Carried across the Atlantic and settling into the north woods of Wisconsin is this version of love and death.  Learned from my father, Art Thieme, slightly altered.

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Pinery Boy

First documented in the 1700s, The Cuckoo and Pretty Polly were two songs that held hands across the Atlantic through the shores, hills and mountains of America.  Sharing a verse.  Carrying each other's lines.  First learned 40 years ago from my father, Art Thieme, this has been beating against the insides of my brain till I was in the right place to let it out.  A story centuries old, but, this time.....
Listen and find out.  Use headphones for this one.

Songs by Dead Folk

Pretty Polly/The Cuckoo

Words by John Manifold circa 1960, music by Tom Campbell
Completely a cappella - Edited with Audacity
Coyote recorded Winter of 2013 - Fox Lake, IL
"Tom Campbell read a poem called "The Griesly Wife" by John Manifold, an Australian poet, in a high school text book called Sound and Sense, An Introduction to Poetry, edited by Laurence Perrine and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (New York). He adapted the text and added the melody that I sing here. Griesly, by the way, is the correct spelling; it means "uncanny". I've heard that the story of wolves assuming human form to take revenge on hunters and trappers can be found in the folklore of a number of countries. I try to sing this as close as I can to the way Tom sang it into a cassette recorder for me at the Cafe York in Denver around 1972. Tom's best-known song to date is "Darcy Farrow" written with Steve Gillette. More recently, Tom has been working throughout the western states on initiatives to limit the expansion of the use of nuclear energy." - Harry Tuft 1976

GrieslyBride_Edit5_20141015

CTThieme PonchoandLefty Demo 20150604

"True Story" is an oxymoron, but then I'm just the idiot full of hot air to tell it.  As it happened.  The Biggest Whatever was written and originally performed by the Dillards.

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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Written by Bob Franke - Performed at the Art Thieme Memorial Concert - C.T. Thieme, Anne Hills, Jan Burda, Jim and Vivian Craig, Eddie Holstein, Lou and Peter Berryman, Andrew Calhoun, Bill Camplin, Cathy Fink

Thanksgiving Eve

Original by the Tommy Thompson of the Red Clay Ramblers - additional words with hopes that the respect for Mr. Thompson's original holds by C.T. Thieme

Hot Buttered Rum

Written by Art Thieme - with alterations by C.T. Thieme
Performed by C.T. Thieme at the Art Thieme Memorial Concert - 2015

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