Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 02:11 AM

Did I mention the name of the bar was "THE BARBAROSSA" ???

PRAISE (Susan), Send me a personal message & we can talk about it.

Art

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 07:07 AM

Yup, Art, Susan's the name, e-mail's my game. Art, click this:

WYSIWYG

Ya HAD to mention Da Bears.... OK, whenever my husband and I watch a thing on the TV where the outcome is settled but we don't like it--- like the late Florida vote-- we go into Bear Fan Mode. You know. "Well they could still win in the last 10 seconfds even tho they are behind by 15, if this, and this, and this happen, and then....."

In my heart I know that Abe Gibron must have been on Gore's team. Even Big Mick would have a hard time winning on Abe's team.

Breakfast after an all nighter, oh yes, that place at the intersection where the gas station has those arches? Down by the Barbarossa somewhwere?

Ah yes, the Barbarossa... where I met the roommate that later tried to kill me, AND my dog!!! (Patty, where are YOU now?)

I was just one of the many sitting at the No Exit listening to you in the late 70's, Art. Much shyer then, and wishing I "could" sing. *G*

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 11:25 AM

Nostalgia.

Has anyone mentioned the Siegal/Schweall Blues Band? Corky Siegel is still around soemwhere, I hope. Harmonica on "Raising the Flag."

Hot dances at the then-Wobbly Hall on Lincoln Ave. I think it's a Jay's Gym or something now. Layers underneath; Haymarket Martyrs posters; Lucy Parsons and Joe Hill.

the horsehoes are still printed in the sidewalk down in Old Town, even if the OTSFM is in spiffy new digs north on Lincoln.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 04:22 PM

I was at the great blues bar on Wells St (Chi. '65 ?), BIG JOHN's, when Corky & Jim auditioned for the club -- along with Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop's band with Nick The Greek Gavenitas singing. I think Butterfield was already in the club's rotation. Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf--Monday and Tuesdays. Little Walter on Wednesdays when he was sober.

Corky Siegel is now collaborating with all kinds of classical people. Seiji Ozawa in the past --- and now has an interesting meltdown of blues harp and chamber music--called "CHAMBER BLUES"--of course.

Jim Schwall is in Wisconsin. Still picking when he wants to. Some get-back-together concerts with Corky and the boys from the old band. He showed up at a nice little benefit at the Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin done for me when my health was headin' south in the 90s.

He's a fine fellow. I'm glad to have a video of that show he did with The Piper Road Spring Band.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Mark Clark
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 12:25 AM

Art, Thanks for bringing this one back up. I just went through the whole thread and had a great time with it.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 11:53 PM

If you go up the Ohio from Cairo (pronounced Kay-Ro), you'll eventually wind up "Way Down In Shawneetown," which is here in the Digitrad. The state's first bank was in Shawneetown. It refused a loan to the fledgling city of Chicago, saying it was too far north to ever amount to anything.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Genie (tossed my cookie)
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 02:15 AM

One dark night when we were all in bed,
Old mother O'Leary took a lantern in the shed.
Cow kicked it over, and  this is what she said:
"There'll be a  hot  time in the old town tonight!"
 

How about "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago?"  (1960's pop song)
 

Wabash Cannonball:
"Oh, the eastern states are dandy, so the western people say,
New York to St. Louis, Chicago by the way ... ."

U of Illinois fight song:
We're loyal to you, Illinois,
We're orange and blue, Illinois [really].
We'll back you to stand 'gainst the best in the land,
'Cause we know you have sand, [whatever that means] Illinois.
So, strike up the band, Illinois
da da da da da, Illinois.
Our team [is our great protector?]
On, boys, 'cause we expect a
Touchdown from you, Illinois.

Smothers Brothers:  "We Are Marching To Peoria ... ."

Now, someone need to write a song about Urbana!
 

Genie (U of I post-grad alum)

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 10:54 AM

There's a great song written by Tom Dundee called 'McBride/Argyle Station Furnished Rooms' on a release entitled 'A Delicate Balance'...it'll break your heart. There, also was a second compilation release from the Earl of Old Town called 'Enterainment Nightly'...no that's not a typo that's what the album was called. It's got most of the performers of the era '77-82 on it. There's another compilation released in the late 80's by The Old Town School of Folk Music featuring staff members at that time. There's good and not-so-good tracks included on both if they're even still available...

