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10 Dec 08 - 12:56 PM (#2511835) Subject: Lyr Req: Old Norman Blake song From: pokesalad What are the lyrics and title to the old (I think) Norman Blake song that starts out: "Up and down the Blue Ridge Mountain range they're stripping coal ..." What album and year? Best to all, Pokesalad |
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10 Dec 08 - 10:04 PM (#2512227) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Norman Blake song From: pdq It's called "The Highland Light" and can be found on the 1977 LP "Blackberry Blossom". This record shows Norman Blake at the peak of his picking skills. A "must have" for Blake fans. CD came out in 2000: Flying Fish 18964-0047-2. |
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11 Dec 08 - 05:49 PM (#2513012) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Norman Blake song From: pokesalad Dear PDQ, Many thanks for your response. Best, Poke |
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12 Dec 08 - 07:15 PM (#2513922) Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHLAND LIGHT (Norman Blake) From: Jim Dixon Copied from another forum: HIGHLAND LIGHT Norman Blake 1. All up and down the Blue Ridge Mountain chain they're strippin' coal, Sellin' it across the sea to Japan, so I'm told. See the mighty wheels of progress turn and the lanes of commerce run. A cornucopia of junk it flows from the land of the rising sun. 2. All across this mighty country, friend, the oak trees turn to gold, But we can't afford our timber; we cannot buy our coal, 'Cause the foreigners want houses, lifestyles like ours they see, So we trade our own resources for transistorized TV's 3. So get on board the Highland Light, train of my fantasy, And ride to hell or glory makes no never mind to me. This train she's not crowded and the ticket there is free, But it's a long hot dusty ride backwards to 1933. 4. And way down in Alabama, on the old Brown's Ferry shore, The TVA nuclear reactor sits like a child of war, Just sending out the kilowatts down the girdered peak-flow lines, A detriment to society and a threat to all mankind. |
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28 Jun 16 - 09:29 PM (#3798200) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highland Light (Norman Blake) From: cnd This is missing a stanza. Between 3 and 4 should be the following: Some say that the great invention of all time, it was the wheel Is progress really the automobile? In materialistic slavery, kind friends now we must toil As we bow down to the idealistic god of Arab oil Also, see how to play it here: https://books.google.com/books?id=R3bMdT77o18C&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Scroll up 1 page to see the full lyrics |
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28 Jun 16 - 09:45 PM (#3798201) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highland Light (Norman Blake) From: cnd Also, pretty minor but no 3 comes up again as the new no 6 |