Working Class Hero:
The song is sung as commentary/criticism on the distinction between the various social classes. It tells the story of somebody growing up within the middle class. According to the singer he said in an interview with Jann S. Wenner of Rolling Stone in December 1970, “it is about working class individuals being processed into the middle classes, into the machine”.
Sixteen Tons:
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the tough life of coal miners. The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt came from a letter written by Travis' brother John. Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store." When the singer says …show more content…
The song sings on how the union makes the people strong. A union is were workers bind together and fight for what they believe in. One line in the song say” They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, but without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong.” This Means without their work the company would not be successful; it is the workers who actually are making the money for the factory.
Eight Hour Day:
The song Eight hour day is a song is in the eyes of a brave and gallant miner boy, who works underground. The young miner sings about how he was eight hours of work, eight hours of play, and eight hours of sleep. The miner probably wants the eight hour movement to be passed. Allentown: The song Allentown’s is about the end of the steel manufacturing in the later part of the 20th century. It depicts the depressed livelihood of steel workers and residents of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the wake of Bethlehem Steel's decline and eventual closure. The rhythm heard in the introduction and ending reminds one of the sounds of a mill converting steel ingots into I-beams or other shapes. Such a sound was commonly heard throughout South Bethlehem when the Bethlehem Steel plant was in operation from 1857 through …show more content…
In an effort to intimidate the Reece family, Sheriff J. H. blair and his men (hired by the mining company) illegally entered their family target search of sam Reece.sam had been warned ahead and escaped, however Florence and their youngsters were terrorized in his place. That night, when the men had gone, Florence wrote the lyrics to "Which side are You On?" on a calendar that hung in the room of her home
Brother Can you spare a dime:
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Also sung as Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?, is one of the best-known American songs of the Depression. In the song a beggar talks back to the system that stole his job. The song asks why the men who built the nation – built the railroads, built the skyscrapers – who fought in the war (World War I), who tilled the earth, who did what their nation asked of them should, now that the work is done and their labor no longer necessary, find themselves abandoned and in bread lines.
Drill ye tarrier
The song is sung as commentary/criticism on the distinction between the various social classes. It tells the story of somebody growing up within the middle class. According to the singer he said in an interview with Jann S. Wenner of Rolling Stone in December 1970, “it is about working class individuals being processed into the middle classes, into the machine”.
Sixteen Tons:
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the tough life of coal miners. The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt came from a letter written by Travis' brother John. Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store." When the singer says …show more content…
The song sings on how the union makes the people strong. A union is were workers bind together and fight for what they believe in. One line in the song say” They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, but without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong.” This Means without their work the company would not be successful; it is the workers who actually are making the money for the factory.
Eight Hour Day:
The song Eight hour day is a song is in the eyes of a brave and gallant miner boy, who works underground. The young miner sings about how he was eight hours of work, eight hours of play, and eight hours of sleep. The miner probably wants the eight hour movement to be passed. Allentown: The song Allentown’s is about the end of the steel manufacturing in the later part of the 20th century. It depicts the depressed livelihood of steel workers and residents of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the wake of Bethlehem Steel's decline and eventual closure. The rhythm heard in the introduction and ending reminds one of the sounds of a mill converting steel ingots into I-beams or other shapes. Such a sound was commonly heard throughout South Bethlehem when the Bethlehem Steel plant was in operation from 1857 through …show more content…
In an effort to intimidate the Reece family, Sheriff J. H. blair and his men (hired by the mining company) illegally entered their family target search of sam Reece.sam had been warned ahead and escaped, however Florence and their youngsters were terrorized in his place. That night, when the men had gone, Florence wrote the lyrics to "Which side are You On?" on a calendar that hung in the room of her home
Brother Can you spare a dime:
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Also sung as Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?, is one of the best-known American songs of the Depression. In the song a beggar talks back to the system that stole his job. The song asks why the men who built the nation – built the railroads, built the skyscrapers – who fought in the war (World War I), who tilled the earth, who did what their nation asked of them should, now that the work is done and their labor no longer necessary, find themselves abandoned and in bread lines.
Drill ye tarrier