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29 Mar 02 - 10:41 PM (#679221) Subject: Portland County Jail From: Mark Ross Anybody out there know the tune to this? In the IWW songbook SONGS TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT it is given as the tune for Dublin Dan Listons' THE PORTLAND REVOLUTION. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. MArk Ross |
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29 Mar 02 - 10:49 PM (#679225) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Portland (http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=PORTJAIL&tt=PORTJAIL) |
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29 Mar 02 - 11:01 PM (#679229) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail From: masato sakurai Discussed HERE in the Forum. ~Masato |
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30 Mar 02 - 02:24 PM (#679593) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail From: GUEST,MAG at work Art has recorded it, and it can be found in @Songs of the American West,* Richard E. Lingenfelter. |
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30 Mar 02 - 03:04 PM (#679615) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Portland County Jail From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) According to Sandburg, 1927, the song was made by a newspaperman who got drunk and landed in Portland Jail; using the first three verses he "learned there." The fourth was added later, "from philosophers at the extreme left in the labor movement and in modernist art in Chicago." Art Thieme changed a few words, but nothing important except he changed a good ol' word of the times in the last verse. "On Saturday night when I got tight, he trun me in the can, And now you see he's made of me A honest working man. The word trun (threw, throwed) was changed to threw. Some discussion by Thieme in Portland |