Hi Everyone-

If anyone is looking for lyrics to some old disaster songs or parlor songs, or has a general interest in the subject- my website http://www.thedisastersongproject.com has the lyrics to some p.d. disaster songs.

(The site is for a concept CD I just completed- and it also has lyrics to original disaster songs. Of course, you're more than welcome to look at those too- but so you don't have hunt around for the non-originals, they are:

"The Terrible Texas Storm" about the Galveston Hurricane
"Titanic"** (you know what this is about- but this one isn't p.d.- it's the Leadbelly tune)
"The Two Orphans" about the Brooklyn Theater Fire
"The Bridge was Burned at Chatsworth" about the Chatsworth railroad disaster
"The Johnstown Flood"
"My Father was a Sailor on the Maine"
"The Burning of Frisco Town" about the 1906 SF earthquake/fire
"The Billow of Fire!" a hymn inspired by the Chicago Fire written by P.P. Bliss, who himself died in the Ashtabula train disaster several years later.

If anyone has any thoughts about the site, I'd welcome your suggestions. Even though it's a personal site for a CD, I'm thinking of the website as a sort of online museum. Hoping to add more photos and illustrations over time, add to the notes, and maybe even add a few more songs and/or disasters.

Hope you enjoy!
Jon