Billy bragg discography torrent

This government had an idea
And parliament made it law
It seems like it&#;s illegal
To fight for the union any more

Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on
Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on

We went out to join the picket line
For together we cannot fail
We got stopped by police at the county line
They said, &#;Go home boys or you&#;re going to jail&#;

Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on
Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on

It&#;s hard to explain to a crying child
Why her Daddy can&#;t go back
So the family suffer
But it hurts me more
To hear a scab say Sod you Jack

Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on
Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on

I&#;m bound to follow my conscience
And do whatever I can
But it&#;ll take much more than the union law
To knock the fight out of a working man

Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on
Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on

WORDS & MUSIC – Florence Reece
Adapted by Billy Bragg © Stormking Music Inc assigned to Harmony Music Ltd Reproduced by kind permission of Harmony Music Ltd

One of my favorite tracks from what is perhaps my favorite Billy Bragg album&#;

Billy Bragg, &#;From Red to Blue&#; &#; from the album William Bloke

William Bloke comes at what feels like something of a midpoint, or perhaps later than mid, a transition in Billy Bragg&#;s career. It&#;s roughly at the half-way mark in terms of chronology and discography, but more than that it seems to mark a musical shift, and a maturation of sorts. Among other things, it&#;s simply so good, so clearly the album he&#;s been building towards, that some sort of change was necessary after.

It was followed by the Mermaid Avenue albums &#; studio and live &#; and then his two most recent works, England, Half English and Mr. Love and Justice, which continue the musical and thematic interests that have marked Bragg&#;s career, but which also seem qualitatively different from the work prior to William Bloke. I&#;m not sure yet how to characterize the change, but these last two albums definitely represent a shift, more sonically, musically, than thematically, but maybe there as well.

It&#;s fitting, then, that coming as it does at a sort of middle age for Bragg&#;s career one of the songs on the album addresses the issue of aging and change, of the cha

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