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From: sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: build your own banjo!
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:25:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: hera.berkeley.edu

I've collected some information on obtaining a mountain
banjo kit. I'm pretty sure the kit is made by HERE in
Minnesota (612-923-4709), but I don't think they sell
direct so here are two outlets that do.

Musicmaker's Kits, Inc.
423 South Main Street
Stillwater, MN 55082
800-432-KITS (5487) FAX 612-439-9130
They had a sale ending October 31 with the banjo kit for $119.95.
The sale brochure says the regular price is $139.95.

I bought my mountain banjo, assembled though it also comes as
a kit, from
Lark in the Morning
P. O. Box 1176
Mendocino, CA 95460
707-674-5569  FAX 707-964-1979

Their latest catalog lists the kit for $115 and the completed
banjo for $200. You can get it with or without frets. It has
a goatskin head, with a solid cherry rim and neck and a rosewood
veneer fingerboard. You can get a short or long neck and even
a tenor model. I have the fretless, standard-length model. It
has a fairly nice sound and is easy to play.

Shipping is extra on both these suppliers, but you can
get that information from them.

Steve Goldfield        :<{  {>:           sag@hera.berkeley.edu
University of California at Berkeley     Richmond Field Station
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: sek@blitzen.cc.bellcore.com (Spencer Kantor)
Subject: Re: Greg Brown Query
Reply-To: sek@blitzen.cc.bellcore.com (Spencer Kantor)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Red Bank, N.J.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:08:11 GMT

In article <1i5hrlINN7bp@squid.hi.com>, alan@squid.hi.com (Alan Greenspan) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone familiar with Greg Brown know if he ever made the children's
|> record he's been talking about for the last couple years?  He sometimes
|> sings a hilarious lullaby in his shows and has mentioned that it would be
|> on the record.

It's scheduled to be released in Feb. or March by Red House Records.
The title is "Bathtub Blues".

-- 
Spencer Kantor
Bell Communications Research

sek@cc.bellcore.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith)
Subject: Re: shawn colvin - any recordings/any format
Originator: irilyth@fenris
Organization: Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrowworld
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:59:18 GMT

Jon Crowcroft (j.crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk) writes:

> can anyone point me at where to find some?

Noteworthy Music lists "Fat City" and "Steady On" in their Winter 1992
catalog, for $12.05 and $10.53, respectively. You can get a free catalog
from Noteworthy by calling 800/648-7972; they tend to have excellent prices
on mainstream-label CDs. I recommended them highly as a very satisfied
repeat customer.
-- 
Josh Smith, User Support Coordinator  ::  irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA USA ::  consult(std-disclaimer.pl).
"I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him,
and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said 'I helped skin Bob.'"
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
Subject: Re: "I Come and Stand at Every Door"
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:51:04 GMT

In article <1i9s4kINNele@agate.berkeley.edu> sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>OK. I checked my collection and found that the song
>credited to Nazim Hikmet appears on:
>
>Pete Seeger   Gazette, Vol. 2  from Folkways in 1961
>(I forgot to write down the LP number)
>

(Sorry if this has already appeared in a post.)

The song was also done by The Byrds on Fifth Dimension.
-- 
John Altinbay   -   altinbay@netcom.com
===============================================================
There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me
My life is worth the living, I don't need to see the end.
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From: pkor@phoenix.oulu.fi (Pasi Korhonen)
Subject: Re: Mandolin Brothers/Santa Cruz guitars
Organization: Ripoff Industries
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:06:36 GMT

Jimmy Dalin (jdalin@devildog.att.com) wrote:

: that traditional OM's have a wide fingerboard (neck width at nut is around 1
: 3/4"), which makes them more applicable for finger style as opposed to flat
: picking.  For the latter, a OOO shape guitar is very similar, but the neck
: is narrower and the string length is I believe a little longer.

