'example" hallelujah im a bum" was sung by the wobblies in the thirties, it is in their song book.' Aragon Mill is also in that song book. If the wobblies sang it in the thirties, they were psychic, as Si Kahn wrote it in 1971. Go to Work on Monday is in that book. Si Kahn wrote that one, too, in 1975 or thereabouts. All Used Up is in that book. I suspect that's the Utah Phillips song, written around 1980. Larimer Street is in that book. That's another Utah Phillips song, from 1973. Legal – Illegal is in that book. Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, 1978. Links on the Chain is in that book. It's a little bit older – Phil Ochs, 1965. My admiration for the wobblies has increased beyond all bounds, now that I know they were singing songs in the thirties that wouldn't be written for another 25 to 40 years.
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