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'31 Depression Blues
— Coal miner tells of hard times in the Depression. Miners go to work hungry, rag…
1913 Massacre
— In Calumet, Michigan, striking copper miners and their children are having a Ch…
All Together Like the Folks o' Shields
— "Tho' Tyneside coal an' furnace reek Hes made wor rive black eneuf, It's raised…
The Avondale Disaster (I) (The Mines of Avondale)
— Flames are seen outside the Avondale mines; the miners' families realize there …
The Avondale Disaster (II)
— A fire in the Avondale Mine kills 110 miners. Relatively few details of the dis…
Ballad of the Frank Slide
— "On a grim and tragic morning In nineteen hundred three A little babe lay weepi…
The Banks of the Dee (III)
— On the banks of the Dee the singer meets a 56 year old coal miner who "can't ge…
The Best Little Doorboy
— "The workmen in the Rhondda are wonderful boys, They go to their work without a…
The Black Tail Range
— "I am a roving cowboy Off from the western plains." Vignettes about cowboy life…
The Bluestone Quarries
— "In eighteen hundred and forty one, They put their long red flannels on (x2), T…