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I Went to Atlanta

Anonymous
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania Press - 1953 - p.106
—Library of Congress, Archive of American Folk Song, unpublished collection.
I went to Atlanta,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/17 - 23:33
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Mr.Tyree

Anonymous
Mr.Tyree
Testo trascritto dalla presentazione del video citato
Mr. Tyree
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/17 - 17:25

I Am Sold and Going to Georgia

Anonymous
Library of Congress, Archive of AmericanFolk Song, WPA Collection.
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia University Pennsylvania Press 1953
p. 95-96

This song is usually sung by the chained gangs of slaves who are on their way, being driven from Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky, to the more southern states for sale. The last line of each verse is the chorus, and gives a most impressive effect when sung—as it often is— by 60 or 150 voices echoing the plaintive grief of their hearts. This last line is intended as an appeal to all who have it in their power to aid in bringing about the jubilee of emancipation. -J. W. C. Pennington, D.D. Despite Dr. Pennington's contemporary affidavit that this is a Negro song, most observers will agree that its white origin is transparent; but it is worth including, if only for Dr. Pennington's intriguing phrase, "sung ... by 60 or 150 voices."
O! When shall we poor souls be free?
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/15 - 17:21
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Ti ricordi la sera dei baci

Anonymous
Ti ricordi la sera dei baci
Come volevasi dimostrare queste tradizioni si son perse, mi ritrovo qui dopo studi in conservatorio a Reggio Calabria abbandonati. Dopo essermi trasferito nel Nord Italia, ho incominciato ad ascoltare questi canti, essendo appassionato di opera lirica. Consiglio questa versione del canto molto più orecchiabile:

Alby 2024/4/13 - 01:12

I Want to Go Home

Anonymous
Da : Slave Songs of the United States.
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. - Part 1, p.46 , #61

William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .

[Verse 7 was added after the Emancipation Proclamation.--J. S. R.]
da: William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
Dere's no rain to wet you.
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/11 - 17:10
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Roll, Jordan, Roll

Anonymous
Roll, Jordan, Roll
da :“ Slave Songs of the United States”
Allen,Williams Francis – NewYork 1867
Ed. L’EPOS 2004 - Palermo
I SUONI DEL MONDO 8
Collana diretta da Luca Cerchiari
SCORRI, GIORDANO, SCORRI.
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/4 - 19:56
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I Gotta Run

Anonymous
Album : Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Parchman Prison Prayer - 2023
I GOTTA RUN as sung by L. Stevenson ( age 29 )

Per ulteriori notizie sull’album cui appartiene la traccia si rimanda all’articolo " Parchman Prison Prayer: quando le canzoni nascevano nelle prigioni". Allegato alla canzone “ Since I’ve Laid My Burden Down” ( Mississippi John Hurt ) di AWS.
I gotta run, I gotta run, I gotta run.
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/3 - 13:44
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Roll, Jordan, Roll

Anonymous
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Roll, Jordan, Roll ( Traditional )
The Golden Gate Quartet - 1960


Well, now roll Jordan, roll
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/28 - 18:59
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Pick a Bale of Cotton

Anonymous
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long (Traditional)

Testo e nota da Azizi Powell.

This comedic song is about a preacher (minister) visiting people on Sunday (when it was common to have fried chicken for dinner.) The "pickin cotton all day long" chorus doesn't have anything to do with the preacher and chicken verses.

Traccia audio e nota da :

Prison Worksongs Recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary,Angola,La,by Dr. Harry Oster
ARHOOLIE CD 448
© &® 1959 & 1997 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc

Pickin' Cotton All Day Long sung by two sisters, Creola & Ceola Scott who were very religious and not particularly fond of this type of secular material.. ( Dr. Harry Oster 1959 )
Pickin’ cotton ,cotton pickin’ all day long,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/27 - 12:22
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Let Your Hammer Ring

Anonymous
Let Your Hammer Ring
PRISON WORKSONGS
Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, La. and other locations, mostly in 1959

Let Your Hammer Ring,
Big Louisiana, lead; Willy Rafus, and Arthur Davis.

