Come, All Ye Toiling Millions

DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye toiling millions that labor for your life... Come, rally to your standard now in this gigantic strife Then we'll go marching to victory." "Join the Alliance." Neither Republicans nor Democrats do any good. Vote for someone who will
AUTHOR: Hannibal F. Johnson (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1895 (Johnson, Poems of Idaho, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement money | voting
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 482-483, "Come, All Ye Toiling Millions" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Marching Through Georgia" (tune) and references there
NOTES [37 words]: For background on the western Farmers' Alliance, see the notes to "Marching for Freedom." The Alliance wasn't much of a force in Idaho, so this song seems a little out of place, but there were parallel organizations. - RBW
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File: LDC482

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