by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Georgia prison song
Language: English
Every mail day, every mail day, I get a letter, son come home, o son come home! How can I go? Shot guns and pistols all around me, to blow me down. lf I had, if I had my thirty to twenty, I'd go today, I'd go today. Yes, yes Lord, I'd go, I'd go today. Ach, wie wenig verlangt der Sänger: Nur eine Waffe wünscht er sich, wo es doch Tanks und Kanonen bedarf und schwerer Kämpfe von Millionen, um einen Unschuldigen frei zu kriegen!
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a newspaper. [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Georgia prison song", from Die Zuchthaus -- Kantate, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 7
Word count: 86