Frederic Rzewski

Das Lied "winnsboro cotton mill" durfte ich in der Version von Frederic Rzewski gespielt von Herbert Schuch unerwarteter Weise gestern im Konzerthaus hören und sehen.
"Frederic Rzewski uses the melody of this industrial folk song as the basisfor the last of his Four North American Ballads for solo piano, which hecompleted in 1979." Schreibt Kathryn Woodard.

When I die don’t bury me at all

Just hang me up on the spoolroom wall.

Place a knotter in my hand

So I can keep on spoolin’ in the Promised Land.

I got the Blues, I got the Blues,

I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.

Lordy, Lordy, spoolin’s hard.

You know and I know, I don’t have to tell,

Work for Tom Watson, got to work like hell.

I got the Blues, I got the Blues,

I got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. 

—“Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”