Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:08 PM

Anybody have issues of the People's Songs Bulletin or newsletter?

I have three songbooks published from the songs published by People's Songs:

• The People's Song Book (click) (Copyright 1948, People's Artists, New York)
  
  
• Lift Every Voice: The Second People's Song Book (click) (copyright 1953 by People's Artists, Inc, assigned to Sing Out Inc.)
  
  
• Reprints From The People's Songs Bulletin 1946-1949 (click), published in 1961 by Oak Publications.

I don't think there were other songbooks. I don't think these three books encompass all the songs published in the quarterly Bulletin from 1946 through 1949. In the Reprints book, Irwin Silber says there were 319 songs printed in the Bulletin over its history.

Sing Out! (click) is in the process of digitizing the entire three-year run of The People's Songs Bulletin, but the project isn't complete. I'd like to use this thread to index all the issues of the Bulletin that we can find.

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Note: this is an edited PermaThread, intended to index all the songs in the People's Songs Bulletin which was published in New York 1946-1949. Feel free to post to this thread, but be aware that your post may be edited or deleted.
-Joe Offer, Mudcat Archivist-

Subject: Index: People's Song Book (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:11 PM

Thread #103890   Message #2123305
Posted By: cetmst
10-Aug-07 - 05:42 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: Index: People's Song Book (Oak)

The People's Song Book
Boni and Gaer, 1948
Editor-in-chief: Waldemar Hille
Consultant Editor: Herbert Haufrecht
Associate Editors: Alan Lomax, Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber.
I do not have the Oak reissue and my copy is missing pages 17-32 and 97-112. The index is intact and I have asterisked the songs missing from my issue.

A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Any More *
Abe Lincoln
Acres of Clams
Ah, Poor Bird *
A-Roving
Ballad of Harry Bridges
Beans, Bacon and Gravy *
Beloved Comrade
Black, Brown and White Blues *
Blue Tail Fly *
Careless Love *
Chee Lail
Cindy *
Come, Fellow Workers
Dinkie Die
Dodger Song *
Domovina
East Virginia
Everything Is Higher *
Farmer Is the Man, The *
Farmer-Labor Train, The
Freiheit
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
Go Down Moses
Goin' Down the Road
Hallelujah, I'm A-Travelin' *
Hard Travelin'
Haul Away, Joe *
He's a Fool
Hey Ho, Nobody Home *
Hey, Zhankoye
Hold the Fort
Holly and the Ivy, The *
Horse With a Union Label, The
I Don't Want Your Millions Mister
I'm A-Looking for a Home *
I'm On My Way
Investigator's Song *
It's My Union
Jefferson and Liberty *
Jim Crow
Joe Hill
John Brown's Body
John Henry
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho *
Kevin Barry
La Marseillaise
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Listen Mr. Bilbo *
Los Quatro Generales
Meadowland
Midnight Special *
Mister Congressman
Newspapermen *
Oh Freedom *
Oh Joy Upon the Earth
Oh Mary Don't You Weep *
On Top of Old Smoky
Paddy Works on the Railway *
Peat Bog Soldiers
Picket Line Priscilla
Pity the Downtrodden Landlord
Ploughboy, The
Poor Mister Morgan *
Put It On the Ground *
Reuben James
Rich Man and the Poor Man, The
Roll the Union On
'Round and 'Round the Picket Line
Scabs Crawl In, The
Schwab, Schwab
Slavery's Chain
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You *
Solidarity
Song of the French Partisan
Song of the Pennies
Soup Song
Star Spangled Banner
Strange Fruit
Take This Hammer *
Talking Atomic Blues
Talking Union
Tarrier's Song
There Are Three Brothers
Union Maid
Union Man, The
Union Train, The
Union Way, The
United Front
United Nations
Viva la Quince Brigada
Walk in Peace *
Wanderin'
We Got to All Get Together
We Shall Not Be Moved
Which Side Are You On?
Whole Wide World Around, The
Worried Man Blues
You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union
Zum, Gali, Gali

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Oak Publications reprint, 1961

Subject: Index: Lift Every Voice (Oak)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:17 PM

Thread #103890   Message #2123329
Posted By: cetmst
10-Aug-07 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: Index: Lift Every Voice (Oak)

Lift Every Voice: The Second People's Song Book
copyright 1953 by People's Artists, Inc, assigned to Sing Out Inc., 1957, mine is the fourth printing, 1959, before the Oak Publications issue.
Editor in Chief: Irwin Silber
Asociate Editors: Leon Bibb, Donald Lanclos, Al Moss, Earl Robinson, Betty Sanders, Pete Seeger, Jerry Silverman
Forward: Paul Robeson

