At a conference on coal mining, an old man got up and announced that he was going to sing an old song that expressed how he felt about his home state of West Virginia, and proceeded
to sing Utah PhIllips' GREEN ROLLING HILLS OF WEST VIRGINIA. Archie Green, the eminent folklorist, labor historian, and ethno-proctologist turned to Utah afterwards and said that he would introduce Utah as the author of that song. Phillips told him no to, because he was proud to think that his piece could become part of the tradition.


Mark Ross