MY FUNERAL MUSIC

[patrickmurfin]

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Over at uuMomma the proprietor is discussing funeral music.  She and her husband are partial to this Coldplay number.  I can see it.

But I’m a little old school.  I’ve always wanted The Hobo’s Lullaby.  I know, I know.  It’s been decades since I hopped a freight.  And then I only did it couple of times, up and down the West Coast.  Neither an old

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Wow! You Actually Rode The Rails Patrick!

[robinedgar]

I'm impressed. I have in the past given semi-serious thought to doing it myself once or twice. When we were kids we used to hop slow moving freights for comparatively short distances although I seem to recall one of my brothers going for a longer ride than he had initially wanted too. . . :-)

I am planning to buy an AMTRAK pass and riding the rails in relative comfort for a month on of these days. Possibly as early as this summer.

Regards,

Robin Edgar

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_07.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/

Funeral Music

[ext_90659]

Thanks, Patrick. That was lovely.

Ah yes.

[anonymous]

I was introduced to this by John McCutcheon--wonderful rendition of it--and went home from that concert with the song playing in my mind.