The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24923 Message #3731281
Posted By: Don Firth
18-Aug-15 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Man Can't Grow Old (from Burl Ives)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Man Can't Grow Old (from Burl Ives)
Committee: Why did you sing for those labor organizations?
Ives: They paid me $20.00 and gave me a spaghetti dinner.
Committee: Who were you there singing with?
(They already knew the answer to this, and Ives knew they knew).
Ives: Pete Seeger and Richard Dyer-Bennet.
Committee: And what are their political beliefs?
Ives: I don't know. You'll have to ask them.
Somehow I don't see this as "Burl Ives selling out his friends."
Don Firth