The Ballad Of Harry Lewis
Allan Sherman * Track #1 On My Son, the Folk Singer
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The Ballad Of Harry Lewis by Allan Sherman
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This song is a parody of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, which was a popular song in the United States Civil War. Here it is reworked to be about Jewish garment workers. At the turn of the twentieth century over half of the Jewish population in the labor force in New York City was employed by t...
The Ballad Of Harry Lewis Lyrics
I'm singing you the ballad
Of a great man of the cloth
His name was Harry Lewis
And he worked for Irving Roth
He died while cutting velvet
On a hot July the 4th
But his cloth goes shining on
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
His cloth goes shining on
Oh Harry Lewis perished
In the service of his Lord
He was trampling through the warehouse
Where the drapes of Roth are stored
He had the finest funeral
The union could afford
And his cloth goes shining on
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
His cloth goes shining on
Although a fire was raging
Harry stood by his machine
And when the firemen broke in
They discovered him between
A pile of roasted Dacron
And some french fried gabardine
His cloth goes shining on
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
His cloth goes shining on
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The Ballad Of Harry Lewis was written by Allan Sherman.