Album · Compilation

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

Released 1996296 tracks · 749:20EnglishBear Family Records

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	The Boll Weevil	Carl Sandburg	2:38
1.2	Patriotic Diggers	John Allison	2:22
1.3	London’s Bridge Is Falling Down	Charles Seeger	1:06
1.4	Risselty Rosselty	Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Seeger	1:08
1.5	Old Grey Mare	Ruth Crawford Seeger	0:37
1.6	Hands	Charles Seeger	2:42
1.7	Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 1	Aunt Molly Jackson	2:36
1.8	Ragged Hungry Blues, Part 2	Aunt Molly Jackson	2:57
1.9	I’m Going to Organize, Baby Mine	Sarah Ogan Gunning	1:21
1.10	I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister	Tillman Cadle	1:40
1.11	Raggedy, Raggedy	John Handcox	1:33
1.12	No More Mourning	John Handcox	1:07
1.13	Join the Union Tonight	John Handcox	0:45
1.14	We’re Going to Roll the Union On	John Handcox	1:01
1.15	There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land	John Handcox	0:48
1.16	Farmer’s Letter to the President	Bob Ferguson	2:59
1.17	Farm Relief Blues	Bob Miller	2:56
1.18	11 Cent Cotton, 40 Cent Meat	Bob's Boys	2:56
1.19	The Hootenanny Song	Miller’s Bullfrog Entertainers	3:14
1.20	Bank Failures	Bob Ferguson and His Scalawaggers	3:18
1.21	The Rich Man and the Poor Man	Bob Miller	2:59
1.22	The Poor Forgotten Man	Bill Palmer	2:45
1.23	The Soup Song	The New Singers	2:35
1.24	The Internationale	The New Singers	2:15
1.25	Rise Up (Comintern)	The New Singers	2:24
1.26	United Front	The New Singers	1:55
1.27	Forward, We’ve Not Forgotten	The New Singers	2:12
1.28	In Praise of Learning	The New Singers	1:46
1.29	On the Picket Line	The Manhattan Chorus	2:56
1.30	Hold the Fort	The Manhattan Chorus	3:05
1.31	Casey Jones	The Manhattan Chorus	3:01
1.32	Sit Down	The Manhattan Chorus	1:56
1.33	Write Me Out My Union Card	The Manhattan Chorus	1:32
1.34	We Shall Not Be Moved	The Manhattan Chorus	1:42
1.35	Join the Union	The Manhattan Chorus	1:47
1.36	Solidarity Forever	The Manhattan Chorus	2:46
2.1	The Strange Funeral in Braddock	Mordecai Bauman & Elie Siegmeister	7:08
2.2	Abraham Lincoln, Parts 1 & 2	Earl Robinson	5:18
2.3	Joe Hill	Earl Robinson	2:32
2.4	Spring Song	Paul Robeson	3:36
2.5	The Old Chisholm Trail	Tony Kraber	2:59
2.6	Old Paint (The Horse With the Union Label)	Saul Aarons	3:07
2.7	Capitalistic Boss, Parts 1 & 2	Saul Aarons	6:58
2.8	Little Theater on the Right	Harrison Dowd	2:29
2.9	Little Theater on the Left	Harrison Dowd	2:42
2.10	Nine Foot Shovel	Josh White	2:40
2.11	Chain Gang Boun’	Josh White	2:59
2.12	Trouble	Josh White, Sam Gary, Bill White	3:19
2.13	Goin’ Home Boys	Josh White	2:52
2.14	Cryin’ Who? Cryin’ You! Parts 1 & 2	Josh White	5:44
2.15	Told My Captain	Josh White	3:17
2.16	Jerry	Josh White	2:45
2.17	Southern Exposure	Josh White	3:06
2.18	Uncle Sam Says	Josh White	2:39
2.19	Jim Crow Train	Josh White	3:03
2.20	Bad Housing Blues	Josh White	2:33
2.21	Hard Time Blues	Josh White	2:43
2.22	Defense Factory Blues	Josh White	2:41
3.1	Strange Death of John Doe	The Almanac Singers	1:24
3.2	Billy Boy	The Almanac Singers	2:17
3.3	C for Conscription	The Almanac Singers	1:29
3.4	Washington Breakdown	The Almanac Singers	1:28
