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Subject: Prison Songs From: roxiesmama (inactive) Date: 11 May 99 - 04:50 PM LOOKING FOR PRISON MARCHING SONGS. CAN ANYONE HELP? THANKS, CAROLYN |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PEAT BOG SOLDIERS From: Felipa Date: 11 May 99 - 05:26 PM I'm not sure what you mean by "marching songs", but I wonder if songs you'll find by typing @chaingang in the search box (above right) will suit? "Die Moorsoldaten" (the peat bog soldiers) could be what you're looking for. I don't see it in the database, so I'll search my memory (the English translation): Far and wide as the eye can wander, Peat and bog are everywhere Not a voice sings out to cheer us Oaks are standing gaunt and bare [refrain]Wir sind die moorsoldaten Siehen mit dem spaten Ins moor[We are the peatbog soldiers marching with our spades to the bog Up and down the guards are pacing No one, no one can get through Flight would mean a sure death facing Guns and barbed wire haunt[?]our view But for us there is no complaining Winter will in time be past One day we shall cry, rejoicing: !"Homeland dear, you're mine at last!" No more will the peat bog soldiers March with their spades to the bog |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: JOField Date: 11 May 99 - 07:25 PM Doch für uns gibt es kein klagen, Ewig kann's nicht winter sein. Einmal werden wir froh sagen, "Heimat du bist wieder mein." Dann zieh'n die moorsoldaten Nicht mehr mit den spaten Ins moor. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Jeri Date: 12 May 99 - 12:32 AM I think maybe Roxiesmama meant chain gang type songs? Search results for chaingang songs I get to try to help and see if I can do a blue clicky thingy at the same time. Of course, maybe you meant Army marching songs? If the link doesn't work, I searched for the keyword "chaingang." |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: SeanM Date: 12 May 99 - 12:40 AM Cheeseball as it is, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Yes, CCR covered it, but Leadbelly did it first!) is a great song about prison life... M |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: ddw Date: 12 May 99 - 01:09 AM There's an old tune called "The Prisoner's Song" that could be sung to a marching cadence. I didn't check to see if it's in the DT, but it starts:
If I had the wings of an angel There are other verses, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'll check the DT and see if it's there. cheers, ddw |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: ddw Date: 12 May 99 - 01:17 AM Roxiesmama, Yup, The Prisoner's Song is in there. Just search of PRISON in the DT and it's No. 26 on the list. That will also give you a whole bunch of other tunes that might suit the purposes you described in another thread a few days ago. cheers, ddw |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Roger the zimmer Date: 12 May 99 - 06:06 AM From the pop world: "Jailhouse Rock"; "Working on the chain gang". From skiffle: "Worried Man Blues". Leadbelly has been mentioned already. Ray Charles' "Unchain my heart" doesn't quite make it! "Send me to the 'lectric chair" ought to. "Bring a little water Sylvie" might apply to a chain gang or a field worker. Or do you want march songs of the "One Two Three Hup" variety that US forces favour? |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: reggie miles Date: 12 May 99 - 10:22 PM Hand Me Down My Wakin' Cane, is a good ol' traditional song about being locked in the slammer. Parchman's Farm, by Booker White, Baby Please Don't Go, by Big Joe Williams and Framed, by the Robins. They later had to change the name of their band to The Coasters, I'm guessin' because they were being sought after by some early version of America's Most Wanted. Reggie |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Barry Finn Date: 12 May 99 - 10:38 PM Hi Roxiesmama, still don't really know what you're looking for but this might fit the bill on both counts of marching & prison songs. "Jody".
