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12-stringer Origins: Franklin D Roosevelt's Back Again (25) RE: Origins: Franklin D Roosevelt's Back Again 01 Jul 13


As usual, typing faster than I was thinking. Cox's tune is a more serious recomposition of Miller's than I managed to imply. Miller's tune is more like the chorus of Cox's, though they're not identical. What Cox adds is a verse.

From the Bill Elliott (as Jim Baird) version on "Hard Times Come Again No More", some extra couplets. The Miller version is much shorter and features a lot of instrumental solos between verses, with only 4 sung stanzas, while Elliott squeezes 12 onto his allotted 10" of shellac..

(first 2 verses as in Miller)

Depression he will go
To the place where there's no snow

'Stead of filling up our jail
We'll fill up our dinner pail

We'll throw out our worn-out shoes
Drive away the hungry blues

(as in Miller's third verse))

We'll ride handsome, wide, and far
In our little touring car

We'll have money in our jeans,
We'll have more than turnip greens

We've had misery in full
Lived on promises and bull

We'll sit in our easy chair
Not a worry or a care

At the sun we'll smile, be durned
Though our tonsils get sunburned

We can rest our weary heads
As we sleep in feather beds


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