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   From: Suffet@worldnet.att.net   
      
   Java Jive wrote:   
      
   > Ah! I remember it now ...   
   >   
   > "Stephen & Marilyn Suffet"  wrote in message   
   > news:45A5D1CA.60F794B5@worldnet.att.net...   
   > >   
   > > Working in a three foot seam,   
   > > I'll tell you, boys, this life is not a dream,   
   > > There's no joy to be found,   
   > > When you're two miles underground,   
   > > And you're working in a three foot seam.   
      
   Greetings again!   
      
   The Johnson Girls, five American women who sing mostly (but not   
   entirely) maritime music, regularly perform "Three Foot Seam." From what   
   one of them told me, they recently recorded the song with the intention   
   of putting it on their next CD. However, they may hold it for some   
   future project.   
      
   Be that as it may, I recently heard the Johnson Girls sing "Three Foot   
   Seam" at the Eisteddfod New York two months ago and they were   
   magnificent. I do hope they release the recording sooner rather than   
   later. Although clearly the same song, their version, sung a cappella,   
   is quite different from both Anne Price's and my own. I would really   
   love to have recordings of all three available for people to compare.   
      
   Incidentally, Anne Price is one of the people who adds her voice to my   
   own recording of "Three Foot Seam." The other people who do appear, in   
   addition to myself and Anne, are Jody Kolodzey, Joel Landy, Chris Lang,   
   Heather Lev, Eric Levine, and Bruce Markow. Each is an accomplished   
   performer in his or her own right, but not necessarily a trad folkie. I   
   had to use all my wit and charm to cajole that rambunctious gang of rock   
   and rollers, poets, and singer-songwriters onto that traddie track. A   
   little moolah shmoolah also helped. :-)   
      
   --- Steve   
      
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