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Newport Boy	Origins: 'When First Unto This Country' Epigraph? (25)	RE: Origins: 'When First Unto This Country' Epigraph?	23 Apr 15
The words posted by Jon above are, with the exception of verse 3, the same as those recorded by Peggy Seeger on a 10" LP - Topic 10T9 in 1957. I've long ago lost my copy, but if I recall correctly she suggested that it was the combination of fragments of two songs. I've always put a guitar break between verses 3 & 4 on that basis. Peggy's verse 3 ran: I rode to see my Nancy I rode both night and day 'til I noticed a stallion White looking and grey Phil

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