The marble banks

[George Thompson]

I'm wrong, then.  I thought that I had seen it in the Little Red Song Book, and that it dated from when the Wobs flourished.

GAT

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 9:47 pm
Subject: Re: The marble banks
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> At 6/1/2010 08:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >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
>
> And 1950 is a little late for the IWW?
>
> The attribution to Les Rice [not Les King] is for both music and
> lyrics, according to
> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-150977974.html
>
> The 1950 date is just right for the Weavers and Pete Seeger.
>
> Joel
>
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