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:28 PM

Are you thinking of the 2-LP album called COMPENDIUM we made around 1965 that had just the first verse and chorus of ALL the songs in the Old Town School Of Folk Music son book. It was just to give the tunes to all those songs to the school's students. --- We recorded it, using the teachers then: Ginni Clemmens, Fleming Brown, me, Ray Tate, Ted and Marsha Johnson, Win Stracke, Rae Schwartz Hahn, John Carbo, Guy Guilbert, Lynn Schwartz Norris, Jim Norris, Irwin Liebman, Norm Kantor---many others. Did it in a little recording studio we'd built at the Old Town Folklore Center where I was asst. manager in those days. John Carbo was the manager. We were downstairs of the School at 343 W. North Ave.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Class of 73
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:54 PM

I went to Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois and our "old" fight song was:

I want to go back to Millikin upon the Sangamon Where all the guys in the omnibus Are raising a heck of a lot of fuss I want to go back to Millikin upon the Sangamon I want to go back I want to go back To Millikin

The reason I mention this is because how many songs mention the Sangamon River.

Also, there is a song that I can only remember the line "Tonight along the Wabash" which is in southeastern Illinois.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:05 PM

Boy it'd be nice if Chicago had a folk club like Holstein's, the Earl, or Barbarossa again. Margaret came up and criticized my open stage set at the Barbarossa around 1981. I thought it was nice that someone paid enough attention to notice and we started picking some tunes. Now, 20 years later, we still are doing so.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: pattyClink
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 04:15 PM

Genie, have you ever heard an old song my mom learned at U of I? it has a coolsort of twenties swing to it.
A youth resolved to go to college
and he knew not where to go
he asked of all his friends and teachers
each told him so-and-so
At last just as he was despairing
and knew not what to do
he met this debonair young fellow
who spoke these words so true

Sing me a song of college days
tell me where to go
Northwestern for her pretty girls
Wisconsin where they row
Michigan for chappies
Purdue for jolly boys
Chicago for her Standard Oil
for good fellows, Illinois!

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Genie (no cookie, I'm on a diet)
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:31 PM

Guest, Class of '73, I guess southern Illinois can claim the Wabash, too, but it runs right through Indiana, e.g., between "Lay-fay-ette" and "West Lay-fay-ette" (which is "down the road from Pee-ru.

Genie

Patty, I haven't heard that one, but it sounds like a good one!

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:49 PM

"Oh, how I wish I was in Peoria ..."

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,FRANK
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 05:22 PM

Hey Art,

That Chicago Copper song made me persona non grata in Chicago for a while. Did it on TV once and I heard from the Force. Gibson escaped it, though.

It was Ray Watkins. He was stage manager for a while at the old Gate of Horn. I regret that I gave him a hard time, then. He was running lights. Good guitarist.

Frank

Subject: Lyr Add: CHICAGO TOWN BLUES (Art Thieme)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 06:53 PM

Frank, thanks. I remember Ray Watson playing flamenco at Barbarossa a few years after the Gate Of Horn days.

And Illinois has a PERU too---we live there.

...and here's one of the few I've ever written that I bothered to sing --- around 1962 but updated in '76---It never was put on a released recording--but maybe one o' these years 'cause I've found some old live tapes... Joe, I think it's on the one I just sent you.
------------------------------------------------------------

CHICAGO TOWN BLUES
by Art Thieme

I went walkin' 'round town,
Just seein' the sights,
Saw a whole bunch of winos,
And one or two fights,
Saw the dead rise up,
For a $5.00 note,
Saw 'em walk to the poll,
Saw 'em go in and VOTE.

----There ain't no limit
----to the things you'll see in Chicago town,
----Just one thing, babe,
---you gotta be sure not to let it get you down.

A speed freak walking down Lincoln,
As hip as he could be,
He bit off half a capsule,
And threw the rest away,
His friend said, "Man, that's wasteful,
What's the big idea,
Don't you know there's thousands of people
Sleeping in india??"

Well, my mother became my father,
My father is now my mom,
My uncle has silicone implants,
And my aunt calls herself John.
Some of that silicone got mixed in
With a batch of refried beans,
Made the best damn "silicone carne",
That you have ever seen.

A patronage worker died
one day at city hall,
The undertaker came at noon
To make his grisley call,
He didn't get back to the mortuary
'Til six o'clock and he said,
"I had to wait around 'til quitting time
To figure out which one was dead."

There ain't no limit...

