Mudcat Café message #1649464

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Thread #88084 Message #1649464
Posted By: Abby Sale
16-Jan-06 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Jan 16 (Prohibition)
Subject: happy? – Jan 16 (Prohibition)

The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, was ratified 1/16/1919
{It was also ratified 1/29/1919}.
It went into effect 1/2/1920 and was finally repealed 1933


          Old Prohibition ruined everything
          That's why I must sing
          Here's one thing I want you all to hear
          Until they bring back light wine, gin and beer
          Doggone, the panic will be on
  
                  "The Panic is On" recorded by Hazekiah Jenkins on Columbia, Jan 16, 1931;
                  on Library of Congress recording LBC 10, Songs of War and History

Good song. Our local President Barry Brogan is the only live person I've heard sing it, though.

ALSO:
I'm sure all are familiar with the famed singer/songwriter Wladyslaw Polak.
In July 1929 he sang of the baptism party for his child..


  Bo ta Swieta Prohibicja          It was the holy Prohibition
  Wolnosc mnie odelbrala           Which took away my freedom
  Jam dzis zbrodniarz i...         Today I am a criminal because
  Bo mnie wodki sprzedala          Of the whiskey I bought
          .....                                .....
  Ten byl z nieznajomych gosci     There was one, unknown among the guests
  Gwiazdy mnie pokazuja            Who invited me outside
  "You bootlegger we arrest you"   "You bootlegger we arrest you"
  Za kraty mnie pakuja             And put me behind bars
  
          "W Amerykanskiem Miescie"         (In an American City);
          Library of Congress LBC 10, Songs of War and History