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Work song / by Doig, Ivan.(CARDINAL)144685;
In 1919, itinerant schoolteacher Morrie Morgan journeys to Butte in the hopes of making his fortune in copper mining but finds instead a rich assortment of local characters before an encounter with a former student leads to a violent union uprising.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Single men; Miners; Mine rescue work;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Work song [sound recording] / by Doig, Ivan.(CARDINAL)144685; Hogan, Jonathan.; Recorded Books, LLC.;
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan.Itinerant teacher and perennial charmer Morrie Morgan returns to the 1919 copper-mining center of Butte, Montana. There he meets retired Welsh twins, a comely landlady, and a Russian waif and encounters the seething ferment of an iron-fisted mining company, radical union agitators, and beleaguered miners.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks, unabridged--DCPL.; Single men; Miners; Mine rescue work;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Work song [large print] / by Doig, Ivan.(CARDINAL)144685;
Lured like so many others by "the richest hill on earth," Morrie steps off the train in Butte, copper-mining capital of the world, in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie, once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seem to seek him out: a look-alike, sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miniers; a streak- of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely landlady propitiously named Grace; and an eccentric boss at the public library, his whispered nickname a source of inexplicable terror. When Morrie crosses paths with a lively former student, now engaged to a fiery young union leader, he is caught up in the mounting clash between the iron-fisted mining company, radical "outside agitators," and the beleaguered miners. And as tensions above ground and below reach the explosion point, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Mine rescue work; Miners; Single men;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Work song / by Doig, Ivan.(CARDINAL)144685;
Lured like so many others by "the richest hill on earth," Morrie steps off the train in Butte, copper-mining capital of the world, in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie, once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seem to seek him out: a look-alike, sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miniers; a streak- of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely landlady propitiously named Grace; and an eccentric boss at the public library, his whispered nickname a source of inexplicable terror. When Morrie crosses paths with a lively former student, now engaged to a fiery young union leader, he is caught up in the mounting clash between the iron-fisted mining company, radical "outside agitators," and the beleaguered miners. And as tensions above ground and below reach the explosion point, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mine rescue work; Miners; Single men;
Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 32
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Work songs / by Silverman, Jerry.(CARDINAL)221093;
Take this hammer -- John Henry -- Pick a bale of cotton -- Go down, Old Hannah -- Swannanoa Tunnel -- Rocks and gravel -- Ain't no more cane on the Brazis -- Working on the project -- Can'cha line em? -- Been on the Charlie so long -- John Gilbert -- Steel got to be drove -- Told my captain -- Timber -- Whoa, buck -- Darlin' -- Look over yonder -- The boll weevil -- Looky, looky yonder -- Mule skinner blues -- Chain gang blues -- 'Round the corn, Sally -- Working for the PWA -- Silicosis blues -- Farmland blues -- Cap'n Jim Reese said -- I'm workin' my way back home -- Lowlands -- The long-line skinner blues.
Subjects: Folk music.; Music.; Scores.; Work songs; African Americans; Folk songs, English;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Shanties from the seven seas : shipboard work-songs and songs used as work-songs from the great days of sail / by Hugill, Stan,CompilerAuthor(DLC)n 81066516 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-424) and index.This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Subjects: Sea songs.; Work songs.; Sea songs; Work songs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Prison songs. [sound recording] : Don'tcha hear poor mother calling? by Lomax, Alan,1915-2002.(CARDINAL)130074;
Don'tcha hear poor mother calling? (Hollie Dew, Bull & group) -- John Henry ("22" & group) -- Strongest man I ever saw / tall tale by Bama -- Well, I wonder (Dobie Red & group) -- Lies (Bama, Dobie Red) -- I'm goin' home (Bama) -- More lies (Bama, "22" & Bull) -- O 'Berta (Bull & group) -- Disability boogie woogie (Curry Childress) -- O Rosie ("22" & group) -- Hollers (Dobie Red, Foots) -- Stewball ("22" & group) -- Fox chase (Curry Childress, C.B. Banks) -- Katy left Memphis (Percy Wilson) -- About prison singers : interview with Dobie Red -- Rosie ("88" & group) -- High rollin' sergeant (Tangle Eye) -- Garbage man / toast by George Johnson -- When I went to Leland ("22" & group) -- Prodigal son (George Johnson) -- I'm goin' to Memphis (Percy Wilson & group).Various performers.