A Man's a Man For A' That
Another Man Done Gone
Ariren
Ballad of the Boll WeevilBanks of Marble
Basta Ya!
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Bread and Roses
Candy
Carmagnole
Casey Jones
Commonwealth of Toil
Cuckoo
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Don Simon de mi Vida
En Canadien Errant
Everybody Loves Saturday Night
Every Night When the Sun Goes In
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Grand and Glorious Feeling
Great Gettin' Up Morning
Hammer Song
Hold the Fort
Hush Little Baby
I Ride an Old Paint
In Contempt
Jennie Jenkins
Joe Hill
John Brown's Body
Johnny I Hardly Knew You
La Borenquina
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lighthouse
Man Who Waters the Workers' Beer
Michael
Miner's Lifeguard
Minstrel Boy
My Loved One
No Irish Need Apply
No More Auction Block
Now, Right Now
Out of Your Pocket
Partigiani In Montagna
Passing Through
Put My Name Down
Raise a Ruckus Tonight
Riding the Dragon
Riflemen of Bennington
Road to Eilat
Roll It Along!
Salute to Life
Shalom Chaverim
Shenandoah
Shnel Loifn Di Reder
Sing Along
Sit Down
Solidarity Forever
Song for Peace
Spring Song
Star Spangled Banner
Strangest Dream
Study War No More
Suliram
Sur les Routes d'Ete
Tenting Tonight
Times Are Getting Hard
Told My Captain
Venga Jaleo
Wade in the Water
Wasn't That a Time
Weraring of the Green
Which Side Are You On?
Whirlwinds of Danger
World Youth Song
Zog Nit Keynmol

Subject: Index: Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:19 PM

Thread #103890   Message #2123997
Posted By: Joe Offer
11-Aug-07 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: Index: Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin

Reprints from the People's Song Bulletin, 1946-1949
An Oak Publication, 1961   price: $1.95
Foreword (Pete Seeger)
Introduction (Irwin Silber)
Front Page - Vol. 1, No. 1

Don't You Push Me
All The Pretty Little Horses
Sh, Ta - Ha - Dah - Day
Bling! Blang!
Jig Along Home
Eddystone Light
Tom Dooley
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Runnin', Runnin'
Cold Water
Rye Whiskey
The Farmer's Curst Wife
Toom Balalaika
Mule Skinner's Holler
The State of Arkansas
Ain't It A Shame
Jinny Jenkins
To Anacreon in Heaven
Little Willie
Greensleeves
Quantrell Side
Original Talking Blues
It Was Poor Little Jesus
Doria Nobis
Shorty George
Barney Graham
Eating Goober Peas
Times Gettin' Hard
Lee Hays
Stir the Pudding
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Cherry Tree Carol
The Poor Man's Family
Catskill Festival
The Fireship
Boston Tea Tax Song
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
The Buffalo Skinners
Fair and Free Elections
New York City
Santa Claus Blues
Changes
Roll On, Columbia
The Praties
The Preacher and the Slave
Joe Hill (Article)
Problema Social
Birth of La Conga
Lamento Borincano
Go Tell
Singing People
Two Early Labor Songs:
The Shoemaker's Song
Eight Hours
UAW-CIO
Capitalistic Boss
Wasn't That A Time
The Four Maries
Swingin' On A Scab
Peace On Earth
The Same Merry-Go-Round
The Ballad for Un-American Blues
The Death of Harry Simms
Out of Your Pocket
Raggedy
Go Where I Send Thee
Jesus Christ
The Dodger Song
I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow
I'm A-Looking for a Home
Mad As I Can Be
The Rankin Tree
The Scabs Crawl In
United Nations Make a Chain

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, Feb 1945
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:30 PM

Volume 1, No. 1, February 1945 (sic)

1. Solidarity Forever, Words by Ralph Chaplin, Tune: John Brown's Body
2. The Rankin Tree, Words and music by Lee Hays and Walter Loewenfels
3. Roll the Union On (from Commonwealth College, Arkansas)
4. We Pity Our Bosses Five, Tune: The Farmer in the Dell
5. Viva La Quince Brigada (Spanish Civil War, 15th International Brigade)
6. Casey Jones
7. I'm A-Looking for a Home ('Boll Weevil' parody by The Priority Ramblers of Washington, DC)

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, March 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 07:47 PM

Volume 1, No. 2, March 1946

8. Fifty Cent Butter and Fifty Cent Meat, Words by Almanacs-Young, tune traditional
9. The Scabs Crawl In, Words anonymous, Tune: The Worms Crawl In
10. Homeless Blues, Words and Music by Paul Kent
11. Listen, Mister Bilbo, Words by Bob and Adrienne Claiborne, Tune traditional
12. D.D.T., Words by Lee Hays and Walter Loewenfels, tune besed upon American Folk Melody
13. Keep That Line A-Moving, Words by Charlotte Anthony and Janice Trembke, Tune: The Gospel Train (Get On Board, Little Children)
14. We'll Picket Once, Words by Larry Stewart (parody of 'It's Been a Long, Long Time')
15. I've Got a Date on a Picketline, Words by Paul Secon (parody of "Dance With a Dolly")
16. Join the Picket Line Today, Words by Anthony-Trembke, Tune: Alexander's Ragtime Band)
17. Who Are You With, Your Honor?, Words by Shaemas O'Sheel, Tune: Where Do We Go From Here?
18. Poor Old C.E. Wilson, Words by Dick Levins, Tune: American Folk Melody
19. I Went Down to the Steel Mill, Words by Tom Glazer, Tune: St. James Infirmary
20. I'm the Guy, Words and music by Eleanor Young
21. Money in the Pocket, Words by Bob Russell, music by Carl Sigman

