Re: red flags

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Margaret Coleman wrote:
>
> Good one, Gene, but I was refering to the nineteenth century labor song "Bread and
> Roses."  It was the hook of a song sung by laboring women who said they were
> fighting not just for bread, but for roses too--as in more than basic subsistence.
> If I could remember all the lyrics, I would put them down here......maggie coleman
>

I've read conflicting versions of the origins of that song, is author,
the events that triggered it, etc. I vaguely remember one that had it
written several years after the Lawrence strike and by a male onlooker,
or something like that. So you have a definite version from a definite
source?

Carrol