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s Contents Acknowledgments / ix Hazel Dickens: A Brief Biography by Bill C. Malone / 1 Songs and Memories by Hazel Dickens / 31 Mama’s Hand / 31 A Few Old Memories / 33 You’ll Get No More of Me / 34 West Virginia My Home / 35 My Better Years / 38 Working Girl Blues / 40 Scars from an Old Love / 41 Lost Patterns / 42 Scraps from Your Table / 43 Beyond the River Bend / 44 Won’t You Come and Sing for Me / 45 Only the Lonely / 47 Rambling Woman / 48 Your Greedy Heart / 49 Don’t Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There / 50 It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song / 52 I Love to Sing the Old Songs / 53 Old Calloused Hands / 54 Rocking Chair Blues / 55 Pretty Bird / 57 Mount Zion’s Lofty Heights / 58 Cowboy Jim / 59 Little Lenaldo / 60 Tomorrow’s Already Lost / 61 I Can’t Find Your Love Anymore / 62 Hills of Home / 63 Old River / 65 Will Jesus Wash the Bloodstains from Your Hands / 66 They’ll Never Keep Us Down / 67 Mannington Mine Disaster / 70 Coal Miner’s Grave / 72 Black Lung / 74 Coal Mining Woman / 75 The Yablonski Murder / 76 Clay County Miner / 78 My Heart’s Own Love / 79 America’s Poor / 81 Freedom’s Disciple (Working-Class Heroes) / 83 The Homeless / 84 My Love Has Left Me / 85 A Hazel Dickens Discography / 87 Index / 99 Illustrations follow pages 30 and 86 ...

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