The index of Archie Green's Big Red Songbook is interesting. It also serves as an index to all the Little Red Songbooks published by the IWW from 1909 to 2007. If you need further explanation, let me know. The editions of the Little Red Songbook are identified by letter, the songs in the Big Red Songbook by number.
A CHECKLIST OF IWW SONGBOOKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER The first songbook appeared in 1909, the current edition in 1995. We use letters A to Z, and AA to MM to designate all editions available to us. We welcome comments and corrections.
—A.G. and A.M.
A An ad for the first songbook appeared in the Industrial Worker, August 19, 1909.
One known copy obtained by John Neuhaus exists in the Archie Green Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This copy belonged to Katie Phar, who signed the front cover.
The outside front cover indicates:
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
Labor Is Entitled to All It Produces A Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909
Rear 412-420 Front Avenue, Spokane, Wash.
No Inside Table of Contents or Title Page
Songs in Order of Appearance 1. The Red Flag
2. If You Workers Would Only Unite
3. Walking on the Grass
4. Workingmen, Do You Hear?
5. The Master Class Are [Is] Feeling
6. Unite, Unite
7. A Song for 1910 [subsequently retitled "A Song for 1911" and "A Song for the Wage Slave]
8. The Workers of the World are Now Awaking
9. The Banner of Labor
10. Come and Get Wise
10. Workingmen, You Are Called Upon
11.Hellelujah [Hallelujah, I'm a Bum; Hallelujah, On the Bum]
13. Good-Bye, Dollars, I Must Leave You
14. The Marseillaise
15. Working Men, Unite
16. They Are All Fighters
17. It Is the Union
18. Meet Me in the Jungles, Louie
19. A Dream
20. I'll Remember You
21. The Suckers Sadly Gather
22. Wage Workers, Come Join the Union
23. You Can't Stop the March of the Toilers
24. We Will Unite
B An ad for the second songbook appeared in the Industrial
Worker, May 21, 1910.
The library of the University of California at Riverside
purchased a copy of this book about 1952. Sometime after acquisition, this copy disappeared. Unless it reappears, this checklist remains incomplete.
C An ad for a third "very much improved,^ songbook appeared in
the Industrial Worker, August 20, 1910.
One known copy signed by Ralph Chaplin exists in the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.
The cover of this edition introduces the phrase "To Fan the
Flames of Discontent."
The address has been changed to: Rear 616 Front Avenue.
Only new songs are listed below
25. The Internationale
26. Hark! The Battle-Cry Is Ringing
27. All for the Cause
28. Workers of England [Workers of the World]
29. The Hope of the Ages
30. Take and Hold
31. The Workers, So They Say
32. Workingmen, Come Organize
33. I Went to the Country
34. Battle Hymn of Toil
35. The Jobite's Lament
36. John D.'s Soliloquy
37. The Workingman's Crime
38. Though They Promise
39. Workers of the World, Unite
D An ad for a new songbook including "Long Haired Preachers,,
appeared in the Industrial Worker, July 6, 1911.
The address has been replaced with "Published by Spokane Local, IWW."
40. The Eight-Hour Song
41. Workers, Shall the Masters Rule Us?
42. The Roll Call
43. My Wandering Boy
44. That Old Red Button
45. The Preacher and the Slave [Pie in the Sky]
46. A Parody on J. D.
47. Ship Out
48. Out in the Bread-Line
E An ad for a new songbook including "Casey Jones" appeared in the Industrial Worker, July 11, 1912.
The replaced address is P.O. Box 2129, Spokane.
49. Casey Jones The Union Scab
50. Song of the "Scissorbill" [Siamese Out-of-Work Song]
51. The “Blanket Stiff'
52. Where the Frazer River Flows
53. Might Is Right
54. Coffee An'
55. John Golden and the Lawrence Strike
F An ad for a new songbook including "Mr. Block" appeared in the Industrial Worker, March 6, 1913.
The designation Fifth Edition appears on the cover.
56. Should I Ever Be A Soldier
57. What We Want
58. Class Communion
59. Scissor Bill
60. Mr. Block
61. Stand Up! Ye Workers
62. Stung Right
63. There Is Power in a Union (Joe Hill)
64. The White Slave
65. Everybody's Joining It
66. We Will Sing One Song
67. The Tramp
G The designation Sixth Edition appears on the cover. The editors made no changes from the previous edition.
