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Thread #43566   Message #639487
Posted By: RoyH (Burl)
31-Jan-02 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs of Haywire Mack / Harry McClintock
Subject: RE: Haywire Mac Songs
I have a wonderful LP of Haywire Mac on Rounder Records, 'Hallelujah! I'm A Bum', Rounder 1009. It has a great batch of songs and a booklet full of information about the man. Don't know if it has made it onto CD. If it has, or does, grab it. In the sleeve note, there is this quote from a letter H. Mac. wrote to a friend shortly before he died....'Life put on quite a show for me. But now the show is ending, the lights are growing dim. I have no regrets and when I do go I will leave the game a winner. Somewhere in my backyard in San Francisco, between the crimson ramblers and the hollyhocks, there waits an old man with a scythe. Some day ere long he will tap me on the shoulder and say, "Come with me, Mac" and when he does, I will follow him into the everlasting shadows, leaving all the bright golden memories behind'. What A Man!. Burl