acres of clams

Subject: acres of clams
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Date: 06 Aug 01 - 06:50 PM

Burl Ives sang a song called "acres of clams"does anybody out there have the lyrics available for this song. if so please post them. thanx. nroch

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: Burke
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 07:00 PM

Is this song in the Database what you want? OLD SETTLER'S SONG or ACRES OF CLAMS

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: ChanteyMatt
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 07:03 PM

It's the anthem for the Pacific Northwest. If you live around here and you don't know the song, hang your head in shame.

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: MAG
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 07:31 PM

... and i started one morning to shank it, for,
the country they call Puget Sound...

We'll be singing it at Mousethief's I'm sure.

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:34 PM

The Melody is much older than "Acres of Clams" (which is a dandy song) Isn't the melody, "Rosin the Bow?" Also Abe Lincoln's Campain song, "Lincoln and Liberty Too", "Down in the Willow garden" and lots of others, all of them "dandy" songs.

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 12:08 AM

There is a great discussion about this song and all things geoduck at Acres of clams, WA song, please clarify. All of the postings were really interesing, but esp. those of Phil Nuytten, who is a world-renowned expert in underwater exploration and does things with the Cousteaus on a regular basis.

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: Suffet
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 06:43 AM

Anti-nuclear activist Charlie King sings a somwhat different "Acres of Clams." In his song, a "Clam" is a member of the Clamshell Alliance, a group which unsuccessfully tried to stop the construction of a nuclear reactor at Seabrook, New Hampshire, in the 1970s. Many Clams were arrested for occupying the construction site.

Charlie's last verse:

We're seizing this land with a vision,
Which sees through the PSC's shams,
As I think of my pleasant condition,
Surrounded by acres of Clams! [to chorus]

PSC is the Public Service Commission, the state regulatory agency for public utilities. In New Hampshire (and certainly elsewhere), the PSC was very pro-nuke. That was until the Three Mile Island debacle in Pennsylvania.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: acres of clams
From: LR Mole
Date: 07 Aug 01 - 01:01 PM

Phil Ochs stole the tune sideways for "Love Me, I'm a Liberal": the folk process.
Of "sold": this from Huck Finn (the King has just substituted prancing about in full, painted, monty for Shakespearean tragedy:
"Everybody sings out 'sold,', and rose up mad, and was agoing for that stage and them tragedians. But a big fine-looking man jumps up on a bench,and shouts:
"'Hold on! Just a word, gentlemen.' They stopped to listen. 'We are sold--mighty badly sold. But we don't want to be the laughingstock of this whooe town, I reckon, and never lear the last of this thing as long as we live...'"