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Subject: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: mg Date: 29 Feb 16 - 02:43 PM i can't remember any of the words at all but well-known song..except by me...children working in factories while the rich enjoy golf or something.. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: Cool Beans Date: 29 Feb 16 - 06:51 PM I don't know the song but there is a poem I recall from my New England days: The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The little children can look out And see the men at play. Perhaps someone set it to music. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: GUEST,MikeOfNorthumbria (sans cookie) Date: 01 Mar 16 - 07:37 AM Sorry to be picky, Cool Beans, but the third line goes: 'The LABOURING children can look out' As far as I know there is only the one verse, and no tune - an opportunity for somebody there, perhaps? Wassail! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: GUEST Date: 01 Mar 16 - 07:43 AM http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.ca/1999/09/golf-links-sarah-norcliffe-cleghorn.html |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: MGM·Lion Date: 01 Mar 16 - 07:46 AM The poem is "The Golf Links" by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn,1876-1959. Wikipedia states-- "Cleghorn's poetry is largely didactic in nature, serving to illustrate Christian Socialist values and progressive political and social principles. Her most widely known poem "The Golf Links" is an ironic and satirical look at child labor." ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: FreddyHeadey Date: 01 Mar 16 - 08:24 AM "The Golf Links" There are references to these lines coming from a longer work "Through the Needle's Eye" There is a discussion here but nobody seems to have tracked it down. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6/15/1392539/-Morning-Open-Thread-Memory-of-a-Well-Spent-Life The Needle piece is not listed here which seems to be one of the main Listings of her works http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5027cleg.htm |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: mg Date: 01 Mar 16 - 12:39 PM thanks. I am thinking this is not what I was looking for. I remember Sean Cannon sang it backstage for Shona ?/ and I looked for it that way but did not find it... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: GUEST Date: 01 Mar 16 - 04:43 PM Shona McMillan? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song about children in factories From: mg Date: 01 Mar 16 - 07:49 PM yes |
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