Includes traditional tunes as well as original songs by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
Includes discography (page 93) and index.
Various trades. The printer's trade ; I'm champion at keepin' 'em rolling ; Needle and thread ; The firefighter's song -- Contemporary broadsides. Jamie Foyers ; The ballad of Springhill ; Go down, you murderers ; The ballad of Jimmy Wilson ; The lifeboat Mona ; Hey ho! Cook and Rowe! ; The crooked cross ; The young birds -- The iron road. Song of the iron road ; Fireman's calypso ; Ballad of leisure time ; The fireman's not for me -- Road builders. The exile song ; Hot asphalt ; The driver's song ; Come, me little son ; The fitter's song -- The bold fishermen. North Sea holes ; Shoals of herring ; Net-hauling song ; Song of the fish-gutters ; Fisherman's wife -- Coalminers. The plodder seam ; The big hewer ; Schoolday's end ; Miner's wife ; The gallant colliers -- Lovers. The first time ever I saw your face ; The letter ; My love and I are one -- Songs for survival. Five fingers ; The Trafford Road ballad ; The dove ; There's better things ; That bomb has got to go ; Brother, won't you join in the line? ; Come live with me ; March with us today ; When I was young ; Lullabye for the times -- Just songs. The space girl's song ; The ballad of the carpenter ; I'm a rambler ; The lag's song ; Northern city ; No agents need apply ; Come, fill up your glasses