Coppersmiths' Song, The

DESCRIPTION: "Tin, tin, bashers of tin, Tin, tin, Duralumin, Coppersmiths and sheet metal workers," they maintain that they are the best workers. "Bring your surplus scraps of metal"; they will mend it. They do their work in a furnace, and "surface blemishes abolish"
AUTHOR: Words: A. C. Kermode / Music: R. H. Cort (source: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (comic opera "Flat Out," according to Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: technology worker | blacksmith metal copper repair
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 123-125, "The Coppersmiths' Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The RIggers' Song" (from the same musical)
cf. "The FItters' Song" (from the same musical)
File: WJL123

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