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BROADSIDE Hoots Will Be Held Sunday, Jan 1F53 THE NATIONAL TOPICAL SONG l·1A.GAZINE DECEHBER 20, 1964 PRICE -- 50¢ BY @ 1964 PETER Hopi Busic LA FARGE New York jin - "l<t 'fir 'b in +hl!.. +wo- bit CMait-- in' ~( 1:0. '1.Ic.Jc-er just -to +h, .... 1c. +h~t- SY1akes wen.. 0.1 - w--oyr:;. 'Gut the..y Ai~lr r~rtic:.·Il\'" tbout 'the @] fv' r'l t;fhf- o~ of" thU"rl ~S&'cI nell f"1 :r: Tk 1)~~rJ them too at 0. ..f!o.r)- Coy ~lJ. en- Chorl.lS beArd the. (at- ..... le.. e>olllce loud bfld de..3r c.irdJ Dy dib -.q\al1~S ;he.. rattle. - ~nbtes C"l)il f\ : I j , j ~ 0 I jg~ J~ I Cl I .-I .. fJ r~t- +-Ie....- sl'lak~• R. r6t -t\e. sna.ke. noise he-II ~~e ~---- 2. I'Ve heard it too alley's side Where the pushers deal and the addicts glide Heroin's quiet, it enchants the boys But I've heard its anthem and the rattlesnake's noise ~iJ.Jf II Then there's the uptown doctor with his needle clean ra±- He_ st'\a.ke. He's always nice and never mean He gives them dope by another name But I heard the rattlesnake just the same. (Chorus) 3. There's the city official 'way down low Keepin' his pockets full of dough If you want help don't ask his aid There's a rattlesnake sitting in his shade " There's a politician 'way up h!gh ! Too far to hear the people cry ,I Passin' bills for the wealthy men He won't explain but the rattlesnake can. (Cho.) 4. I heard it loud 'way down South Where the rattle comes from a cracker's mouth Laced with spittle and crammed with hate He thought he was talking -- I heard rattlesnake There's lots of snakes~ let me tell you, Jack There's the pygmy rattler and. the diamond back Governor Johnson says he loves us all And the rattlesnake stings with a Southern drawl.(Cho) -----.--- NEW YORK TIMES. I B R 0 ADS IDE H 0 0 T I The third in a series of six HOUSING PROTEST BROADSIDE hoots will be held Sunday, Jan. 3, 1965, at 3 IADDS LYRIO TOUGH p.m. at the VILLAGE GATE, Housing demonstrators ended New York City (Thompson at a H-hour vigil outside Gracie Bleecker St.). TOM PAXTON Mansion at 8 A.M. yesterday not quite sure whether Mayor will sing and m.c. Also Wagner heard their version of scheduled: GIL TURNER, FRED the "Battle Hymn of the Re­ public." HE1LER.MAN, IRMA JURIST, & The chilled pickets sang:· Mine eyes have seen my landlord THE FREEDOM SCHOOL SINGERS raising rents without repairs. MISSI.SS~ My ceilings all are pellUng and OF HOLLY SPRINGS, I've got some broken stairs. IPPI. The latter group, My faucets all are leaking and my window panes are cracked; consisting of 19 youngsters We must have action now. Seventy pickets were present of all ages, will be in New at the height of the demonstra­ tion. sponsored by the Cooper York to present a play a­ Square Community Develop­ bout Medgar Evers. Tenta­ ment Committee. Nineteen-year­ old Sally Goldin of 249 East tively: PETER LA FARGE, PHIL Broadway played the guitar as OCHS, LEN CHANDLER, ERIC the bundled pickets put into \SCOUT IN A·BOMBING song their demands for low-rent ANDERSEN. The hoots will be IS ADJUDGED INSANE housing on a site at Houston held the first Sunday of and Christie Sreets, on the each month now thru April. GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 7 Lower East Side: We must fight to keep our land Time: 3 porno Admission: $2 (UPIJ-Maj. Claude R. Eather­ from' being given to the rich. ly, 46 years old, who blamed the We'v. heen promised low-rent ( at door). A HOOT IN Tll1E atom bombing of Hiroshima for housing a.nd we'd rather fight his troubles, was adjudged in­ tha.n switch. SAVES NINE! sane today by a District Court The ban ga.me'. almost over, hut it'. now our turn to pitch. ,jury. We must ha.ve a.etion. now. 'I He said he had bad dreams: ,from the bombing. I To some, the technique was Good Will Gone? reminiscent of the political and' One of the latest toys on the "Minutes By Jet'~ I "I see great fires, boiling, labor protests of the nineteen­ 'i fires, crimson fires, closing in thirties, or the civil rights drive market is a guillotine that ad­ "Welcome AboaTd" ',1 on me. Buildings fall, children of the nineteen-fifties. justs to fit any head. Certainly And then get set !run-living torches with their American ingenuity can do bet· ! clothes aflame," he says. To the tune of "Fr~re FaT lands that aTe "M.inutes Jacques," the pickets sang: ter than that. Away