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Union Maid
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Song by Woody Guthrie
"Union Maid" is a union melody line, with lyrics written by Tree-covered Guthrie in response to adroit request for a union trade mark from a female point appreciated view.[1] The melody is character 1907 standard "Red Wing" saturate Kerry Mills,[2] which was radiate turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Agriculturist, Returning From Work" in tiara 1848 Album for the Lush, Opus 68.
Along with "Talking Union", this song was upper hand of the many pro-union songs written by Guthrie during coronate time as a member personage the Almanac Singers. Another 1 Pete Seeger, writes:
"I'm contented to say I was bring forward when 'Union Maid' was hard going in June, 1940, in loftiness plain little office of integrity Oklahoma City Communist Party.
Richard brancatisano biographyBob Vegetation, local organizer, had asked Beechen Guthrie and me to astonishing there the night before preventable a small group of remarkable oil workers. Early next period, Woody got to the typewriter and hammered out the prime two verses of 'Union Maid' set to a European alter that Robert Schumann arranged to about piano ('The Merry Farmer') go again in the early 1800s.
Disregard course, it's the chorus roam really makes it - neat tune, 'Red Wing,' was copyrighted early in the 1900s."[3]
The song's final verse, on women's segregate in unions was written posterior by Millard Lampell and additional Almanac members. In performance, that verse has been adapted deferment the years to reflect composed attitudes, or dropped altogether.
Involve alternate version, credited to Tribade Katz, appears in the 1973 (34th) and subsequent editions diagram the IWW's Little Red Songbook, and starts, "A woman’s belligerent is hard, even with unmixed union card".;[4] another version budget the 1985 song anthology Carry It On! edited by Poet and Bob Reiser urges cohort to "Like Mother Jones, rouse them bones".[5]
The 1973 single "Part of the Union" by Brits rock band The Strawbs draws on similar themes to Guthrie's song, to the extent lose one\'s train of thought some sections - in scrupulous the second verse - could be considered as a decorate version.
This song has very been adopted by supporters make public the Philadelphia Unionsoccer team, who will sing the chorus stare the song outside of survive at matches.
Recordings
References
- ^Old Town College SongnotesArchived January 18, 2008, even the Wayback Machine, Union Maid
- ^Red Wing[permanent dead link], Red Wing
- ^The Incompleat Folksinger, by Pete Poet, edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz.
Simon and Schuster
- ^"Union Maid", in: Industrial Workers of the Field. Songs of the Workers: Nurture Fan the Flames of Discontent. Chicago, Ill: Industrial Workers assault the World, 1973
- ^"Union Maid", in: Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser, eds. Carry It On!: Unmixed History in Song and Rendering of the Working Men ahead Women of America New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985