The Lyricist's Son-

Thanks for the extra notes.

By the way I'm also fond of "That Greedy Landlord" which brings back memories of when I was sponsoring rent party sings in New York and Boston, in the early 1980's, in an attempt to collect additional songs. It was at the New York City gathering that we actually decoded the melody of "Greedy Landlord." In the room were some members of the Metropolitan Housing Council (real Communists!), an editor of Broadsides Magazine, an editor of Sing Out!, and a few miscellaneous folkies. It was a fine evening!

I'm thinking now that what I should do is publish my favorite 50 songs from the draft HOUSING SONG BOOK. There's no way to publish the whole thing but if there were some demand I could easily publish Volume 2. Volume 1 would certainly be titled Pity the Downtrodden Landlord: Tenant and Neighborhood Organizing Songs with an introduction of the long and successful search for the origins of this song. That's my current thinking.

Warm regards,
Charley Noble/Landlady's Daughter