RIP Bill Morrissey

Do you have a lot of German students that you are teaching ESL??

Sounds like "Throw mama from the train a kiss"

Wow. Sorry about the mangled syntax. I was trying to put this up quickly.

Damn, I'm reall sorry to hear that.

I have to say I was wondering--when the loopy radio evangelist predicted the end of the world in May, I started a thread to see who on a2k had been Raptured, and everybody else reappeared, but that was the day pom apparently posted her last post. Iwas pretty sure you hadn't been carried up to heaven by a chairlift of angels, but still....

Sad to hear about Bill Morrissey. He was a friend, and a heavily underappreciated songwriter. He definitely burned the candle at both ends.
Here's one of his that I think is pretty near perfect.



Bill was like the birch logs in the song, burning hot, burning brightly, burning too short a time. If there's a dive bar in heaven, with angel backup singers and house Martins, Bill's there now, jamming with Mississippi John Hurt and Dave Carter, RIP Bill.

A friend of mine hitched a ride with me up to the Lowell Folk Festival yesterday, and we were talking about Bill's death on the way up. This was one of his favorites by Bill, Bill's rewrite of the traditional song.



Craig laments your passing too, Bill.

My newish neighbor Cliff Eberhardt reported on Facebook that he was pall bearer for Bill's funeral. Bob Weiser and 188 others gave the post a thumbs up and there were 90 comments. Garnet Rogers wrote a beautiful story on FB about how he and Stan first met Bill. Vance Gilbert also wrote about Bill on the same.