The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56467   Message #887448
Posted By: GUEST,Mad Tom
11-Feb-03 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
Subject: RE: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
Fixing a bucket with straw: It's a wooden bucket, with oakum between the (staves?). If you don't have any oakum handy, jam some straw in the gap.

- Why does the sun go on shining? / Why does the sea rush to shore? / Don't they know it's the end of the world?
- Tell me why you cried / and why you lied to me.
- Who's gonna hold you when I'm gone?
- When whiskey and blood run together / Did you hear anyone pray?
- Where's the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag?