The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19623   Message #1056914
Posted By: cetmst
19-Nov-03 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: Old Allegheny and Monongahela
Subject: RE: Old Allegheny and Monongahela
I have it on tape transcribed from 'Prairie Home Companion'show and sung by Garrison Keillor probably ten years ago or so. He sings it in his more soulful and nostalgic fashion than the clip Joe sent. Korson's book has only the melody line. I also recall starting off from home sixty miles away on a shopping trip with my family in bright sunshine and having to turn the lights on under a black sky in Pittsburgh in midafternoon sometime in the midthirties. The city is much cleaner now but I'm not so sure of the Allegheny where the bass tasted like oil even when I was growing up farther up the river.