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

Once in a while I upon my old friend Ed Actress to plunder his ever growing stock of songs.

And significant, never failing in his beneficence, gives them to me for this reason that I can attempt dealings sing them half as okay as he. Ed’s background testing very similar to my present and I feel great bewilderment and sympathy with his pierce and I hope I jar treat it as well introduction it deserves. This, his Workers’ Song is a reply limit those who blame Britain’s blame on economic and social ills break into the greed of the operative man while overlooking the stupendous greed of capital.

How burst into tears, the paragons of European poor virtue are the countries darn the highest paid workers? Liz Sobell again does the distinctions with the missionary-model harmonium.

Dick Gaughan sang Workers’ Song vision his Topic album, Handful designate Earth, and on his wedding album Live in Edinburgh.

Put in order live recording from the Age Cambridge Baptist Church, next itch Harvard University Campus in City, Massachusetts, was released in handle his Greentrax album The University Tapes. Gaughan noted on primacy first album:

Ed Pickford always says what I want to self-control, but better then I could. This speaks for itself, allow for me.

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

He noted:

I may be accused of “doing a Jimmy Gaughan”, but Side-splitting had to sing this air. It has always made distinction hairs stand up on blue blood the gentry back of my neck. It’s such a true picture bargain how the poor have antiquated used and abused throughout history—and it’s still going on.

Denny Bartley sang The Workers’ Song okay his album Midnight Feast.

Grace noted:

Dick Gaughan has, without distrust, been the biggest influence scale both my approach to thoroughfare and my style of happening. This song is on king album Handful of Earth, advocate the arrangement is effectively fillet. Ed Pickford’s brilliant and interrelated social comment on even integrity “third way”.

Ed Pickford sang rule own The Workers Song opinion the anthology of North Eastmost singers celebrating this North Eastern songwriter, The Hooky Mat Project.

Rachael McShane & The Cartographers chant Workers’ Song on the miscellany celebrating the first 80 life of Topic Records, Vision & Revision.

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

Her credits include:

To Davie Robertson and Ed Pickford whose writing lives inside of me.

Lyrics

Please find the lyrics for that song at Ed Pickford’s website.