17 Sep 00 - 12:54 AM (#299090) Subject: Lyr Add: SAY A PRAYER FOR DIRTY From: MichaelAnthony I live near an area of Atlanta called L5P. You wouldn't believe the stuff crazed people give you when you give them some change. Check this out: Say a Prayer for Dirty
Wel I live here in Georgy the year is 2000 (line breaks added) |
17 Sep 00 - 01:01 AM (#299094) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: katlaughing Sounds like some true poetry, straight from the heart of a difficult existence, to me. I can *hear* it rappin' in my head. Thanks for posting it. |
17 Sep 00 - 03:26 AM (#299114) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: CarolC I can't say anything about this piece of writing that would add to it in any way. But I want to take a moment to acknowlege it's poignancy and the beauty (and sadness) of the depth of its humanity. Carol (Saying a prayer for Dirty)
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17 Sep 00 - 11:44 PM (#299621) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: MichaelAnthony Well put, kat and Carol. |
18 Sep 00 - 07:45 AM (#299802) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: McGrath of Harlow That is powerful. It's like Woodie Guthrie through kaleidoscope. Thanks for retrieving it Michael, and putting it in a safe place here. |
19 Sep 00 - 01:37 PM (#300812) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: McGrath of Harlow Jutst to give people who might have missed this another chance to look at it, because I think it is worth looking at. |
19 Sep 00 - 02:15 PM (#300832) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: wysiwyg So powerful. Tears. ~S~ |
19 Sep 00 - 03:10 PM (#300856) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: GUEST,Biskit@Home * |
19 Sep 00 - 03:48 PM (#300874) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: Art Thieme Folks, it's what this whole trad folk thing is all about. We'll save it---and change it---and put the tune o' some old Dylan song to it. In ten or twenty (or 30) years from now, it'll get changed a bit more. Then a trio will put it on their new folk "compact cube" and make a million bucks and nobody gets pissed off 'cause a million is worth about .50 ! Whooooops, spoke too quick. Sandy and Art* and Frank get pretty bent out of shape because Michael Anthony, the original guy, who first posted it here, never got any royalties. Yep, good people, some things never change. Art* Thieme
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19 Sep 00 - 04:44 PM (#300917) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: SINSULL Art, Folk music written AFTER 1940???? Thank you. And I will say a prayer for Dirty too. Mary |
19 Sep 00 - 05:29 PM (#300953) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: katlaughing I'd get a little pissed that Dirty didn't get any royalties, too. Too bad there isn't some way to let Dirty know how much we all appreciate the heart and soul of his/her writing/life expression. |
19 Sep 00 - 05:32 PM (#300959) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: guinnesschik wow.... |
19 Sep 00 - 05:39 PM (#300961) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: mousethief Wow, indeed! THAT is "folk."
Alex |
19 Sep 00 - 08:47 PM (#301087) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: rabbitrunning Michael, did "Dirty" have a tune/rap for this or was it on paper? It's fascinating! |
19 Sep 00 - 09:08 PM (#301099) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: Áine Dear MichaelAnthony, Now that my own PC is up and running again (it was just lying there on my desk with its four little mouse feet up in the air earlier today), I'll be putting Dirty's song in the Songbook. Could you please tell us some more about how you came by this song, so I could include it in the 'Comments' on the song's page? Where you going when you met up with Dirty? What did he/she look like? How much change did you give him/her? Did you ever see him/her again? I think you know where I'm going with this... This is just a fascinating piece of work. I would really like to see you turn it into an actual song. Frankly, I can't think of a better person to do it. I can't tell you how glad I am (and I think a lot of my fellow 'Catters will agree) that you found us. And I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that I hope you stay around for a long, long time. All the best, Áine
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19 Sep 00 - 09:55 PM (#301107) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: Art Thieme Hi Mary, What I thought I said (or what I meant to say), was that COUNTRY MUSIC, after 1940, rarely was roots based music any more. Also, it is THE PROCESS the song goes through that tends to make it a folk song. Art
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19 Sep 00 - 10:10 PM (#301114) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: Jeri My first opinion was that the person who wrote this is a genius who thinks a lot differently than I do. That's still what I think.
So who did it?
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19 Sep 00 - 10:30 PM (#301126) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: GUEST This was all on paper, no tune for it. I was walking up to the gas station to get some cigarrettes when I made the mistake of making eye contact with him, and then I had no choice but to deal with him. I gave him exactly enough money, including tax, to buy a 22-ounce beer. I decided to have one myself to deal with what I had in my hands. Personally, I'm not through figuring out the risks of association with this subject matter. But Dirty doesn't seem to have anything to lose, so I posted it, but I won't describe him. I see him all the time, like it or not, so I'll be sure to pass along the comments here. Thanks for for your kind words, Áine. I'm one of those people who can use all the encouragement they can get. I hope to be around a long time, too! Saying a prayer, MA |
19 Sep 00 - 11:47 PM (#301166) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: MichaelAnthony For a second I wondered who Guest was, but it was me who posted using a different browser. |
20 Sep 00 - 09:25 AM (#301304) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: SINSULL Art, You did. I was only teasing. Michael - was this handwritten? We have some organizations here in NY which publish articles, poetry, etc. written by the homeless. Nothing this real. |
28 Sep 00 - 09:30 PM (#307837) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: MichaelAnthony Sin, the only editing I did was to inadvertantly add a "'" to a dont. Let er rip as is, I say. (I gave him back the original the next day, and don't plan on asking him about it) |
28 Sep 00 - 09:42 PM (#307846) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: SINSULL Max and Bert played your recording of this. But the quality was not great. A mixup in tapes, I think. Still very interesting. Will we get a better sample? |
28 Sep 00 - 10:05 PM (#307857) Subject: RE: b: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: MichaelAnthony The mix-up is partially my part. I sent part II of Death Row Cadillac to Bert after sending part I. He naturally assummed it was an improvement on the first, but it was actually just meant to be a continuation of the song. I'd like to share a better mixed version with you. I could give you access to my driveway.com storage. I'll upload it soon. But that was a different song than Say a Prayer for Dirty. Anyone else is welcome to their musical interpretation of the prayer text....it seems to me we should keep the vocal part true to the text for now...or add to it, but certainly not omit any of it. |
12 Mar 11 - 06:20 PM (#3112628) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: katlaughing Refresh as a reminder of the gems hiding in the depths of this wondrous place. |
15 Mar 11 - 07:32 PM (#3114568) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: Jim Dixon I missed this the first time around, probably because I usually set the filter to show only threads that have "lyr" in the thread title. Thanks for refreshing it, and for adding "Lyr Add:" to the thread title. This was worth reading. It contains some references to Richard Jewell and the Centennial Olympic Park bombing of 1996, and to Eric Robert Rudolph who bombed clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham, AL in 1996-98. I vaguely remember something about a plane that was (some say) shot down by a missile. Can anyone supply a link? Also, who is/was "that Ho Ly chinaman" he mentions? |
15 Mar 11 - 10:36 PM (#3114660) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Say a Prayer for Dirty From: katlaughing I think the plane was probably TWA 800 which happened just ten days earlier. The L.A. Times had this, but no more about a Ho Lai: May 6, 1995 | DON LEE, TIMES STAFF WRITER In a Santa Ana garment maker's parking lot, lunch provides daily relief from the drudgery of minimum wage jobs for scores of Vietnamese workers. As music and cigarette smoke rise from their open car doors, some of them kick a soccer ball around. Others play cards across a strawberry carton. Mingling discreetly among them is Ho Lai, listening, comforting, offering hope--and a union card to sign. Not sure what happened there so don't know if that's who he is referring to. |