Packer the Scab(Tune: Only a Button Between You and Disgrace)Below is an example of a popular song being used as a strike song. By coincidence the scab had the same surname�Bailey. No doubt the use of such a well-known popular song aimed at a well-known local scab would have proved to be a very powerful combination and additional verses would have been unnecessary.
SCAB'S HYMN(Tune: Casey Jones)This song is related to the IWW song composed by Joe Hill but, of course, it has been localised. I assume that 'Blue Whiskers' was so nicknamed because he had red hair. The song is anonymous and was collected in Broken Hill in 1974 from a manuscript. It was common to refer to scabs as having 'legs upon their chests' as in parasites such as fleas or lice. |