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Here is Stompin' Tom Connors second 45, released in 1965 on the CKGB label, and recorded when Tom was 29 years old. "The Birth of the New Dragon Mine" was the Kidd Creek Mine - a new find that lead to a boom in '65 when Tom was in town. They actually called it the New Dragon Mine at first, but then Texas Gulf Sulpher Co. (who owned it) renamed it the Kidd Creek Mine, so Tom stopped singing it. He finally re-recorded it in 2008 on his album 'the ballad of Stompin' Tom' but re titled it The Birth of the Texas Gulph Mine.
-Steve Fruitman
CIUT-FM Toronto
Here's the dang lyrics to Luke's Guitar:
Twang Twang adiddle dang adiddle danga twanga twanga twang twanga diddle dang
Another dang twang another dang twang another dang twang
I've been married now for a year or more and me old guitar hangs by the door
That woman of mine says hock that Luke cause your mamma dear needs a brand new suit
Now I hocked my watch and I sold my dog and I pawned the gasoline stove
I hocked my ring and everything just to keep that woman in clothes
I even pawned a cat and I hocked my boots and I sold the family car
But that woman of mine will be a hundred and nine before I hock my old guitar
Twang Twang adiddle dang a diddle danga twanga twanga twang twanga diddle dang
Another dang twang another dang twang another dang twang
She went out one day last week I guess and she won't come back until I say yes
In answer to her hock that Luke My old guitar for a swimmin' suit
That'll be the day when I pawn my heart like I pawned the gasoline stove
I hocked my ring and everything just to keep that woman in clothes
I even pawned a cat and I hocked my boots and I sold the family car
But that woman of mine will be old and blind before I hock my old guitar
Twang Twang adiddle dang adiddle danga twanga twanga twang twanga diddle dang
Another dang twang another dang twang another dang twang
If she don't come back I won't be sore cause I don't give a hoot about her no more
A man gets tired of hock that Luke
That woman of mine's too bad to shoot
Oh I hocked my watch and I sold my dog and I pawned the gasoline stove
I hocked my ring and everything just to keep that woman in clothes
I even pawned a cat and I hocked my boots and I sold the family car
But that woman of mine'll be in a box of pine before I hock my old guitar
Twang twanga diddle danga twanga twang twanga diddle dang
Another dang twang and another dang twang another dang twang.....
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