IWW Songbook

These songs were published in the IWW’s Little Red Songbook or in other IWW publications.

• A. F. of L. Sympathy (Bertram Lester Weber)
• A’ That and A’ That, For (Leo Smith)
• All for the Cause (William Morris)
• All Hell Can’t Stop Us (Ralph Chaplin)
• All Used Up (Utah Phillips)
• Amazing Boss (Bill Crum)
• Amnesty (James Rohn)
• Aragon Mill (Si Kahn)
• Are You a Scabby? (Dave Bostock and Colby Peters)
• Are You a Wobbly? (Joe Foley)
• Aristocracy Forever (Judi Bari)
• Babylon Updated (Leslie Fish)
• Banks of Marble (Les Rice)
• Banner of Labor, The (Anonymous)
• Barricadas!, A Las (Valeriano Orobón Fernández) / To the Barricades! (Carlos Cortez and Jan Oosting)
• Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party (Leon Rosselson)
• Battle Hymn of the Workers, The (Charles James)
• Battle Hymn of Toil (Covington Hall)
• Big Joe (Anonymous)
• Big Question, The (T-Bone Slim)
• Blackleg Miner, The (Anonymous)
• Blanket Stiff, The (Anonymous)
• Bonehead Working Fool, The (Anonymous)
• Boom Went the Boom (W. O. Blee)
• Boss (Laura Tanne)
• Boss, The / Praise Boss / Wobbly Doxology (John Neuhaus)
• Boss’s Darling, The (Jean Hart)
• Bosses Will in Slavery Hold You, The (El Gato Rojo)
• Box Factory (Faith Nolan)
• Bread and Roses (James Oppenheim and Caroline Kohlsaat)
• Bread-Line, Out in the (Anonymous)
• Bum and the Plute, The (T-Bone Slim)
• Bump Me into Parliament (Bill Casey)
• Busick Injunction, The (Nels Peterson)
• Buy This American Car (Charlie King)
• Call, The (Herbert Tulin)
• Call to Action, A (Anonymous)
• Capitalism’s Endless Chain (Anonymous)
• Casey Jones, the Union Scab (Joe Hill)
• Child Slaves, The (Richard Brazier)
• Christians at War (John F. Kendrick)
• City Beautiful, The (Jack Phelan)
• City Central Blues (Carlos Cortez)
• Class Act, A (Len Wallace)
• Class Communion (Ed Jorda)
• Coffee An’ (Joe Hill)
• Cold Old Wintertime, In the (Anonymous)
• Come and Get Wise (Richard Brazier)
• Come Join the One Big Union, Do (Richard Brazier)
• Commonwealth of Toil, The (Ralph Chaplin)
• Cotton Mill Girls (Hedy West)
• Czar of All Czars (T-Bone Slim)
• Dan McGann (Dublin Dan)
  
• Dawn of Freedom, The (Anonymous)
• Dehorn Song, The (Anonymous)
• Dishwasher, The (Jim Seymour)
• Dixie (Raymond Corder)
• Dollar Alarm Clock, The (John Healy)
• Don’t Call Me White! (Henry J. Pfaff)
• Don’t Take My Papa Away from Me (Joe Hill)
• Dream, A (Richard Brazier)
• Dream of a Millionaire, The (John E. Nordquist)
• Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill (Anonymous)
• Dump the Bosses off Your Back (John Brill)
• Eight-Hour Song, The (Richard Brazier)
  
• Ella’s Song (Ella Baker and Bernice J. Reagon)
• Everett County Jail, The (William Whalen)
• Everett, November Fifth (Charles Ashleigh)
• Everybody’s Joining It (Joe Hill)
• Farewell Frank Little (Gerard J. Lively)
  
• Farewell, Joe (Richard Brazier)
• Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks (Anonymous)
• Fight Like Hell (Marry “Mother Jones” Harris and Kristen Lems)
• Food Not Finance (Icemakers of the Revolution)
• Forget Me Not (Arlene Mantel)
• Frank H. Little, To (Phillips Russell)
• Freedom Road (Leslie Fish)
• General Strike Song (Louis Burcar)
  
• Gesundheit, Mister Wob (T-Bone Slim)
• Girl Question, The (Joe Hill)
• Give Back My Factory to Me (IWW Lehigh Valley Branch, PA, USA)
• Give Me That New Union Contract (Anonymous)
• Giving Nothing Back (Tom Juravich)
• Go, I Shall Send Thee (Goddard Graves)
• Go to Work on Monday (Si Kahn)
• God Bless You Very Wealthy Men (Arnie Alpert)
• Gone Are the Days (Richard Brazier)
• Good Old Wobbly Band, The (A. Layton)
• Good-Bye, Dollars; I Must Leave You (Richard Brazier)
• Gyppo’s Finish, The (L. E. Sinclair)
• Hand-Out Route, The (Hambone-Bill)
  