	This is not so simple issue as it seems. According to the Longworth
	book, OM was first introduced in 1929, as a 14-fret OOO size, and
	discontinued in 1933. After that, that size/14-fret neck was called
	OOO. OM prefix came back in 1977. Before 1929 there was only 12-fret
	OOO. 

	Original OM had 25.4" scale, but post-1933 14-fret OOO had 24.9" scale,
	like O and OO sizes. 12-fret OOO had 25.4" scale. Confused ? I am.

	-1933		12-fret OOO 25.4" (some 24.9")
 	1929-1933	14-fret OM 25.4"
	1933-		14-fret OOO 24.9"
	1977-		OM prefix again

	Please correct me if I have something wrong. All info is from Mike
	Longworth's book Martin Guitars, A History.

	Pasi

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From: leo@stdavids.picker.com (Steve Leo)
Subject: Richard Thompson
Reply-To: leo@stdavids.picker.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:40:28 GMT


Does anybody have any tabs or tunings to any of his acoustic stuff, especially
"British Misfortune" or "Andalus" (from Strict Tempo) or "1952 Vincent Black
Lightning?" (Rumour and Sigh).  Also, is the newsletter "Flypaper" still around?

Regards

Stephen M. Leo
Picker, St. Davids.
St. Davids, Pa.

Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: neverisk@trintex.uucp (Mike Neverisky)
Subject: Re: Mandolin Brothers/Santa Cruz guitars
Organization: Prodigy Services Co.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:42:47 GMT

In article <1i60b3INNjoh@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
>
>My impression of Mandolin Brothers was the asking prices are
>high, by about 20% across the board, and I've been told that at this 
>establishment you need to *seriously* dicker over price if you don't 
>want to pay too much (boring, isn't it...)

The Brothers do apply a "penalty" for non-cash transactions, but the cash
price, $2160, was the same quoted by Elderly and is, in my observation,
the list price from the manufacturer.

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From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Alison Brown
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:50:06 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu

In article <1i9oqjINNe12@agate.berkeley.edu> sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield) writes:

>Also, just before joining Alison Krauss, Alison Brown played
>banjo and guitar for a Bay Area band called Heartland.

No kidding!

I remeber that I used to make a point of trying to
see Heartland when they performed around here -- must've
been close to 10 years ago.  I thought they were
way above average for local bluegrass...

/sp
From: indigo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (indigo)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Cedar Tree - Indigo Girls
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:18:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In <1imoqdINN1eq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> co273@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stacy Tartar) writes:

>Does anyone have the chords (and tuning) to this excellent song by
>Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls? I'd really appreciate a post or e-mail.
>By the way, you can hear part of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" at the end
>of the break!  This is truly a beautiful song.

Most of the song has only three chords, I think, but I haven't really tried
to figure it out yet (it's not one of my personal favorites).  I ordered the 
RoP songbook, and it should be arriving any day now.  I'll let you know when
it does...
 
Adam

==-=--=---=----=-----=-------=---------=---------=-------=-----=----=---=--=-==
Adam Schneider               indigo@ucscb.ucsc.edu              U.C. Santa Cruz 
              Your actions will follow you full circle 'round...
==-=--=---=----=-----=-------=---------=---------=-------=-----=----=---=--=-==
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: shawn colvin - any recordings/any format
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:57:08 GMT

In article <3352@ucl-cs.uucp> J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) writes:
>
>
>maybe i've got the name spelt wrong, but a trip round virgin megastore
>and tower (and rhythm records and other camden local ones) failed to  
>locate anything by her
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A good rule of thumb for when you are looking for albums ...

