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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zephyr: [QB] Congratulations, soujourner!!! Big Rock Candy Mountain is indeed the place where they hung the jerk who invented work. Yes, the land of cigarette trees, lakes of stew and of whiskey too. Where the boxcars all are empty, and all the railroad bulls are visually challenged. As the winner, you will be receiving your prize in the mail soon. Tickets for you and a guest to the Amtrak's Bagpipe and Drum Band's debut performance of [i]Pipes in the Parlour.[/i] Wow, isn't that great? In your list, sojourner, you mentioned Nanci Griffith's [i]Southbound Train[/i] . As a fan of sorts of Ms. Griffith, I think she's a closet foamer. Besides the aforementioned song, [i]Desperados Waiting for a Train, Last Train Home,[/i] and [i]Morning Train[/i] can be found in her discography. In addition, the rails weave through many of her other songs. For example, in [i]Trouble in the Fields[/i] "...the bankers swarm like locusts, out there turnin' away our yield; the trains roll by our silo...silver in the rain; they leave our pockets full of nothin', but our dreams and the golden grain." Ah, the haunting melodies of Nanci Griffith. I think I'll pop one of her records onto my Victrola. Maybe that'll rid my mind of [i]Big Rock Candy Mountain.[/i] I've been humming that song for a day or so, and it seems to be getting on my wife's nerves. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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