Song Lyrics Unknown - Thirty Cents A Day    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Thirty Cents A Day Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Thirty Cents A Day Theme ID: 5698 Album: N/A THIRTY CENTS A DAY! In a dim-lighted chamber a dying maiden lay, The tide of her pulses was ebbing fast away; In the flush of her youth she was worn with toil and care, And starvation showed its traces on the festures once so fair. cho: No more the work-bell calls the wery one, Rest, tired wage-slave, in your grave unknown; Your feet will no more tread life's thorny, rugged way, They have murdered you by inches upon thirty cents a day ! From earliest childhood she'd toiled to win her bread, In hunger and rags, oft she wished that she were dead; She knew naught of life's joys or the pleasures wealth can bring, Or the glory of the woodland in the merry days of spring. cho: By the rich she was tempted to eat the bread of shame, But her mother dear had taught her to value her good name; Mid want and starvation she waved temptation by, As she would not sell her honor she in poverty must die. cho: Too late, Christian ladies! You cannot save her now, She breathes out her life --- see the death-damp on her brow; Full soon she'll be sleeping beneath the churchyard clay, While you smile on those who killed her with thirty cents a day. cho: From American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century, Foner Note: A Knights of Labor Song: somewhere between 1865 and 1890, I'd guess. RG tune: Faded Coat of Blue @union @work filename[ THRTYCNT play.exe FADECOAT RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Three Merry Men, Three Old Ladies, Three Ravens, Three Score And Ten, Threshing Song, Through The Years, Thyme It Is A Precious Thing, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Timber Jerry The Mule, Time Came Down, Time Has Made A Change In Me, Time Ive Lost In Wooing, Time O Year For Dippin Sheep, Time To Be Made A Wife, Time Will Show The Wiser, Times Are Getting Hard Boys, Times They Are A Changing, Tinker, Tinkers Courtship, Titanic, To Anacreon In Heaven, To Morrow, To The Beggin I Will Go, To The Sweet Sunny South, Tobaccos But An Indian Weed, Today, Tom Bolyn, Tom Cat Blues Or Ring Tail Tom, Tom Dooley, Tom Twist, Tommys Gone To Hilo, Tonga Anthem Text, Tonga Native Anthem Text, Tonight, Too Much Of A Name, Tooalooralooral, Topman And Afterguard, Touch Me, Tourist Attraction, Town I Loved So Well, Train On The Island, Tramp, Tramp On The Street, Tramp Tramp Tramp, Tramps And Hawkers, Trinidad Tobago Anthem Text, Trooper And The Maid, Trooper And The Turk, Tropical Jesus, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy