Sabo-Tabby Kitten (IWW Song)
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2025
- An IWW song about the Sabo-tabby, a symbol used by the organisation as a code for sabotage. Both its design and this song were created by Ralph Chaplin, who also penned the song "Solidarity Forever". Like that song's tune was taken from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", so too was this one's taken from "Dixie".
Performer: GETchan People's Choir and Orchestra
Composer: Daniel Decatur Emmett (tune taken from "Dixie")
Year Composed: 1859
Lyricist: Ralph Chaplin
Year Written: 1910s
Image: Poster "General Strike", Eric Drooker.
"The softest paw can be a claw" is one hell of a bar.
OMG WHAT BASED SLAPSHOES?
Need more IWW songs to be highlighted by the left. It's good to know the American left at one point existed and stood for values that now sadly are forgotten but are slowly being brought back.
Yeah, man; But they're not dead, just buried by democrat's rhetoric and years of democrats+republicans trying to bury the true left to prevent us arising up.
Nice mongol shuudan pfp comrade
I'm so happy to see the left regaining it's united strength among the west
The McDonalds Party may not allow that to happen
@ohsolittletiger As i grow into the political scene properly i see how true this is. Liberals focusing on their own stuff trying to maintain balance, Conservatives trying to larp as the 50s
Blasting this song on full volume now that the Tesla strikes are in full gear in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
BE A SABO-TABBY!
Sad what mcarthyism did and how anything even remotely socialist is considered radical
Always be a Sabo tabby kitten 🐈⬛ 🏴
@@simonalthistoryandgamesPeople are beginning to see through it as contradictions sharpen.
@@imamorp7980 yeah
Oh I like that! Taking something terrible and making it a song about a socialist kitty is glorious
@@fitzthedragon The original song is Dixie, the (de facto) anthem of the Confederate States of America.
A Wobbly kitten
@@chereamii what's the name of original
@@fitzthedragon what? No. The original is a song of the Confederacy from the US civil war.
@@fitzthedragon The Union Dixie was the most succesful go at subverting an anthem. I think op is referring to the original Confederate Dixie instead of Union Dixie.
Коты всех стран - соединяйтесь! 🚩✊
😺🚩
😻🌹🚩
🚩 🐈
😸🐈⬛🚩
🚩🐈⬛✊
Okay, as a socialist and an animal lover, this song makes me so happy! March on, Comrade Kitten!
@@2015Drama “…and then grow into a Tigris of the old kind, the type that goes after *Combines!”*
Hi, Comrade, I'm a Russian Anarcho-Communist. I am in solidarity with your point of view.
I am embroidering "the softest paw can be a claw" on my work jacket.
You rotten rats, go hide your faces;
I’m right here, so find your places.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
The tiger wild in its jungle sitting,
Never fights like this here kitten.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Oh the rats all hate and fear me, meow, meow!
The softest paw can be a claw;
They seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten;
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten!
The boss has cream for his lordly dinner;
Feed him milk and make him thinner.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
If you are down and the boss is gloating,
Trust in me instead of voting.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Oh the rats all hate and fear me, meow, meow!
The softest paw can be a claw;
They seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten;
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten!
On every wheel that turns I’m riding;
No one knows, though, where I’m hiding.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
The fight is tough and you can’t see through it?
Shut your traps, and a cat will do it!
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Oh the rats all hate and fear me, meow, meow!
The softest paw can be a claw;
They seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten;
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten!
Lawyers have no bunk to fill me;
Cops and soldiers cannot kill me.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Step on things that the boneheads bow to;
Come with me, and I’ll show you how to.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Oh the rats all hate and fear me, meow, meow!
The softest paw can be a claw;
They seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten;
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten!
This world should have but free folk in it;
Let me show you how to win it.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Perch will I on the system’s coffin,
On the hearse they take it off in.
Hurry now! Wonder how? Meow, sabotage!
Oh the rats all hate and fear me, meow, meow!
The softest paw can be a claw;
They seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten;
Hurrah, they saw, your Sabo-Tabby Kitten!
as a syndicalist from dixie, finally. an anthem for my homeland i can be proud of.
As a kitten fan,i like this song :)
The IWW symbol was a black cat because they made bosses suffer "bad luck" of having their machines mysteriously break down.
I like that story, but what I read up is that early in one of their first big protests an emaciated black cat wandered into their camp and a bunch of people started taking care of it until it got healthier. After which they demanded it become a mascot since everyone got so attached to the little thing.
