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16 Mar 11 - 12:43 AM (#3114710) Subject: lyrics required: Estevan Strike song From: GUEST,len wallace Hello all Mudcatters, I'm doing some digging for a few songs, among them a song that came out of the Estevan/Bienfat strike in 1931. There is a song that was written to the melody to "Kevin Barry". Does anyone have the lyrics to this strike song? Many thanks.. |
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16 Mar 11 - 12:56 AM (#3114713) Subject: Lyr Add: ESTEVAN (Cecil Boone) From: GUEST,Bardford This might be it. Scroll to bottom of the page Here A poem to the memory of these men was composed by Cecil Boone, simply entitled "Estevan". It goes as follows: In a little mining village Scarcely noticed on the map Bourgeois guns were turned on workers And their life's blood there did sap. No one dreamed of such a slaughter In that town of Estevan, That armed thugs with guns and bullets Would shoot men with empty hands. Just a protest from the miners And boss bullets then did fly, Caring not who was the target Or the number that would die. Blazing forth, nine hundred bullets, Bodies full of lead did fill, Murdered three, and wounded twenty But the Cause they could not kill. Three more martyrs for the miners, Three more murders for the boss, Brutal laws, to crush the workers Who dare fight in Freedom's cause. As those miners lay a-dying In their agony and pain, Whispered ... "Though we die for freedom Yet we do not die in vain. "For we know our class will triumph When they shall united stand; They will take the world for labor And the workers rule the land. "Then the workers' day of vengeance Will be proclaimed with each breath; Labor's cause is right and mighty And beyond the reach of death". Canadian Miner (Calgary) January 30, 1932, p. 2 |
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16 Mar 11 - 01:06 AM (#3114716) Subject: RE: lyrics required: Estevan Strike song From: GUEST,Bardford There's a fellow - Peter Karstner - singing the lyrics on Youtube here. I don't know if the tune he is using is Kevin Barry. |
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16 Mar 11 - 04:30 AM (#3114774) Subject: RE: lyrics required: Estevan Strike song From: GUEST,999 "the Estevan/Bienfat strike in 1931" Should be Bienfait. Bienfait (a French term--two words==meaning well done) is a town in south eastern Saskatchewan. It is and was just about five/six miles west of Estevan. Not the RCMP's finest hour, imo. |