Mudcat Café message #1539410

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Thread #83668 Message #1539410
Posted By: Abby Sale
10-Aug-05 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: Happy! - Aug 10 (Herb Hoover)
Subject: Happy! - Aug 10 (Herb Hoover)

Happy Birthday!

Herb Hoover

engineer, humanitarian, and 31st president,

was born 8/10/1874
(died 1964)

Hoover had the misfortune of serving as US President 1929-1933, and thus has been unfairly blamed for getting the country into the world wide Great Depression. Folk singers have done their share to help the myth-making process along.


          Look here, Mr. Hoover, and see what you done,
          You went off a-fishin', let the country go to ruin,
          Now he's gone --- doghide! --- I'm glad he's gone.
  
                  "White House Blues," Words: ?, Music: traditional, Via Bob Baker
                  and later, the New Lost City Ramblers.
  
  ALSO:
          We've Hooverized on butter,
          For milk we've only water,
          And I haven't seen a steak in many a day.
          For pies and cakes and jellies,
          We substitute sow bellies,
          For which we work these county roads each day.
  
                  "Beans, Bacon And Gravy," Words: ?, Music: "Jesse James," Via Cisco Houston
                  [thanx Stephen Suffet]
  
  Etc.