H This Seattle edition is the first published outside of Spokane.
68. Nearer My Job to Thee
69. Masters Beware
70. In the Cold Old Winter Time
71. Down in the Old Dark Mill
72. The Bonehead Workingman
73. The Old Toiler's Message
74. Working Men
75. The Girl Question
76. We Are the Only Union
77. Hold the Fort
I In June 1914, the Cleveland IWW Publishing Bureau issued the Seventh Edition.
78. The Workers Battle Cry for Freedom
79. Gone Are the Days [Four Hour Day]
80. One Big Industrial Union
81. Come Join the One Big Union; Do
82. The Child Slaves
83. The Stevedore and the Boss
84. Hey! Polly
85. We Come
86. Liberty Forever
87. We're Ready
88. From Slavery to Freedom
89. A. F. of L. Sympathy
90. Labor's Dixie
91. Welfare Song
J Cleveland editors designated the Eighth Edition as the Joe Hill Edition; published December 1914.
92. Overalls and Snuff
93. That Sabo-Tabby Kitten
94. Paint 'Er Red
95. Joe Hill in Jail
K Joe Hill Memorial Edition, Ninth Edition, Cleveland, March 1916.
96. Joe Hill (Ralph Chaplin)
97. Workers of the World, Awaken
98. The Workers' Marseillaise
99. Harvest War Song
100. Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay
101. The Ninety and Nine
102. The Road to Emancipation
103. Christians at War
104. Solidarity Forever
105. Don't Take My Papa Away from Me
106. The Optimistic Laborites
107. The Rebel Girl
108. The Parasites
109. Up from Your Knees
110. Dump the Bosses off Your Back
111. November Nineteenth
112. Joe Hill's Last Will
L Tenth Edition, Chicago, February 1917. No new songs.
M and N I have never seen these editions.
O Thirteenth Edition, Chicago, September 1917
113. To Frank Little
P published by Lumber Workers Industrial Union No. 500,
Spokane, WA.
114. Whadda Ya Want to Break Your Back for the Boss For
115. Remember
Q Fourteenth Edition, Chicago, April 1918.
116. Making the Camps Like Home
117. I.W.W. Prison Song
118. The Dollar Alarm Clock
119. Tie 'Em Up
120. The Bosses Will in Slavery Hold You
121. Farewell Joe
122. We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years
123. Dixie
124. The Message from O'er the Sea
125. When You Wear that Button
126. The Everett County Jail [California Prison Song; Prison Song]
127. Are You a Wobbly?
128. The Commonwealth of Toil
129. May Day Song
130. Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks
131. Workers' Memorial Song
132. Farewell Frank
R Fifteenth Edition, Chicago, October 1919.
133. All Hell Can't Stop Us
134. In Memory
135. The Dream of a Millionaire
136. Onward, One Big Union
137. Organize
138. A Call to Action
S Sixteenth Edition, Chicago, August 1921. No new songs.
T Seventeenth Edition, Chicago, undated.
139. The Big Question
140.I'm Too Old to Be a Scab
141. The Industrial Workers of the World
142. Industrial Unionism Speaks to Toilers of the ea
143. The Popular Wobbly
144. Renunciation
145. I Wanna Free Miss Liberty
146. They'll Soon Ring Out
147. The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life
148. A Worker's Plea
149. Harvest Land
U Eighteenth Edition, Chicago, undated. No new songs.
V Nineteenth Edition, Chicago, 1923. No new songs.
W Twentieth Edition, Chicago, 1924. No new songs.
X Twenty-First Edition, Chicago, 1925.
150. Wesley Everest
151. Mourn Not the Dead
152. To My Little Son
153. The Worn Out Slave
154. That Tumble Down Shack
155. The Tragedy of Sunset Land
156. The Good Old Wobbly Band
157. Dan McGann
158. Czar of all Czars
159. Gesundheit, Mr. Wob
160. The World Goes On
161. The Red Feast
162. Some Day a Silent Guard
163. The Song of the Rail
YTwenty-Second Edition, Chicago, 1926.
164. The Dawn of Freedom
165. Harvesters
166. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Z Twenty-Third Edition, Chicago, 1927; reprinted in 1928.
