There is a power in a union (playlist)
This week’s playlist celebrates International Workers Day, May 1st. The list includes Joe Hill’s version of There is Power in a Union, from which I borrowed the title.
Like Woody, Joe borrowed his tunes, mostly from the hymns played by brass bands sent by the bosses to drown out the words of radical speakers on picket lines and at protests. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me recycling his title.
(I borrowed the tune too, from a US civil war song called ‘The Battle Cry of Freedom’. But that’s how folk music works)
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