Try the music ftp archives.  They have an extensive set of
discographies.  Since I happen to be the source of Shawn Colvin's
discography, I know that hers is there :^)
============================================================================
Bill Pringle                      Software Tools
Paramax Corporation               Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023
Internet: wrp@ivy.paramax.com     UUCP: ...!uunet!mimsy!widener!gvls1!wrp%ivy
From: sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Grammy nominations for folkish music
Date: 11 Jan 1993 16:08:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: hera.berkeley.edu

In article <1iq41uINNijq@hp-col.col.hp.com> judym@col.hp.com (Judy Miller) writes:
#>krj@netsun.cl.msu.edu (Ken Josenhans) writes:
#>> Here are some of the folk-related Grammy award nominations.
#>> From today's Detroit Free Press:
#>> 
#>> CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM:
#>
#>>   "The Criminal Under My Own Hat", T Bone Burnett
#>
#>Can someone post some info and opinion about T Bone Burnett and his albums?
#>The only thing I've heard by him is a Chistmas song on "Acoustic Christmas",
#>which was a wonderfully haunting bluegrass/cajun? interpetation of
#>"God Rest Ye Merry Genetlemen" 

I don't know a lot about T Bone Burnett, but Sally van Meter
has recorded his "The Bird in My Hand," on her solo album.
The album is great, and the song is beautiful.

Steve Goldfield
From: alan@hicomb.hi.com (Alan Greenspan)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Gorka or Morrissey (decisions...)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:52:40 GMT
Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: squid.hi.com

In article <1ice1iINN7dt@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, driel@wpi.WPI.EDU (Deborah M Riel) writes:
> I need help!  The Old Vienna in Westboro, MA will be having John Gorka
> on 2/6 and Bill Morrissey on 2/13.  I can't afford both and I have an
> offer of child care on one of those dates, my choice.  Does anyone
> have any strong reasons to see or not to see either of these performers?
> Preferences?  Opinions?  It's a rare opportunity for me to go
> _anywhere_ at all, so I want to make the most of it!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Debbie (driel@wpi.wpi.edu)

If you had to choose between the two, I'd go with Morrissey.  I've seen him
a few times (one at the Old Vienna on his 40th birthday) and he's a kick.
While I like some of John Gorka, I think he mainly sounds like Gordon
Lightfoot on ludes and tends to put me to sleep.

But, my real advice for February is to skip them both and go see Greg Brown
at Passims in Cambridge.  I think he's 10 times better than them both.  I'm
not sure of the exact dates.  I have it written down at home someplace and
can get it to you if you're interested.

- Alan

-- 
Alan Greenspan			alan@hicomb.hi.com
Hitachi Computer Products
From: HF.PEC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Doug Peckler)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: San Francisco festival
Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:19:29 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

The second annual San Francisco Celtic music festival will be the
weekend of March 6 and 7.  Dolores Keane and Sharon Shannon are
confirmed; more performers will be announced soon no doubt.   I'll
post any more info I hear about.  Save the dates!
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: bobleigh@world.std.com (Bob Leigh)
Subject: Re: Utah Phillips
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:26:12 GMT

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>That wouldn't happen to be "Moose Turd Pie" (it's good though), would it?

I don't know if anyone here is familiar with the Minstrel Coffeehouse, which
is held in Basking Ridge, NJ every Friday night.  It's currently located
in a county environmental education center.  But originally it met in the
basement of a French restaurant, and sold the restaurant's pastries, and its
name was "Good, Though".  Fortunately, the restaurant owner did not know the
moose turd pie story. :-)

After a while, they moved to a different location, whose owner _did_ know the
story...so they had to change the coffeehouse's name.

Bob Leigh	bobleigh@world.std.com
From: fmccool@phzzzt.uucp (Finn McCool)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: new age and  conflicts for Christians
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:29:05 GMT
Organization: A.T.W.W.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Loreena McKennitt (note spelling) also has a Christmas/Winter album
out on her own label, Quinlan Road, called "To Drive The Cold Winter
Away" on which she does some actual Christmas carols. As far as
All Soul's Night (the song) goes, you can interpret it anyway you
want (obviously), but I think she is just describing a ritual and
not promoting any kind of "religion."
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: coolidge@cauldron.next.com (Don Coolidge)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt & TV
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:51:00 GMT

