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Thread #3063   Message #15565
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
30-Oct-97 - 10:30 PM
Thread Name: Work Songs & Labor Movement
Subject: RE: Work Songs & Labor Movement
Speaking of Archie Fisher, there's Men O' Worth about the rig workers, on "Will Ye Gang, Love".

And speaking of rig workers, there is The Rig Worker's Alphabet, on" Wave Over Wave" by Fergus O'Byrne and Jim Payne. It's a take on the well-known Sailor's Alphabet, or The Lumberjack's Alphabet.

The latter CD also includes several sea shanties (labour songs indeed) and one called "Cape Breton Silver", a jolly and lively tune which extolls the efforts of moonshiners on that island, asking all honest Cape Bretoners to "support the home industry". And as I mentioned elsewhere, there is Double Sledder Lad, about toilers in the forest.