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![]() Tweet ![]() ![]() Historical Events, Issues & Times recalled in Song Lyrics1919 Influenza Blues, by unknown, 1930's All On Account Of the Tariff, Ike Brown, 1890 All Rights For All, Elizabeth B Dewing, 1868 Ballad of the Tea Party, 1774 Ballad of the Triangle Fire, Ruth Rubin, 1911 Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, 1862 Better Times Are Coming, Stephen Collins Foster, 1862 Billow of Fire, Philip P. Bliss, 1877 Black Day In July, Gordon Lightfoot, 1968 Brooklyn Fire, Jim Campbell, 1876 Burn Baby Burn, Jimmy Collier, 1965 (about the Los Angeles Watts Riots) Bust the Trusts, F. J. Miller, 1912 (Civilian Conservation Corps.) CCC Blues, Washboard Sam, 1938 Coal Creek Troubles, James William Day, 1937 Coercion - Hold the Rent, Fanny Parnell, 1881 Company Town Doctor, Woody Guthrie, 1945 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, Woody Guthrie, 1945 Der Fuehrer's Face, Oliver George Wallace, 1942 Flander's Fields, John McCrae, 1918 Free Silver & Bryan in 1900, Democratic Party campaign song, 1897 Glory Hallelujah!, 1861 Gold is the Standard to Win, Republican Party, Presidential campaign song, 1896 Homeless Blues (sung by Bessie Smith), Porter Grainger, 1927 In Old Moscow, Walter Gourlay, 1940 In the Heat of the Summer, Phil Ochs, 1965, (about the Summer 1964 Harlem riots) Joe Hill, Phil Ochs, 1968 Joe Hillstrom, Woody Guthrie, 1947 Little Marion Parker, by Carson Robison, 1927 My Government Claim, (The Lane County Bachelor), c. 1890 November 19, 1915, John E. Nordquist, 1916 Page Mr. Volstead, Bob Miller, 1930 (about the failure of Prohibition) Poor Wee Billy McMahon, Eric Bogle, 1972 Prohibition Blues, Al Sweet, 1917 Reckless Talk, Woody Guthrie, 1944 Reuben James, Almanac Singers, 1941 Rosie the Riveter, Redd Evans & John Loeb, 1942 Santa Barbara Earthquake, 1925 Specie Payment, George Cooper & Harry Miller, 1870 Stricken City, William. Fisher, 1896 (about the St. Louis cyclone 1896) Tariff "Bill", George de Romberg, 1909 The Auchengeich Disaster, Norman Buchan, c. 1970's (Scotland) The Avondale Mine Disaster, 1869 or early 1870's The Boys In Blue Will See It Through, S. N. Mitchell, 1876 The Chartists Are Coming, 1848 The Death of Huey Long, Hank Warner, 1935 The Devil Has Brought Up All The Coal, Irving Berlin, 1918 The Great Dust Storm, Woody Guthrie, 1935 The Railway Strike, Ella Lodge, 1886 The Substitute Broker, John Zieber, 1864 Tilden and Reform, William H. Long, 1876 Vote for Abraham, by "Union", 1864 Wernher Von Braun, Tom Lehrer, 1965 Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train, Uncle Dave Macon, 1930 |
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