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Origins: City of New Orleans DigiTrad: CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Related threads: Lyr Req: New York parody of 'City of New Orleans' (3) Lyr Req: 4th verse? City of New Orleans (18) City of New Orleans (61) Chords Req: City of New Orleans (20) Lyr Add: The City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman) (6) (closed)
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Subject: RE: Origins: City of New Orleans From: breezy Date: 13 Mar 15 - 05:00 PM I go with Greg |
Subject: RE: Origins: City of New Orleans From: Dennis the Elder Date: 13 Mar 15 - 02:55 PM The song was copywrited in 1970 by John Goodmen with the phrase "Old Black Man" and Willie Nelsons version contains this phrase and I am convinced that Arlo Guthries hit in 1972 also contained this phrase. I also believe that no harm was meant by the phrase just an observation as what was seen. |
Subject: RE: Origins: City of New Orleans From: pdq Date: 13 Mar 15 - 12:34 PM I suspect it was John Denver who changed it to "old gray men". That seems to be the way it is usually sung in the PC World.
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Subject: RE: Origins: City of New Orleans From: Greg F. Date: 13 Mar 15 - 12:02 PM Yes. Sing it the way it was written. |
Subject: Origins: City of New Orleans From: GUEST,BobJovi Date: 13 Mar 15 - 11:29 AM Can someone help me out? I am once again singing "City of New Orleans" with my students. I am not singing it the way I learned it as "freight yards full of old black men". Instead, I am substituting "grey" for black, as the many versions that I have heard use that version--I thought I had misheard black years ago. I went back recently and saw that Steve Goodman used the word "black", and thought he must have meant stained with coal dust or something of the like. Then I started looking into the history of the Pullman Porters, and learned that it was this profession that was responsible for the creation of a black middle class--at least according to Wikipedia. I sometimes think about how homogenous we are becoming as a nation. Societally, we have turned John Henry into a white person, and I worry that we are currently in the process of doing as much with Martin Luther King. Am I doing a discredit to the intent of Steve Goodman's song by changing one word? |
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