#Casey Jones the Union Scab

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Spoken Intro: Joe Hill was the most famous, by far, of the many people who wrote songs for the I.W.W.: The Industrial Workers of the World. They wanted one big union, where all of Labor would be in the same union. And, uh, this song is a good example of why. It's about a strike that happened 1911/1912, where, uh, the people who repaired the trains, keeping the trains in shape for the S.P.: the Southern Pacific Railroad Conglomerate went on strike. And the engineers refused to join it.

Lyrics:

The workers on the S.P. line for strike sent out a call But Casey Jones the engineer, he wouldn’t strike at all His boiler it was leaking, and the drivers on the bum And the engines and the bearings, they were all out of plumb

Casey Jones, kept his junkpile running Casey Jones, was working double-time Casey Jones, got a wooden medal For being good and faithful on the S.P. line

The workers said to Casey, “Won’t you help us win this strike?” But Casey said, “Let me alone, you’d better take hike” Well Casey’s wheezy engine ran right off the wheezy track And Casey hit the river with an awful smack

Casey Jones, hit the river bottom Casey Jones, broke his blooming spine Casey Jones, became an Angelino He took a trip to heaven on the S.P. line

[Musical interlude]

Well Casey got up to heaven to the pearly gate He said, “I’m Casey Jones, the guy that pulled the S.P. freight” “You’re just the man,” said Peter, “our musicians are on strike You can get a job a-scabbing any time you like”

Casey Jones, got a job in heaven Casey Jones, was doing mighty fine Casey Jones, went scabbing on the angels Just like he did to workers on the S.P. line

Well the angels up in Heaven, they said it wasn’t fair For Casey Jones to go around a-scabbing everywhere The angels Local number forty-three, they sure were there They promptly fired Casey down the Golden Stairs

Casey Jones, went to Hell a-flying Casey Jones, the devil said “Oh fine" "Casey Jones, get busy shoveling sulfur. It’s what you get for scabbing on the S.P. line"

[Musical coda]

Spoken: And let that be a lesson for all of us.

#Union songs #I.W.W. #Joe Hill #Railroad workers #WGA strike #my jukebox brain #Youtube #Acoustic guitar #''Ballad of Casey Jones'' (Melody) #Casey Jones the Union Scab #Labor History

[wyrdwest]

#casey jones the union scab #Youtube #music

[unopenablebox]

–_– im still at work and everyone else in the lab went home, so i was listening to music and singing along while i pipetted things

except that apparently a couple of the members of the neighbor lab that we share an extended lab space with.... came back at some point

and heard an unknown amount of me practicing “casey jones the union scab” very very loud

#i promise i listen to songs besides casey jones the union scab #thats just where my ''union songs (good‚ fun)'' playlist happened to be right then. #i feel. difficultly. about this #box opener

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder most historians believe he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as 'There is Power in a Union', 'Casey Jones - the Union Scab' and 'The Preacher and the Slave'. The latter song is the origin of the phrase "pie in the sky", which is promised by preachers to starving working people: "You will eat, bye and bye,/In that glorious land above the sky;/Work and pray, live on hay,/You'll get pie in the sky when you die." In Hill's final letter to IWW leader Bill Haywood he wrote: "Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." He also told Haywood: "I don't want to be caught dead in Utah", and requested that he be cremated, and his ashes used to replenish the earth. Large crowds attended his funeral in Salt Lake City, who were described as a "murderous mob" of "low-grade foreigners" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner newspaper, and as "anarchists, nihilists, socialists, bombs, and hobos" by the New York Times. In 1936, a song was written about Hill by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson, describing his spirit which lived on: "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,/alive as you and me./Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”/“I never died” says he,/“I never died” says he… "From San Diego up to Maine,/in every mine and mill,/Where workers strike and organize/it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill,/it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill!" Learn more about Hill's life and cultural importance, and see his songs in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/joe-hill https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.294735704044920/2139566359561836/?type=3

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Stirring songs of strikes, solidarity, and picket lines.

Cover photo is shipyard participants in the 1919 Seattle general strike.

Never Cross a Picket Line- Billy Bragg

Out on Strike- Rabble Rousers

We Can Make the World Stop- Alun Parry

On the Line- Joe Glazer

Picket Line- Bobby DePace

Everyday People- Otis Gibbs

Strike!- Ry Cooder

The Brooklyn Strike- June Lazare

Fire in the Hole- Windborne

Idris Strike Song- Chumbawamba

The Homestead Strike- Joe Glazer

Down on the Picket Line- Sarah Ogan Gunning

I Say Union!- Rabble Rousers

Minimum Wage Strike- David Rovics

Rise As One- Joe Jencks

Dunne’s Store Strike- Roy Bailey

One Day More- Elaine Purkey

Casey Jones (The Union Scab)- Pete Seeger

Picket Line Song- The Langer’s Ball

There is Power in a Union- Billy Bragg

20 tracks; 63 mins [Spotify]

[my other playlists]

#original playlists #workers of the world #protest folk #yesterdayborday was labour day

[notbecauseofvictories]

Yuletide Recs

It’s that time of year! The time of year when we celebrate the small, the niche, the weird and wonderful in fanworks---the Big Gay Episode of Horrible Histories and the metaphysical implications of Calvinball and some Devil Wears Prada fics that (if we’re being honest with ourselves) have since had their serial numbers filed off for publication as wlw romance novels.