3.5	Lisa Jane	The Almanac Singers	2:39
3.6	Ballad of October 16th	The Almanac Singers	2:42
3.7	Plow Under	The Almanac Singers	2:21
3.8	Talking Union	The Almanac Singers	2:57
3.9	Union Train	The Almanac Singers	2:18
3.10	Which Side Are You On?	The Almanac Singers	2:05
3.11	Get Thee Behind Me, Satan	The Almanac Singers	2:34
3.12	Union Maid	The Almanac Singers	2:09
3.13	All I Want	The Almanac Singers	2:57
3.14	Songs for Bridges	The Almanac Singers	3:06
3.15	Babe o’ Mine	Woody Guthrie	2:43
3.16	Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho	The Almanac Singers	2:43
3.17	Haul Away, Joe	The Almanac Singers	3:12
3.18	Blow the Man Down	The Almanac Singers	2:32
3.19	The Golden Vanity	The Almanac Singers	3:02
3.20	Away, Rio	The Almanac Singers	2:21
3.21	The Coast of High Barbary	The Almanac Singers	2:30
3.22	Greenland Fishing	The Almanac Singers	2:49
3.23	The Dodger Song	The Almanac Singers	2:35
3.24	Ground Hog	The Almanac Singers	2:36
3.25	State of Arkansas	The Almanac Singers	2:43
3.26	Hard, Ain’t It Hard	The Almanac Singers	2:33
3.27	I Ride an Old Paint	The Almanac Singers	2:33
3.28	House of the Rising Sun	The Almanac Singers	2:53
3.29	The Weaver’s Song	The Almanac Singers	2:37
4.1	Dear Mr. President	The Almanac Singers	2:51
4.2	Belt Line Girl	The Almanac Singers	2:21
4.3	Round and Round Hitler’s Grave	The Almanac Singers	2:51
4.4	Side by Side	The Almanac Singers	2:35
4.5	Deliver the Goods	The Almanac Singers	2:27
4.6	Reuben James	The Almanac Singers	3:08
4.7	Boomtown Bill	The Almanac Singers	3:10
4.8	Keep That Oil A-Rollin’	The Almanac Singers	2:46
4.9	I’m Looking for a Home (Housing Song)	The Priority Ramblers	2:18
4.10	Amsterdam Maid	The Priority Ramblers	2:54
4.11	Song of the Free	The Priority Ramblers	2:01
4.12	In Washington	The Priority Ramblers	2:57
4.13	Overtime Pay	The Priority Ramblers	2:28
4.14	Quinte Brigada	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:47
4.15	Jarama Valley	Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:48
4.16	Spanish Marching Song	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:39
4.17	Cook House / The Young Man From Alcala	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:39
4.18	Quinte Regimento	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:20
4.19	Quarter Master Song	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes & Bess Lomax	2:04
4.20	Little Man on a Fence	Union Boys	2:33
4.21	Jim Crow	Union Boys	2:50
4.22	You Better Get Ready	Union Boys	2:32
4.23	Hold the Fort / We Shall Not Be Moved	Union Boys	3:02
4.24	U.A.W. - C.I.O.	Josh White, Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer	2:07
4.25	Hold On	Union Boys	2:15
4.26	Solidarity Forever	Burl Ives	2:54
4.27	Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore	Union Boys	2:48
5.1	Horace Greeley	Earl Robinson	3:07
5.2	Kevin Barry	Earl Robinson	2:44
5.3	The House I Live In	Earl Robinson	3:08
5.4	A Man’s a Man for a’That	Earl Robinson	2:25
5.5	Drill Ye Tarriers Drill	Earl Robinson	2:45
5.6	The Frozen Logger	Earl Robinson	2:32
5.7	Jefferson and Liberty	Earl Robinson	2:44
5.8	Sweet Betsy From Pike / Dirty Miner	Earl Robinson	3:08
5.9	Grand Coolee Dam	Earl Robinson	2:58
5.10	Free and Equal Blues, Parts 1 & 2	Earl Robinson & Dooley Wilson	5:08