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, April 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 08:47 PM

Volume 1, No. 3, April 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

22. The Ballad of F.D.R., Words and Music by Tom Glazer
23. May Day Song, Words by Philip Cornwall, Music by Earl Robinson
24. It's a Small World, After All, Lyrics by Bob Russell, Music by Charles Hathaway, composed for an OWI radio show in 1943
25. A Bear Story, a children's song by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles
26. You Gotta Go Down (Union version of an old hymn) organized in 1946 by Woody Guthrie
27. A Union Square Dance
28. A Dollar Ain't a Dollar, Words by Tom Glazer, tune adapted
29. I Walk the Road Again (from the singing of George Edwards of Catskill Mts., NY)
30. Zum Gali Gali (Modern Palestinian Song)
31. I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow, Words by Sarah Ogan, tune traditional

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, April-May 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:08 PM

Volume 1, Supplement to No. 3, April-May 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

32. OPA Shout, by Hy Zaret (author of One Meat Ball)
33. My Old Kentucky Home, Words by Asbel, parody of "My Old Kentucky Home"
34. Roll Back the Prices, Words by Tom Glazer
35. Inflation Talking Blues, by Tom Glazer
36. Mad As I Can Be, Words and music by Baldwin Hawes
37. A Dollar Ain't a Dollar!, Words by Tom Glazer, tune adapted
38. Eighty Cent Butter!, Words by the Almanac Singers (parody on 'Leven Cent Cotton and 40 Cent Meat, by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer, 1929
39. Gotta Save the OPA (to the tune of "Roll the Union On")
40. I'm A-Gonna Starve (to the same tune as 80-Cent Butter)

Note: OPA - Office of Price Administration, U.S. agency which managed price controls during World War II

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, May 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:27 PM

Volume 1, No. 4, May 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

41. (Dear Mr. Congressman) We've Got Our Eyes on You, by Bernie Asbel
42. Get On Board, Words and music by Phil Moore
43. United Nations Make a Claim (based on a traditional Negro spiritual)
44. Registration Song, Words by Paul Secon, Tune: Skip to My Lou

Election Songs

45. Registration Song, Words and music by George Levine
46. Mister Congressman, Words by Agnes Cunningham, Tune: Little Brown Jug
47. Registration Jingle, Words by Paul Secon, Tune: Campbells Are Comin'
48. Jefferson and Liberty
49. (Popular Parodies) Get Out and Vote!, words by Larry Stewart, a radio jingle based on an aria from Carmen
50. And Another Radio Jingle (When Election Day Comes Round Again), Words by Oscar Katsiff and Sid Berger, Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
51. You've Got to Register (tune: You Gotta Go Down, No 46 in April edition)
52. Don't Try Your Tricks, Words and Music by Vern Partlow

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, June 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:38 PM

Volume 1, No. 5, June 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

53. Pineville, Words and Music by Lee Hays
54. Union Gang, Words and music by Bernie Asbel

55-57: Rounds About the Very Rich

55. Poor Mister Morgan, Words and music by L.E. Swift
56. Oh Joy Upon This Earth, Words by Fred Rolland, music by Carl Sands
57. There Are Three Brothers Named Dupont, words and music by L.E. Swift
58. Ballad of Columbia Town, by Harold Preece, Celia Kraft, and Waldemar Hille
59. Domovina (Yugoslav Partisan Song)

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, July 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:40 PM

Volume 1, No. 6, July 1946 (Index from Vol. 1, No. 10)

60. Picketing Priscilla
61. Poll Tax Chain
62. When I Was a Little Boy
63. Vote PAC
64. God Made Us All

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, August 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 09:42 PM

Volume 1, No. 7, August 1946 (Index from Vol. 1, No. 10)

65. You Guys Gotta Organize
66. Song of Freedom
67. He Lives in Freeport Town
68. Song of the Pennies
69. Union Maid
70. The Dodger Song

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, September 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:00 PM

Volume 1, No. 8, September 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

71. Mister K.K.K., Words by Norman and Paula Preston, music from the spiritual 'You Can Dig My Grave'
72. Fair and Impartial, Words and music by Arthur Korb
73. Strange Things Happening In This Land, New words by Lou Relin, music traditional
74. What's Your Freedom Worth, Words by Lou Relin, Music by Waldemar B. Hille
75. Hallelujah! I'm A-Travelin', Collected by Harry Raymond, made up by an anonymous southern Negro farmer
76. Don't Raise the Roof, Words and music by Bryant Morey French
77. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (traditional)
78. Put It On The Ground, Words and music by Ray Glazer and Bill Wolff

