Swedish labor songs

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In a rare departure from musical comedy, Emil Norlander penned the lyrics to Fredssång (Peace Song), which begins with the lines: "Varför skola mänskor strida, varför skall det flyta blod." (Why should people fight, why should blood flow.) This pacifist anthem, written at the time of the First World War, has been recorded numerous times and published in a variety of songbooks. In 1916 Gustav Fonandern recorded “Ej Till Soldater Föddes Våra Söner", a Swedish version of “I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier”.   In 1916 Mossberg released two numbers that Columbia Records described as "Swedish Socialist Songs". The first one, "Arbetets Söner" (Sons Of The Workers), was a Swedish labor song from 1885 with lyrics by Henrik Menander. The second one, "Marseljäsen" (La Marseillaise), was a Swedish version of the French national anthem. The Swedish author Ture Nerman (1886-1969) wrote Swedish lyrics for the Joe Hill song "The Preacher And The Slave" (Svarta Präster). His poem "Den Vackraste Visan Om Kärleken" (The Finest Of All The Love Songs) was set to music and became a popular anti-war song. Signe Aurell, who may have come from the Glimåkra-Osby district of Kristianstad, Sweden, immigrated to America around 1914 and worked as a laundress in Minneapolis, where she belonged to the IWW. Her poems appeared in "Allarm", "Arbetaren", "Bokstugan" and the Stockholm anarchist paper "Brand". In 1919 she privately published a collection of verse called "Irrbloss" (Will-o'-the-Wisp). Returning to Sweden in 1920, she was living at Osby in 1955 when interviewed by the Stockholm Communist daily "Ny Dag". There are two poems about Joe Hill (Josef Hillström) in "Irrbloss". Aurell's translation of "Joe Hill's Last Will" is in the 1924 songbook "Sånger av Joe Hill". SIGNE AURELL PROFILE https://skbl.se/en/article/SigneAurell SIGNE AURELL SONGS (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwChImUyWQ_o1n8kmikUzcTwpKVfPDPg0 IRRBLOSS ALBUM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJZnmx0492uW7HQcni2j1J3OFEzzv_vjQ IRRBLOSS IN ENGLISH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7YRtxWUZfyxtHIpdx43HCCf85QeFt1g0 PLAYLIST —  Please see JPEG and PDF files for additional information — Tracks 01-15: Joe Hill in Swedish Tracks 16-17: Harry McClintock in Swedish Tracks 18-18: Theodor Larsson Tracks 19-23: Anti-War Songs Tracks 24-28: Socialist Songs Tracks 29:29: Civil Rights and Labor Anthem Tracks 30-40: Joe Hill Tracks 41-41: T-Bone Slim Tracks 42-43: Harry McClintock ARTICLES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Larsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_McClintock https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Menander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ture_Nerman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Norlander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Slim JOE HILL LYRICS http://www.folkarchive.de/hill.html https://www.antiwarsongs.org/do_search.php?quick=1&titolo=Joe+Hill JOE HILL TITLES Allihopa Kommer Med (Everybody's Joining It) Balladen Om Joe Hill (Joe Hill) Casey Jones (Casey Jones) Det Är Kraft I Vårt Förbund (There Is Power In A Union) Det Är Lång Väg Att Gå I Soppkön (It's A Long Way Down To The Soupline) Halleluja, Gå Och Driv (Hallelujah, I'm A Bum) Johan Block (Mr. Block) Luffaren (The Tramp) Mitt Testamente (My Last Will) Om Jag Någonsin Skall Strida (Should I Ever Be A Soldier) Rebellflickan (The Rebel Girl) Räkna Noga (Coffee An') Slavinnan (The White Slave) Snodd (Stung Right) Svarta Präster (The Preacher And The Slave) Svartfots-Bil (Scissor Bill) Ta-Ra-Ra Bom Ta-Ra Vi Ska Sjunga (We Will Sing One Song) Världens Alla Slavar Vakna (Workers Of The World Awaken) GUSTAV FONANDERN TITLE Ej Till Soldater Föddes Våra Söner (I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier)   THEODOR LARSSON TITLE Bolsjevikvisan HARRY MCCLINTOCK TITLES Halleluja, Ja' Ä' Koling (Hallelujah, I'm A Bum) Kolingens Visa (The Bum Song) ED MCCURDY TITLE I Natt Jag Drömde Något Som (Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream) HENRIK MENANDER TITLES Arbetets Söner (Sons Of The Workers) Internationalen (The Internationale) TURE NERMAN TITLES Svarta Präster (The Preacher And The Slave) Den Vackraste Visan Om Kärleken (The Finest Of All The Love Songs) EMIL NORLANDER TITLE Fredssång (Peace Song) T-BONE SLIM TITLE Den Populära Rebellen (The Popular Wobbly) CIVIL RIGHTS AND LABOR ANTHEM Ingen Rubbar Oss (We Shall Not Be Moved)