The Big Red Songbook

By Way of Introduction: On Wobblies & Their Songs Archie Green: Preface 1 Franklin Rosemont: Lost and Found: Other IWW Songs and Poems 13 David Roediger: "Their Horrid Gold": John Handcox and the Uncopyrighted Red Songbook 23 Salvatore Salerno: Sizzlooks, Scissorbills,Sab Cats and Songs: Language and Image in Wobbly Expressive Art Forms 29 All the Songs from the IWW Song Book: 1909-1973 35 Other IWW Songs & Poems, Somehow Not Included in the Little Red Songbook 273 Variants & Parodies: How Wobblies & Others Adapted and/or Updated Their Songs 345 Songwriters Tell Their Stories 365 Jim Connell: How I Wrote the "Red Flag" 367 Harry McClintock: On "Hallelulah on the Bum" 371 Richard Brazier: The Story of the IWW's Little Red Song Book 375 Carlos Cortez: Joe Hill and the Wobbly Song Tradition 391 History & Commentary: Diverse Reflections on the Wobbly Song Tradition 395 Archie Green: John Neuhaus, Wobbly Folklorist 397 Glossary of Labor Language 421 Fred W. Thompson: The Older Songs of Labor 441 Judy Branfman: "How Long Are You In Town?": Two Stolen Songs Find Their Way Home 447 Bill Friedland: Labor Arts and the First Recorded IWW Album 457 Virginia Martin: Feeling a Thought through Song 465 Fred W. Thompson: Charles H. Kerr and America's First Socialist Songbook 471 Utah Phillips: Afterword 475 Checklist of IWW Songs & Songbooks in Chronological Order 477 Alphabetical List of Songs: Included in the IWW Songbook from 1909 to the Present 489 Bibliography 495 Adam Machado: Discography 505 Notes on Contributors 529 Index 531