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Union Maid
For the documentary film, see Union Maids.
Song by Woody Guthrie
"Union Maid" is a union song, with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view.[1] The melody is the 1907 standard "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills,[2] which was in turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" in his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68.
Along with "Talking Union", this song was one of the many pro-union songs written by Guthrie during his time as a member of the Almanac Singers. Another member, Pete Seeger, writes:
"I'm proud to say I was present when 'Union Maid' was written in June, 1940, in the plain little office of the Oklahoma City Communist Party.
Bob Wood, local organizer, had asked Woody Guthrie and me to sing there the night before for a small group of striking oil workers. Early next morning, Woody got to the typewriter and hammered out the first two ve