Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
Compiled by Alan Lomax
Notes on the songs by Woody Guthrie
Music Transcribed and edited by Pete Seeger
foreward by John Steinbeck
published by Oak Publications, 1967

Ain't Gonna Study War No More 850
All Around the Jailhouse 185
All In and Down and Out Blues 56
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues 28
Ballad of Barney Graham, The 290
Ballad of John Catchins, The 804
Ballad of the Blue Bell Jail 296
Ballad of the TVA 196
Beans, Bacon and Gravy 94
Better Go Down and Jine the Union 326
Blowin' Down This Road 216
Boll Weevil 30
Bonny of the Union 218
Boss Is Having a Terrible Time, Parles-vous, The 316
Bourgeois Blues 344
Bring Me My Robe and Slippers, James 243
Buffalo Skinners, The 100
CCC Blues 195
CIO Is Bigger than It Used to Be, The 310
CWA Blues 194
Calls for an Honest Square Dance 320
Capitol City Cyclone 356
Casey Jones 92
Chief Aderholt 180
Chiseler's Sorrow, The 186
Coal Creek Explosion 153
Collective Bargaining in Our Shops 248
Collector Man Blues 42
Come All You Coal Miners 166
Come All You Hardy Miners 118
Come On Friends and Let's Go Down 168
Commonwealth of Toil, The 97
Cotton Mill Blues 123
Cotton Mill Colic 120
Crossbone Skully 70
Davidson-Wilder Blues 288
Depression Blues 45
Dickman Song, The 208
Don't Kill My Baby and My Son 334
Don't Take Away My PWA 191
Down and Out 50
Down in Old Henderson 270
Down On Roberts' Farm 34
Down the Street We Hold Our Demonstration 295
Drill Ye Barriers Drill 104
Dust Bowl Refugee 224
Dust Can't Kill Me 220
East Ohio Miners' Strike 152
Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch 148
Farmer Is the Man, The 32
Fifteen Miles from Birmingham 48
Fisher Strike, The 240
Fool There Was, A 361
Goodbye Semaria 312
Goody Goody 255
Got a Union in the Country 302
Dust Storm Disaster 218
Greenback Dollar, The 175
Hallelujah, I'm a Ku Klux 340
Hard Times in Cryderville Jail 72
Hard Times in the Mill 124
Hard Working Miner, The 136
Harry Bridges 327
Hitch-Hike Blues 65
How About You? 946
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 64
I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow 156
I Am a Union Woman 142
I Hate the Capitalist System 164
I Love Coal Miners I Do 146
If You Ain't Got the Do Re Mi
I'm Goin' Down that Road Feeling Bad 215
I'm Looking for that New Deal Now 206
I'm Thinking Tonight of an Old Southern Town 158
Insurance Man Blues 44
It Ain't Gonna Work No More 318
It's Hard Times in These Mines 135
It's Me, O Lord 272
Jesse James and His Boys 112
Jesus Christ Was a Man 336
John Brown's Body 108
Johnnie Woncha Ramble 111
Kentucky Miners' Dreadful Fate 150
Kentucky Miner's Wife's Hungry, Ragged Blues 144
Knots to Knudsen 249
Little David Blues 285
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues (Olen Montgomery) 80
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues (Aunt Molly Jackson) 141
Long, Long Ago 160
Longshoreman's Strike 119
Lord, It's All, Almost Done 76
Ludlow Massacre 332
Lynchburg Town 36
Ma and Pa (A Unionization Plan) 319
Mama Don't 'Low No Bush-Wahs Hangin' Around 338
Man Frank Weems, The 276
Marion Massacre, The 30S
Marion Strike, The 308
Matthew Kimes 116
Midnight Special 78
Mill Mother's Lament, The 184
Mister Congressman 360
Mister Farmer 274
Murder of Harry Simms, The 170
My Children Are Seven In Number 292
Mysteries of a Hobo's Life 96
NRA Blues 192
New Stranger Blues 58
Nineteen-Twenty Eight - Nineteen Thirty Four 190
No Dough Blues 52
No Job Blues 47
No More Mournin' 262
No More Shall I Work in the Factory 126
O, The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga 311
Oh, Mister Sloan 243
Old Chain Gang, The 68
Old Chisholm Trail, The 102
On the Picket Line 250
One Dime Blues 54
Our Children They Were Sickly 309
Pie in the Sky 88
Pity The Shape I'm In 357
Planter and the Sharecropper, The 265
Powder Mill Jail Blues 284
Pretty Boy Floyd 114
Raggedy Raggedy Are We 265
Red Cross Store 354
Roane County 298
Rock-A-Bye-Baby 258
Roll On Buddy 138
Roll the Union On 268
Ruben 82
Scabs in the Factory 328
Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat 38
Shirt Factory Blues 300
Silicosis Is Killin' Me 134
Sit Down 244
Sixty Six Bighway Blues 62
Skinnamalinkadoolium 106
So Long, It's Been Good To Know You 226
Song of the Evicted Tenant 273
Song of the West Virginia Miners 283
Soup Song, The 294
Starvation Blues 59
Story of Sara Ogan, The 154
Striking Miners, The 179
Take This Hammer 84
Talkin' Dust Bowl 228
Ten Little Farmer Men 264
That Old Feeling 167
There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land 260
There Was a Rich Man and He Lived in Detroitium 254
There's Something About a Worker 252
These Old Cumberland Mountain Farms 29
They Tell Us To Wait 152
Things About Comin' My Way 86
Toiling on Life's Pilgrim Pathway 186
Tom Joad 236
Tom Mooney Is Free 356
Tramp, The 90
Unemployment Stomp 46
Union Fights the Battle of Freedom 314
Union Maid 324
Union Train 291
Up In Old Loray 183
Vigilante Man 234
WPA Blues 202
Waitin' On Roosevelt 210
Wanderin' 65
Wartime Blues 352
We Ain't Down Yet 278
We Pity Our Bosses Five 317
We Shall Not Be Moved 348
Weave Room Blues 130
Weaver's Life 132
Welcome the Traveler Home 172
Welfare Blues 198
We'll Be Wearing Union Buttons 315
We're the Guys 246
When the Maid Comes To Town 118
When You're Down and Out 232
Which Side Are You On? 176
Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? 352
Win It 151
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues 128
Working for the PWA 197
Working on the Project 200
Worried Man Blues 330
Write Me Out My Union Card 297
You Guys Got To Organize 322
You Kick and Stomp and Beat Me 83
You Low Life Son of a Bitch 342
You Okies and Arkies 225
You're Bound To Get Lousy in the Lousy Old Jail 74
You're On Your Last Go 'Round 204

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I found a first edition of this book for sale online for $650 (and didn't buy it). I paid $20 for my second edition, and I couldn't pass up a paperback I found later for $8.99. Maybe they'll pay for my grandchildren's education....

This page (click) has some interesting information on the book:

Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and John and Alan Lomax, made a huge impact on folk music in America, one which is still felt today. It is likely that their joint efforts with each other and many others fostered that sense of community which is still present in modern folk music circles. Seeger, Guthrie, and Alan Lomax collaborated on a number of projects, including a book of protest songs that Alan had been collecting. His father, John, had considered them "too protesty" for his own publications. In 1940, Alan passed the songs on to Seeger and Guthrie who compiled them and wrote introductions and copy for the book, "Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People." Unfortunately, the songs were considered so radical that they were unable to find a publisher. The book eventually was published in 1967.

The book was reissued by the University of Nebraska Press on November 1, 1999. As far as I can tell, it is no longer in print - but copies are available for consideraby less than $650.