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Thread #67112   Message #1119444
Posted By: Lighter
19-Feb-04 - 04:48 PM
Thread Name: Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail / Sierry Petes
Subject: RE: Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail / Sierry Petes
Q: Does Lee's book give his version of "The Old Chisholm Trail" (another of my pet interests)? He sang it to collector Duncan Emrich in Denver about 1940, Emrich printed it in "It's an Old Wild West Custom" a number of years later, and then Lomax reprinted it in "Folk Songs of N. Amer." Finally Emrich printed it in another book.

And - can you imagine? - each of these versions is somewhat different.