Protest Songs – Volume 1

1. He Walked Right In and He Turned Around and He Walked Right out Again – Albert Lionais
2. Tell My Friend the Prison Warden I Hadn’t Time to Call – Ben Furey
3. The Old Song Resung – Breagh MacKinnon
4. Grand and Glorious Day – Ian MacDougall
5. Stand Up for Justice – Ken Chisholm
6. The Shutdown – Garry Leech
7. They Can’t Stand the Gaff – Richard MacKinnon
8. Picket Line – Victor Tomiczek
9. Mother When the Whistle Blows – Carolyn Lionais
10. He Starved, He Starved, I Tell You – Shane O’Handley
11. Dirty Danny – Nipper MacLeod
12. The Perfect Day – Mike LeLievre
13. Good Times – Chris McDonald
14. The Red Flag – Garry Leech
15. Better That – Colin Grant & Sandy MacIntyre
16. Go West, Young Man, Go West – Steven Fifield
17. Battle of Glace Bay – Donnie Calabrese
18. The Applicant – Victor Tomiczek

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Cape Breton Island Songs of Protest

On Cape Breton Island, where coal mining and steel making were once an essential part of the region’s culture and economy, protest song and verse are found in abundance. The Protest Song Project is an initiative of The Centre for Cape Breton Studies at Cape Breton University. The program’s goal is to preserve and promote the protest songs and verse that represent the region’s rich industrial heritage. The Centre has been collaborating with local musicians to record many of the songs that were published in the Maritime Labour Herald, a newspaper of the 1920s, that includes both local and international compositions. These songs played an important role in the labour struggles of the 1920s and are an unexplored aspect of Cape Breton’s labour heritage. This is a truly interactive, collaborative and community-minded project. This website is supported by audio tracks that can be purchased by clicking the “Buy” link.