Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Ballad of Harry Simms
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
"Ballad of Henry Simms" was written by composer Lan Adomian, with lyrics by Harry Alan Potamkin, was about the NMU organizer in Kentucky who was murdered in 1932. This song was part of the Worker's Museum League's "Workers Song Book No. 2," first published in 1935.
Cohen, Ronald D. Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America. CHAPEL HILL: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Dates:
1694 - 2010