Now, there's hookers in New York City,
And there's winos in D.C.,
Murderers out in Frisco,
Moonshine in Tennessee,
Gambling in New Orleans,
And corruption all around,
And I bet you'll find them all,
In old Chicago town.

----Ain't no limit
To the things wou see in Chicago town,
----Just one thing, babe,
You gootta be sure not to let it get you down.

----There ain't no limit...

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: MAG
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 01:57 PM

My friend Susan here in WallaWalla wrote one called "Territory" -- a neighborhood thing. She grew up in the 'burbs, though. She'll put out a CD one of these days.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,LB
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 03:31 PM

"Yuppies in the Sky," Tom Paxton.

As I went out one evening down Columbus Avenue All the sushi bars were shuttered and the dark cantinas too I stood there in the darkness as an empty cab rolled by When all at once I heard the sound of yuppies in the sky

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 08:17 PM

If that Walla Walla Susan is wwho I think it is, she used to waitress at Somebody Else's Troubles in the 1970s. If so, please e-mail me your/her address. I've got a book I meant to send to her a long while ago.

Art

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 08:43 PM

I'll ask her; she has not to my knowledge been on this list; I asked the "other" Susan already -

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 01:08 AM

Two thoughts: We learned a neat little song from Cathy Barton and Dave Para, but i can't remember from whom they got it.

I went out west and I slid down south,
Wandered till I was wandered out.
Miss my midwest thunder storms,
Tasseled fields of summer corn.

Chorus:

Gonna ride my pony, girl,
Might be half-way 'round the world.
Gonna ride my pony, boy,
Till I'm home in Illinois.

That sweet one that I love so well,
I'll just call her my prairie belle,
I wonder if she thinks of me
In that flat land I long to see.

These old shoes are gonna turn to gold,
Shine so bright when I get home.
I'll pick 'em up and I'll put 'em down,
Cakewalk, baby, into town.

Ssorry, I can't do melodies. Did they get this from the Volo Bogtrotters?

The other thought: you might want to have a look in your local library for Charles Neely's Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois, Menasha, Wisconsin, George Banta Publishing, 1938.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: MAG
Date: 07 Jan 02 - 12:51 PM

About 3 of these items, namely, LSD (Lake Shore Drive), Win Stracke singing 43rd Ward, and Chicago Street Names, were played on the WFMT Midnight Special all-request show this past Saturday night. Archives available on the WFMT (Fine Arts Chicago) website usually by Wednesday afternoon. These appear about 15 minutes into the show.

MAG

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Joybell
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 07:21 PM

OK Just reviving this old thread. Greg Hildebrand is still about. Still singing. Married to me. "The Great Chicago Drug Bust" hasn't surfaced here yet has it? He wrote others but Steve Goodman sang that one after Hildebrand left the States and it gained some fans we understand. Steve Goodman tried to find my True-love for some years but Hildebrand was rambling around and no one knew where he'd gone. As soon as he wakes up I'll get him to post the lyrics of his most popular song.

---

Click for lyrics

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:54 PM

Hey Chicogites, I need a John Benischek song, ballad of Thirsty Joe or Thirsty Joe's revenge or something like that. He used to sing at the Barbarossa (and tend bar)...

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Genny
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 05:49 PM

Hi Art,
So sad to hear about John Carbo, I liked him very much. I wish I could have sat down and talked with him one more time. He gave me banjo lessons and I bought a used Gibson from him. He made me laugh and teased me mercessly.   Signed-The Thursday night waitress from the Fifth Peg.
P.S. Hope to see some of the Fifth Peg regulars this Sunday 11/13/05 at the Old Town School. Jim Craig and Ed Hostein performing.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 01:06 AM

Genny,

Be sure to give Jim Craig and Ed Holstein my love!! It ought to be a fine show. Jim had the best voice to come out of the Chicago revival scene from my point of view. And I still try to pick the banjo I bought from him at Hogeye a while back.----- Ed Holstein is as droll a monologist/humorist as you'll ever here---and a great fingerpicker to boot. It's great to see that the Old Town School of FOLK MUSIC still is providing some part of their big doings these days to a few of the really good singers and pickers who came up in that town back in the '60s and '70s of the last century. God knows, there are fewer and fewer (and fewer) of us still kicking around-----even if we're not gigging around any more.---------- Yes, it will be a fine show, I am certain!!!

