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In reply to the discussion: 'I think Trump needs to show his face': Laid-off miners losing faith... [View all]KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)16. Thanks! Great song and appropriate today.
Seems to mostly be credited to Pete Seeger but a commenter on the lyrics page said...
In the notes to this song on Pete Seegers 1959 Folkways LP American Industrial Songs Irwin Silber wrote:
Les Rice, the composer of this song, is a New York State apple farmer and one-time president of the Ulster County chapter of the Farmers Union. His songs have made him well-known to farmers throughout the northeast. Perhaps his most well-known composition is Banks of Marble which achieved great popularity among union members throughout the country and even in Canada, where new verses have been found.
This song, written around 1948-49. deals with the farmers perennial problem of parity and how it affects the farmers life.
Les Rice, the composer of this song, is a New York State apple farmer and one-time president of the Ulster County chapter of the Farmers Union. His songs have made him well-known to farmers throughout the northeast. Perhaps his most well-known composition is Banks of Marble which achieved great popularity among union members throughout the country and even in Canada, where new verses have been found.
This song, written around 1948-49. deals with the farmers perennial problem of parity and how it affects the farmers life.
I like the last lines:
I've seen my brothers working
Throughout this mighty land
I've prayed we'd get together
And together make a stand
Then we might own those banks of marble
With a guard at every door
And we would share those bolts of silver
That we have sweated for
Throughout this mighty land
I've prayed we'd get together
And together make a stand
Then we might own those banks of marble
With a guard at every door
And we would share those bolts of silver
That we have sweated for
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'I think Trump needs to show his face': Laid-off miners losing faith... [View all]
KY_EnviroGuy
Aug 2019
OP
Yes, and I think Scarlett Johansson needs to take me out for dinner tomorrow night . . .
hatrack
Aug 2019
#2
Oh he'll be showing his bloated orange face at a hate rally near you Kentucky. That's all you gonna
UniteFightBack
Aug 2019
#4
'Brother', my brother. Those are the billboards I saw on DU. Was too spent from another crapola day
sprinkleeninow
Aug 2019
#36
Words of truth. There will be a day of reckoning that will come to pass..
sprinkleeninow
Aug 2019
#32
He is talking about handing out more money to farmers after China stopped buying
Blue_true
Aug 2019
#56
China seems to have decided that they and the world are better off without him.
Blue_true
Aug 2019
#59
The ONLY solution to coal miners' problems is cheaper & easier that all the nonsense
SoCalDem
Aug 2019
#23
if the moron was smart, he would give the miner's their lost wages they deserve. fuck bankruptcy law
pansypoo53219
Aug 2019
#41
"They say in Harlan County, there are no neutrals there. /You'll either be a union man...
Hekate
Aug 2019
#44
I just lost my Dad @ 90 last January and I showed him a little piece of coal that was on the ...
Botany
Aug 2019
#63
Even in the case of metallurgy, natural gas will soon completely surplant coal.
Blue_true
Aug 2019
#64