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Thread #19426 Message #1384570
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Jan-05 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: The Old Man From Lee
Subject: RE: Penguin: The Old Man From Lee
Not mentioned in The Traditional Ballad Index is E. C. Perrow, 1915, JAFL 28, p. 185, No. 13, THERE WAS AN OLD MAN, from Kentucky, MS of Miss Kahn, 1913. Very close to the English version, "Old Man from Lee" ("with his old beard so newly shaven").