Anyway, here are 10 of my favorites---mostly from weird fandoms (Thomas Kinkade paintings, Over the Garden Wall, Severance, fairytales, historical RPF) but I did sincerely enjoy them. I hope you will too.

union prayer by ohtempora Casey Jones the Union Scab - Joe Hill (Song)

Sins against organized labor have become a rising Heavenly issue due to an increased popularity in the labor movement on Earth. Pursuant to the last Heaven-Hell All Souls Conference, the Devil has agreed to accept mortals who commit sins against organized labor for eternal punishment in his domain.

It might not be objectively the best fic to come out of this particular exchange, but I’m listing this one first because it’s perfectly tailored to appeal to me. The “fandom” (so to speak) is a song I’ve listened to a lot in the last few years---one of the tracks on the Smithsonian’s Labor Songs discography! But the fic expands the premise the way only Yuletide can. A legal memorandum about the possibility of prosecuting strike breakers in heaven; delightful, delicious, exemplar.

The Only Place That's Real by Snickfic Christmas Cottage - Thomas Kinkade (Painting) 

Every so often someone would come through the village, looking for the cottage. This time it was a man in a fine silk suit and a faraway look in his eyes.

any greenness is deeper than anyone knows by DesdemonaKaylose Over The Garden Wall

There is a strange, mournful singing that comes from just beyond the woods...

roses and sentiments, drowning in the sea of clouds by lightningwaltz The Six Swans (Fairytale)

At first he never leaves his sister’s side. (Or; the youngest brother and the years of his curse.)

r/severed by curtaincall Severance (TV)

Welcome to r/severed! This is a subreddit to discuss the experience of severance and provide advice and support to fellow severed people (and friends and family).

Special Modes by rivkat Severance (TV)

What are the special functions other than Overtime? Maybe they’re proposals in the files of Lumon.

The Chastisement of Margery Kempe by UpTooLate (NaomiK) 14th Century CE RPF

She thought that these horrible sights and accursed thoughts were delicious to her against her will. --The Book of Margery Kempe, chapter 59

RatTrApp by Mithrigil Pied Piper of Hamlin (Fairytale)

The plague is digital.

The Mire Tide by thearrogantemu The Silt Verses (Podcast)

They’ve locked the mud saint in the church kitchen. They’ve left the big industrial oven on, with its door open, in the hopes that the heat will dry him out enough that they can wrestle him onto the kiln car tomorrow in one piece.

What if it’s not that he’s lost his nerve, lost his faith, lost his reason? What if he’s closer to the god now than he's ever been?

in the absence of excavation (there is only speculation) by meroure Ancient British Stones/Dolmens/Archeology

They kept coming back. They loved me. Feared me. Revered me. Gave themselves to me willingly, a cyclical sacrifice with every death, a choosing of their own doing.

#fic recs #not.....all of them are 2022 because I got distracted by the general crueltide tag and all it had to offer #but most of them! thought there was some cool shit

[labyrinthphanlivingafacade]

im no scholar of fandom studies but when pete seeger sang casey jones the union scab i don't think he meant fanfic writers

[thebreakfastgenie]

Top 5 folk songs

ok I am going to try to do this without having an existential crisis over the definition of folk song

5) City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie, specifically live (which I have heard 🥰)

4) Farewell Angelina specifically Joan Baez's version

3) Casey Jones (the Union Scab) I know Pete Seeger's version

2) The Draft Dodger Rag I also know Pete Seeger's version RIP to the songwriter but Pete is my man

1) The Heart of the Appaloosa by Fred Small

[uneasylisteningradio]

The Lords Just Don’t Understand October 9, 2022

Songs about leftist and collectivist movements, mostly from the British Isles, 14th-21st centuries. Yknow the usual last minute Sunday night fill-in deal. stream on Mixcloud

Zounds - This Land

DJ speaks over Mystras - The Cutty Wren

George Hardy - The Land Song Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Hey Ho! Cook and Rowe! Dick Gaughan - Both Sides The Tweed The Bitter Withy - The Bitter Withy Hamish Henderson - Freedom Come All Ye

Ryan's Fancy - The Manchester Rambler Sam Lee - The Moss House The Almanac Singers - Casey Jones (The Union Scab)

Cornelius Cardew - We Only Want the Earth Blyth Power - Hurling Time Glasgow Socialist Singers - England Arise Maddy Prior & The Girls - Cropper Lads Carl Sandburg - The Foggy, Foggy Dew

Crass - G's Song (Commoners Choir Remix) Johnny Campbell - Hard Times of Old England Robin Grey, Dolly May and Nick Hart - John Ball Shirley Collins - The Sweet Primroses

Chumbawamba - You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders - Die Gedanken Sin Frei Alistair Hulett - Destitution Road Planxty - Only Our Rivers

