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Subject: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Ian HP Date: 28 Oct 01 - 05:27 PM I've just been to Egypt by cruise. The ship radio played the above song about "the tourist trap in Cairo". As well as the stunning pyramids and museum I was struck by the accuracy of the song and now want to sing it. Digitrad has a version called "The Old Bazaar In Cairo" and a couple of old threads about it, but the one I heard definitely had the title on this thread and some new references about postcards and the tourist trap, etc. Any idea what the updated version is, who it's by, where I can find the words/a recording? I've searched the net but not come up with anything. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Art Thieme Date: 28 Oct 01 - 07:46 PM My son went to college in Egypt. It is a strange place but O.K. if you want to actually "be" in the south while still being in the north. Thebes and Karnac are lovely this time of year although it takes a long long time for autumn to arrive. Most of the trees change so that by Christmas thet've dropped all their foliage. Cairo is where the two big rivers join and you can actually see the long muddy tell-tale sign of one passing alongside the clearer water from the other for miles and miles before they grudgingly mingle into each other. There was a customs house at Cairo during the civil war where the northern troops effectively closed both rivers. After that sad war ended the part of Egypt where Cairo lies was more attuned to southern sentiments. Some bloody clan fighting took place there with horrible tolls being taken when family fought family and that turned into catasterophic labor battles as the too violent nature of these people erupted again and again over the years. Below is a song from that sad war that tells some of the story: CAIRO
There's a place out west where the Union troops
Cairo oh, Cairo
The rolling Mississippi was a highway free
Cairo, oh Cairo,
The southern chivaligators now they say
Cairo, oh Cairo
Bold Prentice made the chief command,
Cairo, oh Cairo * Chris went to school at Carbondale. Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Mark Cohen Date: 28 Oct 01 - 10:11 PM Art, I don't think Ian was talking about Illinois...The late David Ackles had a song and album called The Road to Cairo, but that was also not the one in Africa. Or were you pulling our collective leg again? Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Art Thieme Date: 29 Oct 01 - 12:03 AM Who, me? Aloeja back atcha. Art ;-) |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Art Thieme Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:15 PM refresh ;-) |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: GUEST,Q Date: 30 Jan 03 - 08:13 PM Fragment of song in the Wolf Collection, sung by Mrs. Grace Hastings, of Memphis, TN, 1960. When Cairo Burned Down My partner, he was sleeping, Poor fellow, he was sleeping so sound, While the fire surround his body, And the city of Cairo burnt down. Anyone know more of the song or the circumstances of the fire? |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Pinetop Slim Date: 30 Jan 03 - 08:48 PM Looks like no help for you yet, Ian, but laughs are better than lyrics sometimes. Here's a guess that the cruise ship song was a parody set to the fiddle tune "Road to Cairo." Maybe the cruise company has a web site where you could track it down somehow, or a PR office. |
Subject: RE: 'On the Road to Cairo' - song search From: Art Thieme Date: 31 Jan 03 - 07:19 PM October 1871----A completely dry time with high wind and Chicago burnt down----as did Peshtigo, Wisconsin----------a terrible fire there --- actually a classic firestorm that, in the twinkle of an eye, killed over 250 people and incinerated thousands of acres. Under the ground there was a fire to a depth of several feet and metal flowed like water then boiled away. See a fine recent book called FIRESTORM AT PESHTIGO. The Chicago and Peshtigo fires were the same day/week/month. Don't know of a Cairo, Illinois fire though. Art Thieme |
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