Just thought you all might like to know that a choral group, the Voices of Liberty, sings "He's Gone Away" at the American Adventure Pavilion at Disney's Epcot Center, introducing it as being "from the American Civil War." I just wondered *how* they knew that!

Yandro seems like Fennario--a name which could apply to a number of places but not a specific place name. It also sounds suspiciously as if "He's Gone Away" might be in the same category as "I Wonder as I Wander," of folk songs which are not really all folk but used traditional elements and became more popular than genuine folk songs!

You might be interested to know that author Manly Wade Wellman had a bit of fun with this song in his 1952 short story "The Desrick on Yandro," in which a folk singer learns the song describes a real place named for a family named Yandro, a location of odd and outlandish occurrences. The story appeared in the books "Who Fears the Devil" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum."

The most beautiful recording I have discovered is by Judy Mayhan, but there are many others. It has been covered by just about everybody (including Lily Munster).

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