167. Three Shining Stars
168. The Long, Long Fight
169. It Is Up to You
170. There's a Bright Way to Freedom
171. The Battle Hymn of the Workers
172. We Made Good Wobs Out There
173. The Call
174. Everett, November Fifth
175. A Song of the Sea
AA Twenty-Fourth Edition, Chicago, 1930.
176. The Woman's Fight
177. The Worker's Funeral Hymn
178. November
BB Twenty-Fifth Edition, Chicago, December 1933.
179. It's A Long Way Down to the Soupline
180. Boom Went the Boom
181. The Portland Revolution
CC Twenty-Sixth Edition, Chicago, May 1936
DD Twenty-Seventh Edition, Chicago, January 1939.
EE Twenty-Eighth, Chicago, July 1945.
FF Twenty-Ninth Edition, Chicago, July 1956.
GG Thirtieth Edition, Chicago, May 1962.
HH Thirty-First Edition, Chicago, May 1964.
II Thirty-Second Edition, Chicago, April 1968.
JJ Thirty-Third Edition, Chicago, June 1970.
182. Sons of Toil and Danger
183. General Strike Song
184. Harvest Hand
185. The Lumberjack's Prayer
KK Thirty-Fourth Edition, Chicago, May 1973.
186. The Boss [Wobbly Doxology]
187. Larimer Street
188. Union Maid
189. Stick 'Em Up
190. Outa Work Blues
The songs from the Little Red Songbook stop here, although the index lists a number of songs from the 35th and 36th edition that are not included, plus chapters for "Other IWW Songs and Poems" (page 273) and "Variants and Parodies" (page 345) - these songs are not listed in the index. It's clear that the omission of songs from books after 1973 was intentional, but I didn't find anything that told why later songs were not included.
LL Thirty-Fifth Edition, Chicago, May 1, 1984.
191. Bread and Roses
192. Amazing Boss
193. Make No Mistake
194. Prices Rise
195. Still Ain't Satisfied
196. Put It on the Ground
197. Joe Hill (Phil Ochs)
198. Banks of Marble
199. Nine to Five Song
200. All Used Up
201. This Little Scab
202. It's a Good Thing to Join a Union
203. When the People Have Burst Their Chains
MM Thirty-Sixth Edition, Ypsilanti, MI, May 1, 1995.
204. Hijos del Pueblo
205. A Las Barricadas
206. Porque Los Pobres No Tienen
207. Mexican Revolutionary Song
208. We Shall Not Be Moved
209. Go I Will Send Thee
210. Rob A Train
211. Giving Nothing Back
212. One More Day Than Them
213. Not So Long Ago
214. The Men of Kemira
215. Labor's Endless Chain
216. LIP Song
217. Moderation
218. If It Weren't for the Union
219. Workers' Control Song
220. Food Not Finance
221. Box Factory
222. Ella's Song
223. Buy This American Car
224. Scabs
225. We Shall Not Give Up the Fight
226. Who Bombed Judi Bari
227. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
228. Work Rap Song
229. Star-Spangled George Bush
230. Fight Like Hell
231. Cotton Mill Girls
232. Down at the Picketline
233. Forget Me Not
234. Freedom Road
235. Give Back My Factory to Me
236. Potter Valley Mill
237. Rise Again
238. Song of My Da
239. Soul Steelers
240. The Union Buster
241. Legal Illegal
242. V. D. T.
243. Which Side Are You On?
244. Winnsboro Cotton M? Blues
245. The World Turned Upside Down
246. Where Are We Gonna Work When the Trees Are Gone
247. World to Win
248. The Boss's Darling
249. Babylon Updated
250. Staying Out on the Line
251. The Blackleg Miner
252. Aragon Mill
253. Roll the Union On
254. The Picket Boogie
255. Public Workers Stand Together
256. High Tech
257. Give Me That New Union Contract
258. The Scabs Crawl In
259. You Gotta Go Down
260. We Are Building A Strong Union
261. Universal Housewife
262. Rock-A-Bye Baby
263. So Long Partner w k
264. Stand United, All You
265. The New America
266. Old Ma Bell
267. Aristocracy Forever
268. Capitalism's Endless Chain
269. Roll the Hours Back
270. Links on the Chain
271. Landlord and Tenant
272. On the Picket Line
273. Go to Work on Monday
274. I'm Dreaming of a Fair Contract
275. There is Power in a Union (Billy Bragg)
[The last edition indexed is the 36th edition from 1995]
Work in progress. Will finish later.
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