For Freedom laughs at prison bars
Her voice re-echoes from the star;
Proclaiming with the tempest’s breath
A Cause beyond the reach of death!
-Ralph Chaplin
Hellraisers Journal, Monday April 22, 1918
From the Chicago I. W. W. Publishing Bureau:
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“I. W. W. Prison Song” by Ralph Chaplin:
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Songs of the Workers, on the Road in the Jungles and in the Shops:
SOURCE & IMAGES
I. W. W. Songs
To Fan the Flames of Discontent
-14th Edition, General Defense Edition
Chicago, April 1918
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/1j
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/3j
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/11j
See also:
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger,
–Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno
PM Press, Feb 19, 2016
(search separately: prison song chaplin; fourteenth edition)
Note: list of songs is only of new songs added for 14th edition.
For complete list of songs in 14th edition, see source above at index.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