John Greenway

About the artist

John Greenway is a noted singer and folklorist who made several recordings for the seminal Folkways Records label. Greenway specialised in songs of social protest and was best known for maintaining that protest songs are folksongs as well.

Top songs

  1. The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
  2. Botany Bay
  3. Ben Hall
  4. Talking Guitar Blues
  5. Old Man Atom
  6. Waltzing Matilda (Queensland Version)
  7. Bluey Brink
  8. I Am a Union Woman
  9. The Dying Stockman
  10. Wild Colonial Boy
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  1. Old Bullock Dray
  2. Brisbane Ladies
  3. Talking Subway
  4. The Dog Sat On The Tucker Box
  5. Talking Inflation Blues
  6. Talking Dust Bowl
  7. One Of The Has-Beens
  8. Click Go The Shears
  9. Castlereagh River
  10. I Like Ike
  11. Wild Rover No More
  12. Talking Butcher
  13. There Is Power In a Union
  14. Original Talking Blues
  15. The Death of Harry Simms
  16. Talking Union
  17. Lazy Harry's
  18. Dark As A Dungeon
  19. Bold Jack Donahue
  20. Wallaby Stew
  21. Oh My God Them Taters
  22. Hard Times at the Mill
  23. Poor Miner's Farewell
  24. Les Darcy
  25. Cockies Of Bungaree
  26. Stockman's Last Bed
  27. Peter Clarke
  28. Talking Social Worker
  29. Too Old to Work
  30. Monkey Ward Can't Make a Monkey Out of Me
  31. What Shall We Do for the Striking Seamen?
  32. Union Burying Ground
  33. Farther Along
  34. Hard Times in Coleman's Mines
  35. New Talking Blues
  36. Ludlow Massacre
  37. Dreadul Memories
  38. Chief Aderholt
  39. Mother Jones
  40. Down on Roberts' Farm
  41. Hard Times in the Coleman's Mines
  42. Talking Columbia Blues
  43. A Weaver's Life Is Like an Engine
  44. Dry Voters, Wet Drinkers
  45. Dreadful Memories
  46. Talking Miner (Talking Centralia)
  47. Talking Sailor
  48. Dishonest Miller
  49. Pistol Packin' Woman
  50. The Cat Came Back
  51. Talkin' Subway
  52. Talking Miner
  53. Mr. Concliff Turn Me Loose
  54. The Birth of Robin Hood
  55. Hunger
  56. Dry Voters - Wet Drinkers
  57. Hungry Ragged Blues
  58. The wabash cannonball
  59. Talking Miner (Talking Central
  60. The Ballad of Bloody Thursday - John Greenway
  61. What Shall We Put In The Daily Paper
  62. Talking Guitar
  63. Hard times in the mill
  64. John Greenway / Dark As A Dungeon
  65. The Ballad of Bloody Thursday -
  66. 09 - Love Never Dies
  67. Stir the Wallaby Stew
  68. Talking dust blues
  69. Nine Miles From Gundagai
  70. A Weavers Life Is Like An Engine
  71. What Shall We Do for the Striking Seamen
  72. The Great American Bum
  73. Portland County Jail
  74. All Around The Water Tank
  75. Ramblin'
  76. The Mild Mannered Man
  77. Hobo Bill's Last Ride
  78. Bonneville Dam
  79. Going Down The Road
  80. Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
  81. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
  82. Hard Travelin'
  83. Dying Hobo
  84. Jay Gould's Daughter
  85. The Lehigh Valley
  86. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
  87. Acres Of Clams
  88. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
  89. The Hobo's Lullaby
  90. Five Miles From Gundagai

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