The Fifth Peg, where you worked, was the only bar I was ever thrown out of. I was hanging in there with my wife one night when an infamous junky and drunk was hitting on her pretty hard even though she was very obviously seven months pregnant! All I did was push him away from her and the none too stable guy (and his bar stool) went crashing to the floor. Everyone seemed sure I'd swung on the fellow---which I hadn't. But I was advised I ought to be thinking about going home pretty quick. People still tell me they remember the night I decked Mark J. at the Fifth Peg. All we'd wanted to do that night was listen to John Prine...

Ah, nostalgia!!!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,chuck perrin
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 07:13 PM

sorry to hear terry rebenar is no longer with us, i remember him singing "chicago's my city" & also putting in time myself on that stage at the barbarossa, plexiglass lit from underneath, singing songs with my sister mary & leading those late night conga lines out onto dearborn (c. 1969-70) roger ebert, jim & edie mccormick, et al.

www.chuck perrin.com

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Jan in California
Date: 18 Jul 08 - 03:52 PM

So you all mentioned the under rated singers. What happened to John Benischek?? Is he out of the biz??

Subject: RE: Barbarossa /Terry Rebenar
From: GUEST,Jack Cecchini
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:51 PM

My Name is Jack Cecchini. I am a Jazz and Classical guitarist and guitar teacher. I used to hang in the Barba Rossa and perform there from time to time. I just want to mention that my friend Ed Herron owned the Barba Rossa and he gave Terry Rebenar ten percet of the club.
Ed Herron passed away about ten years ago. Terry Rebenar passed away about fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm not sure about his date of death. Terry took a few guitar lessons from me and had one of the most beautiful voices I ever heard. He always player twelve string guitar on stage but he loved the classic guitar which he studied with me. He died Of aids which he contracted from the gal he was living with.

   The Barbarossa was a wonderful place and brings back many wonderful memories. I miss all the divine crazies that hung out in the clubs in those days.

Jack Cecchini

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Marty Peifer
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:37 AM

LSD (Short for "Lake Shore Drive") was written and performed by Alliotta Haynes and Jermiah, who were a very popular Chicago rock/folk act in the late sixties and early seventies. Mitch Alliotta, Skip Haynes and John Jeremiah.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Marty Peifer
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:50 AM

The flamenco guitar player who sang Bilbao was Ray Watkins

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:53 AM

John Benischek is married with a couple of kids and lives somewhere in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Karin Pritikin
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:06 PM

...when I was a peripatetic (or was that pathetic)"not quite-21-but-had-fake-IDs-folkie and hippie, I played from time to time at the Barbarossa and other local venues...I remember its dark lofted space , and Terry and Ray, fondly, albeit hazily...

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: quokka
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:44 PM

'Come On Feel the Illinois' by Sufjan Stevens

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 11:55 PM

Hey, Marty, I sure am sorry I missed your recent show in Chicago. I don't get around much any more--not driving.

PLEASE, go to my photos website that Bruce Kallick made for me. Terry Rebenar and, you, Marty, are in a photo there sitting at the bar in Barbarossa with Terry Rebenar. There are other rather drunken shots of Marty Peiffer there too---at WFMT's New Years party.

Those are all in the PEOPLE album at:

http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html

When asked for a 'user name' and a 'password', just put in the word mudcat for both of those. Lots of folks who are here in this thread are in my snapshots too.

Jack "Check". Sure I remember you! Glad you're still doin' it.

All of the original slides I took on the scene are now at the Smithsonian's Museum Of American History.

They found 'em on line and requisitioned them. So now you all are in the Smithsonian.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:46 PM

Ah, the Barbarossa; that place was my second home (1970-1974). Met lots of ahem, different kinds of people there; afraid I may have been one of them.

Some of the groups/people who played there have been mentioned and we 'regulars' appreciated them. One couple who played there (Keller and Webb) were just dynamite. They wrote and sang their own stuff and they were just exceptional.

That's it for now.

Val W. Zimnicki

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Gene
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 01:44 PM

A few country songs refering to Chicago or Illinois...

North To Chicago - Hank Snow
When The Wind Blows In Chicago - Roy Clark
I Hate Chicago - Mark Wills
The Airport In Chicago - Bobby Bare
Great Chicago Fire - Faron Young
O'leary's Cow - Johnny Horton
The Cold Windy City Of Chicago - Boxcar Willie
The City Of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
Backing To Birmingham - Flatt & Scruggs
If Texas Told What Arkansas - What Did Tennessee? - Lonzo & Oscar

G

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: mousethief
Date: 04 May 10 - 01:16 AM

Didn't Chicago (the band) do a song called "Take Me Back to Chicago"?

