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Thread #14233   Message #2982032
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Sep-10 - 10:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs by Bruce 'Utah' Phillips
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs by Bruce 'Utah' Phillips
Here's what Utah was quoting from in SOMEDAY THAT SHIP GONNA SAIL, verse 4:

From Walls and Bars by Eugene Victor Debs (Chicago: Socialist Party, 1927), page 11:

MY PRISON CREED.

While there is a lower class I am in it;
While there is a criminal element I am of it;
While there's a soul in prison I am not free.