Roll Out the Pickets
Dublin Core
Title
Roll Out the Pickets
Description
Reflects farm workers' struggle to unionize. Parody of "Roll out the Barrel."
ROLL OUT THE PICKETS
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon see the light.
Come and roll out the barrel
For we're on strike tonight.
Roll out the pickets
Call all the pickers in
We're not down-hearted
'Cause we are going to win
Nothing can stop us
We won't hear of defeat.
We'll show the big growers
That we can't be beat.
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
We'll have the finks on the run
Nothing can stop us
We won't hear of defeat.
We'll show the big growers
That we can't be beat.
ROLL OUT THE PICKETS
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon see the light.
Come and roll out the barrel
For we're on strike tonight.
Roll out the pickets
Call all the pickers in
We're not down-hearted
'Cause we are going to win
Nothing can stop us
We won't hear of defeat.
We'll show the big growers
That we can't be beat.
Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
We'll have the finks on the run
Nothing can stop us
We won't hear of defeat.
We'll show the big growers
That we can't be beat.
Creator
Rains, Ruby (Performer)
Rains, Bert (Performer)
Rains, Bert (Performer)
Source
Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Workers Collection (AFC 1985/001)
Contributor
Lyanne Teopaco, Oliva Torres
Format
Song
Language
English
Type
Song
Files
Collection
Citation
Rains, Ruby (Performer)
Rains, Bert (Performer) , “Roll Out the Pickets,” Grapes of Wrath, accessed May 3, 2024, https://grapesofwrath.sfsuenglishdh.net/items/show/145.