Lyr ADD: Bury Me in My Overalls (Malvina Reynolds)

Subject: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From:
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 04:16 AM

Anyone know the lyrics to fine old song? I believe it was written by Malvina Reynolds. Thanks!!!

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 05:20 PM

I found this on the Utah Phillips Web site:
"Bury Me in My Overalls"
words and music by Malvina Reynolds, copyright Northern Music [MCA Publishing] (ASCAP)
"Malvina wrote this song for her husband Bud, who I also love to remember. I used to visit their house when I was keeping company with a merchant seaman. They would talk about the Seaman's Union and he told us stories of organizing and strikes and strife. He was like Studs Terkel...absolutely interested in what I had \to say and would get me talking about things I didn't even know I knew. I also became friends with their daughter, Nancy Schlimmel, who wrote this poem about Bud in 1986...it describes him to a T:

My Father Was an Optimist (a poem by Nancy Schimmel)
My father was an optimist
he knew the revolution would come, and should
thought he could convince anyone of that
even a Republican
and
since he was persuasive
as well as optimistic
he sometimes could
if they were as smart and curious
and relentless and sure of themselves
as he was

Nancy wrote to me: "Malvina would introduce 'Bury Me in My Overalls' by talking about how her husband was such as good supporter of her work, then she would say: "He got pretty sick one time and I wrote this song. He got better." The "pretty sick" was his first heart attack, when he was around sixty. Wheat finally got him at seventy-seven was not a heart attack, but a stroke. I think she wrote the "I gave a hand" verse for the Gateway Singers or the Limeliters. It wasn't in the song originally." - R.S.

Subject: Lyr Add: BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS (Malvina Reynolds)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 05:56 PM

BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS
words and music by Malvina Reynolds © 1956, by Northern Music Corporation

Bury me in my overalls, don't use my gabardines,
Bury me in my overalls or in my beat-up jeans.
Give my suit to Uncle Jake,
He can wear it at my wake,
And bury me in my overalls.

The undertaker will get my dough, the grave will get my bones,
And what is left will have to go for one of those granite stones,
But this suit cost me two weeks pay,
So let it live another day,
And bury me in my overalls.

The grave it is a quiet place, there is no labor there,
And I will rest more easy in the clothes I always wear,
This suit was made for warmer climes,
Holidays and happy times,
So bury me in my overalls.

I gave a hand to clear the land and make the cities rise,
I helped to bring the harvest in and lay the railroad ties,
I boomed about from east to west,
It's time I had a little rest,
So bury me in my overalls.

And when I get to heaven where they tally work and sin,
They'll open up those pearly gates and holler, "Come on in!
A working stiff like you, we know,
Has had his share of hell below,
So come to glory in your overalls."

Nice song, isn't it?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Tune Add: BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS (M Reynolds)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 05:58 PM

MIDI file: BURYME~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: Bury Me In My Overalls
Text: By Malvina Reynolds
Copyright: Copyright © 1956 by Northern Music Corporation
Key: D
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Start
0000 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 66 110 0256 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0094 0 67 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 64 110 0528 0 64 000 0240 1 64 110 0094 0 64 000 0002 1 64 110 0094 0 64 000 0002 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 69 110 0256 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0528 0 66 000 0240 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 70 110 0160 0 70 000 0032 1 71 110 0336 0 71 000 0048 1 69 110 0256 0 69 000 0032 1 71 110 0094 0 71 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 64 110 0352 0 64 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 62 110 0720 0 62 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Bury Me In My Overalls
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:D
DDD7/4z/4D7/4z/4E7/4z/4|F11/4z/4GA7/4z/4F7/4z/4|
G7/4z/4G7/4z/4G7/4z/4F7/4z/4|E11/2z5/2|EEE7/4z/4E7/4z/4F7/4z/4|
G11/4z/4AB7/4z/4G7/4z/4|A7/4z/4A7/4z/4AA11/4z/4|
F11/2z5/2|G7/4z/4G7/4z/4G11/4z/4A|B7/4z/4^A7/4z/4B7/2z/2|
A11/4z/4BA7/4z/4G7/4z/4|F7/4z/4G7/4z/4A7/4z/4F7/4z/4|
A7/2z/2G7/4z/4E2|-E7/4z/4A7/2z/2G7/4z/4|F7/4z/4E7/4z/4D4|
-D7/2||

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 07:29 PM

Joe, my ABC2WIN won't display your ABC. Your first 2 measures have the equivalent of 8 quarter notes in them. z/4, since a 1/4 note is the base, are rests of 1/4 x 1/4 = 1/16 note. Those 7's and 11's don't look right. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the tune to check against yours against. Want to pick something out of a common book (e.g. Lomax's 'Folk Songs of North America) and do an ABC and post it, so we can tell you what's wrong? Jon, can you figure out what's wrong?

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 08:26 PM

Now you know why I'm having such a hard time catching on to ABC, Bruce. I think we need to holler for ALAN OF AUSTRALIA for help on this one, since I used his program to translate it from MIDI to ABC. When I run the ABC on ABCMUS, it sounds right; but if I use that program to save it as a MIDI file, the tune comes out much more complicated than it needs to be. If I used Alan's TXT2MID and change the red coded part back to a MIDI, it's correct.
I guess we have to conclude that there's a flaw in the ABC portion of Alan's MIDITXT program. Alan, can you help us on this?
By the way, Bruce, the ABC tune you posted for "O'Donnell Abu" today works perfectly on my ABCMUS, without need for modification.

I sent a distress call to Alan, so he's bound to come galloping in on his fiery steed at any moment. If anyone wants the MIDI to fool around with, you can convert it with MIDITXT from the red code above, or I'll be glad to send it to you as an e-mail attachment.

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Feb 98 - 09:11 PM

"O'Donnell Abbo" was marked up in HTML after checking. ABC2WIN won't display the HTML tune. I finally discovered that my web browser will save, with plain text option, as long as I don't use a file extension. I had tried repeatedly to save as zzz.ABC, but this just gives me back the HTML with the lines double spaced.

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Jon W.
Date: 11 Feb 98 - 10:32 AM

I am forced to agree with Joe's conclusion about the flaw in the ABC portion of MID2TXT. Joe, if you've got MIDI2ABC, try running the MIDI through that and see if the results don't look cleaner. Otherwise, send me the MIDI and NWC files and I'll see if I can get it straight.

Jon W.

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Jon W.
Date: 11 Feb 98 - 10:56 AM

More considerations on ABC problems - they seem to happen mostly when converting MIDI output of NoteWorthy Composer. I wonder if NWC outputs something unexpected in its MIDI files. Seems like I remember a problem with this early on which Alan corrected (or did he?). All those 7/4 and 11/4 notes are very strange.

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 01:14 AM

Jon- where can I find MIDI2ABC? I just looked at the ABC home page, but didn't see that particular program.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Jon W.
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 10:31 AM

Its there under abc software, but the link says something like ABC Midifier, which takes you here.

Subject: Tune Add: BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS (M Reynolds)
From: Jon W.
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 12:10 PM

Here is the MIDI file Joe sent me by E-mail, run through MIDI2ABC:

% input file miditune\buryover.mid
% format 1 file 2 tracks
X: 1
T: Bury Me In My Overalls
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q:1/4=60
K:D % 2 sharps
% Last bar contains 11/2 units not 8
% Number of bars = 8
% Track 1 start
% Sequence/Track Name : Bury Me In My Overalls
% Text Event : By Malvina Reynolds
% Copyright Notice : Copyright \ 1956 by Northern Music Corporation
% Copyright Notice : All Rights Reserved
% Text Event : Generated by NoteWorthy Composer
% MIDI Key signature, sharp/flats=2 minor=0
% Time signature=4/4 MIDI-clocks/click=24 32nd-notes/24-MIDI-clocks=8
% Track 2 start
% Meta event, unrecognized, type=0x21 leng=1
% Sequence/Track Name : Staff-1
% Parameter, chan=1 c1=7 c2=127
% Parameter, chan=1 c1=10 c2=64
V:1
|D/2D/2DDE F3/2G/2AF|GGGF E3 z |E/2E/2EEF G3/2A/2BG|AAA/2A3/2 F3 z |
GGG3/2A/2 B^AB2|=A3/2B/2AG FGAF|A2GE2A2G|FED7/2|

I'm not familiar with the tune, so all I can say is that the words provided by Joe above, scan to this when I play it through PlayQABC.

Subject: Tune Add: BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS (M Reynolds)
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 01:56 PM

It proved to be a major chore for me to get a playable ABC from that above. My Netscape Navigator wouldn't copy to an ASCII file, so I had to take out the HTML tags. That was only a minor problem.

The way I got a playable tune follows:
Get rid of the % and all on the same line following them.
L:1/8 and Q:1/4=60 are incompatable and tune won't display under ABC2WIN. See below for modified L: and Q: in a file that works (after taking out HTML tags) But I don't know if it's exactly correct.
Get rid of the V:1
Get rid of the | on the first line of music code, on the line after K:D
Add ] to end tune.
Move M:4/4 to line just before K:D
I don't see in the above the \ which showed up in my ABC at the wrong place. These should be line terminators indicating continuation on the next line only. Move it to the end of the first line of music code.

