Pete Seeger - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter - Pete Seeger



Dear Mister Editor, if you choose,
Please send me a copy of the labor news;
I′ve got a son in the infantry,
And he'd be mighty glad to see
That someone, somewhere, now and then,
Thinks about the lives of the mining men,
In Perry County.
In Perry County and thereabout
We miners simply had to go out.
It was long hours, substandard pay,
Then they took our contract away.
Fourteen months is a mighty long time
To face the goons on the picket line
In Perry County.
I′m twenty-six years a miner's wife,
There's nothing harder than a miner′s life,
But there′s no better man than a mining man,
Couldn't find better in all this land.
The deal they get is a rotten deal,
Mountain greens and gravy meal,
In Perry County.
We live in barns that the rain comes in
While operators live high as sin,
Ride Cadillac cars and drink like a fool
While our kids lack clothes to go to school
Sheriff Combs he has it fine,
He runs the law and owns a mine
In Perry County.
What operator would go dig coal
For even fifty a day on the mine pay-roll!
Why, after work my man comes in
With his wet clothes frozen to his skin,
Been digging coal so the world can run
And operators can have their fun
In Perry County.
When folks sent money to the Hazard Press
To help the strikers in distress,
They gave that money, yours and mine,
To the scabs who crossed the picket line,
And the state militia and F.B.I.
Just look on while miners die
In Perry County.
I believe the truth will out some day
That we′re fighting for jobs at decent pay.
We're just tired of doing without,
And that′s what the strike is all about,
And it helps to know that folks like you
Are telling the story straight and true,
About Perry County



Writer(s): Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger


Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

1 Which Side Are You On?
2 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3 Mrs. McGrath
4 Blue Mountain Lake
5 Little Boxes
6 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
7 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8 Guantanamera (Live)
9 Goodnight, Irene
10 Turn Turn Turn
11 We Shall Overcome
12 Hold On
13 Passing Through
14 Oleanna
15 Listen Mr. Bilbo
16 Letter to Eve
17 Foolish Frog
18 Estadio Chile
19 English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy)
20 Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
21 Black and White
22 Big Rock Candy Mountain
23 Abiyoyo
24 Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)
25 The Half Hitch
26 Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
27 Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
28 Mr. Rabbit
29 Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn
30 Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Live)
31 Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation)
32 Nonesuch
33 Rambling Boy
34 Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun)
35 My Gallant Black Bess
36 Battle of New Orleans
37 Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line a-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today (Live)
38 Babevuya
39 OPA Shout
40 Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
41 Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler / Johnny Come Down to Hilo
42 Dinky Die (Live)
43 The Preacher and the Slave
44 Bottle Up and Go
45 In Tarrytown
46 Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
47 Moorsoldaten
48 Freiheit (Die Thälmann-Kolonne)
49 The Quiz Show
50 Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven
51 Don't Ask What a River Is For
52 Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam
53 You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) / John Henry (Live)
54 Strawberry Roan
55 I Never Will Marry
56 The Sinking of the Reuben James
57 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
58 Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
59 Puttin' on the Style
60 I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
61 When I First Came to This Land
62 All Mixed Up
63 The Popular Wobbly
64 My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
65 If I Had a Hammer
66 Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
67 Battle of Maxton Field
68 The Bells of Rhymney
69 What Did You Learn In School Today?
70 From Way Up Here
71 To My Old Brown Earth
72 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
73 My Name is Lisa Kalvelage
74 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
75 Banks of Marble
76 God Bless the Grass
77 Talking Atom
78 Of Time and Rivers Flowing
79 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
80 Well May the World Go
81 Quite Early Morning
82 Viva La Quince Brigada
83 There's Better Things to Do
84 My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
85 Living In the Country
86 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
87 How About You?
88 Down In the Valley
89 Buffalo Gals
90 Cristo Ya Nacio
91 The Water Is Wide
92 Greensleeves
93 If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
94 We'll All Be A-Doubling
95 Arrange and Rearrange
96 Joe Hill
97 A Little of This and That
98 Roll the Union On
99 Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
100 Talking Union
101 John Riley
102 One Grain Of Sand
103 Jam on Jerry's Rocks
104 Lonesome Traveler
105 Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme
106 Chorale from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
107 Suliram
108 Wasn't That a Time
109 I Had a Rooster
110 Oh Worrycare
111 Hard Times in the Mill
112 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
113 The Death of Harry Simms
114 Kumbaya
115 Midnight Special
116 Que Bonita Bandera
117 The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
118 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
119 Down By the Riverside
120 Wimoweh
121 Deep Blue Sea
122 Barbara Allen
123 House of the Rising Sun
124 Shenandoah
125 Go Tell Aunt Rhody
126 Hard Travelling
127 Dink's Song
128 No More Auction Block
129 Talking Blues
130 St. James Infirmary
131 Follow the Drinking Gourd
132 The Banks of Champlain
133 Eight-Hour Day
134 Bourgeois Blues
135 Garbage




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