The other day my paper came,
I set and scratched my head,
While turning through its pages, boys,
Here is what I read.
''The blue eagle he is ailing,''
The little writer said,
But when he finished writing
That eagle he was dead.
Now there's a man in Washington,
Roosevelt is his name
And how he's a-mourning o'er that bird,
It is an awful shame.
He told Hugh S. Johnson*,
And Johnson said, ''Mine God''
What can the miners ever do
Without their blue mascot?
The eagle went down shouting
Hurray for one and all,
But most folks couldn't take it,
They had to let it fall.
They took him to the graveyard,
In the merry month of May,
Said, "Who will solve our problems now,
There's no NRA?**".
But we have an order, boys,
The UMW of A***,
And we must all stick to it
Until the judgment day.
But if you're undecided, boys,
And don't know what to do,
Just think how much a ton you got
In nineteen thirty-two.
Lyrics as recorded by George Davis, WKIZ, Hazard, KY, Nov 15-16, 1966, reprinted ibid.
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I set and scratched my head,
While turning through its pages, boys,
Here is what I read.
''The blue eagle he is ailing,''
The little writer said,
But when he finished writing
That eagle he was dead.
Now there's a man in Washington,
Roosevelt is his name
And how he's a-mourning o'er that bird,
It is an awful shame.
He told Hugh S. Johnson*,
And Johnson said, ''Mine God''
What can the miners ever do
Without their blue mascot?
The eagle went down shouting
Hurray for one and all,
But most folks couldn't take it,
They had to let it fall.
They took him to the graveyard,
In the merry month of May,
Said, "Who will solve our problems now,
There's no NRA?**".
But we have an order, boys,
The UMW of A***,
And we must all stick to it
Until the judgment day.
But if you're undecided, boys,
And don't know what to do,
Just think how much a ton you got
In nineteen thirty-two.
Lyrics as recorded by George Davis, WKIZ, Hazard, KY, Nov 15-16, 1966, reprinted ibid.
Fonte:
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https://community.fortunecity.ws/tinpan/parton/2/deathblu.html
* Hugh S. Johnson : On June 16, 1933, General [Hugh S.] Johnson ( 1882–1942) was named administrator of the NRA..
** NRA National Recovery Act (1933-1935)
*** The UMW of A.: The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.
[Wikipedia]
** NRA National Recovery Act (1933-1935)
*** The UMW of A.: The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.
[Wikipedia]
Contributed by Pluck - 2025/8/18 - 22:55
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John Cohen, liner notes for "When Kentucky Had No Mining Men" (FOLKWAYS FA 2343; 1967)
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