"Eight-Hour Day" lyrics - PETE SEEGER
PETE SEEGER
"Eight-Hour Day"
We're brave and gallant miner boys, who work in underground
For courage and good nature, no finer can be found
We work both late and early, and get but little pay
To support our wives and children, in free Americay
If Satan took the blacklegs, I'm sure t'would bid no sin
What peace and happiness t'would be, for us poor workin' men
Eight hours we'd have for workin', eight hours we'd have for play
Eight hours we'd have for sleeping, in free Americay
American Industrial Ballads (1956)
- Peg And Awl
- The Blind Fiddler
- The Buffalo Skinners
- Eight-Hour Day
- Hard Times In The Mill
- Roll Down The Line
- Hayseed Like Me
- The Farmer Is The Man (Who Feeds Us All)
- Come All You Hardy Miners
- He Lies In The American Land
- Casey Jones
- Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
- Cotton Mill Colic
- Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat
- Mill Mother's Lament
- Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
- Beans, Bacon, And Gravy
- The Death Of Harry Simms
- Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
- Ballad Of Barney Graham
- My Children Are Seven In Number
- Raggedy
- Pittsburgh Town
- Sixty Percent