Which Side are You On? by Florence Reece & Pete Seeger
Irritatingly catchy, with a hymn-like, biblical quality, Which Side Are You On was written in 1931 by the poet Florence Reece, the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky. The song came out of the 1931 Harlan County War, an ultra-violent, bitter str…