In article <1ievr5INNp6f@hp-col.col.hp.com> judym@col.hp.com (Judy  
Miller) writes:
> clarkec@fraser.sfu.ca (David Gordon Clarke) writes:
> > I was surprised to hear Loreena McKennitt's "Tango to Evora"
> > closing off the last 4-5 minutes of tonight's (Jan 4, 93) episode
> > of Northern Exposure...
> > 
> > 
> >                        David Clarke (clarkec@sfu.ca) 
> >                   ....the well is deep...wish me well...
> > 
> 
> Which album is "Tango to Evora" on?
> (Don't have the CD's with me ... it would be interesting if it was  
NOT
> on the Visit, since her other albums are not distributed in the US  
yet.)

But they can all be had from either Loreena's own company, Quinlan  
Road Productions, or from Festival records, the disk/tape (I almost  
said "record") arm of the Vancouver Folf fesrival. I don't have  
telephone numbers handy, but Festival at least accepts phone-in  
chargecard orders (I think Quinlan Road will only take mailorder  
checks).

- Don Coolidge
From: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: JJ Cale
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:46:44 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Organization: Geology Department, University of California, Davis

JJ Cale is supposed to have a new album out.  Would someone who has heard it
offer comments on it?  I'd like to know what it's like and how it compares to
his other albums.  Thanks.  -- Hiram Jackson
From: ctodd@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Who are these guys?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:42:23 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 



Excuse my ignorance but can anyone enlighten me as to the history and/or
musical affiliations of Ron Kavana and Terry Woods?

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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Thistle and Shamrock Play Lists?
From: choover@charlie.usd.edu (Christopher J. Hoover)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:36:15 GMT
Reply-To: choover@charlie.usd.edu
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

Does anyone know of a way to obtain The playlists for NPR's "The Thistle and
Shamrock" via I-net resources, rather than having to send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to North Carolina every time?  This would be very convenient
indeed.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

---

Christopher Hoover                               choover@charlie.usd.edu
Network Coordinator for Student Life             Disclaimer:  Standard.
User Services, University of South Dakota
Warning:  sig under construction.  Watch for falling characters.
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,soc.culture.british
From: ram@watson.bms.com (Gena Ram)
Subject: Re: UK CD price fixing
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:05:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.081909.13043@rdg.dec.com>, cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes...
> 
>In article <C0AwJG.G1H@world.std.com>, eac@world.std.com (Eric A Cottrell) writes...
> 
>>I noticed prices of amatuer radio equipment are higher in the UK than the
>>U.S. It almost like they rub off the dollar sign and put the pound sign in
>>place of it.
> 

Yes! I this in the GAP stores in London!  In the US, the price tags simple 
state the price (ie 28.00) with no designation between $ or #.  I believe they 
just ship the merchandise with the same tags!

Gena
From: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Hungarian Music
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Organization: Geology Department, University of California, Davis

While the subject of Hungarian Music is current, I found out that there will
be a Public Radio program entitled Transylvanian Portrait that will feature
music of Marta Sebesteyn and other interpreters of Transylvanian folk music.
It's to be produced by WGBH in Boston and Koch International is supposed to
release a companian CD.   Hiram Jackson
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: al@nmt.edu (Al Stavely)
Subject: Re: Mangled song lyrics
Organization: New Mexico Tech, USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:53:18 GMT

Someone (I think it was Michael Cooney) used to swear that he once
heard a child sing:

		"The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind..."




-- 

	- Allan Stavely, New Mexico Tech, USA
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,alt.music.filk
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 1993 13:44:04 -0500 
From: Eli Brian Goldberg <eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Posting Fred Small's songs...

Hi!  Last summer I enquired about copies of Fred Smalls' lyrics, specifically
those that were not contained in _Breaking From The Line_.  I was suggested
to write to him to ask for copies of the lyrics.

