Happy Labor Day Workers?

Kudos for posting Murray McLauchlan Harvey. That's a great album, as is Song From The Street. I never see any of you Canadians post Stan Rogers-no likee?

Working Man-Long Tall Lester

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsoUMNhX6Y

By The Sweat Of My Brow-Bill Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDiLc_nj188

I Don't Want Your Millions Mister-The Almanac Singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7VkWAYHUFQ

Corrido De Cesar Chavez-Los Perrros Del Pueblo Nuevo

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=Corrido+de+Cesa...

Dark As A Dungeon-Merle Travis w/ The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9WBWqC4YM

Fire In The Hole-Hazel Dickens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGPbHnpQks

Cotton Mill Colic-David McCarn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CuXKbsqmVM

Gonna Go To Work On Monday One More Time-Si Kahn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA85SmHrMT4

Come All Ye Coal Miners-Sarah Ogan Gunning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_TqxrZpkQU

Please Mr. Foreman-Joe Lee Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2kdeLsYn0M

People are doing a pretty good job on this question. May Day (1st of May) is the big day everywhere but North America I think. A few extras

Billy Bragg, the Bard of Barking, singing the Communist anthem, which George Bernard Shaw reputedly said had all the panache of a funeral march for a fried eel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg

Three versions of Jim Connell's The Red Flag, usually sung to a tune you will know. First Robert Wyatt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFduaYmeP4

Billy Bragg again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obpd9uc5HVg

A different tune, from Cape Breton

http://protestsongs.ca/volume-1/the-red-flag/

The Specials's cover of Maggie's Farm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA8KR0Qo8R8

Thatcher was 54 in when she became PM in 1979. Coincidence? I think not.

All you latter-day Wobblies, read up about the Little Red Songbook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Songbook

I can't find anything by T-Bone Slim on YouTube.

Good to hear a calypso number among your links, @Wire. If you're a native Yank and understood what Lord Invader meant by "bodyline", I'm seriously, but seriously, impressed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulLj2seaPc

The great batsmen have a lifetime average of 40+ in international cricket. Don Bradman averaged 99.94. The next best is 60.97. In baseball terms, imagine, say, someone hitting 0.600 over their career with beanballs legal [Edit] and no helmets.

Workers of all countries unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

I was trying to post links of Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin songs performed by others as Martin was awarding me best answer. I'll get back to this. Utah Phillips certainly was among them.

James McMurtry "We Can't Make It Here Anymore"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWrqR_QFfg

Steve Earle "Rich Man's War"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjT6B6IFUU8

Bruce Springsteen "The Promised Land"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Cf6pgwm0I

Joe Hill song (performed by Utah Phillips) "There is Power In The Union"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93YpTYCWRk

Utah Phillips "Hallelujah I'm A Bum"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0&feature...

Redonditos de Ricota "Fuegos de Oktubre"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzgLZJ9Dvo

That's a start. "Oktubre" is an early 80s recording that was passed around on cassettes as Argentinians were still fearing a return to military rule.

Bersuit Vergarabat - En La Ribera (subtle translation: on the edge)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PijLWOuXmTY

Billy Bragg "The World Turned Upside Down"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxW5yvpeHg4

Pete Seeger "Which Side Are You On?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43Cm6ra0hY

Utah Phillips "The Preacher & The Slave" (Joe Hill's "Pie In The Sky")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTjeMN0-Dw

And what are my plans for Labor Day? Why, leave Y/A to get ready for work! See y'all tonight.

Pete Seeger - "Solidarity Forever"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VtAhrq9S0w

Woody Guthrie - "Union Burying Ground"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuzbX6pfY-c

Tom Morello - "Union Song"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQMvzVE9IOk

Bruce Springsteen - "Factory"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhqdmBC1kA

David Rovics - "The Lowell Factory Girl"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OsxZLZLlRg

..and from north of the border, where it's LABOUR Day, a couple I can never get enough of...

Murray McLaughlin - "The Farmer's Song"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJbO0quK-cU

Rita MacNeil and the Men of the Deeps (actual coal miners) - "Working Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-EiwiiAh68

Blue Collar Man - Styx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDM6v1XhWEg

I've Been Workin - Bob Seger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WBSSN6VpUs

Working Man - Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFrIxvQLdYI

Working Man Blues - Merle Haggard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSn9pXJjRi0

Hard Days Night - The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_A2XkXKfA

Working At The Car Wash Blues - Jim Croce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwuP7ILX32E

Working Man Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCUAQG_r3k

Here, and these ought to go real well with the Democratic Convention going on in NC too.

Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M

The Internationale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suVB3YGIUk0

It's A Beautiful Day - Wasted Union Blues

..I guess they could be talking about work :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySNA2jIoXMw

I like mark everett doing 16 tons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTT4MPNtRGI

*cant believe I forgot one of my favorites

beck- soul sucking jerk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNCyx5_qraY

Damn! I scanned down the list and went straight for James Mc. "we ain't gonna make it anymore". Heell

MM had it first on the list.

That's the statement I wanted to make. (Right ON MM)

Staying withh James McMurty. "the fuller brush man" .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rreFt1ZevnY&feature...

Hi W. & S!

" Happy Labor Day To You All! "

Part Of The Union - The Strawbs.

big bad john - jimmy dean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhOhU8HfaQ0

bang the drum all day - todd rundgren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZjavMEeXF4

maggie's farm - bob dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4y-9RoMFU

workin man blues - merle haggard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM

working on the road - ten years after

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_49OtpnxgM

get a job - the silhouettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGthv-dJp4

don't talk to me about work - lou reed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYVDYDyync

five o'clock world - the vogues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSIGwAY2JBs