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Thread #56912   Message #893686
Posted By: 12-stringer
19-Feb-03 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Take 'em Away (Mance Lipscomb)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Take 'em Away (Mance Lipscomb)
Intro to the song speaks of "invoking the ghost of Mance Lipscomb" -- no doubt in the reference to the Brazos and Navasota. That's as close as I can hear anything in the "style" of ML in it. Doesn't sound like his picking, doesn't sound like his singing, doesn't sound like his talking. But it does mention his home town.

The moon shines bright tonight along the Cimarron;
From Okemah comes the smell of new-mown hay.
I just invoked the ghost of Woody Guthrie.
(Can someone show me again how to fret an "A"?)
-- with apologies to Walter Brennan and the other guys in the basement.