X:1
T:Bury Me In My Overalls
N:Last bar contains 11/2 units not 8
L:1/8
Q:1/8=120
M:4/4
K:D
D/2D/2DDE F3/2G/2AF|GGGF E3 z |E/2E/2EEF G3/2A/2BG|\
AAA/2A3/2 F3z|GGG3/2A/2B^AB2|=A3/2B/2AG FGAF|\
A2GE2A2G|FED7/2|]

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 03:02 PM

Well, Bruce, the tune you posted plays perfectly for me, and it certainly looks nice and uncomplicated. Now, the question is, can I convert Noteworthy MIDI files into Mudcat-ready ABC without going through a lot of editing? I think Alan's program will do it, with a few adjustments. I guess we'll just have to wait a bit, until he gets done doing those sadistic things professors do to students at the beginning of the semester.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Jon W.
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 05:36 PM

Gee, it's funny how different ways of doing things can complicate matters. I always use the Windows clipboard to extract tunes from the forum and save them as files. I do this by highlighting the text of the tune only (for example, in my post above, start with the line "% input file miditune\buryover.mid" and highlight down through the body of the music, but not the ending comment "I'm not familiar..."), pressing ctrl-C to copy, then switching to my programmer's editor application and pasting the clipboard contents into a new or existing file (I keep one called mudcat.abc around for this purpose). Then I write the file to disk, fire up ABC2Win (or just PlayQABC in DOS) and play the tune. To make sure this method would work for those not blessed with a programmer's editor, I tried it with MS Word 6.0, and by saving the file as "text only" with an .abc extension, it worked fine. The only problem I have is that somehow each subsequent line after the first begins with a space which I have to delete before saving the file. Also, rarely there is a line which wraps around on the forum screen, so when I copy and paste, it creates a new line where it shouldn't. This happened above with the line that starts out "32nd-notes..." I had to put that part back up on the previous line by deleting the carriage return. When I did that, the tune displayed in ABC2Win and played perfectly. Before I did, I got some error boxes but just pressed "continue" each time and the tune came up with an extra measure at the beginning (ABC2Win was interpreting the extraneous line as music), but still was playable. Bruce, if your ABC2Win can't handle comments (% lines) and the other things, maybe you need a later version. Mine (version 2.1 f) didn't have any problem with them.

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Feb 98 - 10:39 PM

Jon W., I didn't even try to read the % comments (and I probably could have) but I couldn't display anything at that point, and I was interested in getting the tune to play, and stripping the files down to essentials so I could see what was wrong. I would have put Author and copyright notice as N:comment right after the title T:xx, anyway, and deleted the rest as non-essential for an ABC tune. I like to keep my files small.

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: JESTER!
Date: 15 Feb 98 - 02:41 AM

Joe, you've come through again! I hope the rest of the crowd had fun with all that high-techy stuff to make make their desktops spin and shimmy; you got me just what I wanted. In the future, perhaps I'll just borrow your brair for a while, and save everyone the trouble. Thanks again! JESTER!

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Feb 98 - 04:29 AM

Sure is a nice song, isn't it, Jester? I hadn't know it before, so it was nice to be able to dig into my Malvina Reynolds songbook and discover it.
But you gotta have the high-tech stuff to convey the tunes. It should be pretty simple for all of us once our resident genius Max gets the new forum perfected.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyric search-Bury me in my overalls
From: leprechaun
Date: 18 Feb 98 - 12:45 AM

I wonder if Woodie Guthrie was influenced by this when he wrote Dirty Overhauls?

"Before I'd be any man's slave, I would rot down in my grave, And you can lay me down in my dirty overhauls.

"I was a soldier in the fight and I fought till we won. My uniform is my diry overhauls."

Subject: Tune Add: BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS (M Reynolds)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Apr 98 - 05:47 PM

Here's the tune, using the latest version of midi2txt:

MIDI file: BURYME~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: Bury Me In My Overalls
Text: By Malvina Reynolds
Copyright: Copyright © 1956 by Northern Music Corporation
Key: D
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Start
0000 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 66 110 0256 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0094 0 67 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 64 110 0528 0 64 000 0240 1 64 110 0094 0 64 000 0002 1 64 110 0094 0 64 000 0002 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 69 110 0256 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0528 0 66 000 0240 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 70 110 0160 0 70 000 0032 1 71 110 0336 0 71 000 0048 1 69 110 0256 0 69 000 0032 1 71 110 0094 0 71 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 64 110 0352 0 64 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 66 110 0160 0 66 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 62 110 0720 0 62 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Bury Me In My Overalls
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:D
DDD2D2E2|F3GA2F2|G2G2G2F2|E8|EEE2E2F2|G3AB2G2|
A2A2AA3|F8|G2G2G3A|B2^A2B4|A3BA2G2|F2G2A2F2|
A4G2E2|-E2A4G2|F2E2D4|-D7/2||

Much better, dontchathink?