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"Thirty Cents A Day Lyrics"
THIRTY CENTS A DAY!
In a dim-lighted chamber a dying maiden lay,
The tide of her pulses was ebbing fast away;
In the flush of her youth she was worn with toil and care,
And starvation showed its traces on the festures once so fair.
cho: No more the work-bell calls the wery one,
Rest, tired wage-slave, in your grave unknown;
Your feet will no
Home of Once Brave Lyrics
Out of the water The cold black Nordic sky Risen towards the eternal sky The land lays open and free Up high the Mountains Where the wind catch its speed and chi
more tread life's thorny, rugged way,Out of the water The cold black Nordic sky Risen towards the eternal sky The land lays open and free Up high the Mountains Where the wind catch its speed and chi
They have murdered you by inches upon thirty cents a day !
From earliest childhood she'd toiled to win her bread,
In hunger and rags, oft she wished that she were dead;
She knew naught of life's joys or the pleasures wealth can bring,
Or the glory of the woodland in the merry days of spring.
cho:
By the rich s
Easy Out Lyrics
The black silhouette appears at my door Dragging me out, I'm clawing the floorboards. Pretty soon I'm all heads up For long bombs and double-knotting my Ked
he was tempted to eat the bread of shame,The black silhouette appears at my door Dragging me out, I'm clawing the floorboards. Pretty soon I'm all heads up For long bombs and double-knotting my Ked
But her mother dear had taught her to value her good name;
Mid want and starvation she waved temptation by,
As she would not sell her honor she in poverty must die.
cho:
Too late, Christian ladies! You cannot save her now,
She breathes out her life --- see the death-damp on her brow;
Full soon she'll be sleeping beneath
From A Distance Lyrics
From a distance, the world looks blue and green, and the snow capped mountains white. From a distance, the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a
the churchyard clay,From a distance, the world looks blue and green, and the snow capped mountains white. From a distance, the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a
While you smile on those who killed her with thirty cents a day.
cho:
From American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century, Foner
Note: A Knights of Labor Song: somewhere between 1865 and 1890,
I'd guess. RG
tune: Faded Coat of Blue
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filename[ THRTYCNT
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