~Songs That Tell A Story~Tell us your favorite Story Song-Freeper Canteen 8-23-07

[Kathy in Alaska]

[AZamericonnie]

Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

~Tribute to Our Troops~

[Kathy in Alaska]

[gate2wire]

“Harry Chapin - “Taxi” - 1981, his final concert...”

I was stopped at a traffic light in South Carolina when the radio reported he’d died. People behind me had to honk to get me moving. I’ll never forget that day.

[Old Sarge]

PING to #60 - whoops...

[MeekMom]

Good evening Fatima!
Thanks for tonight’s thread.
((hugs))

[Kathy in Alaska]

[TASMANIANRED]

Story song...Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[fatima]

Roger Miller - Dang Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbwwXu07s00 :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, fatima, for today's Songs That Tell A Story.

[MeekMom]

Evening Tas!
Hope all is well with you! :)

((hugs))

[txroadkill]

Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John.

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone.
He didn't say much, kind of quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, you'd just said hi to Big John.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got into a fight over a Cajun Queen.
And a crash and a blow from a huge right hand,
sent a Louisiana fella to the promise land.

Big John
Big John
Big bad John
Big John

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine,
when a timber cracked and men started crying.
Minors were praying, and hearts beat fast
and everybody thought they had breathed thier last
cept' John.
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the minors knew well.
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan,
and like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone, Big John

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

And with all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove.
Then a minor yelled out, 'there's a light up above!'.
And 20 men scrambled from a 'would be' grave
now there's only one left down there to save, Big John.
With jacks and timbers, they started back down,
then came that rumble way down in the ground.
And as smoke and gas belched out of that mine,
everybody knew it was the end of the line, for Big John.

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

Now they never re-opened that worthless pit,
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
These few words are written on that stand,
'At the bottom of this mine, lies one Hell of a man, Big John'

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John.

[TASMANIANRED]

I scrolled down about 30 posts and Fitz hadn’t been posted...Soon discovered I hadn’t scrolled far enough.

Changing my mind...

Devil went down to Georgia.

[fatima]

Sorry william clark I didn’t find it but I did find this:)

Gordon Lightfoot - The Edmund Fitzgerald - Dedication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_8s2zsNhSM

[185JHP]

I like “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins. It’s about a good man...

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening MM.

Hugs

Doing well for a night at work.

[TASMANIANRED]

Jimmy Dean made a lotta sausage off that one...

[do the dhue]

My Favorite

Devil Went down to GA

This is perty cool video too...

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Kathy. Hugs..

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Sarge...