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, October 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:02 PM

Volume 1, No. 9, October 1946 (Index from Vol. 1, No. 10)

79. Tie a String Around Your Finger
80. A Man's a Man For A' That
81. Bilbo Breakdown
82. Voter Oh Voter
83. Acres of Clams
84. Talking Union
Two Yiddish Tunes:
85. Dee-re Gelt
86. Bulbes

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, November 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:13 PM

Volume 1, No. 10, November 1946 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

87. That's Why, Words by Fred Warren, music by Ray Glaser
88. The Union Way, Words by Ray Glaser, Traditional tune
89. Newspapermen, Words and music by Vern Partlow
90. Los Cuatro Generales, Words from the Spanish Civil War, Tune: Spanish folk
91. The Rat, Words by Harry Berlow, folk tune (Spanish Civil War)
92. John Henry (American Folk)
93. Beans, Bacon, and Gravy (1931 Depression song - American Folk)
94. The Miller Song (American Folk Song)
95. Black, Brown, and White Blues, Words and music by Big Bill (William) Broonzy

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, December 1946
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:50 PM

Volume 1, No. 11, December 1946 (Index from Vol 2, No. 1 & 2)

96. Go Where I Send Thee
97. Jesus Christ
98. The House I Live In
99. Walk in Peace
100. Free and Equal Blues

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 10:56 PM

Excellent work, Joe. Thanks very much.

Jon Bartlett

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Thanks, Jon. I'm glad that Geoff Lawes gave me a reason to post this stuff, and that Bob Nelson gave me a year's worth of this wonderful resource. I hope that Sing Out! is able to post the entire three-year run of the People's Songs Bulletin.
I've marked the issues that I have in my possession. If anybody wants any of those songs, I'll be glad to post them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, January 1947
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 11:08 PM

Volume 1, No. 12, January 1947 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

101. Pity the Downtrodden Landlord, Words by B. Wolf, music by Arnold Clayton
102. The Drinking Gourd (Anti-Slavery Song, Negro Folk)
103. Atomic Energy, Words by Ray Glaser, music by Sir Lancelot (from the People's Song-Bag)
104. Ballad of Talmadge, words collected by Lawrence Gellert, tune by Lawrence Gellert
105. Look Here Georgia, Poetry by Don West, music by Joshoa Brody
106. Talking Atomic Blues, Words by Vern Partlow, music is traditional blues adapted by Earl Robinson
107. Cost of Living Schnitzelbank, New words by Lee Hays and Walter Lowenfels, from a German folk song
108. Beloved Comrade, Words by Lewis Allan, music by Fred Katz (Spanish Civil War)
109. Miner's Lifeguard (from Coal Dust on the Fiddle, by George Korson)
110. Henry Blue, Words and music by Lee Hays

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, Feb/March, 1947
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 11:29 PM

Volume 2, No. 1 & 2, February/March 1947 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)
First Anniversary Issue

111. The Preacher and the Slave, Words by Joe Hill, music from an old gospel hymn
112. The Popular Wobbly, Words and music by T-Bone Slim
113. Raggedy, words by John Handcox (Sharecropper Song, 1936), tune from an old hymn
114. Landlord, Words and music by Gene Raskin
115. Which Side Are You On, Words by Florence Reece, music adapted from an old hymn tune
116. Freiheit, Words by Karl Ernst, music by Peter Daniel (Abraham Lincoln Brigade/Spanish Civil War)
117. Liberal Commentator, Words and music by Harold Rome
118. The Bonnie Laboring Boy (American folk song as sung by George Edwards)
119. Little Phoebe (American folk song collected by Waldemar Hille, as sung by Emma Dusenbery)
120. Hard Traveling, words and music by Woody Guthrie
121. Song of My "Hands" - Words and music by Bernie Asbel
122. The Union Man, Words and music by Lou Kleinman
123. Little Willie (Negro Holler-Prison Song, as sung by "Dock" Reese)
124. Hoosen Johnny (American folk song known in Illinois, 1860)
125. My Old Man, Words and music by Jean Boudin and Paul Kent (as sung by Betty Sanders)
126. Conversation With a Mule, Words and music by Bob Miller
127. We Are The Guys, Words and music by Maurice Sugar

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 13 - 11:53 PM

I have four pages (one folded sheet of paper) from an unidentified issue of People's Songs Bulletin. Here are the songs on the sheet:

146. I Want a Home, Words by Fred Glaser, music by Fred Warren
147. Miner's Kids and Wives, Words by Woody Guthrie
148. Talking Miner, Words by Woody Guthrie
149. The Dying Miner, Words by Woody Guthrie
150. Palestine Must Be Free, Sonny Vale and Morry Goodson

