Originally written by Michael Gold and comrades for the Workers (Communist) Party Chicago local’s agit-prop performances a number of these songs, like ‘I’ve Never Been a Bolshevik,’ would find their way into the Party’s canon and be sung at youth camps throughout the 1930s.

Proletarian Song Book: Lyrics from the Operetta ‘The Last Revolution’ by Michael Gold, Rudolph Liebich, and J. Ramirez. Published by the Workers Party of America, Chicago Local. 1923.

Contents: Opening Chorus (Housemaids), Business is Business (Five Capitalists), Noble Noble Plutes (Bishop Bunk, Senator Bunk, Judge and General Bunk), The Law of Supply and Demand (Capitalists), The Boss (Rebel Workers), Factory Whistles (A Rebel Worker), The Henry, Henry Dubbs (Chorus of Henry Dubbs), Thank You Kind Masters (The Dubbs), I’ve Never Been a Bolshevist (Lemuel Crimpers, Labor Misleader), Red Dawn (A Rebel Worker), Hymn Number 7,308,421 (With Apologies to Joe Hill), Capital and Labor (Leonard Crimpers), Only a Harvard Millionaire (Henry Cabot Van Dam), A Matron of the Bourgeoisie (Mrs. Hawkins-Pierpont), Morganville is Tumbling Down (Chorus of Juniors), With Hand and Brain and a Good Machine (Rebel Workers). 18 pages.

PDF of full pamphlet: https://archive.org/download/ProletarianSongBookOfLyricsFromTheOperettaTheLastRevolution/221064_text.pdf