Click on the title to link to a "YouTube" film clip of Hazel Dickens performing "The Rebel Girl" (with some great footage of the young Elizabeth Gurley Flynn)
In this series, presented under the headline “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”, I will post some songs that I think will help us get through the “dog days” of the struggle for our communist future. I do not vouch for the political thrust of the songs; for the most part they are done by pacifists, social democrats, hell, even just plain old ordinary democrats. And, occasionally, a communist, although hard communist musicians have historically been scarce on the ground. Thus, here we have a regular "popular front" on the music scene. While this would not be acceptable for our political prospects, it will suffice for our purposes here.
Rebel Girl - Lyrics & Chords- Joe Hill
G C G
There are women of many de scriptions
G7 C Cm G
In this queer world as every one knows
C G
Some are living in beautiful mansions
A7 D
And are wearing the finest of clothes.
D7 G C G
There are blue-blooded queens and prin cesses
G7 C B
Who have charms made of diamonds and pearls.
G E7 Am
But the only and Thorough-bred Lady
A7 D7 G
Is the Reb el Girl.
Chorus:
C
That's the Rebel Girl, that's the Rebel Girl,
D D7 G
To the working class she's a precious pearl.
D7
She brings Courage, Pride and Joy
G
To the fighting Rebel Boy
C
We've had girls before, but we need some more
DC B
In the I ndustrial Work ers of the World
E7 Am
For it' s great to figh t for Freedom
C G D7 G
With a Reb el Girl.
Yes, her hands may be hardened from labor
And her dress may not be very fine.
But a heart in her bosom is beating
Warm and true to her class and her kind.
And the grafters in terror are trembling
When her spite and defiance she'll hurl.
For the only and Thorough-bred Lady
Is the Rebel Girl.
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