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, Feb/March 1948
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 13 - 12:54 AM

Volume 3, No. 1 & 2, February/March 1948 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)
Second Anniversary Issue

222. Great Day, Words by Highlander Students F.T.A. Term '46, Music: Negro Spiritual
223. Battle Hymn of '48, New words by Bryant M. French, Tune: John Brown's Body
224. The Gol-dern Red, Words and music by Bob Claiborne
225. Tom Dooley (Civil War Song, as sung by Frank Warner)
226. Selling Union, words by Henry Foner, music by Norman Franklin, from Thursdays Till Nine. Set in the R.H. Maybe Department Store, the musical Thursdays depicts the tribulations of a homeless haberdashery salesman who learns the lessons of unionism the hard way.
227. I Water the Workers' Beer, Words by Paddy Ryan of Unity Theatre, Tune traditional
228. The State of Arkansas (folk song as sung by Lee Hays)
229. The Fireship (Sea Shanty)
230. Eating Goober Peas (Civil War Song)
231. The Elephant and the Ass, Words and music by Morry Goodson and Sonny Vale
232. Abraham Lincoln Walks Again, Words and music by Lewis Allan
233. Two Together, Words by Lewis Allan, music by Sid Bass
234. Runnin', Runnin', Negro Song adapted by Hally Wood.
235-236: two Palestinian songs
235. Hach Pa-Tish, English lyrics by Lou Relin, through the courtesy of Ruth Rubin.
236. Kroo-Im-A-Noo, English lyrics by Lou Relin, through the courtesy of Ruth Rubin.
237. Eight Hours, Words by I.G. Blanchard, Music by Rev. Jesse H. Jones, 1868
238. The Unfriendly 19 (parody by Earl Robinson)
239. The Four Freedoms, Words by Mina Lynn
240. Slavery's Chain (as sung by Laura Duncan)

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, July/August 1948
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 13 - 01:15 AM

Volume 3, No. 6 & 7, July/August 1948 (from my library, thanks to Bob Nelson)

265. A page of breakdowns

Black Eyed Susie
Cindy
Goodbye Liza Jane
Sally Ann
Sourwood Mountain
Old Joe Clark
Fly Around My Blue Eyed Gal
Ida Red
Roll On the Ground

266. Capitalistic Boss, Words by Mike Stratton, music by Saul Aarons
267. The Collier's Rant (English Miner's Song)
268. Ma Bonny Lad (English Miner's Song)
269. The Poor Man's Family (Irish-American strike ballad, copyright 1948 by Camp Woodland)
270. The Four Maries (Scottish, 16th Century, Words as sung by Betty Sanders of New York City)
271. All the Pretty Little Horses
272. Use Your Ballot, Words by Louise Jeffers
273. Roll On, Columbia, Words and music by Woody Guthrie
274. Big Rock Candy Mountain, hobo song
275. I've Got a Ballot, Words by E.Y. Harburg and Alan Lomax, tune: I've Got Sixpence
276. Elanoy (Illinois Folk Song)

Subject: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-Aug 1948
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 13 - 01:38 AM

Volume 3, No. 6 & 7, July/August 1948 has a comprehensive index covering the Bulletin from its inception in 1946 until August, 1948. I didn't find anything to cover the last months of the magazine, which last published in February, 1949.


Folk
Acres of Clams (I, 9)
Ain't It a Shame (II, 6 and 7)
All The Pretty Little Horses (III, 6 and 7)
Big Rock Candy Mountain, The (III, 6 and 7)
Bonnie Laboring Boy, The (II, 1 and 2)
Breakdowns and Squares (III, 6 and 7)
Buffalo Skinners, The (III, 5)
Caller Herrin' (II, 6 and 7)
Cold Water (II, 6 and 7)
Come All Ye Faithful (II, 11)
Deck the Halls (II, 11)
Didn't My Lord Deliver, Daniel (III, 4)
Dodger Song, The (I, 7)
Drinking Gourd, The (I, 12)
Eating Goober Peas (III, 1 and 2)
Elanoy (III, 6 and 7)
Farmer is the Man, The (II, 6 and 7)
Farmer's Curst Wife, The (II, 4)
Fireship, The (III, 1 and 2)
First Noel, The (II, 11)
Four Maries, The (III, 6 and 7)
Frozen Logger, The ( Ill, 5 )
Go Tell Aunt Nancy (II, 11)
Go Tell It To the Mountains (II, 11)
Go Where I Send Thee (I, 11)
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (II, 11)
Great Day! (III, 1 and 2)
Green Sleeves (III, 4)
Hoosen Johnny (II, 1 and 2)
I am a Girl of Constant Sorrow (I, 3)
I Walk the Road Again (I, 3)
I'm a-Rollin' (II, 10)
In The Town (II, 11)
Irene (II, 6 and 7)
It Takes a Worried Man (II, 3)
Jenny Jenkins (II, 6 and 7)
Jingle Bells (II, 11 )
John Hardy (III, 4)
John Henry (I, 10)
Joy To the World (II, 11)
Kevin Barry (II, 5)
Leave Her, Johnny (II, 5)
Little Phoebe (II, 1 and 2)
Little Town of Bethlehem (II, 11)
Little Willie (II, 1 and 2)
Midnight Special, The (II, 8)
Miller Song, The (I, 10)
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose (II, 10)
No Irish Need Apply (III, 4)
Oh, Freedom (II, 8)
Original Talking Blues (III, 4)
Poor Man's Family, The (III, 6 and 7)
Praties They Grow Small, The (III, 6 and 7)
Quantrell Side, The (III, 3)
Runnin', Runnin' (III, 1 and 2)
Rye Whiskey (II, 6 and 7)
Silent Night (II, 11)
Shh, Ta-Ra-Day-Day (II, 5)
Shorty George (III, 3)
Scots Wha' Ha'e (III, 4)
Slavery's Chain (III, 1 and 2)
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (II, 5)
State Of Arkansas (III, 1 and 2)
Stir the Puddin' (II, 3)
Tom Dooley (III, 1 and 2)
Three Kings, The (II, 11)
Twelve Days Of Christmas (II, 11)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (II, 11)

