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flea ([personal profile] flea) wrote2011-03-10 05:14 pm
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Socialist Songs I Learned Before Learning They Were Socialist

The Joe Hill's will song, learned in Girl Scouts as a tot. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Joe_Hill_will.pdf

I didn't learn "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night," though.

Bread and Roses, learned at Bryn Mawr.  (Okay, that's at least as much feminist as socialist.)  Here's Joan Baez and Mimi Farina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYRcCa-ddOo

This post is brought to you by the Reacting to the Past game Greenwich Village 1913, and the fact of Jane Addams' awesomeness.