When You Wear That Button

DESCRIPTION: "I met him in Dakota when the harvesting was o'er, A 'Wob' he was, I saw by the button that he wore." The Wobbly exhorts workers to organize. If they will join the I. W. W., they will "strike that blow all slaves must strike if they would be free"
AUTHOR: Words: Richard Brazier (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest_
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (I. W. W. Songbook, 14th edition, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement nonballad | IWW
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 546, "When You Wear That Button" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "When You Wore That Button" (tune) and references there
File: LDC546

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