We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years

Utah Phillips

Release Date: 01 Jan 1983
Label: PHILO
Genre: POP & ROCK

CAT # 11671-1076-2

1. The Boss

2. We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years 1:59

3. Sheep And Goats 1:02

4. The Timberbeast's Lament 1:41

5. Dump The Bosses Off Your Back 4:15

6. The Lumberjack's Prayer 1:48

7. Mr. Block 4:27

8. The Preacher And The Slave 4:12

9. The Popular Wobbly 2:04

10. Casey Jones-The Union Scab 2:57

11. Where The Fraser River Flows 2:53

12. Bread And Roses 2:56

13. Joe Hill 4:14

14. Union Burying Ground 3:31

15. The Two Bums 1:02

16. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum! 5:28

17. Solidarity Forever 4:19

18. There Is Power In The Union 3:42

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Like Woody Guthrie before him, Utah Phillips is a folksinger who knows that a song can be a powerful weapon in the politics of class struggle. On this album, he performs songs from the celebrated 'Little Red Songbook' of the Industrial Workers of the World union (better known as the Wobblies). First published in 1909, the IWW songbook offered parodies of Salvation Army favorites, plus other well-known tunes which were used as rallying cries in the early days of labor organization, including 'Joe Hill,' Guthrie's 'Union Burying Ground' and Mac McClintock's 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum.'

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