We're Bound for San Diego

DESCRIPTION: "In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk, The cops will smash them with a sap and tell 'em 'Take a walk.'" Now labor forces are heading for San Diego, which they will "whip... if it takes us twenty years."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1912 (Spokane, WA "Industrial Worker," according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement police fight injury
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 548-549, "We're Bound for San Diego" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Wearing of the Green" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
File: LDC548

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