• Hands (Sophie Fagin)
• Hark! The Battle-Cry Is Ringing! (H. S. Salt)
• Harvest Hands (M. Squirk)
• Harvest Land (T-D. and H.)
• Harvest War Song (Pat Brennan)
• Harvesters! (Anonymous)
• Hellelujah [Hallelujah, on the Bum / Hallelujah, I’m a Bum / Hallelujah, We’re All on the Bum] (Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock and Payoff)
• Hey! Polly (Ralph Chaplin)
• High Tech (Ngoma Hill and Jaribu Hill)
• Hijos del Pueblo (Anonymous) / Children of the People (Joe Grim Feinberg)
  
• Hold the Fort (Anonymous)
• Hold the Line (Anonymous)
• Hope of the Ages, The (Edith Nesbit)
• I. Double W.s, The (Douglas Robson)
• I Might Suggest (T-Bone Slim)
  
• I. W. W. (Donald Crocker)
• I. W. W. Prison Song (Ralph Chaplin)
• I Wanna Free Miss Liberty (T-Bone Slim)
• I Wear a Pitchfork (T-Bone Slim)
• I Went to the Country (August Walquist)
• I’ll Remember You (Richard Brazier)
• I’m Dreaming of a Fair Contract (Judie McCall)
• I’m Too Old to Be a Scab (T-Bone Slim)
• If I Were a Bell (Vera Moller)
• If It Weren’t for the Union (Geoff Francis and Peter Hicks)
• If You Workers Would Only Unite (Richard Brazier)
• Industrial Unionism Speaks to Toilers of the Sea (Harold R. Johnson)
• Industrial Workers of the World, The (Laura Payne Emerson)
• Internationale, The (Charles H. Kerr)
• It Is Great to Be Alive (Harry Hooton)
• It Is the Union (Richard Brazier)
• It Is Up to You (Anonymous)
• It’s a Good Thing to Join a Union (Anonymous)
• It’s a Long Way Down to the Breadline (Charles Ashleigh)
• It’s a Long Way Down to the Soup Line (Joe Hill)
• It’s Up to You! (Mary E. Marcy)
• Jobites (Jane Street)
  
• Jobites’ Lament, The (Cliff Hughes)
• Joe Hill (Ralph Chaplin)
• Joe Hill (Phil Ochs)
• Joe Hill in Jail (Ralph Chaplin)
• Joe Hill’s Last Will (Joe Jill)
• John D.’s Soliloquy (Charles Scurlock)
• John Golden and the Lawrence Strike (Joe Hill)
• Joseph J. Ettor on His Twenty-Seventh Birthday, To (Arturo Giovannitti)
• Junior Wobbly Song, A / Rock-a-Bye Baby (Anonymous)
• Kitten in the Wheat, The (Anonymous)
• Labor’s Dixie (Charles M. Robinson)
  
• Labor’s Endless Chain (Anonymous)
• Landlord and Tenant (Sydney Carter)
• Larimer Street (Utah Phillips)
• Last Word, The (G. G. Florine)
• Legal – Illegal (Ewan MacColl)
• Let’s Line Up Bill (Wingy Thomas)
• Liberty Forever (Joe Hill)
• Links on the Chain (Phil Ochs)
• LIP Song (Kathleen Taylor)
• Little Red Songbook, The (Richard Brazier)
• Long, Long Fight, The (Richard Brazier)
• Long Resolution, The (E. Morse)
• Lumberjack’s Prayer, The (T-Bone Slim)
• Maids’ Defiance, The (Anonymous)
  
• Make No Mistake (Anonymous)
• Making the Camps Like Home (Richard Brazier)
• Marseillaise, The / The Workers’ Marseillaise (Charles H. Kerr)
• Master Class Are Feeling Fine, The (Richard Brazier)
• Masters Beware (Anonymous)
• May Day (Smokey Dymny)
• May Day Song (Ralph Chaplin)
• Meet Me in the Jungles, Louie (Richard Brazier)
• Memory, In (James J. Ferriter)
• Men of Kemira, The (Kevin Baker)
• Message from o’er the Sea, The (Anonymous)
• Canción Revolucionaria Mexicana / Mexican Revolutionary Song (Anonymous)
• Might Is Right (Covington Hall)
• Mileage (T-Bone Slim)
• Minimum Wage Strike (David Rovics)
• Mister Block (Joe Hill)
• Mister Block Has the Blues (Ernest Riebe)
• Moderation (James Connolly)
• Mourn Not the Dead (Ralph Chaplin)
• Movie Town, In (Sam Slingsby)
• Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Trial, At the (Agnes Thecla Fair)
• My Little Son, To (Ralph Chaplin)
• My Wandering Boy (Anonymous)
• Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life, The (T-Bone Slim)
• National Anathema (Anonymous)
  
