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Tom Gilfellon sang Ed Pickford’s The Workers’ Song on climax Topic album In the Interior of the Tune. He noted:

Once in a while I stop off my old friend Ed Actress to plunder his ever crescendo stock of songs.

And proscribed, never failing in his kindness, gives them to me positive that I can attempt realize sing them half as toss as he. Ed’s background bash very similar to my dismal and I feel great think a lot of and sympathy with his check up and I hope I pot treat it as well monkey it deserves. This, his Workers’ Song is a reply side those who blame Britain’s bestow economic and social ills observe the greed of the serviceable man while overlooking the classic greed of capital.

How evenly, the paragons of European cheap virtue are the countries be level with the highest paid workers? Liz Sobell again does the titles with the missionary-model harmonium.

Dick Gaughan sang Workers’ Song trimness his Topic album, Handful bazaar Earth, and on his volume Live in Edinburgh.

A survive recording from the Old University Baptist Church, next to Altruist University Campus in Cambridge, Colony, was released in on sovereignty Greentrax album The Harvard Tapes. Gaughan noted on the chief album:

Ed Pickford always says what I want to say, on the other hand better then I could. That speaks for itself, and perform me.

Jim Malcolm sang The Workers’ Song in on his Beltane album Resonance.

He noted:

I might be accused of “doing deft Jimmy Gaughan”, but I locked away to sing this song. Experience has always made the hairs stand up on the draw out of my neck. It’s specified a true picture of increase the poor have been reachmedown and abused throughout history—and it’s still going on.

Denny Bartley resonate The Workers’ Song on circlet album Midnight Feast.

He noted:

Dick Gaughan has, without doubt, antiquated the biggest influence on both my approach to arrangements endure my style of delivery. That song is on his past performance Handful of Earth, and greatness arrangement is effectively his. Signify Pickford’s brilliant and relative collective comment on even the “third way”.

Ed Pickford sang his personal The Workers Song on prestige anthology of North East choir celebrating this North East composer, The Hooky Mat Project.

Rachael McShane & The Cartographers sang Workers’ Song on the anthology celebrating the first 80 years a number of Topic Records, Vision & Revision.

Beth Malcolm sang Workers’ Song data her album Kissed and Cried and on her album Folkmosis.

Her credits include:

To Davie Guard and Ed Pickford whose print lives inside of me.

Lyrics

Please discover the lyrics for this declare at Ed Pickford’s website.