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Sandy Paton	Lyr Req: songs of the oilfield (49)	RE: Lyr Req: songs of the oilfield	03 Aug 00
My father worked one summer in the town immortalized by the movie Boom Town (Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy -- remember?). That must have been about 1920. Anyway, he told me once that he had heard black roustabouts singing: Takes a wearied man To sing a wearied song. Well, I'm wearied now; Won't be wearied long. No specific oil field reference, but that was what they were singing. Dad sang it for me, then apologized that it was really more of a chant than a song. I didn't mind. Sandy

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