The Internationale (album)

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The Internationale
EP by Billy Bragg
Released	May 1990
Recorded	???
Genre	Folk
Length	19:23
Label	Liberation Records, Utility Records
Producer(s)	Grant Showbiz & Wiggy
Billy Bragg chronology
Workers Playtime (1988)	The Internationale (1990)	The Peel Sessions Album (1991)

The Internationale is a 1990 EP by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. Although Bragg is known for his association with left-wing causes, this release is unusual; most of Bragg's recordings balance overtly political songs with social observation and love songs.

The songs on the album are:

• "The Internationale" with new lyrics written by Bragg at the suggestion of Pete Seeger – 3:45
• "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", based on Earl Robinson's "Joe Hill" – 1:27
• "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions", with a tune borrowed from "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" – 3:59
• "Blake's Jerusalem", which Bragg calls an "attack on the new breed of capitalists Blake saw" – 2:30
• "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" by Carlos Mejía Godoy – 1:06
• "The Red Flag" by Jim Connell, set to its original tune, "The White Cockade" – 3:12
• "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" by Eric Bogle – 3:04

[edit] Personnel

• Billy Bragg - guitar (acoustic), guitar (electric), vocals
• Cara Tivey - piano, vocals, shakuhachi
• Lorraine Bowen - clarinet, sopranio recorder, piano, accordion, organ
• The Christie Tyler Cory Band - brass
• Côr Cochion Caerdydd - vocals
• Mark Duff - whistles
• Jim Sutherland - bodhran. percussion
• Dick Gaughan - vocals
• Wiggy - guitar (bass), vocals
• Charlie Llewellin - drum, cymbal
• Grant Showbiz - vocals
• David Bedford - arrangement and conducting