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Thread #62197 Message #1178550
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-May-04 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Away Here in Texas / Song of Texas
Subject: RE: Origins: Away Here in Texas / Song of Texas
20 Aug. 2003, John Garst posted this song in Forum for Ballad Scholars, from the same Ebay notice. I don't believe that he got an answer.
During the Civil War, many poems-songs with the words "bright sunny South" appeared, similar in form to the one here, and probably originally inspired by the Sacred Harp or other printing of a pre-Civil War song.