Originally this song accompanied the driving of spikes into the wooden ties which held railroad tracks in place. The basic tool was a ten-pound hammer with two heads, hardly more than two inches in diameter. The steel-driving man swung freely in a complete circle about his head, then brought the hammer unerringly down on the spike. Since the railroad's disappearance at Angola, the same song has often been sung, as it is here, to facilitate wood-chopping. Unlike many of the group worksongs, "Let Your Hammer Ring" has artistic unity. The subject in this magnificent song swings naturally from the ring of the hammer to ringing a plea to the governor for pardon; the desire for a pardon... (Continues)
Ring 'em all together,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/19 - 18:55
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Fort Smith Jail

Anonymous
Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Fort Smith Jail
Cat. #1388 (MFH #254) - As sung by Joan O'Bryant, Wichita, Kansas
Come all you people, I'll tell you a tale
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/10 - 21:07
Song Itineraries: From World Jails
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Lonely Banna Strand (the Ballad of Roger Casement)

Anonymous
Lonely Banna Strand (the Ballad of Roger Casement)
"Roger David Casement (1864 – 1916) was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. He was a British consul, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland’s Easter Rising in 1916. An Irish nationalist and Parnellite in his youth, he worked in Africa for commercial interests and later in the service of Britain. However, the Boer War and his consular investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist and, ultimately, to Irish Republican and separatist political opinions. He sought to obtain German support for a rebellion in Ireland against British rule. Shortly before the Easter Rising, he landed in Ireland and was arrested. He was subsequently convicted and executed by the British for treason. His remains were buried in the yard... (Continues)
It was on Good Friday morning, all in the month of May.
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/3/9 - 10:22
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland

Oi sodan surkeutta

Anonymous
Oi sodan surkeutta
Riccardo Venturi, 7-3-2024 22:19
Miserabile guerra!
(Continues)
2024/3/7 - 22:49
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Hard Times in Jail

Anonymous
Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Hard Times in Jail
Cat. #0475 (MFH #254) - As sung by Mr. Alford, Delmar, Arkansas on February 2, 1960
Jest th other day I heard th jailer say
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/7 - 21:20
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Varjele Jumala soasta

Anonymous
Varjele Jumala soasta
Anonimo Toscano del XXI Secolo, 7-3-2024 20:45
Proteggi, Signore, dalla guerra (Continues)
2024/3/7 - 20:45
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O Gorizia, tu sei maledetta

Anonymous
O Gorizia, tu sei maledetta
GORIZIA - Traindeville



“Le canzoni si nutrono del sangue della Storia. La Storia si nutre del sangue degli uomini. Gli uomini si nutrono del sangue delle canzoni. Questa canzone, si dice che i fanti che erano sorpresi a cantarla durante la prima guerra mondiale venivano passati per le armi. Questa canzone causò una rissa al Festival di Spoleto negli anni sessanta. Questa canzone continua ad essere cantata, a piacere e a piacerci. E continua a dispiacere a qualcuno”, così il cantautore genovese Max Manfredi a proposito di “Gorizia”, celebre canzone della tradizione anarchica e antimilitarista che la band romana Traindeville ha reinterpretato con lui in un intenso videoclip, girato in un bianco e nero spettrale dalle sapienti cineprese del collettivo Todomodo, documentaristi da sempre impegnati nel campo della Memoria.

In un momento storico in cui parlare di pace o anche solo di cessate... (Continues)
Ludovica Valori 2024/2/29 - 11:06
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Song of the Coffle Gang

Anonymous
Traducanzone di Andrea Buriani
da “Song of the Coffle Gang” (di Anonimo)

ANIME RUBATE ALL’AFRICA
(Continues)
2024/2/28 - 09:27
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Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire

Anonymous
Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire
Coro "Union des amis chanteurs"

Questa è una versione in italiano "cantabile" (con qualche attenzione alla metrica) sulla melodia originale, a cura del coro sociale torinese "Union des amis chanteurs".
Inchiodato al filo spinato
(Continues)
Contributed by Roberta 2024/2/27 - 18:17
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Old Alabama

Anonymous
Old Alabama / Dan "B.B." Barnes and Group (Axe Song)
Da / From : Alan Lomax – Negro Prison Blues And Songs - 1947
Recorded live at the Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries
by Alan Lomax
Old Alabama joins the state of Florida
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/27 - 13:26

How Long, Brethren ?