There's another song similar to this one but it was written by Joe Hill instead of Ralph Chaplin, called "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-day" or sometimes known as "Boom Went the Boom" about a how poor work conditions can result in workers having "accidents" that break machinery
Joe Glazer has a version, although I don't like it very much. Lucas Stark has a really good one tho (you should check out Lucas Stark anyways, he has a good album full of wobbly themes i believe)
@@SilverLillyMedia I always thought Boom Went the Boom was about the 1929 stock market crash, and about how it's foolish to think that it won't keep happening again and again under capitalism
@@4sythdude549 nope! Its about Sabotage! At least that was the original intent of the Joe Hill song
@@4sythdude549 Two different versions. Original is about sabotage; ‘30s version is about the crash.
Meow :3
Miau >o
mrrrrrp ^w^
As a syndicalist this is fucking based
For real, man! Glory to the Sabo-Tabby!
Whats syndicalism? i only know about it bc i played kaiserriech on hoi4
@@germancaptain300it can refer to the ideology that the socialist revolution and then later socialism itself should use the unions as the main instrument of organising. This is if I understand correctly different than using workers' councils, or perhaps just putting more emphasis on the unions inside those councils. It is certainly different than the Stalinist perversion of socialism in which a bureaucratic party dictatorship runs the state.
In Dutch though, an active union member may also refer to themselves as syndicalist, I don't know in what measure this can be the case in English or if the above writer had this in mind
@@nilsvn2052In the US, you are a union man or woman.
@@nilsvn2052 Most modern understandings of syndicalism are also anarchist. So if you want to make it really simple syndicalism is where there is no authority but unions. The syndicalist will say that this is real democracy because when there is no system of different classes everyone will be a unionized worker and therefore directly involved in democracy. This is a very dumbed down version of the idea, and of course most syndicalist don't see it this onedimensionally. (De Leonism would be an example of a non anarchist version)
"meow! sabotage!" i fucking love IWW songs lmao. based song, thank you for uploading. i cant believe they actually took music from dixieland too 🤣
A most magnificent song to post.
Now I know why the syndicalists are called the CSA in Kaiserreich now.
Thank you bisexual Denis Prager who I've found like 4 separate times
It has Union Dixie vibes
I mean, it *is* Union Dixie lol
Only Dixie I'll green light.
What about Union Dixie?
@@woodencheck6181 Oh that too, of course. How can you not?
But like the original dixie in terms of the melody was definitely the best
@@Ineverlost_controldon't they all have the same melody though? Isn't that the point?
@@woodencheck6181man I hate America with every fiber of my being but that shit slaps
This is the cutest thing ever and it's empowering as hell.
Oh nice, haven’t heard this version. This Wobbly loves this song!
I'd be surprised if you had, considering this is the original source!
@@GETchan you made this?
@@Loxer150 Description clearly says: "Performer: GETchan People's Choir and Orchestra"
@@GETchan oh wow, nice! It's incredibly well done!
I love this ❤🐈
I thought the Union version of Dixie was good, but the LABOR Union version is even better.
@@sketchbook8177 r/accidentally british
R/accidentally British
Whether is Jefferson Davis or Jeff Bezos, support the Union.
I love it how the IWW have taken the confederate tune for their song. Sth like: "you say it's a confederate melody and we can't use it? Go screw yourselves rightists, it's a nice tune and we'll use it whether you like it or not!" Unironically well done, comrades❤🖤✊
Check out Union Dixie sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
WE MAKIN IT OUTTA WAGE SLAVERY WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
Transfem communication:
"Mmmrp, meow, meow meow"
(They are discussing revolution)
Meowist Bowltobrist Pawvolution
Essas falsificações não são suportadas
cringe
as a fellow transfem, this is true
Nessas horas que agradeço por ser uma travesti do terceiro mundo e não compartilhar essas vergonhas.
As someone who went to (and was radicalized by) a certain college in Charleston that had a glory boner for the original - I am so happy to hear a version that actually aligns with my values
Now I know where the term "wildcat strike" comes from!
In the orginal version i heard they would sometimes say "the rats all hate and fear me" and other times say "the reacts all hate and fear me"
Meow-paganda of the deed :3
You've been cat! Send this to your boss to totally cat them!
Beautiful song ❤
meow
Meow Sabotage is now my catchphrase.
I'm glad someone could repurpose the beautiful tune of Union Dixie for something actually good
(not including the Union army version, you know what I mean)
LONG LIVE THE AMERICAN SECOND REVOLUTION, LONG LIVE THE COMBINED SYNDICATES ! ✊🐈🏴🚩
Love this song
If they give you bad pay, give them bad work.
