Adam,
First, I'm sorry I didn't get to meet with you when you were touring through this part of the country a week or two ago. Carol's aunt is not very good, as I said, but she's some better than she was and is back at her nursing home.-- Onward!

There is a song to the tune of Old Gray Mare that is on a CD I did with Folk Legacy. You have it already I'm thinking. It is an old song I learned from a 78 rpm record by The Union Boys. It is a gently hard-hitting song that would work well with modern audiences. ------- Called "A DOLLAR AIN'T A DOLLAR ANY MORE."

I was feeling mighty hungry and thought I'd buy some bread
I went down to the local grocery store,
Put down the usual money but the grocer shook his head,
Said "A dollar ain't a dollar any more!!"

chorus)
A dollar bill don't buy what it used to,
Don't buy what it used to, don't buy what it used to,
No, a dollar bill don't buy what it used to
And a dollar ain't a dollar any more.

I was living in a boarding house the room was awful small,
2 walls, a ceiling, and a floor,
The landlord raised the rent and now I'm living inside the wall
And a dollar ain't a dollar any more.

From the tree that grows in Brooklyn to the California shore,

Well, the words elude me right now. I'll have to go listen to my own record --- and get back to this thread later.

Art Thieme