Union
Casey Jones (I, 1)
Eight Hours (III, 1)
Eight Hour Day (II, 3)
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan (II, 4)
Great Day! (II, 1 and 2)
Horse With a Union Label (II, 4)
Hold The Fort (II, 3)
I Went Down To The Steel Mill (I, 2)
I'm The Guy (I, 2)
I've Got a Date on a Picket Line (I, 2)
Joe Hill (II, 8)
Keep That Line A-Moving (I, 2)
May Day Song (I, 3)
Miner's Lifeguard (I, 12)
My Union Man (II, 10)
Newspapermen (I, 10)
Picketline Priscilla (I, 6)
Poor Old C.E. Wilson (I, 2)
Roll The Union On (I, 1)
Roll Out The Union (II, 3)
Scabs Crawl In,The (I, 2)
Selling Union (III, 1 and 2)
Solidarity Forever (I, 1)
Talking Union (I, 9)
Taft-Hartley Blues (II, 9)
"T" Stands For Tobacco (II, 6 and 7)
Teacher's Blues (II, 3)
U.A.W.-C.I.O. (II, 8)
Union Man, The (II, 1 and 2)
Union Maid (I, 7)
Union Gang (I, 5)
Union Square Dance (I, 3)
Union Way, The (I, 10)
Unity Rhumba (II, 6 and 7)
We Are Building a Strong Union (III, 3)
We Are The Guys (II, 1 and 2)
We'll Picket Once And Picket Twice (I, 2)
We Pity Our Bosses Five (I, 1)
We Shall Not Be Moved (II, 3)
Which Side Are You On? (II, 1 and 2)-
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (I, 8)
Whole Wide World Around, The (II, 6 and 7)
You Gotta Go Down (I, 3)
You Guys Gotta Organize (I, 7)

Children
All Work Together ( II, 3 )
All the Pretty Little Horses (III, 6 and 7 )
Bear Story, A ( I, 3 )
Bling! Blang! (II, 8 )
Brown Skinned Cow (II, 11 )
Children, Go Where I Send Thee (I, 11 )
Don't You Push Me (II, 6 and 7 )'
Everything Is Higher ( II, 6 and 7 )
Go Tell Aunt Nancy (II, 11 )
Riding the Dragon (II, 5 )
Shh Ta-Ra-Dah-Day (II, 5 )
When I was a Little Boy (I, 6)

