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Thread #5905   Message #37298
Posted By: Brack&
07-Sep-98 - 08:54 AM
Thread Name: Songs about Molly Maguires
Subject: RE: Molly Maguires: Songs about?
I have an album called The Molly Maguires by a band called The Irish Balladeers. All the songs are those sung by the Irish in the coal mining area of Pennsylvania. It was on Avoca Records, released in 1968. I don't know if you can still get it.

Titles

Sons Of Molly
When The Breakers Go Back On Full Time
The Black Leg Miner
Cushy McCoy
Tommy Duffy
Dad's Dinner Pail
The Knox Mine Disaster
Pat Dolan or the Song Of The Molly Maguires
Up Went O'Reilly
The Shoo-Fly
The Tax Man And The Miner
A Celebrated Working Man
The Irish Emigrant Miner
Pat Mulligan's Wake

The song about the Mollys in Ireland and their anti-landlordism fight is supposedly based on the murder of a Justice of the Peace in County Cavan c1845.