• Nearer My Job to Thee (Joe Hill)
• New America, The (Tuli Kupferberg)
• New Solidarity Forever, The (Jack Langan)
• Nine to Five Song (Anonymous)
• Ninety and Nine, The (Rose Elizabeth Smith)
• Not So Long Ago (Hugo Dewar and Bill Bumpus)
• November (Ralph Chaplin)
• November Nineteenth (John E. Nordquist)
• Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (George Lambert)
  
• Old Dark Mill, Down in the (Joe Hill)
• Old Ma Bell (Anonymous)
• Old Red Button, That (Richard Brazier)
• Old Toiler’s Message, The (Joe Hill)
• Once More—The Road (Charles Ashleigh)
• One Big Industrial Union (George G. Allen)
• One More Day than Them (Geoff Francis and Peter Hicks)
• Onward, One Big Union! (Ralph Cheney)
• Optimistic Laborites, The (John F. Kendrick)
• Organize! (James J. Ferriter)
• Outa Work Blues (Carlos Cortez)
• Overalls and Snuff (Anonymous)
• Paint ‘Er Red (Elmer Rumbaugh & Ralph Chaplin)
  
• Parasites, The (John E. Nordquist)
• Parody on J. D., A (Anonymous)
• Picket Boogie, The (Judy McCallen)
• Picket Line, Down at the (Anonymous)
• Picket Line, On the (Anonymous, Sark, IWW Lehigh Valley Branch, PA, USA)
• Popular Wobbly, The (T-Bone Slim)
• Por Qué los Pobres No Tienen (Isabel Parra) / Because the Poor Have No Other Place (Barbara Dane)
• Portland Revolution, The (Dublin Dan)
• Potter Valley Mill (Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney)
• Preacher and the Slave, The (Joe Hill)
• Prices Rise (Anonymous)
• Public Workers, Stand Together (Paul McKenna)
• Put It on the Ground (Ray Glaser and Bill Wolff)
• Quiet, Please! (T-Bone Slim)
  
• Rebel Girl, The (Joe Hill and Hazel Dickens)
  
• Red Feast, The (Ralph Chaplin)
• Red Flag, The (James Connell)
• Remember (Harrison George)
• Renunciation (Joachim Raucher)
• Restaurant (Laura Tanne)
• Revolution (Laura Payne Emerson)
• Right to Be Lazy, The (Luis J. Prat)
• Rise Again (Tom Juravich)
• Road to Emancipation, The (Lone Wolf)
• Rob a Train (Eddie Holewa)
• Roll Call, The (Anonymous)
• Roll the Hours Back (The Irish Cowboy)
• Roll the Union On (John Handcox)
• Sabo-Tabby Kitten, That (Ralph Chaplin)
  
• Scabs (Anne Feeney)
• Scabs Crawl In, The (Anonymous)
• Scabs Look Out (Anonymous)
• Scissor Bill (Joe Hill)
• Ship Out (August Walquist)
• Should I Ever Be a Soldier (Joe Hill)
• Slavery to Freedom, From (Anonymous)
• So Long, Partner (Larry Penn)
• Solidaritätslied (Bertolt Brecht) / Solidarity Song (Eric Bentley and Joe Grim Feinberg)
• Solidarity (Bertram Lester Weber)
• Solidarity (Yale University Local 34)
• Solidarity Forever! (Ralph Chaplin)
• Solidarity Is Easy (Smokey Dymny)
• Some Day a Silent Guard (Ralph Chaplin)
• Song for 1910, A / A Song for 1911 / A Song for the Wage Slave (Anonymous)
• Song of My Da (Paul O’Brien)
• Song of the Rail, The (Ralph Chaplin)
• Song of the Scissorbill (Anonymous)
• Song of the Sea, A (James Morris)
• Song on the Times (Anonymous)
• Sons of Toil and Danger (Anonymous)
• Soul Stealers (Kathleen Taylor)
• Stand United, All You Workers (Lenny Flank)
• Stand Up! Ye Workers (Ethel Comer)
• Star-Spangled George Bush (Albert Schatz)
• Starlight on the Rails (Utah Phillips)
• Staying Out on the Line (Joanne Delaplaine)
• Step by Step (Waldemar Hille and Pete Seeger)
• Stevedore and the Boss, The (Anonymous)
• Stick ‘Em Up (Shorty)
• Still Ain’t Satisfied (Bonnie Lockhart)
• Strip Mine Boss (Kyle Mills)
• Stung Right (Joe Hill)
• Suckers Sadly Gather, The (Richard Brazier)
• Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay (Joe Hill)
• Take a Stand (Dublin Dan)
  
