Tune Req: Portland County Jail

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 03:04 PM

According to Sandburg, 1927, the song was made by a newspaperman who got drunk and landed in Portland Jail; using the first three verses he "learned there." The fourth was added later, "from philosophers at the extreme left in the labor movement and in modernist art in Chicago." Art Thieme changed a few words, but nothing important except he changed a good ol' word of the times in the last verse.
"On Saturday night when I got tight, he trun me in the can,
And now you see he's made of me A honest working man.
The word trun (threw, throwed) was changed to threw.
Some discussion by Thieme in Portland

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 02:24 PM

Art has recorded it, and it can be found in @Songs of the American West,* Richard E. Lingenfelter.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 11:01 PM

Discussed HERE in the Forum.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 10:49 PM

Portland
(http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=PORTJAIL&tt=PORTJAIL)

Subject: Portland County Jail
From: Mark Ross
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 10:41 PM

Anybody out there know the tune to this? In the IWW songbook SONGS TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT it is given as the tune for Dublin Dan Listons' THE PORTLAND REVOLUTION. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

MArk Ross