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07 Sep 2013
11:26:42pm

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.. at least not in slogan cancels. Ahh, for the old days of political incorrectness ...



Roy

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
08 Sep 2013
01:30:44pm

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re: We don't say things like this any more ...

I wonder if the message inside carried news of some stamper's passing. A wife, perhaps telling the dealer not to send any more approvals or asking how to settle her spouse's account.

In the 1940s we had abig RCA Victrola console in the living room and my parents had a pile of heavy 78RPM "bakolite "(????) one sided records nearby that I'd play when I got the chance. They cracked very easily, but were the "Cat's meow" at the time.

As soon as I saw this cover I began to remember a rainy afternoon at about age nine or ten sitting there listening to a twangy cowboy voice on a scratchy record, toy gun belt around my waist and a Hopalong Cassidy 37.9 liter hat perched jauntily on my head.

" ....LETTER EDGED IN BLACK

I was standing by my window Monday morning,
Without a thought of worry or a care,
When I saw the postman coming up the walkway,
With a happy face and a jolly air.

He rang the bell and whistled as he waited,
Then he said; "Good morning to you, Jack,"
But he did not know the sorrow he had brought me,
As he handed me a letter edged in black.

With a trembling hand I took the letter from him,
I broke the seal and this is what it said:
"Come home my on, your dear old father wants you
Come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."

I bowed my head in sorrow and in sadness,
The sunshine of my life, it all had fled,
When the post man brought that letter Monday morning,
"Saying come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."

"The last words your mother ever whispered,
Tell my son I want him to come back,"
My eyes were blurred, my poor old heart was breaking,
As I read Dad's letter edged in black.

"Forget those angry words that we had spoken,
You know I didn't mean them, don't you, Jack?
May the angels be my witness, I am asking,
Your forgiveness in this letter edged in black." ....."

I can almost hear the git-fiddle and harmonica cords in the background.

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re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Doesn't look like it's edged in black. You can see where the top is torn open and there is no black there. Just a black background.

I'm sure the slogan cancel is the reason for the posting of this cover.

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10 Sep 2013
05:24:41pm

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re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Doodles ... correct on both counts.

Roy

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Jeredutt3
11 Sep 2013
12:15:38am

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re: We don't say things like this any more ...

I agree that the black is just a background for this particular cover.

But in reference to the song.. Johnny Cash does a great cover of it ! I forgot how much I liked it.

My memory doesn't go quite as far back as yours but remember listening to it as a kid with my cousins in N Carolina.

Jere