Coal miners going on rule

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace 'company' with our company's name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.
That one's the best by far.
Love this one. Absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4
Geoff Castellucci (the bass singer from Voiceplay) made a great cover version of that one btw ❤️
- that's the first version I heard and tbh the original can't hold a flame to his voice
- Damn, that was really good. I've only ever heard the original, but brava
cipő did it better

I don't have a link anymore, but this playlist does exist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TwmS2Fps3wdCIoBy9r4BX
but that's just shy of an hour.
- I have a good many of these in a personal "class war" Playlist but this increases my collection
- Seems to be missing "Pound a Week Rise"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zr51fv4uiA
I think it's this one Sexy Time Although it doesn't seem to actually be nine hours long

But the banks are made of marble

With a guard at every door

And the vaults are filled with silver

That the miners sweated for

Methamphetamine by Old Crow Medicine Show

Times, they ain't like nothing they used to be

From rocky mount' to northeast Tennessee

Where the river flows with a dusty, coal disease

And the babies whine cause they can't find nothing to eat

But, mama, she ain't hungry no more

She's waiting for a knock on the trailer door

[Chorus]

It's gonna rock you like a hurricane

It's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep

It's gonna rock you 'til you're out of a job

It's gonna rock you 'til you're out on the street

It's gonna rock you 'til you're down on your knees

It's gonna have you begging pretty please

It's gonna rock you like a hurricane

Methamphetamine

Don't need no PhD for a hundred dollar card

Just find a crooked cop and that doctor disregard

Cause when it's either the mine or the Kentucky national guard

Um, I'd rather sell him a line than to be dying in the coal yard

Now, papa, he ain't hungry no more

He's waiting for a knock on the trailer door

[Chorus]

Well, it's a war out there, and it's fought by poor white men

From the plateau to the falls of the Cumberland

You better watch your back, cause you just can't trust a friend

And the method man is going to get you in the end

So listen to the whispering wind

It sounds like a big storm rolling in

It's gonna rock you like a hurricane

It's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep

It's gonna rock you 'til you're out of a job

It's gonna rock you 'til you're out on the street

It's gonna rock you 'til you're down on your knees

It's gonna have you begging pretty please

It's gonna rock you like a hurricane

Methamphetamine

God don't venture down here
The Devil's lost your name
Your life hangs in the balance
on this fragile human chain
And when your spirit's waning
The fear is yours to tame
When you feel the darkness closing
Turn up your carbide flame

So tell God and the Devil they can try
But today's not gonna be the day we die

I also like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4

I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it's just the vibe, there's some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road" and Springsteen's "The River", but there's a lot more like that.

I really like "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" by The Band (also not about coal mining).
But just believe in me, baby, and I'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
And I don't want to see it again
If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.
- Indeed, the original read, "It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band."
  https://xcancel.com/spectissa/status/1148709655385976833
Come, mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me wan' go home)
Come, mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and me wan' go home)
Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers
I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.

Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA

Do people have sexy time playlists?

Yes, it is just cbat on repeat
- Is that the radio version of C-Span?
Because there’s always a relevant XKCD.
- Learned the hard way. Got this experimental radio I love and tended to have on most of the time. Well, a children's choir bursting in full swing at the exact moment we were both peaking with my partner worked great as a contraceptive.
This is my go to album https://youtu.be/njB4CDHElUQ
I don't need a Playlist, this is long enough

There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.

We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.

Need YouTube playlist link! Please

(Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)

I miss Grooveshark
- subsonic is a similar setup though nowhere near as much love yet

https://bluegrasstoday.com/battle-of-blair-mountain-from-will-clark/

Put down your bibles, pick up your guns.

Blair Mountain here we come.

Here's another one for the sexy time

Mine is just sixteen hours of this:

https://m.soundcloud.com/cod-gone-wild/process-man

Are there even enough Billy Bragg albums to do this?

After listening to his rendition of She's Leaving Home, does there need to be even be one Billy Bragg album

Test Dept made an album with the 'South Wales Striking Miners Choir' called Shoulder to Shoulder. It contains the track ' Shockwork ' which starts with a speech, rallying up the protestors. Test Dept is an industrial band with an emphasis on percussion. Another track on the album is called ' Fuel to Fight '. They accomplish exactly that with their music. I can't imagine a more appropriate band to be at such a rally.

I sometimes miss the sort of politically engaged anger of the 80s. I was born in the 90s so perhaps it's just a romantic look at a past that never was. People are angry now too, but I wonder if it's not, more than in the past, fused with algorythmically induced hatred of the 'other', instead of honest, rightful anger. Like the difference between: 'I am angry because there is this injustice, and we're not going to tollerate you standing in our way to solve this injustice' and 'I am angry at you because there is this injustice, which is your fault and therefor I hate you'. Clearly the first version leaves room for the 'unjust person' to change and choose to go along with this new move towards justice. The second one leaves the 'unjust person' feeling, "wait, what... I am not deserving of such hate, I am not evil, you must be crazy for hating me, and therefor I will hate you in return and together we will spiral down into the depths of civil war'.

Barry White's growly rendition of "Coal Miner's Daughter."

It's in the evening after dark
\ When the blackleg miner creeps to work
\ With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
\ There goes the blackleg miner
So join the union while you may
\ Don't wait till your dying day
\ For that may not be far away
\ You dirty blackleg miner