The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3660   Message #3806140
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Aug-16 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Facing the Chair (Andy Irvine)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Facing the Chair (Andy Irvine)
"Swassels Lane" should be "Suassos Lane."

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Suassos Lane" about Sacco & Vanzetti. It has the chorus:

Goodbye my comrades,
Goodbye my north Plymouth,
Goodbye to Boston harbor,
Goodbye to Suassos Lane.

—which Andy Irvine apparently borrowed and modified.