Co-Writer of "M.T.A." Dies

[liz_marcs]

Hunh. I was not aware that one of the co-writers of "M.T.A." was a woman.

The Boston Globe reports today that Bess L. Hawes died Friday at the age of 88.

*ponders*

Since I was thinking about posting a song a day as a gift to all my peeps out there in L.J. Land, I guess I know what my first track will be.

In the meantime, please enjoy this video of the song from the Kingston Trio.

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that happy memory- out here in the woods of my childhood, thousands of miles from the nearest commuter rail system, my parents and sister and I sang that song in the car on our way to digging clams...

Julia, it's a weird old world

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

Good times. While this wasn't supposed to be a song of my childhood, my dad played it often enough that it was. :)

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

I remember my dad telling me about that song when I was a teenager, and not being sure it really existed until I heard it years later! I also remember having to pay an extra fare to exit the "T" as late as the 1970s, possibly even the early '80s.

Thanks for linking to the obit. Bess Hawes sounds like someone I would have loved to know, and I'm going to check out the "Almanac Singers."

--Willowgreen, who has never lived in Boston but used to visit there fairly often back in the olden days.