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Artist: Almanac Singers
Author: Woody Guthrie
Label: Almanac
Year: 1941
Agit-prop group with Lee Hays, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, pre Weavers. Heavily blacklisted by Senator McCarthy's un-American activities witch hunt. Written in 1940 at the seat of the Communist Party in Oklahoma City. Guthrie & Seeger sang there for striking petrol laborers and this song was meant to support their wives on the side.
Covers:
Woody Guthrie [in Town Hall, New York City during a union rally; Moses Asch recording; the only version by the author]
Judy Collins & Pete Seeger [on A Tribute To Woody Guthrie]
Strawbs [in Part Of The Union]
Strangers [as Vivan De Vakbond, following The Strawbs]
Richard Anthony [as De la musique Républicaine]
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie [in film Woody Guthrie Hard Travelin']
Uses the melody of Red Wing. See there.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)