Songs of the People - 1937 - Cover












Songs of the People was a songbook published in January 1937 in New York City by Workers Library Publishers. It is not directly connected with People's Songs, an organisation founded by Pete Seeger and others in 1945.

You can download the entire Songs of the People songbook in PDF format (7.9Mb) or download or view individual songs from the songbook:

title:
composer:
Arise You Workers/Bandiera Rossa
Italian revolutionary song
The Barricades

Be a Man
Maurice Sugar
Black Man Fights Wid de Shovel
Negro soldiers song from the World War
Casey Jones
words by Joe Hill
Comintern
lyrics by Victor J. Jerome, music by Hans Eisler
Death House Blues
Lyrics by Peter Marin, music by Earl Robinson
Forward, We've Not Forgotten
English lyrics by Henry Jordan, music by Hans Eisler
Frisco Strike Saga
Lyrics by Stephen Karnet and Earl Robinson
Going Home Song
Sung during the World War
Hold the Fort
Gospel Hymn
In Praise of Learning
Lyrics by 'Bert' Brecht, music by Hans Eisler
The Internationale
Eugene Pottier, Pierre Degeyter
Join In the Fight
'Heaven Boun' Soldier' Negro Spiritual
May First
Lyrics by Madge Kay, music by Mark Severn
Not If, But When
Lyrics by Fred Rolland, music by Carl Sands
Old Man Banker Had a Plan

On the Picket Line

O Tortured and Broken
Old Russian prisoners' song
Ours is the Future/Rote Soldaten
Stefan Volpe
The People's Song

The Peat Bog Soldiers/Die Moorsoldaten

Pioneer! Pioneer!
Lyrics by Harold Gray, music by L. E. Swift
Poor Mr Morgan
L. E. Swift
The Preacher and the Slave
Lyrics by Joe Hill
The Red Army March

The Red Banner
Lyrics by M. L. Korr, arranged for chorus by D. Hunt McCurdy
Rifle Song
A. Davidenko
The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die
Lyrics by Charles Abron, music by L. E. Swift
Solidarity Forever

Song of Wrath
Music by F. Szabo, arranged by D. Hunt McCurdy
Soup Song
Lyrics by Maurice Sugar
They're Talking War
Jesse Lloyd
The Tramp
Lyrics by Joe Hill
Union Town
Lyrics by Henry Jordan, music by Mark Severn
United Front Song
Lyrics by 'Bert' Brecht, music by Hans Eisler
We Ain't Gonna Slave No More

We Are the Guys
Maurice Sugar
We Shall Not Be Moved
Sharecroppers' song
Whirlwinds of Danger/Varshavianka
Polish revolutionary song
Workers' Funeral March

Write Me Out My Union Card

The Youthful Guardsman


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