Lyr Req: One Man's Hands (Kevin Becker version)

Subject: A new verse for
From: bseed
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 12:53 AM

The song One Man's Hands has been running through my mind the last day or so, possibly because of the Has anyone the courage now thread, but I think I first thought of it last night after I was leaving my jam group meeting...anyway, a verse just popped into my head, all in one piece:

One woman's love can't keep a man at home,
Two women's love can't keep a man at home,
But if one and two and fifty make a million,
It'll keep a man at home, maybe Bill will stay at home.

Oh, lord...the folk process. --seed

Subject: RE: A new verse for
From: BSeed
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 09:52 PM

Thanks to whoever turned the title into a link to the database, but the words there are attributed to Kevin Becker, and are different from the original song by Seeger and all:

One man's hands can't tear a prison down,
Two men's hands can't tear a prison down,
But if one and two and fifty make a million,
We'll see that day come round,
We'll see that day come round.

Would it be possible to get the original words in the db as well (I like the Becker words, and I like the folk process, but we oughta begin at the beginning)?

--seed

Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: ONE MAN'S HANDS (A Comfort, P Seeger
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Aug 98 - 12:09 AM

I plead guilty to adding the link, Seed. Guess I should have looked a bit more closely at the words. I found the original lyrics in The Collected Reprints from Sing Out!. I was a little taken aback to learn that the lyrics were by Alex Comfort - I assume that's the same Alex who wrote The Joy of Sex.

ONE MAN'S HANDS
Words by Alex Comfort
Music by Pete Seeger
©1964 by Fall River Music, Inc.

One man's hands can't break a prison down,
Two men's hands can't break a prison down,
But if two and two and fifty make a mil-lion,
We'll see that day come round,
We'll see that day come round.

One man's voice can't shout to make them hear
Two men's voices can't shout to make them hear
But if two and two and fifty make a million,
We'll see that day come round,
We'll see that day come round.

One man’s strength can’t ban the atom bomb…

One man’s strength can’t break the color bar…

One man’s strength can’t make the union roll…

One man’s feet can’t walk around the land…

One man’s eyes can’t see the way ahead…

(and so on, for as many good causes as time permits)

MIDI file: ONEMAN~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: ONE MAN'S HANDS
Text: By Alex Comfort (words), Pete Seeger (music)
Copyright: ©1964 by Fall River Music, Inc.
TimeSig: 2/2 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

X:1
T:ONE MAN'S HANDS
M:2/2
Q:1/4=120
K:C
C2D2E4|-E2E2E3E|DE3F4|-F8|D8|-D2E2F4|-F2F2F3F|
EF3G4|-G8|A8|-A2B2c2c2|c2c2c2c2|B2A2A2G2|
-G2G2GA3|G2F2E4|-E2G2D4|F4E4|D4C4|-C15/2||

Say that brings up a question - my ex got our copy of Joy of Sex in the divorce settlement. Am I supposed to find some hidden meaning in that?

-Joe Offer-

Subject: Tune Add: ONE MAN'S HANDS
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Aug 98 - 01:21 AM

This may be a better ABC version.

X:1
T:ONE MAN'S HANDS
M:2/2
Q:1/4=120
K:C
C2D2|E6E2|E3EDE3|(F8|F4)D2E2|
F6F2|F3FEF3|(G8|G4)A2B2|c2c2c2c2|
c2c2B2A2|A2G4G2|GA3G2F2|E6G2|
D4F4|E4D4|(C8|C4)||

Subject: RE: A new verse for
From: BSeed
Date: 27 Aug 98 - 01:26 AM

Joe, I assume what it meant was that she didn't intend to go into a convent. --seed