Scab's Lament, The

DESCRIPTION: "Once a little maiden climbed an old man's knee, And asked... Why are you lonely, why are you sad, Why do the miners call you a scab?" The old man recalls sympathizing with the Union, but then returning to his job; he wishes he hadn't left the Union
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1918 (New Songs for the Butte Mining Camp, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes labor-movement strike fight father derivative
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 170-172, "The Scab's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Foner-AmericanLaborSongsOfTheNineteenthCentury, p. 248, "After the Strike" (1 text)
]ADDITIONAL: Edward J. Cowan, editor, _The People's Past: Scottish Folk, Scottish History_ 1980 (I use the 1993 Polygon paperback edition), p. 167, "After the Strike Is Over" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "After the Ball" (tune) and references there
File: LDC170

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