Jun 1, 2024
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
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Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
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Sometimes I hear these old protest songs and think, fuck, we're still fighting this same old shit? But sometimes I think
FUCK YES. WE ARE STILL FIGHTING.
Florence Reece, activist and daughter of a coal miner in Appalachia, wrote the first version of this song in 1912, at the age of 12. And still we fight.
Florence Reece was the wife of an union organiser for United Mine Workers which was engaged in industrial action in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931. One night, they heard that men were coming to kill Sam Reece and he got out of the house just before they arrived. Deputies hired by the mining company entered and searched her home, terrorising Florence and her children in the process. After they’d gone, Florence was so outraged that she tore the calendar off the kitchen wall and wrote the lyrics to Which Side Are You On? on the back.
Women's History Month. Florence Reece
Here performed by Birds On a Wire
Oh workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can? Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man?
Originally written by Florence Reece in 1931 during the Harlan County War. From Reece:
“Sheriff J.H. Blair and his men came to our house in search of Sam – that's my husband – he was one of the union leaders. I was home alone with our seven children. They ransacked the whole house and then kept watch outside, waiting to shoot Sam down when he came back. But he didn't come home that night. Afterward I tore a sheet from a calendar on the wall and wrote the words to 'Which Side Are You On?' to an old Baptist hymn, 'Lay the Lily Low'. My songs always goes to the underdog – to the worker. I'm one of them and I feel like I've got to be with them. There's no such thing as neutral. You have to be on one side or the other. Some people say, 'I don't take sides – I'm neutral.' There's no such thing. In your mind you're on one side or the other. In Harlan County there wasn't no neutral. If you wasn't a gun thug, you was a union man. You had to be.”
“Which Side Are You On” was written by activist and poet Florence Reece in 1931, during the Harlan County War, a nine year conflict between the United Mine Workers of America and the mine operators, local law enforcement, and National Guard. Florence was married to a coal miner and organizer, Sam Reece—she wrote this song after the sheriff and his men ransacked her home in an attempt to find her husband and kill him.
Sam Reece managed to escape that night, though the mine operators did eventually get to him: he died of black lung in 1978.
“There's no such thing as neutral. You have to be on one side or the other. Some people say, 'I don't take sides – I'm neutral.' There's no such thing. In your mind you're on one side or the other.” –Florence Reece
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*"Which side are you on?" ABD emek hareketinin meşhur şarkılarından 1931'de Kentucky Eyaletinde Harlan County'de maden işçileri ve işverenler arasında sekiz yıl süren mücadele. Her iki taraftan pek çok insanın öldüğü çatışmalı dönemin sonunda, ABD'nin en emek karşıtı madenci kasabasında, maden işçilerinin tamamı sendikal temsil ve daha iyi ücret hakkını kazandılar. Şarkı dönemin sendikacılarından birinin eşi olan Florence Reece tarafından 1931'de yazıldı. _çn
_Bazen Derin Bir His - Ken Kesey Çeviri: Zeynep Alpar
Which Side Are You On? - Written by Florence Reece, performed by Pete Seeger
Come all you good workers, Good news to you I'll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell.
ΥΠΟΓΕΙΑ ΡΕΥΜΑΤΑ – WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON (FLORENCE REECE) Το 2016 τα Υπόγεια Ρεύματα διασκεύασαν στα ελληνικά το τραγούδι Which side are you on της Florence Reece. Ένα τραγούδι διαμαρτυρίας για την απεργία των μεταλλωρύχων της Harlan County το οποίο γράφτηκε το 1931 και η πρώτη εκτέλεση που το έκανε παγκοσμίως γνωστό ήταν αυτή των Almanac Singers το 1941.