The marble banks

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:01 PM -0400 6/1/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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.
>
Arrrgggh.  I don't know where "Les King" came from, though obviously
not from the URL that I cited.  Maybe "Les Rice" looked too much like
a recommendation from _The New Low-Carb Way of Life_ (Rob Thompson,
2004).  And yes, 1950 was definitely post-Wobbly, more's the pity.

LH

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