Beside an Essex Waterfall

DESCRIPTION: "Beside an Essex waterfall one bright September morn, There lay a shattered Hurricane." The dying pilot says, "I'm going to a better place where everything is bright... And there are loads of women, to... Oh, death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot crash death humorous marriage derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 140-142, "Beside an Essex Waterfall" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "She Only Answered 'Ting-a-ling-a-ling'" (partial tune)
cf. "The Bells of Hell" (tune, lyrics) and references there
cf. "The Dying Hobo" [Laws H3] (tune)
NOTES [64 words]: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook describes this as using the tunes of "The Bells of Hell" (which derives from "She Only Answered Ting-a-ling-a-ling'") and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain." But it is pretty clear that the real source of the second part is "The Dying Hobo" or one of its relatives. To be sure, "The Dying Hobo" and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" are themselves related. - RBW
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File: WJL140

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