UPHOLD TOMASIST THOUGHT! DOWN TO BOURGEOIS JERRYISM!
is this the only GETchan video with song lyrics in thumbnail? (even though they're faded)
Based
So cute, w have kitties and some are tabbys. Our kitties are indoors only.
Up the GETchan People's Choir and Orchestra! ✊🎺
I love this song, I can't stop listening to it. Exceptional work.
TABBY!!! IS THAT FUNNI CLOCK MAN REFERENCE😳😳😳😳
TABORISTKY CONFIRMED??!
Oh the trans girls are going to love this
Can confirm. Based as shit.
maia arson crimew >:3
Makes me want to do an old school style cartoon of Sabo Tabby organizing the working class
if you ever do can you send me a link lmao
Fantastic performance. I absolutely adore the Sabocat concept and iconography and am always on the lookout for more leftist music, so this is especially neat.
Solidarity, comrade.
If you're looking for more socialist music then you could take a look at "If you ain't been called a red".
I must say that I prefer Monsieur Jack's cover but by the sound of it this is the original or at least as close to the original as you get?
i love this❤
Kaiserreich CSA be like
based
socialist "dixieland"? Wowie
AAAAA I LOVE THIS SO MUCHHHHHHAGDCIABNSDIKJNAI JNDOJ
The Syndical Dixie
My cat when no food:
As a furry who’s also communist, this is perfect.
My fursona even is a black cat, partly because I always liked the anarchist iconography. I even have a flag of the German FAU (Free Workers Union) with an angry black cat on it hanging in my living room. Another big reason was because I realled liked Mae Borowski from NitW of course and I mean she's kinda a sabo-tabo kitten herself.
Count me in! >:3
Tabby Kitten? T-TNO reference??????
Taboritsky fursona is now canon
The brainrot spreads
@@principetnomusic ‘specially if it’s a dark gray going to black, long-haired version.
Looks a little like a Persian or Norwegian Forest Cat - only they’re closer to a Siberian Lynx for size. Big claws, too.
The bosses *really* don’t like those. They tend to go hooves up if one should show….
This song be like nursery for kids.
It's glorious.
Is this anarchist music?
It's syndicalist music. The IWW is a big-tent socialist organization. It's always included anarchists, but it's not itself exclusively anarchist. The major ideological point uniting them is syndicalism, beyond that members can and have been anarchists, Marxists, or whatever else.
@@MandalorTeSiitwe’re not Syndicalist. You were right in describing us as big tent but we have never subscribed to syndicalism
Well, it depends on what you are calling syndicalism.
I'm french, for us "syndicalisme" is a synonym of industrial unionism, with the double task, to get better material existence conditions and to expropriate the capitalists, but in english, doesn't it just mean the same ?
If it is right, the IWW constitution goes to this direction.
@@DrAnarchy69
Kitty! 🐈⬛
A communist version of Dixieland.
Yeah I think I've finally gone insane.
New favourite
I'm a Socialist and American Patriot! God Bless America! Workers Unite!
When your cats rebel and form an anarchist state.. "Bow down before our claw class missiles and serve us fish and milk human slave."
That doesn't sound very anarchist or them though.
I wonder if "tiger" they refer to is the tammany tiger
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
You need to post more songs like this 👈🔫
Channel originals?
You rotten rats, go hide your face;
I'm right here, so find your places.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
The tiger wild in its jungle sittin'
never fights like this here kitten.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
O, the rats all hate and fear me.
Meow! MEOW!
The softest paw can be a claw;
they seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
The boss has cream for his lordly dinner;
feed him milk and make him thinner.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
If you are down and the boss is gloating,
trust in me instead of voting.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
O, the rats all hate and fear me.
Meow! MEOW!
The softest paw can be a claw;
they seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
On every wheel that turns I'm riding;
no one knows, though, where I'm hiding.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
The fight is tough, and you can't see through it?
Shut your traps, and a cat will do it.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
O, the rats all hate and fear me.
Meow! MEOW!
The softest paw can be a claw;
they seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Lawyers have no bunk to fill me;
cops and soldiers cannot kill me.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
Step on things that the boneheads bow to;
come with me, and I'll show you how to.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
O, the rats all hate and fear me.
Meow! MEOW!
The softest paw can be a claw;
they seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
This world should have but free folk in it;
let me show you how to win it.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
Perch will I on the system's coffin,
on the hearse they take it off in.
Hurry now! Wonder how?
MEOW! Sabotage!
O, the rats all hate and fear me.
Meow! MEOW!
The softest paw can be a claw;
they seldom venture near me.
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
Hurrah, they saw your Sabo-tabby kitten!
spotify?
