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Thread #51276   Message #780923
Posted By: Stewie
10-Sep-02 - 09:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Everybody Works but Father
Subject: RE: Lyric assist-Everybody works but Father
Hi Malcolm,

Carson's biographer, Gene Wiggins, in his analysis of the Carson repertoire ['Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy p159] places the song in his category of 'twentieth century popular songs' rather than in 'twentieth century folk-type songs', but I agree that it seems to have entered oral tradition.

Perhaps a JoeClone could fix up the title of my transcription above: 'EVERYBODY' not 'EVERY'.

--Stewie.