Sylvesterlied (New Year's Eve song), A major.Figurierter Choral (Figurative chorale), F major.Nordisches Lied (Nordic Song – Salute to G.), F major (dedicated to Niels Gade it is based on the cryptogram G-A-D-E).Winterzeit II (Wintertime II), C minor/C major.Winterzeit I (Wintertime I), C minor (sometimes considered one piece with Wintertime II).Lied italienischer Marinari (Italian mariners' song), G minor.Weinlesezeit – fröhliche Zeit! (Harvest time – happy time!), E major.Erinnerung (4 November 1847) (Remembrance), A major (dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn).Kanonisches Liedchen (Song in Canon form), A minor.Nachklänge aus dem Theater (Echoes from the theatre), A minor.* * * ( untitled), C major (based on 'Prison-Terzetto' ('Euch werde Lohn in bessern Welten') from Beethoven's Fidelio).Kleine Romanze (Little romance), A minor.Schnitterliedchen (The reaper's song), C major.Kleiner Morgenwanderer (Little morning wanderer), A major.Mai, lieber Mai (May, dear May), E major.Knecht Ruprecht ( Santa Claus), A minor.This song is also played during the opening of the 3-D animation film Shrek) Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend ('The merry peasant', returning from work or 'The Happy Farmer'), F major (the 1907 song ' Red Wing' is based on this melody the tune was also used extensively in the underscore of The Wizard of Oz.Wilder Reiter (The wild rider), A minor (This piece is more commonly known in English as 'The Wild Horseman').Armes Waisenkind (The poor orphan), A minor.Harmonisation of 'Selig sind, die aus Erbamen' or 'Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele' found in number 7 of BWV 39 Trällerliedchen (Lilting song or Humming song), C major.Soldatenmarsch (Soldiers' march), G major.The song was recorded in 1941 by the Almanac Singers (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell, and Lee Hays) on the album Talking Union & Other Union Songs.Problems playing these files? See media help.

I’m sticking to the union ’til the day I die. I’m sticking to the union, I’m sticking to the union. Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union, She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called, Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. There once was a union maid, she never was afraid His boots are crackin’ for want of blackin‘Īnd his owd fusty coat is wanting mendingįast forward to June 1940 and Woody Guthrie’s own re-write of the song in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view: Union Maid. The moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin The chorus (‘Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing’) is transformed during the First World War into The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin: (This is, incidentally, also the key to how we know the tune to which Gerrard Winstanley’s Ye Noble Diggers, All would have been sung: it was also, so its metre and structure show, the tune for Jack Hall, John Benbow, and Captain Kidd.) So, yes, in the fine tradition of folk and protest song, tunes are ever re-usable. Or so I thought … until Maria pointed out the similarity to Robert Schumann’s 1848 piano composition The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work from which, it seems arguable, Mills had, consciously or not, adapted the music of the verse. I remembered the tune to be that of Kerry Mills and Thurland Chattaway’s Red Wing which I thought to be around 1915 it turns out that it was in fact composed and written in 1907, an early recording of the song by Frank C Stanley and Henry Burr dating from 1910: One of our workshop participants then asked me whether I knew how old the song Union Maid might be. This invariably led to our talking about the songs referenced in the lyric, and in particular to our playing through a recording of Union Maid. The song has, like many a great protest song, a very catchy and memorable sing-along chorus:

Our ‘protest song’ workshop has latterly been rehearsing a new song, Si Kahn‘s They All Sang ‘Bread and Roses’, first recorded in 1990 by American folk singer and political activist Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015), one of the original members of The Weavers.

Song the happy farmer