From: donal@brewich.hou.tx.us (Donal)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 17:43:10 CDT
Organization: The Brewer's Witch BBS, +1 713 272 7350, Brewich.Hou.TX.US

putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes:

> [This is a second attempt to post this to rec.music.folk (my first
> attempt apparently did not make it out), and I'm also expanding it to
> alt.guitar.tab as well]
> 
> I've recently discovered the guitar and lyrics archives on
> ftp.nevada.edu and ftp.uwp.edu.  That motivated me to dig out my 150
> song files and submit them to the archives.
> 
> However there are several songs for which I do not know or am not sure
> of the author.  I'd like to credit them correctly.  Several are probably
> "traditional".  I have included first lines and in some cases an artist
> who performs it.
> 
> Please email me (or post if that's easier) if you know who wrote any of
> the following songs:
> 
> Acres of Clams
> 	(I've traveled this country all over...) [Pete Seeger]
w: Charley King m: trad ("Old Rosin the Beau")

> All-e-Oxen Free
> 	(Time to let the rain fall...) [Kingston Trio? John Denver?]
> Battle of New Orleans
> 	(In 1814 we took a little trip...)
w: Jimmy Driftwood m:trad ("8th of January")

> Don't Go Down to the Quarry
> 	(...in the middle of the night...) [Peter, Paul & Mary]
> Eddystone Light
> 	(My father was the keeper of the...) [Kingston Trio?]
trad. (rec. on Burl Ives "Songs of the Sea" and others

> Everyday
> 	(...its a getting closer...) [Reilly & Maloney; James Taylor]
> Green, Green
> 	(...it's green they say on the far side of the hill...) [Kingston Trio?]
> A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
> 	(Where have you been my blue-eyed son?) [Pete Seeger; Bob Dylan?]
Dylan

> How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away
> 	(I've talked to your mother I've talked to your dad...)
> I'm My Own Grandpa
> 	(It was many many years ago when I was 23...)
> Jamaica Farewell
> 	(Down the way where the night's are gay...)
> Jim Dog
> 	(Every time I go downtown, somebody kicks my dog around...)
> Lemon Tree
> 	(...very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet...) [Peter, Paul & Mary]
> Maria
> 	(Way out west the have a name for rain and wind and fire...)
> Music Speaks Louder than Words
> 	(...it's the only thing that...) [Peter, Paul & Mary]
> There Ain't No Mountains in the State of Kansas
> 	(...there ain't no catfish in the desert sands...) [Reilly & Maloney]
> Once I Had a Sweetheart
> 	(...and now I have none...)
> Portland Town
> 	(I was born in Portland Town...) [Joan Baez]
> Spanish Pipe Dream
> 	(She was a level headed dancer on the road to alcohol...) [Steve Seskin]
> Such Is Love
> 	(After all I've come to know me...) [Peter, Paul & Mary]
> Today
> 	(Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine...)
> We'll Sing in the Sunshine
> 	(...we'll laugh every day...)
> Who Killed Davy More
> 	(...how come he died and what's the reason for...) [Pete Seeger]
Dylan

> Will the Circle be Unbroken
> 	(I was standing by my window...)
Charles H. Gabriel (original version)

> Would You Like To Learn to Dance?
> 	(...well I can show you how...) [Mary Travers]
> Wounded Bird
> 	(I watched you go through changes...) [Steve Seskin]
> Wynken, Blynken and Nod
> 	(...one night sailed off in a wooden shoe...)
w:Eugene Field  m:various settings

> 
> -- 
> Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>
> Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
> Palo Alto, California


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