Bluegrass and mountains Old time songs of idealized romance
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Welcome to bluegrass and Delta program of all time American music.
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Last week we heard a number of tragic endings about the relations between men and women in
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America. Lest you get the impression that the only affairs of the heart about which people thought it was
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worthwhile write songs were tragic ones. Today we're going to look at the other side of the coin.
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Our program starts with a song which seems to be the quintessence of naivete and quaint optimism
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to us today. The song is called Somewhere somebody is waiting. And it's the lyrics
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embody the belief that marriages are made in heaven and that if you wait long enough your true love will surely
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find you. The song expresses some very Victorian sentiments and unless it was written as a
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joke a few generations ago leads one to the conclusion that people really used to accept the
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lyrics at face value. Harry and Ginny West perform somewhere somebody is waiting with
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guitar. The dobro is a guitar without frets that slides into every note it
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plays in.
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On the. Other.
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Hand one thing.
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She's. Happy.
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The stock situation of love are separated by great distances preferably oceans.
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Yet pining away for each other all the while had considerable appeal to American audiences years ago
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Sal's got to meet skin performed next by the New Lost City Ramblers is a song about just such a
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situation. All one really finds out from the lyrics is that Sally Gray is sailing on the
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sea and that the singer wishes she were home again. I'm going incidentally is a piece of meat or
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fat hung on the side of a cabin and used for greasing skillets. However there is every indication that the
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word is used as a DU Braun tendre in the chorus.
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Nothing.
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Means gaming to a down economy skin to
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sound the way gonna get me
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some.
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Town gonna meet me. Skin
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tone you know style dummy skin tone if you know.
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Don the sea air land on the street
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to anonymous Soundgarden peacekeepers you know waiting for
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me.
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To sound to sound
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nice to Gonna get me skin some.
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When I do see my son Lee Gray I went to see him a
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sandy gray. I went to see my son Gray found
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out selling has gone away to.
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My love must sell a molder love must sell a
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moment Sambo style
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cut of meat skin bone in the.
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Skin to a sound made skin to go way
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down the skin to come to get meat skins
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on.
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I reckon the mouse brain
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the brain reckon this.
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Sound needs to sound on a meat skin
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doing to Ganymede skin.
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One last talk situation is worthy of mention. This is the case where the virtuous maiden remains at
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home while her lover is travelling in some remote part of the world. Upon his return he finds
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she still loves him. They get married and live happily ever after. A good example
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of this plot is in the new last of the Ramblers version of pretty little miss out in the garden.
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The pretty little miss in this case has been waiting seven years for her soldier to return and blindly
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says she wouldn't mind waiting another seven. Indeed she states further that if he's
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married some other girl in a foreign land she even loves the girl who married him. It's hard to swallow
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but it's a pretty song nonetheless.
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They.
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Ran a landing in the.
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Rain young man came by and man.
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The. Man again.
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Saying very dynamic a man. Mary came. To.
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The. Man. I had the.
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Salmon you see and I see.
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Anything a.
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Man can marry a.
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Bit. Of it.
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A bit.
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Hairy there and
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chainsaws
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perhaps and stole her
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nursing.
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Oh a peace plan.
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Or if it changes all
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the Arctic sun heard.
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The Marais.
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Do you think they're being.
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Placed.
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His arms or kids to
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visit him.
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Returning for him.
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That concludes today's program of bluegrass and mountains next week.
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Songs about.
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Bluegrass and mountains a program of old time American music is produced at the University of Michigan.
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Sanford Vidal speaking. This is the national educational radio network
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of.
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