They ransacked the whole house and then kept watch outside, waiting to shoot Sam down when he came back. But he didn't come home that night. My songs always goes to the underdog — to the worker. I'm one of them and I feel like I've got to be with them. There's no such thing as neutral. You have to be on one side or the other. Some people say, 'I don't take sides — I'm neutral.
In your mind you're on one side or the other. In Harlan County there wasn't no neutral. If you wasn't a gun thug, you was a union man. You had to be. Which side are you on? You can't say you're not on one because then you side with power, whatever it is.
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Digital Be informed with the essential news and opinion. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big companies, who kept wages low and spent as little money on safety as possible. Miners lived in company houses on company land and were paid in scrip, good only at the company store.
The company owned the miners sure as sunrise. That's why they had to have a union.
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