The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16290 Message #151112
Posted By: bseed(charleskratz)
18-Dec-99 - 12:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Titanic (Leadbelly)
Subject: Leadbelly song about the Titanic
Jimmy, the banjo player of the Starboard Watch, plays and sings a Leadbelly song about the Titanic, a terrific, bluesy piece that I can't find in the DB, either by asking for Leadbelly songs or songs about the Titanic. Anyone know it? Is it IN the DB but unlinked to either its author or its subject? If not, does anyone know the words? It's a terrific bluesy ballad, a gas to play, and I want to add it to my repertoire (I stand behind Jimmy and can't hear the words very well, particularly when he's singing with blues intonatian, compared with the clarity of most of the shanties we do (many of which I'm also struggling to lear