Here are the informational posts from the other thread (Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train(Norman Blake) ). I have omitted some non-informational inquiries to which some of these are responses.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Last Train Ride
From: Art Thieme - PM
Date: 18-Feb-01 - 09:41 PM

I'm thinking of an old radio program from the 1940s called THE LONESOME TRAIN. It was on this topic------Abe coming home to Illinois-----s-l-o-w-l-y-------passing from town to town with sides draped and the people solemnly waiting as the train passed.
If I'm remembering right, featured folks in the show were Burl Ives, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Earl Robinson Bess Lomax Hawes and others . It was written by Earl Robinson.

Is this what you are looking for?

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Last Train Ride
From: Abby Sale - PM
Date: 19-Feb-01 - 01:47 PM

Art - as general, your memory is correct. I still have the 78 12-inch records of it. Interesting bit of still- Socialist Burl Ives. Of course the whole thing's polemic but a super-fine piece.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train
From: Art Thieme - PM
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 01:37 PM

I remember Earl Robinson himself doing the entire LONESOME TRAIN as part of a concert he did in the early 70s (I think) at the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. Mr. Robinson did all the parts and backed himself on guitar as well. (Maybe Ray Tate helped him with guitar.) WFMT-FM recorded it and played it over the air at least once. Their entire archive of the show, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, (not the TV show) current host Rich Warren now tells me, is housed in a room at the Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago, Illinois and is not available to the public.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train
From: Abby Sale - PM
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:18 PM

Hi, Guest. I'm around now & then. If'n you're gonna ask, Yes, I've still got the original 78s. Since about 1948. Happily, I taped it just before one of the disks broke in half. Been thinking about what kind of glue to use for a while.

Yes, Jim's clicky does seem to be the whole text but the music was marvelous.

It will likely appear on CD but the raw Socialist message might slow down any producer's perception of its commercial viability...

"Well I say: America for Americans!
What happens on the other side of the ocean shouldn't be any skin off our backs.
Isn't that right Mr. Lincoln?"

"Well I'll tell you, Ma'am:
It seems to me the strongest bond of human sympathy, outside your family, of course,
should be the one uniting all working people of all nations, tongues, and kindred!"

Happy New Year.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train
From: Peace - PM
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 12:47 AM

Jim, your link for "The Lonesome Train" wouldn't work for me. Here is another.

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