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03 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM (#2252683) Subject: Origins: The Beast From: GUEST,Allen At least I think that is the title. Does anyone know who the artist is? I heard it on a LP from a 50s'-60s' folk group but I can't remember who. I have searched thru Amazon Music for every folk group and album I could find for the song but no luck. Here are the only scraps of lyrics I can remember:
feeding a beast that don't like me. It don't give a damn about how I feel as long as I feed it its ration of steel. |
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03 Feb 08 - 10:29 PM (#2252875) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: Peace Anything else you can recall (if not words, maybe the group)? About the group? Types of instruments? (The Fugs might have said that back then.) |
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04 Feb 08 - 06:34 PM (#2253582) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: GUEST,Ben Gunn No, I can't remember the group. It was on vinyl, purchased at a PX in Germany. Not a British group. I know, not very helpful. It may have been on a Hootenanny LP, but I don't think so, but the group was a contemporary of the Limelighters and Kingston Trio. However I have checked Amazon and I can't find any of their recordings with that song title. A little of the chorus goes: O beast, spare my hands, Another partial verse: should have been melted down twenty years back but it feeds the boss and he loves that snack. Thanx, anyway. |
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04 Feb 08 - 10:16 PM (#2253732) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: Peace Refresh |
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05 Feb 08 - 07:43 PM (#2254581) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: Peace Refresh |
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02 Mar 10 - 10:02 PM (#2854654) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: GUEST,jl The Brothers Four recorded this. |
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03 Mar 10 - 12:01 AM (#2854672) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: Q (Frank Staplin) "The Beast" AKA "Song of the Punch Press Operator." There seem to be mp3 available. Google. |
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03 Mar 10 - 12:08 AM (#2854673) Subject: RE: Origins: The Beast From: open mike you always get an answer at mudcat.. sometimes you have to wait a couple years.. |
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03 Mar 10 - 03:21 AM (#2854719) Subject: ADD: The Beast (Brothers Four) From: Joe Offer THE BEAST (SONG OF THE PUNCH PRESS OPERATOR) Songwriter: ? I got a job in a factory Feeding a beast that don't like me. It don't give a darn about how I feel As long as I feed it its ration of steel. And pity the man who knows the grief That comes with the bite of that monster's teeth. Pity the man who knows the grief That comes with the bite of that monster's teeth. Watch your mitts at the start of the stroke, It's a re-peat killer, and will go for broke; It shoulda been melted 'bout twenty years back, But it feeds the boss, and he loves that snack. Oh, Beast, spare my hands, I'll use them to slay you if I get the chance. Oh, Beast, spare my hands, I'll use them to slay you if I get the chance. There ain't no guards to slow up a man, Keep your foot on the pedal and your eye on the ram. If your hand should slip, why, the boss don't shout; He just buys new fingers as he throws you out. There's plenty of hands to feed the jaws, The press don't stop when there ain't no cause. There's plenty of hands to feed the jaws, The press don't stop when there ain't no cause. There ain't one man out on the press, Who wouldn't quit if jobs weren't scarce; But a man has to have his daily meal, And that Beast's gotta have its cold, rolled steel. Deep inside remain the dreams That make us the masters of the machines. While deep inside remain the dreams That make us the masters of the machines. Well, now, I got a job in a factory Feeding a beast that don't like me. It don't give a darn about how I feel As long as I feed it its ration of steel. And pity the man who knows the grief That comes with the bite of that monster's teeth. Pity the man who knows the grief That comes with the bite of that monster's teeth. Transcribed by ear from The Brothers Four Cross-Country Concert (1963) I transcribed from an MP3, and couldn't find songwriter attribution. -Joe- |
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03 Mar 10 - 08:01 AM (#2854852) Subject: RE: ADD/Origins: The Beast From: Q (Frank Staplin) The Song of the Punch Press Operator Songwriters: Pete Seeger and Bernie Packer. Broadside Ballads vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways, 1963. The Beast (Song of the Punch Press Operator) Songwriter: Pete Seeger. Recorded by Brothers Four. |
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03 Mar 10 - 08:04 AM (#2854857) Subject: RE: ADD/Origins: The Beast From: Q (Frank Staplin) Information from allmusic.com. |