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GUEST,Q Chord Req: DELIA or DEHLIA or DELIA (16) RE: Chord Req: DELIA or DEHLIA 21 Aug 03


Some not too good chords here and real Audio:
Delia

The story here is incorrect, taken mostly from The Traditional Ballad Indexcufresno. The song "Delie" (Delie Gone) was missed by the compilers of the Index and the date 1937 was attached. The song first appeared in a manuscript by M. L. Hamlin, 1924, collected by him in Durham, NC. and given to N. I. White (1925), thread 11867- "from memory of a song taught Frank Goodell of Spartanburg, SC, ... by an old Negro to whom he paid $1.00 to teach him to play the guitar." Learned probably between 1900 and 1904. No evidence of it ever being a honky-tonk song.
When it got to the Bahamas is unknown, but it was known in the South almost as early as the Frankie and Albert songs, if the informants are to be believed.


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