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One Hundred Songs of Toil

Karl Dallas: One Hundred Songs of Toil

Karl Dallas (editor),
One Hundred Songs of Toil.
450 Years of Workers’ Songs.
London: Wolfe Publishing, 1974,
ISBN 7234 0525 5

Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Working Life Out

  1. The Working Chap (Roud 5591; G/D 3:656)
  2. The Dublin Jack-of-All-Trades (Roud 3017)
  3. The Streets of London [John Hasted]
  4. The Roving Journeyman (Roud 360; G/D 7:1397)
  5. The Stonecutter Boy (Roud 971)
  6. The Factory Girl (1) (Roud 1659; Henry H127)
  7. The Factory Girl (2) (Roud 1659; Henry H127)
  8. The Factory Girl (3) [Ralph McTell]
  9. The Factory Girl (4) [Mick Jagger, Keith Richard]
  10. The Navvy Boy (Roud 360; Henry H760)
  11. The Bold Irish Navvy (Roud 516; G/D 4:787)
  12. Hot Asphalt (Roud 2134)
  13. The Jolly Grinder (Roud 24792)
  14. Charles Docherty
  15. Nae Wark [Joe Wilson]
  16. William Brown [anon.]
  17. The Strike [Joe Wilson]
  18. The Afternoon’s All Mine [Derrek White]

Parodies

  1. The Bold Engineers [Wal Hannington]
  2. The Broo Road [anon.]

Heroes of the Line

  1. Paddy Works on the Railway (Roud 208)
  2. The Iron Horse [Charles Balfour] (Roud 5834; G/D 2:291)
  3. Cosher Bailey (Roud 4830)
  4. Moses of the Mail [Ewan MacColl]
  5. A-Working on the Railway [Jim Ward]
  6. Thre Fireman’s Growl [anon.]
  7. On the Old Ellenny [Jim Ward]
  8. Turntable Song [Dave Goulder]
  9. Doctor Beeching [anon.]
  10. The Redundant Railwayman [Jim Ward]
  11. The Railwayman’s Lament [Jim Ward]

The Weary Trade

  1. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1496)
  2. Will the Weaver (Roud 432; Laws Q9; G/D 7:1461; Henry H682)
  3. The Weaver’s Song (RoudBS B116720)
  4. The Spinning Wheel (Roud 4255; G/D 8:1861)
  5. My Winder [Samuel Bamford]
  6. The Wark o’ the Weavers [David Shaw] (Roud 374)
  7. Droylsden Wakes (Roud 3290)
  8. The Lint Pulling (Roud 9299; Henry H487)
  9. The Roving Hackler (Roud 3035)
  10. The Weaver of Wellbrook (Roud V35149)
  11. The Handloom Weaver and the Factory Maid (Roud 3085)
  12. The Maid of Campbell’s Mill (Roud 6884)
  13. The Cropper Lads (TYG 62)
  14. Foster’s Mill (TYG 63)
  15. Grimshaw’s Factory Fire [anon.]
  16. The Handloom Versus the Powerloom [John Grimshaw]
  17. The Pride of the Springfield Row
  18. The Doffing Mistress (Roud 2133)
  19. The Spinner’s Wedding [Mary Brooksbank] (Roud 12503)
  20. The Poor Cotton Weaver (Roud 937)
  21. All Wish The War Was Over (Roud V17378)
  22. The Handloom Weaver’s Lament [John Grimshaw]
  23. Poverty Knock (Roud 3491; TYG 14)
  24. The Shurat Weaver [Samuel Laycock] (Roud V8918)
  25. Surat Warps [anon.]

Collier Lads for Ever More

  1. Six Jolly Miners (Roud 877; TYG 61)
  2. The Collier Laddie (Roud 3787; G/D 5:991)
  3. Walker Shore and Byker Hill (Roud 3488)
  4. Byker Byker Hill and Walker Shore (Roud 3488)
  5. The Colliers’ Rant (Roud 1366)
  6. The Cockfight (Roud 211; TYG 81)
  7. Down in a Coalmine (Roud 3502; TYG 101)
  8. Swalwell Hopping [John Selkirk] (Roud 3054)
  9. The Pitman’s Dog [William Mitford] (Roud 3145)
  10. The Coal Trade (Roud 3163)
  11. Ma Lad’s a Canny Lad (Roud 8256)
  12. Footy Against the Wall (Roud 9028)
  13. The Pitman’s Happy Times [James Robson] (Roud 3172)
  14. The Pitman’s Lovesong (Roud 8738)
  15. The Pitman’s Courtship [William Mitford] (Roud 3058)
  16. With My Pit Boots On (Roud 516; G/D 4:787)
  17. The Keel Row (Roud 3059; G/D 4:771)
  18. Cushie Butterfield [George Ridley] (Roud 3504)
  19. The Sandgate Lass [Robert Nunn] (Roud 3178)
  20. The Sandgate Girl’s Lament (Roud 3170)
  21. The Sandgate Dandling Song [Robert Nunn] (Roud B24532)
  22. Fourpence a Day [Thomas Raine] (Roud 2586; TYG 107)
  23. Little Chance (1) (Roud 3485)
  24. Little Chance (2) (Roud 3485)
  25. Jowl, Jowl and Listen (Roud 3191)
  26. Rap Her to Bank (Roud 1786)
  27. The Celebrated Working Man [Ed Foley] (Roud 3486)
  28. The Row Between the Cages [Tommy Armstrong] (Roud V35950)
  29. The Haswell Cages (Roud V15522)
  30. The Blantyre Explosion (Roud 1014; Laws Q35)
  31. The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster (Roud 3509)
  32. Johnny Sneddon (Roud 921; Henry H110)
  33. The Trimdon Grange Explosion [Tommy Armstrong] (Roud 3189)
  34. The Gresford Disaster (Roud 3089)
  35. Oakey’s Keeker [Tommy Armstrong] (Roud V35152)
  36. Geordie Black [Rowland Harrison] (Roud 3507)
  37. The Banks of the Dee (Roud 3484)
  38. I Could Hew [Ed Pickford]
  39. The Coal Owner and the Pitman’s Wife [William Hornsby]
  40. Miner’s Lifeguard (Roud 3510)
  41. Blackleg Miners (Roud 3193)
  42. The Best-Dressed Man of Seghill (Roud V47488)
  43. The Oakey Strike Evictions [Tommy Armstrong]
  44. The South Medomsley Strike [Tommy Armstrong] (Roud V40590)
  45. The Durham Lock-Out [Tommy Armstrong] (Roud V13079)
  46. Pound a Week Rise [Ed Pickford]
  47. Farewell to the ’Cotia [Jock Purdom] (Roud 8312)