One hundred songs of toil : with guitar chords / compiled and edited by Karl Dallas.

Includes an index of titles, first lines and choruses (pages 243-244).

Includes a glossary (page 245 - 248).

Working life out / The working chap -- The Dublin jack-of-all-trades -- The streets of London -- The roaming journeyman -- The stonecutter boy -- The factory girl (1) -- The factory girl (2) -- The factory girl (3) -- The factory girl (4) -- The navvy boy -- The bold Irish navvy -- Hot asphalt -- The jolly grinder -- Charles Docherty -- Nae wark -- William Brown -- The strike -- This afternoon's all mine --

Parodies / The bold engineers -- The broo road --

Heroes on the line / Paddy works on the railway -- The iron horse --Cosher Bailey -- Moses on the mail -- A-working on the railway -- The fireman's growl -- On the old Elleny -- Turntable song -- Doctor Beeching -- The redundant railwayman -- The railwayman's lament --

The weary trade / The foggy dew -- Will the weaver -- The weavers' song -- The spinning wheel -- My winder -- The wark o' the weavers -- Droylesden wakes -- The lint pulling -- The roving hackler -- The weaver of Wellbrook -- The handloom weaver and the factory maid -- The maid of Campbell's mill -- The cropper lads -- Foster's mill -- Grimshaw's factory fire -- The handloom versus the powerloom -- The pride of Springfield Row -- The doffing mistress -- The spinner's wedding -- The poor cotton weaver -- All the wish the war was over -- The handloom weavers' lament -- Poversty knock -- The Shurat weaver -- Surat warps --

Collier lads for ever more / Six jolly miners -- The collie laddie -- Walker shore and Byker Hill -- Byker Hill and Walker shore -- The colliers' rant -- The cockfight -- Down in a coalmine -- Swalwell hopping -- The pitman's song -- The coal trade -- My lad's a canny lad -- Footy against the wall -- The pitman's happy times -- The pitman's lovesong -- The pitman's courtship -- With my pitboots on -- The keel row -- Cushie Butterfield -- the Sandgate lass -- The Sandgate girl's lamentation -- The Sandgate dandling song -- Fourpence a day -- Little chance (1) -- Little chance (2) -- Jowl, jowl and listen -- Rap her to bank -- The celebrated working man -- The row between the cages -- The Haswell cages -- The Blantyre explosion -- The Donibristle moss moran disaster -- Johnny Sneddon -- The Trimdon Grange explosion -- The Gresford disaster -- Oakey's keeker -- Geordie Black -- The banks of the Dee -- I could hew -- The coalowner and the pitman's wife -- The miner's lifeguard -- Blackleg miners -- The best-dressed man of Seghill -- The Oakley strike evictions -- The South Medomsley strike -- The Durhama lock-out -- The pound-a-week rise -- Farewell to the 'Cotia --

"Most of the songs in this book come from traditional sources...Whenever possible I have indicated recordings in which the original songs can be heard; rarely are the words as printed here exactly as you would find them on such a recording...This is not so much a work of folksong scholarship but rather an introduction to a whole corpus of epic music and lyric which more and more people are feeling to be an essential hard core to our very essence as human beings. Before I put them ocasionally in public even since I gave up professional singing, but much more important at home in the family circle, and thus I have made them on my own, not by appropriating their copyright, but by singing them and whittling away at them until they fitted me." -- from the book jacket