Child labor in the coal mines (Lewis W. Hine, early 1900s)
- BALLAD OF BARNEY GRAHAM (DELLA MAE GRAHAM) (1933)
- COAL MINER'S BLUES (trad./A. P. CARTER) (1930s)
- COME ALL YOU COAL MINERS (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1960s)
- DARK AS A DUNGEON (MERLE TRAVIS) (1946)
- DEATH OF THE BLUE EAGLE (GEORGE DAVIS?) (1930s)
- DISASTER AT THE MANNINGTON MINE (HAZEL DICKENS) (1970s)
- DON'T GO DOWN IN THE MINE, DAD (ROBERT DONNELLY/WILL GEDDES) (1910)
- DOWN ON THE PICKET LINE (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1930s)
- DREADFUL MEMORIES (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1930s)
- THE DREAM OF THE MINER'S CHILD (ANDREW JENKINS/IRENE SPAIN) (1926)
- THE DYING DOCTOR (aka THE COMPANY TOWN DOCTOR) (WOODY GUTHRIE) (1945)
- EXPLOSION IN THE FAIRMOUNT MINES (BLIND ALFRED REED) (1927)
- HAZARD, KENTUCKY (PHIL OCHS) (c. 1963)
- HELLO, COAL MINER (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1979)
- THE HIGH SHERIFF OF HAZARD (TOM PAXTON) (1964)
- I'M GOING TO ORGANIZE (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (VERSION 1) (VERSION 2) (1930s)
- I AM A GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1930s)
- I DON'T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER (JIM GARLAND) (1930s) (as recorded by THE ALMANAC SINGERS, 1941)
- I HATE THE COMPANY BOSSES (I HATE THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM) (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1930s)
- LOUIS TIKAS, LABOR MARTYR (poem; UMWJ, May 28, 1914)
- LUDLOW MASSACRE (WOODY GUTHRIE) (c. 1944)
- MINER'S LIFEGUARD (AKA "A MINER'S LIFE") (trad.) (1900-1910)
- MRS. CLARA SULLIVAN'S LETTER (MALVINA REYNOLDS/PETE SEEGER) (1963)
- MY CHILDREN ARE SEVEN IN NUMBER (trad.) (1933)
- 1913 MASSACRE (WOODY GUTHRIE) (c. 1944)
- NO CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY (PHIL OCHS) (1963-'64)
- ONLY A MINER KILLED (JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD) (1879)
- OUR CAUSE IS MARCHING ON (DAVIE ROBB) (1913)
- POOR MINER'S FAREWELL (AUNT MOLLY JACKSON) (1932)
- RAGGED HUNGRY BLUES, Parts 1 & 2 (AUNT MOLLY JACKSON) (1930-'31)
- SIXTEEN TONS (GEORGE DAVIS) (1930s?)
- SIXTEEN TONS (MERLE TRAVIS) (1946)
- THAT 25 CENTS THAT YOU PAID (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1960s)
- THAT LITTLE LUMP OF COAL (J. N. YORK) (1936)
- WE'RE COMING, COLORADO (FRANK J. HAYES) (1913)
- WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (FLORENCE REECE) (1930s) (as recorded by THE ALMANAC SINGERS, 1941)
- "THE MEN OF THE DEEPS" (Coal Miners' Choir from Nova Scotia, Canada) -- their background, their recordings, and further coal mining song links.
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