| Tango01 | 30 Sep 2016 12:20 p.m. PST |
Tsuba Miniatures will release a very original set of figurines wild west / ACW 28mm based on a song and this set will be on sale in Empress.
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Armand |
Shagnasty  | 30 Sep 2016 1:04 p.m. PST |
Great song and great minis. I shall have to try and get a set. |
| robert piepenbrink | 30 Sep 2016 1:15 p.m. PST |
Have they taken the very best? |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 30 Sep 2016 3:06 p.m. PST |
"There goes THE Robert E. Lee". Steamboat: link |
| SCW2003 | 01 Oct 2016 5:44 a.m. PST |
Not in the original version !
Its "there goes Robert E Lee"
Though why General Lee was in Tennessee ? |
| vtsaogames | 01 Oct 2016 6:00 a.m. PST |
next up: Stoneman's cavalry… |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 01 Oct 2016 8:04 a.m. PST |
I bought the original when it came out on LP. I always heard "There goes th' Robert E. Lee". Admittedly,fidelity on LP'S was sometimes a problem,and I haven't heard a remastered CD. But that's what I heard. I also remember it as "We got th' news Richmond had fell", not "By May the tenth". Never heard that. Not on "The Band". I might also note that lyrics on the Internet are often wrong. Google has "The Weight" saying "Take a load off Annie", which is especially silly,as later in the song, there's a clear reference to "Miss Fannie". Then these mistakes get copied over and over by other sites. |
| TurnStyle | 01 Oct 2016 9:07 a.m. PST |
I love a lot of Tsuba's work so this could be pretty cool… |
| Bill N | 01 Oct 2016 9:40 a.m. PST |
I have a hard time believing the song is referring to the steamboat Robert E. Lee. The song itself is a lament about the state of the south at the end of the war. The steamboat Robert E. Lee operated on the Mississippi where steamboats weren't that special. Its fame comes from a race in 1870. That is too late to fit the song's time frame, plus it doesn't fit the mood of the song. The references at the beginning of the song are clearly to a railroader working at the end of the war on one of the two railroads that ran from Richmond Virginia to Greensboro NC via Danville. It is conceivable that railroad personnel from eastern Tennessee railroads might have ended up on that line. However I can't put General Lee in eastern Tennessee during that time period. Artistic license? Or perhaps they cut the part about how the family was visiting western Virginia when the event happened? |
| SCW2003 | 01 Oct 2016 9:45 a.m. PST |
youtu.be/v3JaosE-gZE Think Lee Rhymes Nicely with Tennessee At about 1 minute in, One of my favourite bands and the best they done [ in my opinion of course ] |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 01 Oct 2016 10:21 a.m. PST |
Is this the first recording? I'd swear it was originally "We got the news". I still hear "There goes th' Robert E. Lee". Maybe it's leftybreath who's wrong. Not saying he is,mind you, but maybe. Bill N, 1870 was far from being too late for the time frame. The hardships for poor Southerners,both white and black, lasted for years after the war. I remember stories about those times still being passed down in my family. And the money was still "no good". My great-grandmother had a roll of it "as thick as your arm",as they used to tell us. |
| Tango01 | 01 Oct 2016 10:30 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them my friend.! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
gets his hands on some fields and fences.