5.11	The Century of the Common Man	Sir Lancelot	3:04
5.12	I’m a Native American Nazi	Vern Partlow	3:02
5.13	Join the U.A.W.-C.I.O.	Vern Partlow	2:37
5.14	Keeping Score for ’44	Vern Partlow	2:22
5.15	The U.A.W. Train	Vern Partlow	2:28
5.16	Susan’s in the Union	Vern Partlow	2:32
5.17	The Rollback Blues	Vern Partlow	2:19
5.18	Mama Don’t Allow	Vern Partlow	2:06
5.19	Farmer Labor Train	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	2:52
5.20	So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	2:47
5.21	Talking Sailor	Woody Guthrie	3:05
5.22	Sally, Don’t You Grieve	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	2:24
5.23	Citizen C.I.O.	Tom Glazer & Josh White	2:30
5.24	No More Blues	Josh White	2:50
5.25	We’ve Got a Plan	Tom Glazer	2:35
5.26	Social Worker’s Talking Blues	Tom Glazer	2:32
5.27	I’m Gonna Put My Name Down	Tom Glazer	3:04
5.28	Freedom Road	Josh White	2:18
6.1	Landlord	Josh White	2:41
6.2	Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier	Josh White	2:43
6.3	Beloved Comrade	Josh White	2:48
6.4	The Man Who Couldn’t Walk Around	Josh White	3:05
6.5	I’m the Guy	Josh White	1:31
6.6	Little Man Sitting on a Fence	Josh White	2:45
6.7	When the Country Is Broke	Tom Glazer	0:45
6.8	Money in the Pocket	Tom Glazer	1:50
6.9	Our Fight Is Yours	Tom Glazer	2:11
6.10	Moses Green	Lee Hays	2:48
6.11	The Rankin Tree	Lee Hays	1:55
6.12	Talking Bilbo	Lee Hays	2:23
6.13	This Old World	Lee Hays	3:19
6.14	No. 1 Stooge	Bob Claiborne	2:15
6.15	Song of My Hands	Bernie Asbel	3:12
6.16	Mad as I Can Be	Bernie Asbel & Pete Seeger	1:56
6.17	Jackie Robinson	Lord Invader	2:39
6.18	High Price Blues	Brownie McGhee	2:47
6.19	Black, Brown, and White	Brownie McGhee	2:39
6.20	Nix on Mundt/Nixon	Anna Beyer	2:27
6.21	The Daily Worker’s Song	George Levine	1:48
6.22	Taft-Hartley Blues	[unknown]	2:45
6.23	Parnell Thomas Blues	Sis Cunningham	4:05
6.24	Turn Me Loose	Malvina Reynolds & Bill Oliver	1:14
6.25	Snowball	Berries	1:40
6.26	Swingin’ on a Scab	Berries	2:38
6.27	On to Sacramento	Mario Casetta	2:10
6.28	Atomic Talking Blues	Vern Partlow	3:45
6.29	Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People	Vern Partlow	3:43
6.30	Passing Through	Dick Blakeslee	1:51
7.1	Listen Mr. Bilbo	Pete Seeger, Butch Hawes, Lee Hays, Hally Wood & Lou Kleinman	2:41
7.2	Joe Hill	Pete Seeger, Butch Hawes, Lee Hays, Hally Wood & Lou Kleinman	2:42
7.3	O.P.A. Shout	Pete Seeger & Bob Claiborne	2:10
7.4	Voting Union	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	1:46
7.5	Get Out the Vote	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	0:54
7.6	A Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	2:23
7.7	A Dollar for P.A.C.	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	2:44
7.8	Oh, What Congress Done to Me	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	0:55
7.9	Four P.A.C. Nursery Rhymes	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	1:12
7.10	D.D.T.	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	1:44
7.11	Fare Ye Well, Bad Congressman	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	1:25
7.12	No, No, No Discrimination	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	0:53