Anonymous
Lawrence Gellert - Negro Songs of Protest.
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936
How long, brethren, how long,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/27 - 09:27

Sistren an’ Brethren

Anonymous
Lawrence Gellert -"Negro Songs of Protest"
Published by the American Music League - New York 1936
Stop foolin’ wid pray
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/27 - 00:17

'Cause I'm a Nigger

Anonymous
da
Lawrence Gellert, “Negro Songs of Protest”
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936
You take mah labor
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/26 - 17:15

Work Ox

Anonymous
da:
Me and My Captain: Chain Gang Negro Songs of Protest
by Lawrence Gellert, 1939
I ain’t gonna be your old work ox no more,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/25 - 15:28
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Work All the Summer

Anonymous
Work All the Summer
da :
Negro Songs Of Protest
Collected by Lawrence Gellert
American Music League – New York - 1932

Interpretata da:
- Paul Robeson
Work All The Summer
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/25 - 11:00
Song Itineraries: From World Jails
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Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta

Anonymous
Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta
Carlos.
Joaquin era mexicano, quien sino iba a pelear sino es por su tierra. Los chilenos son de apropiarse de cosas que no les pertenecen. Que verguenza Neruda!

*

Carlos
Joaquin Murrieta era un messicano, che non avrebbe combattuto se non per la sua terra. Ai cileni piace appropriarsi di cose che non gli appartengono. Che peccato Neruda!
2024/2/24 - 11:37
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La leggera

Anonymous
La leggera


Canta, bevi e ridi, ridi (trad., canzone, Val San Martin)
Canto popolare della Val San Martin (Val Germanasca, Alpi Occidentali)
Cantato in francese, seconda lingua dei numerosi valligiani di fede valdeana e del vicino Delfinato. Un'esortazione ad assaporare la vita ogni giorno, boccone dopo boccone.

La Leggera (trad., canzone, Emilia Romagna)
Canto popolare di lotta dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano
Cantato in italiano, “La Leggera” è anche il nome del treno che agli inizi del '900 portava i contadini dalle montagne al lavoro stagionale in Maremma. “Leggera” era un termine dispregiativo per chiamare gli emigranti e i lavoratori stagionali poverissimi che viaggiavano senza nulla (“leggera” significa “leggero”). Siamo all'inizio delle lotte dei proletari e degli sfruttati, mentre viaggiano, cantano e sognano. Il loro sogno è una settimana lavorativa in cui nessuno lavori e tutti vengano pagati. Davvero un bel sogno.
Commence la semaine qu’en dites-vous, cher voisin
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/2/23 - 20:46

Novantanove m'han chiamato

Anonymous
Novantanove m'han chiamato
novantanove mi ha chiamato,
ma chiamato ma chiamato militar,
ai confini mi ha mandato,
mia ha mandato mi ha mandato a bombardar,
bombardieri tra le rondini
una palla una palla mi colpi,
una palla luccicante
che nel petto che nel petto mi colpi.

Son venuti quattro amici
per portarmi per portarmi all'ospedal
ma il medico mi disse
non c'e' nulla non c'e' nulla da sperar.

Croce Rossa Croce Rossa
per amore per amore e carita'
dai un bacio alla mia mamma
ed un altro ed un altro al mio papa'.
Alessandro 2024/2/14 - 13:24
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Lassù sulle colline del Piemonte

Anonymous
Lassù sulle colline del Piemonte
Materiali Tradizionali (2006)

CANTATA DEI PARTIGIANI
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/1/17 - 18:56
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Fuoco e mitragliatrici e Valzer dei disertori

Anonymous
Versione di Beppe Chierici e Daisy Lumini Il titolo riportato sulla copertina è "Fuoco e mitragliatrice".
Fuoco e mitragliatrici <i>e</i> Valzer dei disertori
Questa Seta Che Filiamo (1972)

FUOCO E MITRAGLIATRICE
(Continues)
Contributed by Alberto Scotti 2024/1/17 - 04:05




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