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   Stephen & Marilyn Suffet to All   
   Nothing but the truth!   
   25 Jan 07 11:49:43   
   
   From: Suffet@worldnet.att.net   
      
   Greetings:   
      
   You all know me. I'm the Old Fashioned Folksinger.   
      
   I was born and raised in East Virginia early on a frosty morning. My   
   Daddy was a miner, and I'm a miner's son. My Mama would rock me in the   
   cradle, but I left home when I was just nine days old. That's when I   
   picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine. The captain said, "I got me   
   a steam drill round," so I told my captain, "Your men a-gonna leave you"   
   and I said farewell to Nova Scotia, the sea bound coast. Then I traveled   
   all over this country, a-digging, prospecting for gold. I found rocks   
   and gravel make a mighty fine road, so with a ten dollar horse and a   
   twenty dollar saddle they sent me to New Bedford, that famous whaling   
   port. But I caught me the end of a long freight train and fanned my tail   
   to the Oregon line. I was walking down the track with tears in my eyes,   
   trying to read a letter from my home, when along comes the sheriff from   
   Cornersville saying, "Pay me or go to jail.." Well, I ran so fast the   
   hounds couldn't catch me, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. So   
   if you ever see me coming back, I'll extend to you my paw, but it's   
   gonna be through a telescope from the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide   
   Pacific shore.   
      
      
   Now if you detect even the most remote grain of truth buried beneath all   
   that woofing and whooping, why not come find out for yourself? I'll be   
   appearing at the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York City on March 10 of   
   this year to celebrate the release of my newest CD, "I've Been Up On the   
   Mountain." Accompanying me will be a gang of musical fugitives from the   
   MacDougal Street Rent Party and the Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash.   
      
   Also on the bill that evening will be Holley Anderson, a/k/a Holly   
   GoAnarchy, the extremely talented Brooklyn based song smith whose latest   
   hit, "Why Am I Not a Lesbian?," has just gone quadruple platinum at the   
   top of the Anarcho-Feminist Folk charts. If you would like to think of   
   us as the Sonny and Cher of folk music, go right ahead. Everyone's   
   entitled to be wrong some time!   
      
   Here are the details, probably more than you could have imagined:   
      
   Steve Suffet + Holly GoAnarchy   
   Peoples' Voice Cafe in the Workmen's Circle Building   
   45 East 33rd Street, between Park & Madison Avenues   
   Midtown Manhattan • New York City   
   Saturday • March 10, 2007   
   8:00 PM • Doors open 7:30   
   Suggested contribution: $12.   
   Peoples' Voice Cafe or Workmen's Circle members: $9.   
   More if you choose. Less if you can't. TDF vouchers accepted.   
   No one turned away for lack of money or for any other silly reason.   
   For info: 212-787-3909   
   Websites:   
   http://www.peoplesvoicecafe.org/   
   http://suffet.home.att.net/   
   http://www.hollygoanarchy.com/   
      
   Be there!   
      
   --- Steve   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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