When bro changes his pronouns to we/us
Happy International Labour day. 🎉🎉❤
well you can't always write bangers i guess
A song for socialists and cat lovers everywhere. God I love it ❤
Catboys unite! You have nothing to lose except your leashes!
Bad example I fear 95% would be bottoms who would not want to lose the leashes 😭
@Hiljaa_ We will never free ourselves while being so indoctrinated by the petty doms. We have been trained by the bougousie to submit to those bigger than us.
(And I'm fine with that :3)
Ultra based.
How did you voice it?
Is it AI?
Probably volunteers or something?
Think it’s just an old ass recording
@@hershelgreene5009 the quality is too good
They have an orchestra
BREAK THE CHAINS! FOR REED AND FLYNN
🔺🐈▼
Myriam Estates
HMMMM it reminds me of a certain land
*s l a p s*
fellow anarcho-syndicalist! hello
Asa Walk
i thought sabo-tabby was something a little more schizo
Eh, we're not talking about that one clock man from that certain video game here.
Vanderbilt university
Elaina Isle
I love America
Meow
TNO TABORITSKY REFERENCE 😱🙀🤯🤯
I don't understand this cat
furry marching song!!
tho tradeunionism can actually be vary harmful to revolutionary movement and it perpetuates a sense of complacency among the ranks of the proletarian. they do make some banger songs.
Lenin never understood SYNDICALISM(revolutionary syndicalism is part of "trade unionism", which also includes corporatism and craft unionism), he refered to Connolly all the day while never understanding two words : industrial unionism.
And since, leninists are always saying bullshit about "trade unionism"
@@anaskournif9290 Lenin lived when syndicalism was at its peak. Unions could not lead the revolution alone. Thus syndicalism only exists in a mod for a map game now.
@@anaskournif9290"Industrial unionism" is still trade unionism, and a movement that only prioritizes the well-being of its people at the expense of everyone else (in other words, removed from class struggle against the logic of capital) is not as "revolutionary" as you think it is.
@@aleks484 yeah, and 20 years after the bolchevik revolution, you had the catalonian one.
I was a syndicalist way before discovering Kaiserreich.
But you are right on one thing : syndicalism is not revolutionary alone, it is the matrix for other ideologies, including Connollyism (and after that leninism), fascism(Mussolini was a big fan of Sorel but with a corporatist point of view), antifascism(the first antifascists in Italy were also syndicalists because syndicalism is a very efficient way of organizaing workers) and anarcho-syndicalism.
@@marchdarkenotp3346 read the charter of Amiens, you will understand that syndicalism always fought for all the workers.
The "double besogne" is to get better material existence conditions AND to expropriate the capitalists.
So yeah, Lenin doesn't understand a few things and it's not his fault, he was always in countries where syndicalism was almost unexisting, the germanic countries, England and Switzerland.
I disapprove of the choice of melody, which may appear catchy but stems from blackface minstrelsy and glorification of slavery. «Dixie» is white-supremacist to the core, and I recommend that it never again be used as the basis for any progressive political song. That said, I am pleased to see that the GETchan People's Choir and Orchestra continues to produce recordings for the public.
i disapprove your comment...
it's called reclaiming
Why not turn something made by evil to something for solidarity?
@@rust9542 Maybe then you should reclaim the «Horst-Wessel-Lied» or some Zionist anthem. Go right ahead, but I want nothing to do with such hopelessly tainted reactionary music.
Reclamation is awesome. Us Wobs have been doing it to song Melodie’s for over a century
HALLL NAW ITS THE FURRY ANTHEM (also it sounds a lot like Dixie)
Read the describtion under the video and you shall be surprised
Jokes on you i cant read
@@smashyconduile2273 I can tell
Just when I thought my opinion of syndicalism couldn't go any lower...
Awww... the bootlicking rat got scared?
@@camaradulrosu3723 yup
@@camaradulrosu3723 bro ratio'd him HARD
this song would be cooler if it was just from a cat's perspective without the commie gobbledygook tbh
Says a lot about what you think of labor rights if THIS is commie gobbledygook
I don‘t know what the worst piece of leftist music is, but I can see it has stiff competition.
When I'm in a 0 taste in political songs contest and my competitor is raylast3873
@@daniels0376 you’ll definitely win the contest if you pick this one. Even tankie songs aren’t usually this…whatever this is
@@daniels0376😂😂😂
@@raylast3873BRO CANT EVEN FIND A REASON FOR HATING IT OTHER THAN “it challenges my worldview” THATS HOW YOU KNOW ITS A BANGER
@@daniels0376 crazy ratio. W song.
Love this 👍🏾
meow
Meow
Meow
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Sabotage.