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Thread #49580   Message #2818991
Posted By: GUEST,Chris Locke
22-Jan-10 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: The Bosses' Songbook
Subject: RE: The Bosses' Songbook
I found a pdf copy that can be printed from the internet. An SDS archive has been microfilmed by the University of Wisconsin library. The link is www.sds-1960s.org/documents.htm. Scroll down toward the bottom of the list and you will find The Bosses' Songbook Part 1 Part 2 (7 MB PDF files) "Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent." This Trotskyite-tinged parody of "The People's Songbook" is a collection of modern political songs of satire. Collected and edited by Dave Van Ronk and Richard Ellington, 1959. These songs were written and passed along by people of every conceivable political and apolitical tendency, and sometimes they don't even express the serious views of the writers themselves. Often they poke fun at the ruling classes, be they capitalist or Soviet.