Thread by @labornotes

Labor Notes has compiled 24 #LaborDay songs. Some of the selections are classics; others may surprise you. 🧵

May Day, International Workers’ Day, is the original day of celebration of working-class solidarity marked by rallies, fiery speeches, and demonstrations. #Solidarity

1. Lightnin' Hopkins - It's A Sin To Be Rich, It's A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor #LaborDay

2. Gil Scott Heron - Three Miles Down #LaborDay

3. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message #LaborDay

4. Barbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist System #LaborDay

5. Hazel Dickens- They'll Never Keep Us Down #LaborDay

6. John Prine - Grandpa Was A Carpenter #LaborDay

7. Sweet Honey In The Rock -More Than A Paycheck #LaborDay

8. Early in the Mornin' #LaborDay

9. Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union #LaborDay

10. Peter Seeger- Solidarity Forever #LaborDay

11. Judy Collins - Bread and Roses #LaborDay

12. Woody Guthrie- Union Burying Ground #LaborDay

13. Phil Ochs- The Ballad of Joe Hill #LaborDay

14. Los Tigres Del Norte - Tres Veces Mojado #LaborDay

15. Creedence Clearwater Revival-The Midnight Special
#LaborDay

16. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues #LaborDay

17. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 #LaborDay

18. El Teatro Campesino-El Picket Sign #LaborDay

19. Joan Baez - No nos moverán #LaborDay

20. Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It #LaborDay

21. Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons #LaborDay

22. Dan Reeder - Work Song #LaborDay

23. Alabama - Forty Hour Week #LaborDay

24. The Kinks - Get Back In the Line #LaborDay