Nah, that's more cattle. Check out the Sons of the Pioneers stuff, they were huge on the western theme.
Maybe a bluesy version of The Old Grey Mare. ;)
BTW, what do you mean by 'Power'? Electricity? Arguably not a commodity at all. Coal, on the other hand has a huge library of folk songs relating to it's mining and transport. Many of those have transplanted versions in modern bluegrass very little changed from English, Welsh and Irish versions at least 200 years old.
For salt I'd check Polish folk music. Some of the salt mines near Krakow have been working uninterrupted since Roman times so I'd bet there's a wealth of history plumb.
For sin I would skip the lovable Charlie and go with something like 'Viva Los Vegas' or maybe 'Ladies of Spain' or one of the songs about 'The Black Day' July 31st, 1970. If you want to be hip use something like 'It's Hard out Here for a Pimp'.
For fur you'll have to go French. I've got a book to check but I don't think any of them have good English translations.
Finally, I'd have to ask if by mercenaries you intend modern (for the sake of discussion 1950 or later) or older historical reference. Realistically the variation is very slight but the only really good song I know has references to kings and knights and swords and so may be harder to apply to, say the Gurkhas or the security service companies now providing troops in Iraq and other hot spots, much less guys with guns wandering central Africa today.
Finally, Johnny Bond did song versions of several Robert Service poems about the Yukon, Gold Rushes, timber, booze and sin you might want to check out if you can find them (are you reading this part cakmpls? 10 little bottles 1965. Didn't he do a collection based on Tales from the Yukon around that same time, probably on Gene Autrie's label?) and even if I'm misremembering songs like Three Sheets in the Wind, Sick, Sober and Sorry and the radio style sketches like New Years Day and any version of Ten Little Bottles could be applied on several fronts.
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Date: 2006-05-31 06:11 am (UTC)Nah, that's more cattle. Check out the Sons of the Pioneers stuff, they were huge on the western theme.
Maybe a bluesy version of The Old Grey Mare. ;)
BTW, what do you mean by 'Power'? Electricity? Arguably not a commodity at all. Coal, on the other hand has a huge library of folk songs relating to it's mining and transport. Many of those have transplanted versions in modern bluegrass very little changed from English, Welsh and Irish versions at least 200 years old.
For salt I'd check Polish folk music. Some of the salt mines near Krakow have been working uninterrupted since Roman times so I'd bet there's a wealth of history plumb.
For sin I would skip the lovable Charlie and go with something like 'Viva Los Vegas' or maybe 'Ladies of Spain' or one of the songs about 'The Black Day' July 31st, 1970. If you want to be hip use something like 'It's Hard out Here for a Pimp'.
For fur you'll have to go French. I've got a book to check but I don't think any of them have good English translations.
Finally, I'd have to ask if by mercenaries you intend modern (for the sake of discussion 1950 or later) or older historical reference. Realistically the variation is very slight but the only really good song I know has references to kings and knights and swords and so may be harder to apply to, say the Gurkhas or the security service companies now providing troops in Iraq and other hot spots, much less guys with guns wandering central Africa today.
Finally, Johnny Bond did song versions of several Robert Service poems about the Yukon, Gold Rushes, timber, booze and sin you might want to check out if you can find them (are you reading this part cakmpls? 10 little bottles 1965. Didn't he do a collection based on Tales from the Yukon around that same time, probably on Gene Autrie's label?) and even if I'm misremembering songs like Three Sheets in the Wind, Sick, Sober and Sorry and the radio style sketches like New Years Day and any version of Ten Little Bottles could be applied on several fronts.