"Ain't no use in writting home
Ain't no use in feeling blue
Six long years I've been in the pen Barry |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Shack Date: 13 May 99 - 07:30 PM Hey, Foxy Mama, my good buddy Walt, he had a whole bunch of prison songs from an album by John Lee Hooker. They are outstanding! (...they took me to the new jailhouse this Mawhnin', and there I'll be so far from home, with these cold prison wall all around me, and the pillow at my head made of stone.) |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: GUEST,Bird Date: 07 Aug 06 - 04:29 PM The song was included in a 1970's collection by Pete Seegar called "Songs of the Spanish Civil War". According to the record liner it was sung by prisoners at Buchenwald (hence "the moor") and the final verse was an anthem of defiance, with the words NICHT MEHR ("no more")shouted out. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Artful Codger Date: 07 Aug 06 - 05:35 PM Are you looking for songs sung traditionally BY prisoners, songs ABOUT prison experiences, both, or either? My favorite song ABOUT prison is "Norwich Gaol", from Peter Bellamy's folk opera "The Transports". And as the theme of the opera is the transportation of convicts to Australia, other songs from it might fit your purposes. The movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" features: "Po Lazarus" - sung by a prison gang as a work song; many work songs might be considered prison songs, too. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" - a song about a prisoner dreaming of an idyllic place. "I'll Fly Away" - one of Brumley's songs of inspiration, inspired by a prison song he heard a field laborer singing. "In the Jailhouse Now" - need I comment? "Ratcliffe Highway" involves imprisonment for desertion, two daring but failed escapes, and impending execution. Is that to your liking? |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Dave Hanson Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:40 AM Ewan MacColls ' Lags Song ' Traditional Englis ' Gaol Song ' eric |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: The Walrus Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:09 AM Eric, "Gaol Song" - is that the tredmill song? How about "Old Tiangle"? Not quite gaol songs, but about punishment : Rogues' March Derwentwater's Farewell (Okay, so his confinement was going to be short...) W |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:27 AM Durham Gaol by Jez Lowe Jail of Cluan Meala Birmingham Jail. Cells (Kipling) |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Paul Burke Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:42 AM The Treadmill Song. Durham Gaol- wasn't that written by Tommy Armstrong? |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: John Routledge Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:58 AM Yes Paul. Jez Lowe wrote one as well - similar humour but completely different words. Good prison song called Johnny Ramensky in DT - Not often sung. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Dave Hanson Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:18 AM ' Treadmill Song ' yeah, in the'Penguin Book Of English Folksongs ' it's called ' Gaol Song ' eric |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:54 AM I've come into what is obviously a carry over from another thread, so I hope I'm not repeating anything which has been said already. However, as is well known, the American south has been extensively trawled for prison worksongs. Anyone interested in prison songs should definitely investigate the following: Deep River of Song. Big Brazos: Texas Prison Recordings, 1933 and 1934. Rounder. 11661-1826-2 Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-48: Vol 1: Murderous Home. Rounder 1714 Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-48: Vol 2: Dontcha Hear Por Mother Calling? Rounder 1715 Prison Worksongs Recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, L.A. Arhoolie 448 Angola Prisoners' Blues Arhoolie 419 Angola Prison Spirituals Folk Lyric 9036 Wake Up Dead Man: Black Convict Worksongs from Texas Prisons Rounder 2013 The first three are from collections made by John and/or Alan Lomax and contain some electrifying stuff. The Angola CDs were collected by Harry Oster in the late 1950s. Check the Arhoolie/Folklyric catalogue for recordings of individual singers made by Oster in the Angola pen. Also worth investigating are the Rounder CD reissues of the field recordings originally published by the Library of Congress. I can't recall any which were exclusively devoted to prison songs, but there's a mountain of wonderful material on them. Finally, there's also an album of toasts (monologues, mostly obscene) called Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition. Rounder 2014. Like Wake Up Dead Man, it was collected in Texas penitentiaries by Bruce Jackson. Whilst on the subject, BBC2 televison is showing a documentary on Sunday 13th at 22-00 hrs. It's called Prisoners of Katrina and tells the story of what happened when Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans city prison. It's primarily concerned with the events of last August but does, I gather, go into the southern penal system in some depth. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: SINSULL Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:27 PM "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow" Hank Williams |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: SINSULL Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:28 PM "Take A Message To Mary" The Everly Bros. SINS, running for cover. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Barry Finn Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:23 PM Hi roxiesmama, roxiesmama, Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye I'm goin' away & I'll stay away Bye-bye, my roxiesmama An' I won't be back tomorrow Oh, roxie dear we do love you Bye-bye, my roxiesmama We'd wished you'd stay for one last day Won't you come back here tomorrow We tried to help, we truly did Bye-bye, my roxiesmama We've been wondering why you went an' hid Won't you come back here tomorrow Don't ya what see just what we wrote Bye-bye, my roxiesmama Don't go away on the next cargo boat Won't you come back here tomorrow Barry |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: Scoville Date: 08 Aug 06 - 03:21 PM "Long-Chain Charlie" "Shackles & Chains" "Green, Green, Grass of Home" "You Are My Sunshine" Steve Earle's "Over Yonder" and "Ellis Unit One", if you want something modern "Harrison Town" & "Little Sadie" aren't actually prison songs but a good part of them deals with trial and sentencing. right now I'm listening to "Deux-Pas des Condamnes" ("Convicts' Two-Step"; recording is Bring it on Down by the Red Stick Ramblers, who are a load of fun. Cajun/swing/old-fashioned jazz). I've also got "La Valse Criminelle" in my office computer; I think it's the Lost Bayou Ramblers' version. The Texas River of Song CD is a really cool recording. We got it for my dad for Christmas a couple of years ago--it's not soothing stuff but very interesting |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: GUEST Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:20 AM Don't send my boy to prison, It's the first crime wot 'es done. Six monfs, replied 'is worship Ooooooooooooo, god 'elp my errin' son. Jim Carroll Oh - and there's The Night Before Larry was Stretched. |
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Subject: RE: Prison Songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 23 Dec 11 - 05:52 PM Sweetest gift 21 years Boston Burglar No more cane on the Brazos Kevin Barry |
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