The marble banks

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:03 PM -0400 6/1/10, George Thompson wrote:
>But before that a Wobbly song, from the early 20th C.  Another
>college friend is the chair of the Boston I. W. W.
>
>GAT

I assume the attribution to Les King on the web is accurate (and the
1950 copyright)?  Cf. http://unionsong.com/u024.html.  It's not
Groucho, Tallullah, or Mark Twain.

LH

>
>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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