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and AFL–CIO Song Book (6th printing, undated). The latter is a slightly revised edition of the old CIO Song Book.

149. Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, pp. 36–37. Probably inadvertently, Bliss's name is given as Philip H. Bliss.

150. As quoted in and paraphrased from "'Troubadour of Labor' Sees Passing of Singing Worker for Hum of Motor," The Washington Post Times Herald, 20 May 1961, p. A3.

151. "'Troubadour of Labor,'" The Washington Post Times Herald, 20 May 1961, p. A3; Nicholas Gage, "Farm Workers Union Puts Its Own Show on Road Raising Funds," Wall Street Journal, 19 July 1967; Henry Santiestevan, "El Teatro Campesino—Right Off the Picket Lines" and "Delano—A New Harvest for Migrants," IUD Agenda, vol. 3 (February 1967), pp. 16–17, 22; Bill Boyarsky, "Pacts Bring Labor Peace to Vineyards at Delano," The Washington Post Times Herald, 30 July 1970, p. A9; and Steven V. Roberts, "Chavez and His Grape Workers 'Overcome,'" The New York Times, 2 August 1970, sec. 4, p. 2.

152. On "We Shall Overcome," see "The Talk of the Town" in The New Yorker, vol. 41 (27 March 1965), pp. 37–38, and the recording by Joan Baez (with commentary by Harry Fleischman, together with the words) in the United Automobile Workers album This Land Is Your Land: Songs of Social Justice (produced in 1964 by Joel O'Brien Productions, Inc., and UAW education department), no. 9. For the words and music of the labor version, "We Will Overcome," together with historical notes, see Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, pp. 33–34.

153. Letter, Glazer to Scheips, 2 December 1959. For words and music of these more popular songs, together with notes about them, see Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, pp. 12–13, 38–39, 44–45.

154. As quoted in and paraphrased from David Anderson, "Washington Sq. May Day Rally Turns into a Battle of Singers," The New York Times, 2 May 1961, p. 16.

155. On Joe Glazer and his songs, see Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, passim; Greenway, American Folksongs of Protest, pp. 302–309; and Michael Kernan, "Glazer's Songs Still Work for Labor," The Washington Post Times Herald, 1 May 1970, pp. C1, C2.

156. Telephone interview with Glazer in Washington, D.C., 19 December 1967.

157. Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, pp. 10, 37.

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