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Thread #25998   Message #309404
Posted By: GUEST,ed
01-Oct-00 - 01:02 AM
Thread Name: cool song connections
Subject: cool song connections
Here's a interesting idea , let's see who can come up with cool and/or strange links in songs to other songs through the years. I got two
i just discovered that at the center of the lyrics Charlie Pattons " the Trouble with my mother" is only a few words diffrent than "children of Zion" as recorded by Gary Davis many years later. gary notes at the beginning of the song " my mothers' mothers' mothers' grand mother song this song way back bout 500 years ago" That's tradition.
here's another
Way back in the 20's Bascom Lundsford sang " don't trust the railroad men they'll drink up your blood like wine" in the song "mole in the ground" . move forward to '66 and Dylan responds "oh I didn't know that" on "Stuck inside the mobile with the Memphis blues again"