Correction/tune: The Klan

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Correction/tune: The Klan

02 Nov 98 - 10:43 PM (#43962)
Subject: Tune Add: THE KLAN (Alan Arkin and David Arkin)
From: Joe Offer

The lyrics in the database are correct (or very nearly so), but note that the song was written by Alan Arkin and David Arkin, copyright 1951 by Sanga Music.

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02 Nov 98 - 10:50 PM (#43964)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: THE KLAN (Alan Arkin, David Arkin)
From: Joe Offer

There's some bad HTML that cuts out part of the lyrics in the online version of the database, and there's one word that needed correction. Here's the complete song:

THE KLAN
By Alan Arkin and David Arkin
Copyright © 1951 (renewed) by Sanga Music, Inc.

      Am
  The countryside was cold and still
  C
  There was a cross upon the hill
       Am
  This cold cross wore a burning hood
     F                        Am
  To hide its rotten heart of wood
  
  Am
  Father I hear the iron sound
     Dm               Eb     Am
  Of hoofbeats on the frozen ground

Down from the hills the riders came
Jesus, it was a crying shame
To see the blood upon their whips
And hear the snarling of their lips
Mother I feel a stabbing pain
Blood flows down like a summer rain

Now each one wore a mask of white
To hide his cruel face from sight
and each one sucked a little breath
Out of the empty lungs of death

Sister lift my bloody head
It's so lonesome to be dead

He who travels with the Klan
He is a monster, not a man
Underneath that white disguise
I have looked into his eyes

Brother, will you stand with me
it's not easy to be free

Added Feb 2001
From The Collected Reprints from Sing Out! - the pink volume (1959-64). The notes say, "Elizabeth Knight brought this hard-hitting song to Hootenanny audiences in New York after learning it from Alan Grey in San Cristobal..."

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03 Nov 98 - 01:39 AM (#43980)
Subject: RE: ADD TUNE: The Klan
From: Joe Offer

I take it the is the Alan Arkin, better known as an actor. I know he was in the Babysitters with Lee Hays. What else did Arkin do in the way of folk music?
-Joe Offer-

03 Nov 98 - 05:08 PM (#44053)
Subject: RE: ADD TUNE: The Klan
From: dick greenhaus

Arkin sang lead (ith the Tarriers) in a hit called "Cindy, Oh Cindy"---a rewrite of Pay Me My Money Down.

04 Nov 98 - 02:12 AM (#44146)
Subject: RE: ADD TUNE: The Klan
From: Joe Offer

Thanks, Dick - I knew that, but the memory wasn't coming to me and it was bugging me. Now I can sleep.
-Joe Offer-

04 Nov 98 - 02:31 AM (#44150)
Subject: RE: ADD TUNE: The Klan
From: BSeed

A well-deserved rest, Joe. Sweet dreams. --seed

28 Nov 17 - 06:09 AM (#3890865)
Subject: RE: Correction/tune: The Klan
From: Tuvya

Alan Arkin appeared in a short film many years ago, as a young man sitting on a park bench with guitar and singing Que Bonita Bandera. I wish I could remember more or see it again.

29 Nov 17 - 09:23 AM (#3891145)
Subject: RE: Correction/tune: The Klan
From: Cool Beans

Tuvya, the movie was called "That's Me." It came out in 1963. According to one source (an online forum) it co-starred Mike Nichols as a social worker trying to help the guy (Arkin) on the park bench.

29 Nov 17 - 12:46 PM (#3891210)
Subject: RE: Correction/tune: The Klan
From: BanjoRay

He has a relative Steve Arkin, possibly a cousin who is a superb banjo player who played bluegrass with Bill Monroe and now plays Old Time clawhammer with the Troublesome Creek string band.

30 Nov 17 - 03:26 AM (#3891353)
Subject: RE: Correction/tune: The Klan
From: GUEST,Gerry

Here's the Internet Movie Database page on That's Me: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057575/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1