Subjects: Prisoners' songs.; African Americans; Work songs.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Songs of work and protest / by Fowke, Edith,1913-1996.(CARDINAL)163885; Glazer, Joe.(CARDINAL)224493; Bray, Kenneth I.(Kenneth Ira),1919-1999.(CARDINAL)280130;
Record list: pages 204-205; reading list: page 206.Solidarity forever -- The commonwealth of toil -- Union maid -- Joe Hill -- Talking union -- You've got to go down and join the union -- The eight hour day -- Get thee behind me, Satan -- Brother John -- On the line -- Hinky dinky parlez-vous -- We will overcome -- Union train -- Hold the fort -- We shall not be moved -- Great day -- Old Ma Bell -- Casey Jones -- Roll the union on -- The scabs crawl in -- Down in a coal mine -- Dark as a dungeon -- Sixteen tons -- Which side are you on? -- The West Virginia hills -- The death of Mother Jones -- The Blantyre explosion -- Union man -- My sweetheart's the mule in the mines -- A miner's life -- Hard times in the mill -- Bread and roses -- We are building a strong union -- The Winnsboro cotton mill blues -- The mill was made of marble -- The anthem of the ILGWU -- Take this hammer -- John Henry -- Pat works on the railway -- Drill ye tarriers, drill -- Jerry, go and oil that car -- The UAW-CIO -- United Steelworkers are we -- Men of the soil -- The farmer is the man -- The boll weevil -- Down on Penny's farm -- Planting rice -- Eleven cent cotton -- Zum gali, gali -- So long, it's been good to know you -- One happy Swede -- Blow ye winds in the morning -- Leave her, Johnny -- Low bridge, everybody down -- Canaday-I-O -- The buffalo skinners -- The old Chisholm Trail -- Hard traveling -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum -- Going down the road feeling bad -- The soup song -- Beans, bacon, and gravy -- Fourpence a day -- Life is a toil -- Acres of clams -- The teacher's lament -- Too old to work -- Automation -- The rich man and the poor man -- The dodger -- No Irish need apply -- Times is mighty hard -- The preacher and the slave -- The man that waters the workers' beer -- I don't want your millions, mister -- The song of the guaranteed wage -- O freedom! -- We are marching on to victory -- The abolitionist hymn -- Go down, Moses -- John Brown's body -- The battle hymn of the republic -- No more auction block -- These things shall be -- The cutty wren -- Die Gedanken sind frei -- When wilt thou save the people? -- A new Jerusalem -- The Marseillaise -- A man's a man for a' that -- Jefferson and liberty -- The red flag -- The peatbog soldiers -- Kevin Barry -- Let us all speak our minds -- It could be a wonderful world -- Everybody loves Saturday night -- Hey ho, nobody home -- Going to study war no more.".. There are: straight trade union songs and ditties ... ; songs of the hardships that working men and women have to face during times of depression ; philosophic songs and ironic comments on the economic system ; songs that grew out of the fight against slavery ; and songs expressing the dreams of people of many lands throughout the ages. Often set to tunes of familiar folk songs, popular songs and gospel hymns, these are the songs by which unions organized and which thee members of each labor group sang out ... Most of the songs are American in origin. A few, drawn from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Israel, and the Philippines remind us that the fight for freedom knows no boundaries ..." -- Back cover.
Subjects: Songs.; Notated music.; Music.; Scores.; Working class; Labor movement; Labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jesus wants me for a sunbeam / by Wilhelm, Hans.(CARDINAL)524682; Talbot, Nellie.I'll be a sunbeam.;
MARCIVE 03/01/06An acclaimed author and illustrator's picture book for children, beautifully illustrated and based on the well-known hymn.
Subjects: Fiction.; Illustrated works.; Children's songs.; Songs, Christian;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Prison songs. [sound recording] : Murderous home : [historic recordings from Parchman Farm, 1947-48]. by Lomax, Alan,1915-2002.(CARDINAL)130074;
Various performers.
Subjects: Prisoners' songs.; Work songs.; African Americans; Folk songs, English;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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