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Chris Rainier: voice and Adapted Guitar 1
Originally composed for voice, Adapted Guitar 1 and Kithara 1
The score's colophon reads:
"Ithaca, July 2 - 4, 1943"
Text:
T. McGeary (ed.), "Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions and Librettos", Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2000, p. 83.
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lyrics
Cincinatti, Ohio,
October second, nineteen thirty-five
Hello Pal
Gee! I was glad to hear from you, believe it or not Pal I just received your letter today it must have followed me all over the world but it got to my wife and she broke it open and
read it and sent it to me this morning.
Well I came back east and run into a shotgun wedding
and I was the goat so back on the bum a-gain, well Pal I had a swell time in Cincy, till my wife’s father found out I was back, and then the little lamb was led up to the altar, so now I’m just out of jail, and feeling fine and I think I have a job starting the twelfth of October and I truly hope my dear little wife is dead by then.
Give Kain-tucky my best regards and tell him I’m not doing so well, but looking to score before long in fact I’ve got to, or get in jail again for it is cold out here, and I’m not good looking enough to get by that way do you get the drift.
So I’ll say good night, and good luck hoping to hear from you at once and tell me all the news.
some kind of folk music. various microtonal guitars, weissenborn [a hollowneck lap steel, often with preparations]…also occasional singing, and other instrumental odds and ends.
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