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Thread #18014 Message #2484568
Posted By: Barry Finn
04-Nov-08 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: Origin: I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
Subject: RE: Help: I wish I was a mole in the ground
Les, from the "Frozen Logger" My lover came to see me upon one freezing day; He held me in his fond embrace which broke three vertebrae.
He kissed me when we parted, so hard that he broke my jaw; I could not speak to tell him he'd forgot his mackinaw.
I saw my lover leaving, sauntering through the snow, Going gaily homeward at forty-eight below.
It's a coat commonly used by lumbermen among others.
Elizabeth LaPrelle's new (2nd) CD "Lizard In The Spring" where she does a fabulous redition of "Mole In The Ground" she says comes from a recording of Green Bailey from 1929 which she "shifted a bit with her recollections of Doc Watson's version. Her's is very similar to Q's posted above. I do something closer to what John MacKechoen (Sp?sorry) does, I'm fonder of Campy & "been locked up in the pen with those banjo picking men" version.