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: 10r
Date: 04 May 10 - 11:54 PM

No on mentioned the Harry Chapin (I think) song
about driving a cab down LSD (Lake Shore Drive)
Can't remember the title.
Gary

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: 10r
Date: 04 May 10 - 11:56 PM

PS to my last post, Randy Sabine (I might have
spelled that incorrectly) settled up around Eau
Claire, WI. He used to be Jim Post's sideman. Fine
muscian. As far as I know he is still playing around
occassionally.
Gary

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 03:58 AM

does anyone know a chicago song that mentions Howard Cab? my uncle worked there for years and they wanna give the owner a special party and want to play that song but nobody knows any lyrics or who sings it, any help?? thanks

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Sarah McQuaid
Date: 04 Sep 10 - 07:23 AM

Too lazy to comb through all the posts to see if anyone has already mentioned this, but the choir I sang in as a child did a song about "The State of Elanoy", spelled Elanoy as opposed to Illinois. Ah, just googled it and it's on Mudcat already -- here you go:
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiELANOYST;ttBUFFSKN2.html
Again, apologies if someone else has already mentioned this!

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,Malick Rebenar
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM

Tary Rebenar was my father. He originally started the Barbarossa 1117 N. Dearborn St. Chicago. He also wrote the song Chicago sounds it is the jingle song for the CBS local news which is on his album Just a Dream Ago. On 11/11/89 he died of aids from a bad blood transfusion he got when he had surgury for some really bad skin cancer at lutheran general hospital.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: GUEST,john_benischek
Date: 02 Aug 11 - 01:40 PM

Hey W y s i w y G ! :

Here are the lyrics to
The Ballad of Thirsty Joe's Revenge
(c) Pat Clinton

I was sleepin' by the fire, on the plains of Idaho
When I woke up with a start and saw the ghost of Thirst Joe
Still bleedin' where John Hanna's bullet caught him in the chest
And he begged me to avenge his death and let him take his rest.

Now I ain't known as no good man I believe
I got notches on my pistol, I got aces up my sleave
But I'd rather face the dyin' and the buryin' below
Than be haunted through my sleepin' by the ghost of Thirsty Joe.

It was 2 or 3 weeks later, we brought the herd to town
So I stepped into the barroom and bought the boys a round
When in walked ol' John Hanna, I turned and faced him slow
I said, "I brought you a message from your ol' friend Thirsty Joe."

His eyes were bright with whiskey, his face went dead and gray
He looked around for help but all his friends they turned away
And he trembled as he ask me, "Stranger, how is my old friend?"
I said, "Ol' Joe is a thirsty still. He's a thirsty for revenge."

Now I ain't known as no fightin' man I guess
I wear the scars of 20 times where I was 2nd best
But Hana come tomorrow as the sun begins to show
For I reckon you'll be dyin' to please ol' Thirsty Joe.

I was waitin' there he next day as the mornin' light was dim
When I heard a step behind me and I reckoned it was him
I said, "John Hana, Say your prayers! I'm aimin' for your life!"
But it was not Hana when I turned. It was John Hana's wife.

She was an angel she would take your breath away.
She said, "I'll haunt you if you lay him in the clay."
I mounted without speaking, headed back to Idaho
For I rather would be haunted by the ghost of Thirsty Joe.

Now I ain't known as no sentimental man
I put the past behind me just as quickly as I can
But I'll not forget the way she smiled as I began to go
And at night time I describe it to the ghost of Thirsty Joe.

And he's always there beside me now
My old friend Thirsty Joe.

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Wotcha
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:29 AM

I can't believe it is 10 years since leaving Chicago ... at their shanty sings, Tom and Chris Kastle sang a modified shanty based on Hieland Laddie called Burnham Harbor.

My favorite venue (aside from the Abbey Pub for its folk concerts) is the Cabaret Tavern in Bricktown -- very receptive to all types of music and has apparently taken off. Not sure if Dwayne Storey is still playing during open mike nights ... but you will likely find some local songs about Chicago there.

Med Vennlig hilsen,

Brian

Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs
From: Stringsinger
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:09 PM

Art, you may remember a song Bob Gibson and I wrote which made us for a while persona non grata in Chicago at one time, "I'm An Old Chicago Copper" which I performed on T.V. and subsequently castigated for it.

This was prior to a reform effort by a law enforcement professor from Berkeley which somewhat changed the force, involving many at that time who were on "the take".