS/PETE SEEGER) (1963)
MY CHILDREN ARE SEVEN IN NUMBER
(trad.) (1933)
1913 MASSACRE
(
WOODY GUTHRIE
) (c. 1944)
NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY
(
PHIL OCHS
) (1963-'64)
ONLY A MINER KILLED
(JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD) (1879)
OUR CAUSE IS MARCHING ON
(DAVIE ROBB) (1913)
POOR MINER'S FAREWELL
(
AUNT MOLLY JACKSON
) (1932)
RAGGED HUNGRY BLUES, Parts 1 & 2
(
AUNT MOLLY JACKSON
) (1930-'31)
SIXTEEN TONS
(GEORGE DAVIS) (1930s?)
SIXTEEN TONS
(
MERLE TRAVIS
) (1946)
THAT 25 CENTS THAT YOU PAID
(
SARAH OGAN GUNNING
) (1960s)
THAT LITTLE LUMP OF COAL
(J. N. YORK) (1936)
WE'RE COMING, COLORADO
(FRANK J. HAYES) (1913)
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
(FLORENCE REECE) (1930s) (as recorded by
THE ALMANAC SINGERS
, 1941)
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA
(UMWA)
"
THE MEN OF THE DEEPS
" (Coal Miners' Choir from Nova Scotia, Canada) -- their background, their recordings, and further coal mining song links.
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