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Thread #9534   Message #519410
Posted By: Stewie
01-Aug-01 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Village Churchyard (Roscoe Holcomb)
Subject: RE: Roscoe Holcomb lyrics
Nutty, your first one is the the right one - the link to the lyrics for Tim Eriksen's recent self-titled solo album. Eriksen notes that he learned it from an unlabelled tape he found in a friend's basement which turned out to be from John Cohen's recording of Roscoe. Eriksen met Cohen at a Cordelia's Dad concert where he (Eriksen) opened the show with the song. Cohen told him that 'Churchyard' was the last song Roscoe sang in public when, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, his voice gave way to tears and he couldn't carry on.

--Stewie.