Little Red Songbook

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Comment by Julie Horne on March 1, 2013 at 11:02

Beautiful songs of solidarity, history and Inspiration on Low Tide Drifters CD New Hard Time Blues.

http://lowtidedrifters.wordpress.com/

 

Comment by Julie Horne on December 22, 2012 at 18:49

you tube recording of 'dollar alarm clock': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpfhDZfa478

(sorry if you get an advertisement for study at macquarie university at the beginning.you can click to skip ahead to the song)

 

Comment by Julie Horne on December 22, 2012 at 18:24

recording of 'old oaken bucket' on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI4ej8b1VeE

this is the tune used for 'dollar alarm clock'

Comment by Julie Horne on December 22, 2012 at 18:15

http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=436

"The old oaken bucket"

Comment by Viola Wilkins on December 20, 2012 at 3:27

DOLLAR ALARM CLOCK

(John Healy)

How dear to my heart are those chimes in the morning

That yank me from bed with melodious thrill;

How sweet is the sound of the regular warning

That yells that it's time that I hike to the mill.

Without it I'd sleep till the sun had arisen,

Be late to the job that my boss lets me use;

Get canned, perhaps steal, maybe land in a prison,

If the chimes didn't hustle me out of my snooze.

Chorus: The faithful alarm clock;

The rattling alarm clock;

The dollar alarm clock

That rests on my shelf.

What a blessing it was when the thing was invented:

It beats the slave -driver who came with his stick;

It rests on the shelf in the shack that I rented;

It never gets hungry, it never gets sick.

If overly weary I take a tin bucket

And place the alarm clock down into the thing;

When it chimes in the morning it doubles the racket;

It would wake up the dead when the two of them ring.

Sometimes the good woman gets worn and weary

And says we are hauling too much of a load;

I tell her the journey would look still more dreary

If the dollar alarm clock should fail to explode.

Then here's to my booster that only needs winding;

And here's to the victim that just keeps alive,

The boss gets the money and I do the grinding

The clock starts the circus at quarter past five.

 

tune: Old Oaken Bucket

From IWW Songbook, 1918

Comment by Viola Wilkins on December 18, 2012 at 0:43

Ye olde socialist version http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o6tbi8b3qf6dgbw

Comment by Julie Horne on September 2, 2012 at 9:05

Thank you Peter.

Comment by Peter Todd on August 30, 2012 at 16:46

I have an mp3 on my page, "The Martyrs" words by Ron Todd former G.S of the T.G.W.U. music & vocals by Paul Brett, the world renowned 12 string guitarist. The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, please feel free to download it, if you like it.

Comment by Julie Horne on August 24, 2012 at 16:45

Thanks from me too Rhys.

Much appreciated.

Comment by Rhys Harrison on August 1, 2012 at 6:46

Your welcome guys, glad someone found it useful. There's also some good song mp3's at Sovmusic.Ru its mainly Russian language and about Stalin, but they have probably the widest selection of languages on the Internationale as well as a few songs about labour and workers pride, if nothing else they sound pretty good. http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php

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