Songs this morning in honour of Labour Day
The Old 'Arris Mill Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party - Orfeo |
Blue Lung Maria Dunn - Piece by Piece |
Jute Mill Song Ewan McLennan - Transatlantic Sessions - Series 6, Vol. Two |
Work of the Weavers The Irish Rovers - Up Among the Heather, The Scottish Album |
Pat Works On The Railway The Cottars - Forerunner |
Jacques Et Gilles Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Matapedia |
The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man) Great Big Sea - Up |
I'm a Working Chap Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Bothy Ballads of Scotland |
My Dad's Dinner Pail Mick Moloney - McNally's Row Of Flats |
The White Collar Holler Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks… Live! (Remastered) |
Bum on the Rod Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips - The Past Didn't Go Anywhere |
All Used Up Utah Phillips - The Telling Takes Me Home |
The Workhouse Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar - The Call |
Shoals of Herring Jon Boden - A Folk Song a Day: February |
The Herring Girl Bella Hardy - Songs Lost & Stolen |
No More Fish, No Fishermen Finest Kind - Heart's Delight |
Working At The Coalface Johnson Girls, the - On The Rocks |
Midlothian Mining Song 2duos - Until the Cows Come Home |
A Pound a Week Rise Liz Carroll & John Doyle - Double Play |
Taking on Men Bob Fox - The Blast |
Cold Coast of Iceland / Three Ships Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Rough Guide: English Folk |
Harvest Gypsies Kris Drever - Black Water |
Workers' Song Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth |
This is why I luv The Mighty!!! Up the Workers!!! (Which is most of us now) "Bum on the rods" is the same as "Ridin' the rods". Dirty thirties boxcars had support rods under the box cars...Bums would roll in on them to escape the rail police. I have ridden "The rods" but in empty boxcars & open flats...& Empty diesel engines... & Avoided the Police! Engine crews would share food! So, Up the Workers! Every day is Labour Day!
12:20 PM, September 4th, 2022