Lyr Req: Heart upon His Sleeve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve
From: semi-submersible
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 02:13 PM

Does anyone still care about this request?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Sep 01 - 03:38 PM

Al, did you call or write Rich Warren at WFMT to ask about this?

Sorch, did you PM Art?

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Sep 01 - 03:30 PM

refresh

Subject: Heart upon his sleeve
From: GUEST,Al Frank - Chicago
Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:43 AM

This is a request for lyrics to a song I occasionally heard on "The Midnite Special" over WFMT in Chicago. A few years ago I asked Jimmy David Post if he knew it and he said it sounded to him like an Art Thieme song, and as I remember it Art's voice seems to be the one singing it. So ... here goes.

The song is about an American in the Abraham Lincoln battalion(?) on the Spanish Republican side in the Spanish civil war. He had been a strong union man back in the USA ("remember how we fought 'em on the line at Chrysler")and was now fighting in Spain: "Now he's lying on some bloody Spanish hillside/with his rifle on his shoulder, and his heart upon his sleeve./Across the valley as he sights along the barrel/he can see as clear as daylight/all the things that he believes"

The tune from "Now he's lying ..." has a "typical Spanish" progression familiar to most folk guitarists.

This song has been bouncing around in my head for years and if someone can give the words I'd be in their debt.

Thank you all very much - Al Frank