Word: drivin
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There is a heave of shoulders, deep breath control, the touch of hands...