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Subject: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Susan A-R Date: 03 May 99 - 10:00 PM I remember hearing Pete Seeger sing this song on an old Folkways recording (I think) Anybody know it? All I can remember is something about Newspaper men meet such interesting people I remember it having some pretty clever lyrics. Any thoughts? Susan |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: gargoyle Date: 04 May 99 - 12:08 AM Something like "The News Editor's Prayer?"
Lord send us a tornado, a flashflood, a huricane or blizard....etc.
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: dick greenhaus Date: 04 May 99 - 06:18 PM It's on the old Peoples SongBook. My copy, alas, has vanished. |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: rich r Date: 04 May 99 - 07:11 PM The song was also recorded by Steve Addis & Bill Crofut on an album called "Such Interesting People". Would that I knew where my copy of that went to. rich r |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Susan A-R Date: 04 May 99 - 10:17 PM Hmmm, Mr. Crofut surfaces again. That makes quite a lot of sense. I don't know about hurricanes or floods, but I do remember something about a man who sat upon a steeple, just where the point was I could never see. |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Rick Fielding Date: 04 May 99 - 10:32 PM Vern Partlow, journalist, communist, activist and great west-coast songwriter, wrote "Newspapermen" in the late 40s or early 50s. It's on Pete Seeger's "Broadside #1" album. Mine's probably too scratched to listen to but I'll try and get the words. Both Pete's Broadside albums are worth listening to. I'm not sure if Smithsonian Folkways are releasing them on CD or not. Where's Joe Hickerson when you need him? He'd come up with the lyrics fast. |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Sandy Paton Date: 04 May 99 - 11:06 PM Hickerson is still non-computerized, I'm told, except when he visits his late place of work, the Archive of Folk Culture. Wish he'd get himself on-line! We sure could use him. I've got the People's Songbook. I'll look up the song later tonight. Alan Chartok uses the Seeger recording as the intro music to his "Capitol Connection" show on WAMC in Albany. We hear it every week. Sandy |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NEWSPAPER EDITOR'S PRAYER (Kenneth Burke) From: gargoyle Date: 29 Jun 99 - 05:44 PM Sandy's link is here to the correct one:Newspaper Men Found mine today: I pray thee, God, Send us for tomorrow's copy Some great flood or earthquake or disastrously erupting volcano Or picturesquely havoc-bearing storm Or other natural calamity such as we In piety Call "acts of God." Or may there transpire some big new step towards greater global malice Or may the peaceful work of the UN Be disrupted by a new flare-up, with corresponding walkout. Or may some admiral or general Blowhorn about the ever-mounting power To spread misery. Or if there is to be no true disaster for this day Then I pray thee Send us at least conditions for some rumor That we may flaunt it before the nation In foot-high front-page headlines (Being to truth dedicated We can deny it later, In a small item well hidden). Give us, I pray thee, Some such monstrosity As a way of drawing papers to market That our merchants may the better peddle their wares. And then happily Many thousands more acres of stately trees (Such as young Keats called "solemn senators") Trees that make a Cathedral of the forest Will have been successfully processed, Transformed into the printed yellow matter of journalism By the rules of hygiene To use once and throw away.... |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Amos Date: 09 Sep 02 - 01:57 PM I'm looking for these lyrics myself just now. The parts I remember, from Seehger's Folkways "Gazette" LP, go roughly like this:
Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people There's a verse about Missus Sadie Someone who chops her husband up to pieces, and stuffs him in a trunk. There were many clever verses to it. Who's got those lyrics out there????? The DT doesn't find anything on "Newspapermen". Unless I am missing a secret code? A |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Amos Date: 09 Sep 02 - 02:01 PM SOrry, I found them on Gargoyle's link above which I had missed. Thanks, Garg! A |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Susanne (skw) Date: 09 Sep 02 - 06:59 PM To balance that 'Prayer' above, sing 'No News Is Good News' by Colum Sands with it! |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 09 Sep 02 - 07:04 PM "Oh, newspapermen meet such interesting people! They know the lowdown; now it can be told!" DAve Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: GUEST,Skeezix O'Hara Date: 21 Dec 03 - 08:02 PM Ding a ling a ling, City desk Hold the Press, hold the press, Extra extra read all about it Oh Newspaper men meet such interesting people [Something or other] the power of the press. I heard it once at a Pete concert and it stuck with me. |
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Subject: RE: Newspaper Men Lyrics From: Jim Dixon Date: 23 Dec 03 - 01:18 AM The song is posted here. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People From: GUEST Date: 06 Oct 10 - 11:20 PM Newspapermen meet such interesting people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9T5BQBNa4Q |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People From: GUEST Date: 14 Jun 21 - 02:00 PM … but publishers have worries and publishers must go to workin’ folks for readers and to big shots for their dough… [ that’s just letting my mind find it’s own way I’ll probably come up with more, got together home and look for my broadside album] |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People From: GUEST,# Date: 14 Jun 21 - 03:01 PM There is a good take of the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36J581E1yg I haven't checked all links on this thread, but many older links go boom. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People From: Thomas Stern Date: 14 Jun 21 - 05:16 PM BEAR FAMILY - SONGS FOR POLITICAL ACTION DISC 6, track 30. Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People - Vern Partlow |
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