Damned earworms

[jhetley]

Yanno, if someone was to come up with the full and definitive text of THE BALLAD OF SPRINGHILL, I'd think highly of that kind person. I've been poking around and I still can't find the songbook, but keep coming up with snatches like:

There's blood on the stone where the miners lie,
Six long miles from the sun and sky, boys,
Six long miles from the sun and sky.

And I can't remember whether that was something cooked up in a 3 AM jam session with Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers under the influence of various chemicals, or what....

Much too long ago.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

ThankyouThankyouThankyou!

We played around with it, way back when, and I ended up with garble in my head. And the version I found on the net didn't help, being garbled itself.

Of course, some of the singers I knew never did their stuff the same way twice. Even sober.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Yes, just how much does the concept of "the folk tradition" have to do with beer? (grin.)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

The part of it that can't afford whisky.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Or hadn't remembered to keep that "sack of seeds."

[wcg.livejournal.com]

True.