Strike Breaker's Lament

DESCRIPTION: "A miner from Missouri lay dying in the hills, He was sick with mountain fever and various other ills"; he declares, "I wish I was in Joplin, in Joplin down in Mo." He describes all the things that are wrong with mining life in a place of scabs
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1902 (February 1902 [Denver] "Miner's Magazine," according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining scab death labor-movement derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 174-175, "Strike Breaker's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Bingen on the Rhine" (tune) and references there
File: LDC174

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