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Joe Offer	14 Jun 25 - 02:32 PM
GUEST,Peter Laban	14 Jun 25 - 02:51 PM
Jack Campin	15 Jun 25 - 04:50 AM

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Subject: Indexing: Big Red Song Book (UK)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Jun 25 - 02:32 PM

This thread is reserved for discussion about The Big Red Song Book (UK), by Dave Harker and Mal Collins

https://www.amazon.com/Song-Book-Dave-Harker-Collins/dp/0904383385

I swore I had a copy of this book, but I couldn't find it when I started this thread. Now I've found it (it was a lot smaller than I remembered), but the index is not set up for easy OCR, so you'll have to put up with the titles in ALLCAPS.

Big Red Songbook, compiled by Mal Collins, Dave Harker, and Geoff White (London: Pluto Press, 1977 & 1981) [are there later editions with more songs?]

AS SOON AS THIS PUB CLOSES
   Alex Glasgow 50/106
THE BALLAD OF ACCOUNTING
   Ewan MacColl 18/80
THE BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN
   Matt McGinn 22/115
BANDIERA ROSSA
   Anon. 13/77
BATTLE HYMN OF THE NEW SOCIALIST PARTY
   Leon Rosselson 44/101
THE BLACKLEG MINER
   Anon. 52/109
BREAD AND ROSES
   James Oppenheim/Caroline Kohslat 38/97
BROWNED OFF
   Ewan MacColl 24/84
CASEY JONES
   Joe Hill 71/126
CHEMICAL WORKERS
   Ron Angel 43/100
CLOSE THE COAL-HOUSE DOOR
   Alex Glasgow 32/94
THE DURHAM STRIKE
   Tommy Armstrong 70/123
THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE
   Ewan MacColl 42/99
THE FOUR LOOM WEAVER
   Anon. 64/118
GO DOWN YOU MURDERERS
   Ewan MacColl 40/98
HALLELUJAH I’M A BUM
   Harry McClintock 55/111
I’M GONNA BE AN ENGINEER
   Peggy Seeger 46/102
THE INTERNATIONAL
   Eugene Pottier/Pierre Degeyter 10/74
JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY
   Anon. 48/104
McALPINE’S FUSILIERS
   Dominic Behan 49/107
THE MAN THAT WATERS THE WORKERS’ BEER
   Paddy Ryan 58/113
MOTOR TRADE WORKERS
   Don Perrygrove 28/92
MRS MCGRATH
   Anon 59/82
OAKEY STRIKE EVICTIONS
   Tommy Armstrong 62/114
THE OLD MAN’S SONG
   Ian Campbell 30/81
PALACES OF GOLD
   Leon Rosselson 27/88
THE PEAT-BOG SOLDIERS
   Anon 56/112
THE PEELERS AND THE GOAT
   Anon. 53/110
THE POUND-A-WEEK RISE
   Ed Pickford 66/91
THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE
   Joe Hill 54/108
THE RED FLAG
   Jim Connell 12/76
THE SOCIALIST A.B.C.
   Alex Glasgow 19/120
SOLIDARITY FOREVER
   Ralph Chaplin 72/127
STANDING AT THE DOOR
   Alex Glasgow 36/96
STRANGE FRUIT
   Lewis Allan 20/90
THREE NIGHTS AND A SUNDAY DOUBLE-TIME
   Matt McGinn 61/124
TURNING THE CLOCK BACK
   Alex Glasgow 31/116
UNDERGROUND ARISTOCRATS
   Pat Cooksey 68/122
UNION MAID
   Woody Guthrie 60/86
VIGILANTE MAN
   Woody Guthrie 34/95
VIVA LA QUINCE BRIGADA
   Anon. 14/78
WILLIAM BROWN
   Arthur Hagg 26/85
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
   Leon Rosselson 16/79

The first number refers to the lyrics page, the second to the melody.

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Subject: RE: Indexing: Big Red Song Book (UK)
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 14 Jun 25 - 02:51 PM

Spin off from the 'socialist song' thread? I posted a link there anyway.

I have the little book here, had it since the early 70s. It's a nice collection.

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Subject: RE: Indexing: Big Red Song Book (UK)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Jun 25 - 04:50 AM

I was never very impressed with that one (too SWP-oriented). I may still have one of the other books of the era that came from anarchist or feminist positions. I don't think I ever owned the Big Red one though I sold it when I was working in a radical bookshop.

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