Lyr Req: songs by Peter Rowan

Subject: Peter Rowan Songs
From: CarlZen
Date: 07 Mar 99 - 12:46 PM

Does anybody know where I can find lyrics to Peter Rowan's songs?

Subject: RE: Peter Rowan Songs
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 08 Mar 99 - 06:14 AM

Peter is closer to bluegrass than folk. Try cowpie at Roughstock.com. They have lots of country and bluegrass songs. Gene tells me so.

Roger in Baltimore

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Also try http://www.peterrowan.com

Subject: ADD: Dust Bowl Children (Peter Rowan)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 01:20 AM

I think this is my favorite Peter Rowan song.

DUST BOWL CHILDREN
(Peter Rowan)

My father's name was Hannibal, Mama was Hanna-Mariah.
Everything we owned got all burned up in the great depression fire
Strip mines and one crop farming drained the green earth dry.
We lost it all till only love was left, and that was the one thing money can't buy.

CHORUS
And We're all Dust Bowl Children
Singin' the dust bowl song
Well, the crops won't grow,
And the dust just blows
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.

Well, they said in California, there's work of every kind.
The only job there that I found was waiting on a welfare line.
Once I had a dollar, once I had a dream.
Now all the work is being done by a big old machine.
We're all Dust Bowl Children
Singin' a dust bowl song
Well, the crops won't grow,
And the dust just blows
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.
When the green fields are gone.
When the green grass growing fields are gone.

Let the green fields grow strong,
There's a green grass revival coming on.
Let the green fields grow strong,
There's a grass roots revolution coming on.

Songwriters: Peter Rowan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGajbADUdEw
And here's a whole Peter Rowan concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pP4L0mnQeo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Peter Rowan
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 09:29 PM

He's still got it. This is great fun - an intro and rendition of my favourite song of his:

Free Mexican Airforce

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Peter Rowan
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 10:07 PM

Well, that was a decade ago, but here is a more recent performance:

Moonlight midnight

--Stewie.