The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26728   Message #1630742
Posted By: John Minear
19-Dec-05 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Shawneetown
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shawneetown
Martin Simpson's version of "Shawneetown" has a verse in it that is not in all of the other versions that I have heard. Sam Pacetti, who learned the song from Simpson also has this extra verse. It comes, in their versions, after the verse about "a wife in Louisville". However, I cannot make out what either Simpson or Pacetti are singing and I need some help. I have Googled to try to find lyrics for either of them without success, and the lyrics are not printed in the CD liner notes. Nor are they anywhere on Mudcat as far as I can tell. I'm specifically talking about the lyrics to either Martin Simpson's version or Sam Pacetti's version. Here is all I can make out:

.......
....loud and long,
........
and twice as strong.

I can't get the first or third lines. If anybody can help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. T.O.M./John Minear