7.13	Voter, Oh Voter	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Lee Hays & Hally Wood	1:23
7.14	Intro: Commonwealth of Toil	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	3:27
7.15	We’ve Got Our Eyes on You	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	2:53
7.16	Talking Union	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	3:07
7.17	The Preacher and the Slave	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	2:56
7.18	Which Side Are You On?	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	2:36
7.19	Solidarity Forever	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	3:35
7.20	The Whole Wide World Around	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	3:59
7.21	Hold the Fort / Conclusion	Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Hally Wood & Ronnie Gilbert	3:05
7.22	Talking P.A.C.	Pete Seeger	2:33
7.23	Conversation With a Mule	Pete Seeger	2:08
7.24	The Farmer Is the Man	Pete Seeger	1:42
7.25	Join the Farmer’s Union	Pete Seeger	1:15
7.26	Talking Atom	Pete Seeger	2:53
7.27	Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People	Pete Seeger	3:10
7.28	Skillet Good and Greasy	Pete Seeger	0:54
7.29	T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)	Pete Seeger	2:09
7.30	Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase	Pete Seeger	2:40
8.1	Walk in Peace, Part 1	Sir Lancelot	2:42
8.2	Walk in Peace, Part 2	Sir Lancelot	2:37
8.3	Atomic Energy	Sir Lancelot	2:46
8.4	Old Lady With a Rolling Pin	Sir Lancelot	2:44
8.5	Red Boogie	Morry Goodson & Sonny Vale	3:13
8.6	Unity Rhumba	Morry Goodson & Sonny Vale	2:51
8.7	Elephant and the Ass	Morry Goodson & Sonny Vale	2:31
8.8	Hungry Rhapsody	Morry Goodson & Sonny Vale	3:14
8.9	Housing	Morry Goodson & Sonny Vale	3:04
8.10	Ballad of F.D.R.	People's Songs Chorus	2:55
8.11	Jim Crow	People's Songs Chorus	2:23
8.12	Mein Shtelele Belz	Berries	3:03
8.13	Zhonkoye	Berries & Pete Seeger	2:21
8.14	Travelin’	Pete Seeger	1:50
8.15	Black, Brown and White Blues	Pete Seeger	2:30
8.16	The Death of Harry Simms	Pete Seeger	1:45
8.17	Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues	Pete Seeger	1:16
8.18	No Irish Need Apply	Pete Seeger	2:26
8.19	Unemployment Compensation Blues	Mario Casetta	3:03
8.20	The Fireship	Betty Sanders	2:59
8.21	Johnny, I Hardly Knew You	Betty Sanders	3:03
8.22	The Peekskill Story, Parts 1 & 2	The Weavers & Howard Fast	6:26
8.23	Wasn’t That a Time	The Weavers	3:00
8.24	Dig My Grave	The Weavers	2:31
8.25	Freight Train Blues	The Weavers	2:37
8.26	Love Song Blues	The Weavers	3:25
8.27	If I Had a Hammer	The Weavers	2:17
9.1	We’re Keeping Score ’44	Earl Robinson	3:34
9.2	No More Blues	Josh White	1:00
9.3	Lay That Ballot Down, Parts 1 & 2	Bill Oliver	2:26
9.4	Fertilizer Song	Vern Partlow	3:04
9.5	Talking F.T.A.	Vern Partlow	3:00
9.6	Kiss the Boys Goodbye	Vern Partlow	2:38
9.7	Round and Round the Canneries	Vern Partlow	2:18
9.8	My Name Is Cannery Bill	Vern Partlow	3:01
9.9	The Bosses’ Gang	Maria Alexander	2:27
9.10	Bye, Bye Bosses	Maria Alexander	2:35
9.11	New Walls of Jericho (Wallace Fit the Battle of America)	Richard Huey	2:40
9.12	Henry Wallace Is the Man	Royal Harmonaires	2:55
9.13	Corrido to Wallace and Taylor	Abigail Alvarez	1:36
9.14	Second Corrido to Wallace and Taylor	Abigail Alvarez	1:22
