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01 Apr 01 - 10:43 AM (#430541) Subject: Heart upon his sleeve From: GUEST,Al Frank - Chicago This is a request for lyrics to a song I occasionally heard on "The Midnite Special" over WFMT in Chicago. A few years ago I asked Jimmy David Post if he knew it and he said it sounded to him like an Art Thieme song, and as I remember it Art's voice seems to be the one singing it. So ... here goes. The song is about an American in the Abraham Lincoln battalion(?) on the Spanish Republican side in the Spanish civil war. He had been a strong union man back in the USA ("remember how we fought 'em on the line at Chrysler")and was now fighting in Spain: "Now he's lying on some bloody Spanish hillside/with his rifle on his shoulder, and his heart upon his sleeve./Across the valley as he sights along the barrel/he can see as clear as daylight/all the things that he believes" The tune from "Now he's lying ..." has a "typical Spanish" progression familiar to most folk guitarists. This song has been bouncing around in my head for years and if someone can give the words I'd be in their debt. Thank you all very much - Al Frank
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05 Sep 01 - 03:30 PM (#542767) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve From: Sorcha refresh |
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05 Sep 01 - 03:38 PM (#542782) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve From: wysiwyg Al, did you call or write Rich Warren at WFMT to ask about this? Sorch, did you PM Art? ~S~ |
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03 Aug 04 - 02:13 PM (#1239593) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heart upon his sleeve From: semi-submersible Does anyone still care about this request? |