the New Sincerity

Lee Cassutt CassL at FOSTER.com
Tue Sep 14 09:06:59 PDT 1999


One version, but Irish, is by the Clancy Brothers and is on their greatest hits CD.

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> I remember from about 40 years ago a song that I have never
> been able to find again entitled "They're digging up grandfather's
> grave to build a sewer." Does anyone know it. Some of the
> fragments I can remember (not too accurately perhaps):
>
> O he never was a quitter
> And he ain't no quitter now.
> O he'll wrap up in a sheet
> And he'll haunt that shithouse seat
> For the desecratin' of a British workman's grave.
>
> I can't remember the book I saw it in.
>
> Carrol

The Cantos?

mbs



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