9.15	Battle Hymn of ’48	Paul Robeson	1:39
9.16	Same Old Merry Go-Round	Michael Loring	1:45
9.17	I’ve Got a Ballot	Michael Loring	1:33
9.18	Great Day	Michael Loring	1:29
9.19	Wallace Button / Goodbye, Harry	George Levine	1:49
9.20	Henry Wallace	Sis Cunningham	4:13
9.21	We Can Win With Wallace	Bill Oliver	1:23
9.22	Work With Wallace	Malvina Reynolds	2:45
9.23	Century of the Common Man	Sir Lancelot	1:47
9.24	Wallace Is the Man for Me	Sir Lancelot	2:09
9.25	Yankee Doodle, Tell the Boss	Michael Loring & Alan Lomax	2:48
9.26	Intro: New York City	The Weavers	2:37
9.27	Marcantaonio for Me	Fred Hellerman	1:03
9.28	Skip to the Polls	The Weavers & Hope Foye	1:12
9.29	Marc Antonio for Mayor	Fred Hellerman	1:03
9.30	Now, Right Now	Laura Duncan	3:03
9.31	We Shall Not Be Moved	The Weavers	1:03
9.32	Oh, Freedom	Pete Seeger & Hope Foye	2:46
9.33	Ben Davis	Pete Seeger	3:00
9.34	M.T.A.	[unknown]	2:31
9.35	People’s Choice	[unknown]	1:17
9.36	Keep a-Goin’ and a-Growin’	Fred Hellerman	1:44
10.1	The Riddle of Thurman Towns	Robert De Cormier, Herschel Bernardi & Alan Booth	3:25
10.2	Grapes to Pick	Gerald Gallant	2:22
10.3	Medley: I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted / Stand Up and Be Counted / We Will Overcome / The Progressive Party Is Here to Stay	Fred Hellerman	3:32
10.4	Pity the Downtrodden Landlord	Bob Hill	2:22
10.5	The Hammer Song	The Weavers	1:59
10.6	Banks of Marble	The Weavers	2:54
10.7	Spring Song	Ernie Lieberman & Hope Foye	3:09
10.8	Songs of My Hands	Ernie Lieberman	3:11
10.9	My Old Man	Ernie Lieberman	3:03
10.10	I’m on My Way	Ernie Lieberman	3:02
10.11	In Contempt	Ernie Lieberman, Laura Duncan, Osborne Smith & Betty Sanders	2:05
10.12	Die gedanken sind frei	Ernie Lieberman, Laura Duncan, Osborne Smith & Betty Sanders	1:20
10.13	Walk Along Together	Ernie Lieberman, Laura Duncan, Osborne Smith & Betty Sanders	2:43
10.14	Put My Name Down	Ernie Lieberman, Laura Duncan, Osborne Smith & Betty Sanders	2:46
10.15	Hold On	Ernie Lieberman, Laura Duncan, Osborne Smith & Betty Sanders	1:45
10.16	Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel	Osborne Smith	0:58
10.17	I’ve Got a Right	Laura Duncan	2:43
10.18	We Shall Overcome	Jewish Young Folksingers	3:19
10.19	Talking Un-American Blues	Betty Sanders	3:29
10.20	Old Bolshevik Song	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	1:44
10.21	The Cloakmaker’s Union	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	0:33
10.22	Land of the Daily Worker	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	0:57
10.23	Our Line’s Been Changed Again	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	1:51
10.24	In Old Moscow	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	1:44
10.25	Unite for Unity	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	2:31
10.26	Bill Bailey	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	2:43
10.27	The Last Internationale	Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland	2:06
10.28	The Giveaway Boys in Washington	Joe Glazer	1:38
10.29	Joe McCarthy’s Band	Joe Glazer	2:00
10.30	I’ve Got to Know	Woody Guthrie	5:32
10.31	This Land Is Your Land	Woody Guthrie	2:26

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