The marble banks

[George Thompson]

But before that a Wobbly song, from the early 20th C.  Another college friend is the chair of the Boston I. W. W.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: The marble banks
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> At 6/1/2010 12:02 PM, George Thompson wrote:
> >The banks are made of marble, with a guard at every door.  The
> >vaults are stuffed with silver, that the worker sweated for.  --This
> >also has been coming to mind with some frequency of late.
>
> Sung by The Weavers and by Pete Seeger and recorded in one of
> his/their 1950s albums of union songs.
>
> Joel
>
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