Historical-Topical
(See also RECENT CAMPAIGN)
All Work Together (II, 3)
Atomic Energy (I, 12)
Ballad For Un-American Blues, The (III, 4)
Ballad of Columbia Town (I, 5)
Ballad of FDR (I, 3)
Ballad of Talmadge (I, 12)
Beans, Bacon and Gravy (I, 10)
Bear Story, A (I, 3)
Beloved Comrade (I, 12)
Bilbo Breakdown (I, 9)
Black, Brown and White Blues (I, 10)
Bling! Blang! (II, 8)
Boston Tea-tax Song (III, 5)
Brotherhood Hymn (II, 11)
Brown Skinned Cow (II, 11)
Capitalistic Boss (III, 6 and 7)
Carry On, Brother (II, 3)
Colliers' Rant, The (III, 6 and 7)
Commonwealth of Toil (III, 5)
Conversation With a Mule (II, 1 and 2)
Cost of Living Schnitzelbank (I, 12)
Death of Harry Simms, The (II, 6 and 7)
Do, Re, Mi, The (II, 9)
Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore, A (I, 3)
Don't Let 'Em Raise the Roof (I, 8)
Don't You Push Me (II, 6 and 7)
Dying Miner, The (II, 4)
Eighty Cent Butter (I, 3 supplement)
Elephant and the Ass, The (III, 1 and 2)
Everything is Higher (II, 6 and 7)
Fair and Impartial (I, 8)
Fifty Cent Butter and Fifty Cent Meat (I, 2)
Four Freedoms (III, 1 and 2)
Free and Equal Blues (I, 11)
Gee, But Want to Go Home (II, 3)
Get On Board (I, 4)
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan (II, 4)
Go Tell Aunt Nancy (II, 11)
God Made Us All (I, 6)
Gol-dern Red, The (II, 1 and 2)
Gotta Save the OPA (I, 3 sup)
Great Day I (II, 1 and 2)
Hallelujah, I'm A-Travelin' (I, 8)
Hard Travelin' (II, 1 and 2)
He Lives in Freeport Town (I, 7)
Henry Blue (I, 12)
High Price Blues (II, 10)
Homeless Blues (I, 2)
Horse With a Union Label, The (II, 4)
House I Live In, The (I, 11)
I Want a Home (II, 4)
I Waters the Workers' Beer (II, 1 and 2)
I'm A-Looking For a Home (I, 1)
I'm Gonna Starve (I, 3 Sup)
Inflation Talking Blues (I, 3 Sup)
Investigator's Song, The (II, 5)
Is There a Red Under Your Bed (II, 10)
It's a Small World After All (I, 3)
Jefferson and Liberty (I, 4)
Jesus Christ (I, 11)
Jim Crow (II, 10)
Johnny (II, 4)
Joy Upon This Earth (I, 5)
Landlord (II, 1 and 2)
Liberal Commentator (II, 1 and 2)
Listen, Mister Bilbo (II, 1 and 2)
Listen, Mister Bilbo (I, 2)
Look Here, Georgia (I, 12)
Mad As I Can Be (I, 3 sup)
Man's a Man For A' That (I, 9)
Miner's Kids and Wives (II, 4)
Miner's Lifeguard (I, 12)
Mister K. K. K. (I, 8)
Money In the Pocket (I, 2)
My Old Man (II, 1 and 2)
Newspapermen (I, 10)
OPA Shout (I, 3 sup)
Out of Your Pocket (II, 9)
Palestine Must Be Free (II, 4)
Passing Through (II, 3)
Pineville (I, 5)
Pity the Downtrodden Landlord (I, 12)
Poll Tax Chain (I, 6)
Poor Mister Morgan (I, 5)
Popular Wobbly, The (II, 1 and 2)
Preacher and the Slave, The (II, 1 and 2)
Purest Kind of a Guy, The (II, 6 and 7)
Put It On the Ground (I, 8)
Put My Name Down (II, 6 and 7)
Raggedy (II, 1 and 2)
Rankin Tree (I, 1)
Rat, The (Named Franco) (I, 10)
Red Boogie (II, 3)
Roll Back the Prices (I, 3 sup)
Roll On, Columbia (III, 6 and 7)
Rolling to a New World (III, 3)
Same Merry-Go-Round, The (II, 3)
Seed For Tomorrow (II, 11)
Sing Along (III, 3)
Sing Tangent, Co-Tangent (III, 5)
Song of Freedom (I, 7)
Song Of My Hands (II, 1 and 2)
Song Of the Pennies (I, 7)
Spring Song (III, 3)
Stand Out, Ye Miners (III, 6 and 7)
Strange Things Happening in this Land (I, 8)
Talking Atomic Blues (I, 12)
Talking Dust Bowl Blues (II, 3)
Talking Miner (II, 4)
"T" Stands For Tobacco (II, 6 and 7)
Teachers' Blues (II, 3)
Tell Me, Brother, Confidentially (II, 9)
That's Why (I, 10)
They Want To Raise My Rent (I, 3 sup)
Three Brothers, Named DuPont (I, 5)
Train Of Progress (II, 10)
Two Together (III, 1 and 2 )
Unfriendly Nineteen, The (III, 1 and 2)
United Nations Make a Chain (I, 4)
United Nations Make a Chain (II, 3)
Vote PAC (I, 6)
Walk Along Together (II,·6 and 7)
Walk In Peace (I, 11)
What's Your Freedom Worth (I, 8)
When I was a Little Boy (I, 6)
Which Side Are You On? (II, 1 and 2)
Who Are You With, Your Honor? (I, 2)
Whole Wide World Around, The (II, 6 and 7)
Ma Bonny Lad (III, 6 and 7)

