“Pay Day at Coal Creek”
Description
"Pay day, O pay day, O pay day, Pay day at Coal Creek tomorrow." "Bye bye, good woman, I'm gone." "You gonna miss me when I'm gone" "She's a rider, but she'll leave that rail sometime." "Pay day won't come no more."
Notes
While this has turned into a nonballad, it seems to have started off as an account of a bitter strike. - PJS
(For details, see the notes to "Coal Creek Troubles.") - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Coal Creek Troubles" (subject)
Recordings
- Pete Seeger, "Pay Day at Coal Creek" (on SeegerTerry)
- Pete Steele, "Last Payday at Coal Creek" (on PSteele01); "Pay Day at Coal Creek" (AFS, 1938; on LC02, KMM)
References
- Lomax-FSNA 146, "Pay Day" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Silber-FSWB, p. 126, "Pay Day At Coal Creek" (1 text)
- DT, PAYDAYCC
- Roud #6685
- BI, LoF146