• Take and Hold (James Connolly)
• Tear Down the Bars (Vera Moller)
• Ten Little Craft Unions (Bertam Lester Weber)
• There Is Power in a Union (Billy Bragg)
• There Is Power in a Union (Joe Hill)
• There Is Power in the Earth (Walkin’ Jim Stoltz)
• There’s a Bright Way to Freedom (Herbert Tulin)
• They Are All Fighters (Richard Brazier)
• They Go Wild over Me (Candie Anderson Carawan)
  
• They’ll Soon Ring Out (John E. Nordquist)
• This Little Scab (IWW Chicago Branch and SEIU Local 329)
• Though They Promise (Bertram Lester Weber)
• Three Shining Stars (T. E. Hawkins)
• Tie ‘Em Up! (George G. Allen)
• Tierra y Libertad (Enrique Flores Magón and Joe Grim Feinberg)
• Tragedy of Sunset Land, The (Loren Roberts)
• Tramp, The (Joe Hill and Hugo T. Hansen)
• Tumbledown Shack, That (George Lambert)
• Union Buster, The (Paul McKenna)
  
• Union Maid (Woody Guthrie)
• Union Song (Tom Morello)
• Unite! Unite! (Thomas Borland)
• Universal Housewife (Tuli Kupferberg)
• Us the Hoboes and Dreamers (Covington Hall)
• VDT (Tom Juravich)
  
• Wage Slave Redemption (Sean Carleton)
  
• Wage Workers, Come Join the Union (Anonymous)
• Walking on the Grass (Anonymous)
• Warrior Wind, The (Ralph Chaplin)
• We Are Building a Strong Union (Anonymous)
• We Are the Only Union (Anonymous)
• We Come (Anonymous)
• We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years (Anonymous and Rudolph Von Liebich)
• We Made Good Wobs Out There (Vera Moller)
• We Shall Not Be Moved (Anonymous)
• We Shall Not Give Up the Fight (Anonymous)
• We Will Sing One Song (Joe Hill)
• We Will Unite (Richard Brazier)
• We’re Ready (Anonymous)
• Welfare Song (Anonymous)
• Wesley Everest (Ralph Chaplin)
• Whadda Ya Want to Break Your Back for the Boss For? (Joe Foley)
• What Ever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day? (Anne Feeney)
• What Shall We Do with the Starbucks Bosses? (Joe Grim Feinberg)
• What We Need (Bertram Lester Weber)
• What We Want (Joe Hill)
• What’s the Use? (James Kelly Cole)
• When (T-Bone Slim)
• When the People Have Burst Their Chains (Anonymous)
• When You Ask for Relief (Arthur Weinberg)
• When You Wear That Button (Richard Brazier)
• Where Are We Gonna Work When the Trees Are Gone (Darryl Cherney)
• Where the Fraser River Flows (Joe Hill)
• Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese)
• White Slave, The (Joe Hill)
• Who Bombed Judi Bari (Darryl Cherney)
• Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Anonymous)
• Wobbly Good and True, A (Paul Walker)
• Woman’s Fight, The (Anonymous)
• Work Rap Song (Workers Lives / Workers Stories)
• Worker’s Funeral Hymn, The (S. E. Sinclair)
• Worker’s Plea, A (T-Bone Slim)
• Workers of England / Workers of the World (James Connell)
• Workers of the World Are Now Awaking, The (Richard Brazier)
• Workers of the World, Awaken! (Joe Hill)
• Workers of the World, Unite (Holquist)
• Workers, Shall the Masters Rule Us? (Frank Brechler)
• Workers, So They Say, The (Richard Brazier)
• Workers’ Battle Cry for Freedom, The (George G. Allen)
• Workers’ Control Song (Clem Parkinson)
• Workers’ Memorial Song (Anonymous)
• “Workin’ Stiff,” The (Lionel Moise)
• Working Folk (J. McCormick)
• Working Folk, Come Organize (Anonymous)
• Working Folk, Do You Hear? (Richard Brazier)
• Working Folk, Unite (E. S. Nelson)
• Working Folk, You Are Called Upon (Richard Brazier)
• Workingman’s Crime, The (Bertram Lester Weber)
• World Goes On, The (Vera Moller)
• World to Win, A (Eddie Holewa)
• World Turned Upside Down, The (Leon Rosselson)
• Worn-Out Slave, The (George Lambert)
• Worries of the Great Big Boss (John Olday)
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Frank Little)
  
• Yield Not to the Boss (Eugene Barnett)
• You Can’t Stop the March of the Toilers (Richard Brazier)
• You Gotta Go Down (Woody Guthrie and Ray Elbourn)
• Your Knees, Up from (Ralph Chaplin)