Winter

[JasmineTea]

Pete Seeger did a song with a line that went:

 

snow, snow, falling down

covering my dirty old town

 

Anyone know the name of it or have a link to a recorded version?

[knockwood]

http://www.peteseeger.net/snowsnow.htm

 

http://www.amazon.com/If-Had-Song-Songs-Seeger/dp/B00005Q6OF

If you scroll down, there's a clip

[JasmineTea]

Thanks.

 

The clip helps but I wish it played a whole verse.

 

There's an open mic tonight, the guy who hosts knows it. I'll ask him to play it for me at break.

 

Thanks for the lyric too. I'd just found the same web page and was going to post them.

[Professor Tom]

 

Originally posted by JasmineTea Pete Seeger did a song with a line that went: snow, snow, falling down covering my dirty old town Anyone know the name of it or have a link to a recorded version?

 

 

I may be wrong but I think it was written by Ewan Mcoll (Kirsty's father) and is called Dirty Old Town. It's a famous folk song in England. I hope I'm right about this ?

[JasmineTea]

 

Originally posted by Professor Tom I may be wrong but I think it was written by Ewan Mcoll (Kirsty's father) and is called Dirty Old Town. It's a famous folk song in England. I hope I'm right about this ?

Does'nt realy matter, but here's what I found at Knockwood's link:

 

 

SNOW, SNOW

 

CHORUS (After each verse):

 

Snow, snow, falling down;

Covering up my dirty old town.

 

Covers the garbage dump, covers the holes,

Covers the rich homes, and the poor souls,

Covers the station, covers the tracks,

Covers the footsteps of those who'll not be back.

 

Under the street lamp, there stands a girl,

Looks like she's not got a friend in this world.

Look at the big flakes come drifting down,

Twisting and turning, round and round.

 

Covers the mailbox, the farm and the plow.

Even barbed wire seems

[Sweb]

Pete Seeger wrote some woeful stuff. Where Have All the Flowers Gone seemed like he was trying to tell everyone to live like saints by preaching about the ills of humanity. I don't know. I always thought of him as a self-proclaimed champion of goodness and somehow that seemed to me he was saying to us he knew a better way to be - pied-piperish - only to ultimately look like a neo-Don Quixote. But, he played a part in kicking off and shaping a new age of (acoustic) protest songs that subsequent writers of the late 60's and early 70's built upon.