Subject: Lyr Add: GOODMAN, SCHWERNER AND CHANEY (T Paxton) From: Greg F. Date: 31 Jan 00 - 10:16 AM GOODMAN, SCHWERNER AND CHANEY (Tom Paxton) The night air is heavy, no cool breezes blow The sound of the voices is worried and low Desperately wondering, and desperate to know About Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney. Calm desperation and flickering hope Reality grapples like a hand on the throat For you live in the shadow of ten feet of rope If you're Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney. The Pearl River was dragged and two bodies were found But it was a blind alley, for both men were brown So they all shrugged their shoulders and the search it went on For Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney. Pull out the dead bodies from the ooze of the dam Take the bodies to Jackson, all according to plan With the one broken body, do the best that you can Its the body of young James Chaney. Well the nation was outraged and shocked through and through Call J. Edgar Hoover! He'll know what to do For they've murdered two white men! - (and a colored boy, too) Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney. James Chaney, your body exploded in pain And the beating they gave you is pounding my brain For they murdered much more with their dark, bloody chains And the body of pity lies bleeding. The pot-bellied coppers shook hands all around And joked with the rednecks who came into town And they swore that the murderers soon would be found And they laughed as they spat their tobacco. ^^ ©Tom Paxton/Deep Fork Recorded on "Ain"t That News" Elektra EKS-7298 "Goodwin" changed to "Goodman". --JoeClone, 4-Feb-04. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney From: Joe Offer Date: 03 Mar 04 - 03:31 PM This page (click) and many others list the murdered civil rights workers as Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney. Did Paxton get it wrong, or are the above lyrics a mistranscription? Other websites have "Goodwin," so it's not immediately clear to me. If Greg is wrong, we'll also have to correct his entry in the Digital Tradition. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney From: Stewie Date: 03 Mar 04 - 06:11 PM The record sleeve for 'Ain't that news!' [Elektra LP EKL 298/EKS 7298]with Paxton's notes has 'Goodman'. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney From: Mark Ross Date: 03 Mar 04 - 07:14 PM It was GOODMAN, anything else is a typo. Mark Ross |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney From: InOBU Date: 03 Mar 04 - 07:30 PM I was at a meeting with two lawyers, they got to talking about why they went into law, turns out one went to high school with Goodman and the other with Schwerner and they had not know that about each other. Very meaningful moment. All the best Larry |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney (Tom Paxton) From: GUEST,Felipa Date: 21 Jun 16 - 05:12 PM 21 June, a not so happy anniversary https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/21/mississippi-burning-civil-rights-case-closed-52-years |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney (Tom Paxton) From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 21 Jun 16 - 06:26 PM Richard Farina did a grand song about this as well! " Michael, Andrew and James". still very emotional, even after all these years! |
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