by Jet." Are you sleeping? How about a Ku Klux Klan See "Ballad of Major Are you sleeping? City Hall, City 'Ha.ll. Kit for Kiddies that includes Ii "Life can be gay" Eatherlylf by Gene Rent. a.re on the Increase hood, sheet, torch and sheriff's Say the travel ads Service on the decrease. badge? Or else a "Fail-Safe Kit" Fa>" people who can Hunn in B'SIDE # 45 Fix our homes. Fix our homes. with medium bomber, faulty Twenty-eight pickets were on A-ffm·d such fads. hand when the demonstration radar and a family·size A-bomb. broke up. Whatever happened to "peace uGruise to the Sout.h" on earth, good will to men"? "Fly to the West" See "Rent Strike MICKEY LEVINE. The tired mind Songs" in BROADSIDE See "Talking Christmas" by Will welcome rest. 1/ 42 Paul Wolfe in B'SIDE # 37 In the Caribbee Yo-u can soalc up s-un For 'someone "Somewhere Recordings And Now A Book W'inter is fun." Issued in COll]UnctlOn With Folkways Records. issued in Conjunction wllh Oak i"ubhcations. But the guy who must work BROADSIDE, voL 1. BR 301 BROADSIDE, Vol. 1. Songs For the food and the 'rent from the pages of Broadside Magazine Songs of our Times Is seldom along sungby Pete Seeger, Peter La Farge, from the Pages of Happy Traum, New World Singers, With tht pleasure bent. Gil Turner, Matt McGinn, Blind Eoy Broadside Mab'Ezine. Grunt, Mark Spoelstra. 15 selections including Blowin' in the Wind, Talking Contaws 75 topical songs. reproduced as they Devil, I Can See A New Day, Benny appear on the pages of Broadside Magazine Others may play Kid Paret, others. These song-s are not meant to be the best 0[, 1-12"33-1/3 rpm LP, notes but chosen as representative of the 300 songs Aboard ship and on trains 50 far prmted in Broadside. Brand new songs He's plagued with the right out of the headlines about war or peace, BR 302 BROADSIDE BALLADS Vol:2 Oxford, MiSSissippi, Albany, Georg-ia. Bodily aches and pa·ins. sung by Pete Seeger. Littl.e Boxes, I By such song wnters as Ain't a-Scared of Your Jail, Never Turn Back, Fare Thee Well, The Bal-­ Up on your feet lad of Lou Marsh, Song of the Punch Don West Pete Seeger· Press Operator, Business, William Bob Dylan Les Rice Day a/t.er day Len ChandlE'r Nina Simone More the Mailman, The Thresher, Ira BuffySLMane Years and decades Hayes, Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Peter LaFarge Phil Qchs Jackie Alper Ernie Marrs Agnes Friesen Flyaway. ::~~1re~~~~~~~:~~~~lh~~'\'1ri~g MalvinaReynolds Gene Kadish Conscript. Eric Anderson MarkSpoelstra 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm LP, notes Alex Lukeman Patrick Skye None 0/ the scenes and many, many more F,·om the travel page BR 303 BROADSIDE, Vol. 3. More new songs from Broadside Magazine, songs in elude EVe'r co-rne t-fue sung by the Broadside Singers. Ain't Am'tGonnaLetSegregation Masters of War Before his gaze. That News, Links on the Chain, The Turn us Around MissiSSippi Goddam Faucets are Dripping, Paths of ~iC­ Ballad for Bill Moore Now That the Buffalo's tory, My Father's Grave, Em~gr,ante, The Birmingham Bull One Man's Hands Causes, Times I've Had, Chrlstme, Bound for Glory Only a Hobo Brothers and Sisters Rattlesnake, Carrying On, Freedom The Boy Salutes The People are Scralching is a Constant Struggle, Scruggs Pick­ The Dola Explosion Plains of Nebrasky-O I'd like to see er, More Good Men, Plains of Neb­ Hazard Kentucky Ramblin' Boy All that'" good rasky-O. IAln'tA-Scaredof Your Jail The Shelter Diggers 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm LP, notes I Can See A New Day Strar:gers in. Your Town Fa?· you and me. I Can't Help But Wonder Where Talkmg Christmas I'm Bound Talkin' Peace FA 2456 BROAD3IDES Songs and Bal­ Links on the Cinin Talking Vietnam lads sung by Pete Seeger. The Dove, Little Boxes To Be A Man All the places The Flowers of Peace, Mack the Bomo, Unemploymeni Lament From Way Up Here, Tomorrow's We'd lilce to get Children, Get Up and Go, The New Compiled and ecUted by Sis Cunningham For they're only "Mimae" York J -D Blues, Coyote, My Little IllustratIOns by Agnes Friesen, Jane Fnesen, Brother, We Shall OVercome, ToMy Susan Rotolo and Mike Sherker. Away by Jet." Old Brown Earth. 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm LP, notes 96 pages $2.95 Il'v Lomsky, FOLKWAYS RECORDS OAK PUBLICA TIONS, INC.
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