{"id":98,"date":"2016-01-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2023-01-21T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T16:19:34","slug":"uaw-ciosally-dont-you-grieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/uaw-ciosally-dont-you-grieve\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW-CIO\/Sally Don&#8217;t You Grieve (The Union Boys)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UAW-CIO \/ Sally, Don&#039;t You Grieve\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c34KeJSYGrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was maybe six years old, my parents bought me a little portable record player. It was about a foot square, closed up like a suitcase, and had four speeds: 1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/first-Elijah-guitar-pic.jpg?resize=154%2C152&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"152\" \/>6, 33 1\/3, 45, and 78. They wouldn&#8217;t let me play their records on it, but I had a few children&#8217;s folk LPs &#8212; one by Tom Glazer, and a couple of <em>Everybody Sing!<\/em>\u00a0 anthologies &#8212; and somehow I also ended up with my grandparents&#8217; 78 albums.<\/p>\n<p>My mother&#8217;s family were refugees from Nazi Vienna and old-line Communists &#8212; till the day he died, my grandfather had the complete works of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin in his home office, in German. (Also the complete works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Mark Twain.) 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The Union Boys wasn&#8217;t actually a group &#8212; it was just a bunch of singers who got together to record an album&#8217;s worth of songs about union organizing and the war effort, among them Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Tom Glazer, Josh White, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, plus one side by Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sally-dont-you-grieve.jpg?resize=275%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sally don't you grieve\" width=\"275\" height=\"237\" \/>I played those records constantly and learned most of the songs, and these two were particular favorites. 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