Songs about Rich & Poor

This is a page showing ways to find songs about issues of economic justice, wealth, and poverty in our songbooks. Most of these are in chapter called "Rich & Poor" in both songbooks.

Here is a list of songs in the "Rich & Poor" chapter in Rise Up Singing: www.riseupandsing.org/songbook/rise-up-singing/rich-poor

See also the chapters on Work and Struggle.

Here are some songs on this subject in the "City" chapter:

• Bottle of Wine (Tom Paxton)
• Bourgeois Blues (Leadbelly)
• Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl)
• Faucets Are Dripping (Malvina Reynolds)
• Heaven Help Us All (Ronald Miller)
• The MTA Song (Jacqueline Steiner/Bess Hawes)
• My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen_
• Streets of London (Ralph McTell)

Other songs on this subject in Rise Up Singing include:  

Here is a list of songs in the "Rich & Poor" chapter in Rise Again: www.riseupandsing.org/songbook/rise-again/rich-poor

See also the chapters on Work and Struggle. Other songs on this subject in Rise Again include: 

Some of our favorite songs include:

The Rich Man's House by Anne Feeney