I wrote to him a month ago to ask for them, and found a letter in my mailbox
containing both computer printouts of his songs w/chords as well as a note
stating, "...Yes, you have Fred's permission to make copies of his songs &
chords and it's fine to post it on the computer networks with copyrights
acknowledged. --- For Fred Small" [On Fred Small Letterhead, of course, printed
on 100% recycled unbleached paper... ;]

So, for those who were wondering whether or not it is OK to post his stuff,
now you have the answer.  Kay, I suspect you'd want to add him to the list
of people on the filk echo who don't mind their stuff being posted.  I
will type out the songs I was given as soon as I get a chance [I'm at school;
probably within 2 months at the latest...] and post them.

Later...


Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Subject: Re: Silly Wizard- Trad. Scottish music
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
	<1993Jan11.094200.5856@spectrum.xerox.com>
	<1993Jan12.063513.22003@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:12:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.063513.22003@netcom.com> eamon@netcom.com (Charles E Taggart) writes:

   Johnny Cunningham is in Boston, playing fiddle for a rock band called the
   Raindogs, and Phil Cunningham is spending most of his time as a producer
   (and an excellent one at that).  Some of his latest work is on the two
   albums by the Scots Celtic-rock band Wolfstone.  I don't know what Gordon
   Jones and Martin Hadden are up to.

Johnny is also doing some producing (I think he did Brooks Williams' new
album) and playing backup on lots of albums (Dave Crossland and Erica
Wheeler come to mind).  When I mentioned this at Sandy Sheehan's (of
Sandy's Music on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge) New Year's Eve party, the
general consensus was that he had a lot of time on his hands because
he wasn't in a band at the moment.  So maybe the Raindogs have broken
up?  I don't know for sure, though.  Someone also mentioned bumping
into him a few times at various Celtic music sessions in the Boston
area.


--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: gawne@stsci.edu
Subject: Canadian Railway Trilogy
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:33:46 GMT

A week or so ago there was a request for Gordon Lightfoot's 
Canadian Railway Trilogy.  I've written it out as best as I can
recall.  If you know the song please review this and post any
corrections.  

Thanks,

-Bill Gawne,  Space Telescope Science Institute

--------------------------------------------------------------------
CANADIAN RAILWAY TRILOGY
by Gordon Lightfoot
(errors and omissions by Bill Gawne)

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run.
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun.
Long before the white man and long before the wheel.
And the green dark forrests stood too silent to be real.

But time has no beginning and history has no bound,
And to this virgin country they came from all around.
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked her forrests tall,
Built the mines, mills, and factories for the good of us all.

But when the young mens' fancy was turning to the spring
Those railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring.
Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day.
And many a fortune lost and won, and many a debt to pay.

Oh, they looked to the future and what did they see?
They saw an iron road running from the sea to the sea.
Bringing the goods to the young growing land,
all up from the sea ports and into their hands.

||: Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We've got to lay down the track and tear up the trails.
Open her heartland and lifeblood flow, we've got to get on our way
'Cause we're moving too slow. :||

Behind the blue Rockies the sun is declining.
Stars they come stealing at the close of each day.
Across the wide praries our loved ones lie sleeping
Beyond the dark ocean in a place far away.

We are the navies who worked upon the railways.
Swinging our hammers in the bright blazing sun.
Living on stew and drinking bad whiskey,
Bending our backs 'till the long day is done.

We are the navies who worked upon the railway,
swinging our hammers 'till the close of each day.

[I can't recall the next two lines.]

So over the mountains and over the plains,
Into the muskeg and into the rains.
Up the St. Laurence all the way to Gaspe,
Swinging our hammers and drawing our pay.
Layin' 'em in and tiein' 'em down,
Away to the bunk house and into the town.
A dollar a day and a place for my head,
A drink for the living, a toast to the dead ....

Oh the songs of the future have been sung, all the battles have been won.
On the mountain tops we stand, all the world at our command.
We have opened up this soil with our teardrops and our toil.

There was at time in this fair land when the railroad did not run.
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun.
Long before the white man and long before the wheel.
when the green dark forrests stood too silent to be real.

And many are the dead men, too silent to be real.
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,soc.culture.celtic