Christmas
Children, Go Where I Send Thee (I, 11)
Dona Nobis (Give us peace) (II, 11)
Deck the Halls (II, 11)
First Nowell, The (II, 11)
Go Tell It To the Mountains (II, 11)
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (II, 11)
In the Town (II, 11)
Jesus Christ Was a Man (I, 11)
Jingle Bells (II, 11)
Joy To the World (II, 11)
Kings of Orient, The (II, 11)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (II, 11)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (II, 11)
Silent Night (II, 11)
Twelve Days of Christmas (II, 11)
Walk In Peace (I, 11)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (II, 11)

Foreign
CHINESE:
Riding the Dragon (II, 5)

CZECHOSLOVAK:
Prague Festival March (II, 9)
Tancuj, Tancuj (II, 9)

ENGLISH ( Recent British)
I Water's the Workers' Beer (III, 1 and 2 )
Pity the Downtrodden Landlord (I, 12)

FRENCH:
Au Pres De Ma Blonde (II, 9)
French Partisan Song (II, 5)

GERMAN:
Freiheit (Spanish Civil War) (II, 1 and 2)

GREEK: (Resistance songs)
Embross Elas (II, 3)
Laokratia (II, 3 )

IRISH:
Kevin Barry (II, 5)

ITALIAN: (Guerilla)
Scarpe Rotte (Rotten Shoes) (II, 5)

JEWISH SONGS
PALESTINIAN (Hebrew and English)
Hach-pa-tish (III, 1 and 2)
Haganah Brigade Song (III, 5)
Kroo-im-a-noo (III, I and 2)
Palestine Must Be Free (II, 4)
Zum Gali, Gali (I, 3 )

YIDDISH:
Bulbes (I, 9)
Deere Gelt (I, 9)
Toom Balalaika (II, 3)
Zhankoye (II, 6 and 7)
Zog Nit Keinmol (II, 5)

SCOTTISH:
Caller Herrin' (II, 6 and 7 )
Scots With Wallace Bled (III, 4)

SPANISH (Civil War):
Freiheit (II, 1 and 2)
Los Cuatro Generales (I, 10)
Rat, The (Named Franco) (I, 10 )
Si Me Quieres Escribir (II, 8)
Vengo Jaleo (II, 10)
Viva La Quince Brigada (I, 1)

YUGOSLAV:
Domovina (I, 5 )
Song of the Yugoslav Youth Railway (II, 9 )

Recent Campaign
Abraham Lincoln Lives Again (III, 1 and 2 )
All Together (Songs for Wallace)
Ballot In the Box (III, 5 )
Battle Hymn of '48 (III, 1 and 2)
D.D.T. (I, 2)
Don't Try Your Tricks (I, 4)
Friendly Henry Wallace (S's for W.)
Farmer-Labor Train (S's for W.)
Get Out the Vote (I, 4)
Go Down and See (S's for W)
Great Day! (S's for W)
Hallelujah, I'm a-Travelin' (S's for W.)
Henry Wallace Man (S's for W.)
Hollering For Wallace (S's for W.)
If You Don't Register to Vote (I, 4)
I've Got to Know (III, 6 and 7) .
Listen, Mister Rankin (S's for W.)
Magic Little Ballot (S's for W.)
Make Your Vote Count (S's for W.) .
March of the Common Men (III, 1 and 2)
Mister Congressman (I, 4)
New Walls of Jericho (III, 5)
Passing Through (III, 3)
Rolling-to a New World (III, 3)
Same Merry-go-round (III, 3)
Skip to the Polls (S's for W.)
Sing Along (III, 3)
Tie a String around Your Finger (I, 9)
Time Has Come, The (S's for W.)
There's Just a Slight Difference (S's for W.)
Union Train For Wallace (S's for W)
Use Your Ballot (S's for W.)
Voter, Oh Voter (I, 9)
Wallace Meeting Ground (S's for W.)
Wallace Shout (S's for W.)
Watcha Gonna Do (I, 4 )
We Are Building (S's for W.)
We'll All Join Gideon's Army (S' for W.).
We've Got Our Eyes On You (I, 4)
When Election Day Comes Around (I, 4)
Which Side Are You On? (S's For W,)
Who Are You With, Your Honor? (I, 2)

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Oct 13 - 09:01 AM

congratulations of this fine body of work, Joe.

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 18 Oct 13 - 05:42 PM

Joe Thank you for all your hard work. I notice that the song Beloved Comrade appeared in the People's Songbook 1948 and also in Volume 1, No. 12, January 1947 of the People's Songs Bulletin. I previously investigated this song in a Mudcat thread called Origins; Beloved Comrade. Spanish Civil War Song?
HERE
In that thread Robert Meeropol ,son of Abel Meerpol, who wrote the lyrics for Beloved Comrade, says that the song was written for the death of Franklin Roosevelt. Is there anything in the People's Songs material which adds any clarification?
Regards, Geoff

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I'll answer in the other thread, Geoff. Give me an hour.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Index: People's Songs Bulletin, 1946-1949
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Oct 13 - 01:55 PM

Thanks Joe

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We're getting some Spam in this thread. I'm going to close it.
-Joe Offer-