Robin Dransfield - The Cutty Wren Barnstormer 1649 - Wellingborough & Wigan Leon Rosselson - The Digger's Song (feat. Roy Bailey)

Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down

#radio #the kids just don't understand #folk music #trad folk #diggers #levellers #peasants revolt #right to roam #unions #folk punk #anarcho punk #irish music #rebel songs #music #playlist #mixtape #wprb

[unopenablebox]

casey jones the union scab is a good song

#the moral is that there are labor unions in heaven also. #box opener #labor #im memorizing as many union songs as possible because roughly once every six months #i am in a situation where the only people singing the song at the rally #whatever rally it might be #are 1. THE GUY LEADING THE SONG #2. ME #so. i must be prepared #THE ANGEL'S LOCAL NUMBER 23‚ THEY SURE WERE THERE

[betty-bourgeoisie]

would you be willing to make a list of your favorite folk songs (language doesnt matter) ? if not thats completely ok !!

This got a lot longer than I'm sure you were asking for 😂 But yes here are some of my favorites (mostly in English and Scottish Gaelic since those are the languages I speak)

Union Songs/ Labor Songs:

The Popular Wobbly

Bread and Roses

Hallelujah I'm a bum

Casey Jones The Union Scab

If I had a Hammer - This is my favorite folk song ever! It is just so nice and hopeful)

Notice to Mariners

Murder Ballots/Songs About Death:

Most versions of the Wind and Rain/ The Twa Sisters/ A Mermaid or a Swan

Little Sadie

Frankie and Albert

The Rattlesnake Song

The Frozen Logger - The version of this song that I first learned has a verse where Paul Bunyan's frozen body is cut up and turned into axe blades but I can't find any recorded versions that include that part (probably for the best tbh)

Songs about places/ longing for places:

Big Rock Candy Mountain - There are a couple variants of this song, namely The Appleknocker's Lament and An Invitation to Lumberland but I don't like either of them as much

The North Country Maid

Chi Mi Na Morbheanna

Dean Cadalan Samhach - This one is more of a lullaby than a folk song but it's very sweet

Sail Away, Ladies

Love songs (I'm using this term very loosely):

Fhear A Bhata - This is the English version of the song but there are also versions entirely in Gealic

The Broomfield Hill

Katy Cruel

Louisiana Girls

#I promise I cut this down as much as I could think too #and there are still a bunch of songs that I wish I had included 😅 #like the Pagan version of Old Time Religion and Hal-An-Tow are also my favorites #but they didn't fit in any category #and if I had included a misc section things would have gotten out of hand #ask

[cptnbeefheart]

tagged by @83bpm to spell my url out using songs teehee i love these little games and FUN bc my url is long (but that still wasnt enough for me apparently bc i have 2 for some of the letters). i spent an hour making this

casey jones (the union scab) by pete seeger / call on me by captain beefheart & his magic band

political song for michael jackson to sing by minutemen

tramp by otis redding, carla thomas

nothing but the marvelous is beautiful by lindisfarne

blue moon of kentucky by bill monroe, the mountain boys / bonanza! by johnny cash

(the) earth won’t hold me by kathy heideman

everybody’s got to live by love

forward to death by dead kennedys

hymn 43 by jethro tull

emergency call by matt costa

arrange and rearrange by pete seeger

release by michael nesmith

to ramona by flying burrito brothers

tagging: @wonderlessphantom @wibo805 @luffy-lover @head1968 @redrhodes & anyone who wants to join in :]

[honeycrispapplewithpeanutbutter]

#Spotify

[communistchilchuck]

casey jones the union scab is a banger tbh

[raan-miir-tah]

I literally went into my local nerd shop, stared directly at a tmnt Casey Jones action figure, and went “Ah, yes. The Union scab”

#kyne shouts: ninja edition #im making eye contact with those plastic painted orbs of his and telling this guy that he’s about to die in a horrific train accident

[dmnsqrl]

Posted @withrepost • @workingclasshistory On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder most historians believe he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as 'There is Power in a Union', 'Casey Jones - the Union Scab' and 'The Preacher and the Slave'. The latter song is the origin of the phrase "pie in the sky", which is promised by preachers to starving working people: "You will eat, bye and bye,/In that glorious land above the sky;/Work and pray, live on hay,/You'll get pie in the sky when you die." In Hill's final letter to IWW leader Bill Haywood he wrote: "Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." He also told Haywood: "I don't want to be caught dead in Utah", and requested that he be cremated, and his ashes used to replenish the earth. Large crowds attended his funeral in Salt Lake City, who were described as a "murderous mob" of "low-grade foreigners" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner newspaper, and as "anarchists, nihilists, socialists, bombers, and hobos" by the New York Times. In 1936, a song was written about Hill by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson, describing his spirit which lived on: "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,/alive as you and me./Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”/“I never died” says he,/“I never died” says he… "From San Diego up to Maine,/in every mine and mill,/Where workers strike and organize/it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill,/it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill!" Learn more about Hill's life and cultural importance, and see his songs in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/joe-hill To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo https://www.instagram.com/p/ClTzoE8JD6mD_sL8I2lbHVFLfkK0-Pbu6-R8uk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=