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Thread #33577   Message #2959030
Posted By: PoppaGator
05-Aug-10 - 06:00 PM
Thread Name: what's the name of this song? - Solid Gone
Subject: RE: what's the name of this song? - Solid Gone
I've been looking for the lyrics to the Carter Family/Tom Rush song of this title. Should have known where to look in the first place!

I remember hearing/reading something during the last Presdential campaign that some of Obama's workers sang their own lyrics to this song, building around "from Buffalo down to Washington" as the refrain. Anyone know any more about this?

I began looking for the words after working up a guitar arrangement from memory. Pretty simple three-chord stuff, tricky only when you try to play the melody against an alternating bass...

One caveat about the lyric ~ my memory of the first line goes:

Wash my jumper, baby, iron my overalls...

("Iron" pronounced, roughly, "aahrn.")