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"Labour" is an indie folk [8] [9] or alternative folk [4] [10] ballad. [11] The song features an acoustic arrangement of bass and guitar over a chorus of background singers. [10] [11] The lyrics deal with an abusive relationship in which the singer's own emotional needs are subjugated beneath her husband's expectations that she perform emotional and physical labour.
The Little Red Songbook (1909), also known as I.W.W. Songs or Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World, subtitled (in some editions) Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent, is a compilation of tunes, hymns, and songs used by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) to help build morale, promote solidarity, and lift the spirits of the working-class during the Labor Movement.
As a result, industrial songs tended to be seen as a threat to traditional forms of music, rather than a development from them. In the second wave of revival, which was much more influenced by progressive or labour politics and as a result tended to show a much greater interest in the lives of working people and their music. [6]
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Joan Baez performed the song at the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and later included it in her album, One Day at a Time [6] [7] The Dubliners released a version of the song on their 1970 album Revolution. It was later released as part of the Definitive Luke Kelly Collection in 2010.
Pop band D:Ream have banned the Labour Party from using their hit song “Things Can Only Get Better” during their election campaign.. Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s general election ...
The song recounts the narrator's youthful experience of falling in love for the very first time at age seventeen. The man sees a woman at a county fair on Labor Day weekend when he is seventeen, and then five years later, sees her on a plane, while the man is heading to Mardi Gras. The bridge talks about how a love can never go away no matter ...