The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4452   Message #25266
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Apr-98 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Mrs. Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: RE: mrs. roosevelt
Dick, Dick, Dick - "The Ballad of F.D.R." is indeed in the database, and can can be reached by the link I posted above. "The Ballad of FDR" is NOT in the database, and cannot be found. Searching by song title does not always end in success. As a wise person named Greenhaus once told me, it's much better to pick out a distinctive word from the lyrics. In this case, I found it under "Roosevelt." When I was looking for all the versions we have of "Lili Marlene," I searched under "Marlene" and couldn't find the German lyrics. Then I tried "kaserne," and up it popped. That brings up another suggestion - search under a word that is not likely to have a variety of spellings. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, ya know.
....but now I'm wondering why "The Ballad of F.D.R." is also called "The Ballad of October 16." Gotta do more study on that, unless somebody can come up with the answer.
-Joe Offer-