Disclaimer: I've got the I do not own Tin Man blues…ditto this song.
Author's Note: This is the result of complete serendipity – I had been musing about maybe doing another song rewrite, while using YouTube as a radio…and low and behold 'Man of Constant Sorrows' popped up in the choices and muse did as muse does. I've been sitting on this one for a while as I was waiting for my song beta to prove she was still among the living and give an opinion (Quality Control refuses, and alas she's the only QC I actually have the phone number for – something my other betas are probably happy about. Sigh). She's still among the living, hurrah! The original song can be found with by watching 'O Brother Where Art Thou' or by looking for it on YouTube under the Soggy Bottom Boys.
PS To my song beta: your PMs have been disabled, if this is on purpose, cool; if not, your e-mail probably bounced a message back and you are going to have go into settings to enable them again (am assuming this is the case, but if not and I have somehow offended, I beg humble pardons). Didn't want to PM my AN, but I had no other way to communicate, sorry all.
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I Am A Man Of Glitchin' Sorrow
I am a man of glitchin' sorrow
Only munchkins fill my gaze
I bid farewell to my ol' marbles
Trapped in the place where darkness reigned.
The place where darkness sought to reign.
For six long days I've been in trouble,
my feet are nowhere near the ground
For in this Realm, I'm bound to ramble,
I have no friends to help me down.
He has no friends to help him down
This is a hell of wicker baskets,
I never expect to touch ground again.
For I'm bound, they tied me to the ceiling
I wish to leave and seek my brain
He wants to leave and seek his brain
Say, who are you doll, you look familiar,
I think I've seen your eyes before.
Do you think you could untie me
why are you dropping through the floor?
Why is she dropping through the floor?
Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
A face you never 've seen before
But there is one promise that is given,
We'll pass that log least three times more
They'll pass that log least three times more