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Thread #35354   Message #483802
Posted By: Coyote Breath
14-Jun-01 - 10:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: OH BROTHER VIDEO
Subject: RE: BS: OH BROTHER VIDEO
Ahhh, yess!!! what a great flick. On the second time I went to see it I couldn't help but join in (VERY softly) there wasn't a song there I don't know intimately. The version of Big Rock Candy Mountain is sung by Harry McClintock (spelling??) also know in his Wobbly days as Haywire Mack. He also recorded Hallelujah I'm a Bum, The Bum Song ("Leaning against the station, that's our reccomendation, tra la la la la la lation, haraa haree harum, oh we are three bums three jolly old bums we live like royal Turks, we have such luck in bumming our chuck, we never bother to work") There were others, of course. He predates Boxcar Willie by a good forty years.

And while I'm singing alone with the Soggy Bottom Boys on that GREAT version of Man of Constant Sorrow I was aware that someone else in the theater was singing too. She was in her 80's and smilling to beat the band. We exchanged winks!!

Good to know its now out on video Gotta get it!!!