Drill, Ye Miners, Drill

DESCRIPTION: "Every morning after the Con's whistle blows, There are thousands of miners working underground," with the shifters ordering, "Drill, ye miners, drill." Life is hard. The bosses are hard. They lie and cheat. "So fight, ye workers, fight."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (September [Butte] Miner's Voice, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining derivative hardtimes
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 158-159, "Drill, Ye Miners, Drill" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (tune)
File: LDC158

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