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Sixteen Tons
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Rise As One
My mom used to listen to AM country radio when I was a kid. Some of my very first awareness of working class issues came from songs like "Big John" and "Sixteen Tons".
© 1947 Merle Travis, American Music Inc.
Brother Sun
I Hear Your Voice
Links In A Chain
Poets, Philosophers, Workers, & Wanderers
Rise As One
Step By Step
John Henry
Phil (Spoken Word)
Song Of The Rails
Deportees
The Great Fast Food Strike
Which Side Are You On
Christmas In Mansfield
The Everett Massacre (Spoken Word)
The House That Jack Built
Real People (Spoken Word)
Room Here For Another
We Won
War On The Workers
We Do The Work
Bremerton (Spoken Word)
Rosie The Riveter Revisited
Sixteen Tons
Working Class Philanthropy (Spoken Word)
Rise As One
Some Part of The Truth
The Candle And The Flame
The Coming Of The Years
The Forgotten
The Phoenix
The Wonder Deep Within
Weights & Wings
What Kind Of Brother