Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - Eight-Hour Day

Eight-Hour Day

Journée de huit heures

We're brave and gallant miner boys, who work in underground

Nous sommes des mineurs braves et courageux, qui travaillons sous terre

For courage and good nature, no finer can be found

Pour le courage et la bonne humeur, on ne trouve pas de plus beaux

We work both late and early, and get but little pay

Nous travaillons tard et tôt, et nous ne gagnons que peu

To support our wives and children, in free Americay

Pour soutenir nos femmes et nos enfants, dans la libre Amérique

If Satan took the blacklegs, I'm sure t'would bid no sin

Si Satan emmenait les briseurs de grève, je suis sûr que ce ne serait pas un péché

What peace and happiness t'would be, for us poor workin' men

Quelle paix et quel bonheur ce serait, pour nous les pauvres travailleurs

Eight hours we'd have for workin', eight hours we'd have for play

Huit heures pour travailler, huit heures pour jouer

Eight hours we'd have for sleeping, in free Americay

Huit heures pour dormir, dans la libre Amérique

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Writer(s): Woody Guthrie

Album

American Industrial Ballads

date of release

01-01-1992

1 Peg and Awl
2 Pittsburgh Town
3 Raggedy
4 My Children are Seven in Number
5 The Ballad of Barney Graham
6 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
7 The Death of Harry Simms
8 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
9 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
10 Mill Mother's Lament
11 Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
12 Sixty Per Cent
13 Cotton Mill Colic
14 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
15 He Lies in the American Land
16 Come All You Hardy Miners
17 Farmer is the Man, The (Who Feeds Us All)
18 Hayseed Like Me, A
19 Roll Down the Line
20 Hard Times in the Mill
21 Eight-Hour Day
22 Buffalo Skinners
23 The Blind Fiddler
24 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine

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