Sea shanties are cool, and so are union work songs

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Which side are you on, boys? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

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Let’s all go rent Matewan tonight.

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Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses

Alternative version: The women of Manchester greet the 2015 Tory Party Conference train from London. October 3rd 2015.

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I’ve always thought it would be interesting to perform the songbook of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

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Woof.

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The whole film is pretty damn woke. I watched it a couple of weeks ago because it was on sale on Apple TV and it’s aged surprisingly well.

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It’s a great song that I only recently discovered. (I’m American.) There are two great covers of it I found on Spotify.

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Sea shanties are not cool – one goddamn sea shanty was done in a cool way, and people copied it. What are you, the brainless freaking New York Times that thinks 3 vaguely similar things constitute a new social trend?

As much as I think labor unions are a vital practice if we’re ever to pull the world back from the almost inevitable brink of disaster the capitalist pigs have taken it to, union songs are not especially interesting.

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One of America’s greatest artists…

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This is such an amazing thread.

I’d love to jump into TikTok and participate but honestly I’ve been waiting for any memo that there was a safer version of TikTok out there, or that TikTok (as the wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle®) mended their ways and stopped stealing our clipboard contents and stopped punching holes into our smartphone security.

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A voice so pure - a vision so clear
I’ve got to learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

It’s not Paul Robeson, but it’s about him.

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Also the albums that Utah Phillips and Anni defranco did together :heart:, because of defranco i got to see him live before he past, it was excellent.

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Yes, yes I am, and my words are more important than ever!

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Pretty sure Barrett’s Privateers is a modern folk revival composition and not an actual sailors’s song, but I still love it!

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And done to the music for Woody’s “Tom Joad” (which I think was resused from elsewhere).

It all gets confusing, because Billy Bragg’s song about Phil Ochs is to the tune used by the most common song about Joe Hill.

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