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GUEST,Bob Coltman	Origins: Portland County Jail (20)	RE: Origins: Portland County Jail	19 Jul 13
The other possibility should not be discounted: that the song is 1. a concoction pulled out of the air, using "Portland" strictly for euphony, and 2. is really a generic jail song not attached to any place name. I've wondered for a while now if Portland County Jail is a little too clever to be a folk song, and that (pace Sandburg) it never originated or was sung in any jail by any convicts. That it was, in short, a piece of attempted pop material. Which doesn't make it any less fascinating. Bob

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