The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #429   Message #1414960
Posted By: Lighter
19-Feb-05 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins:There Was an Old Soldier / Old Tobacco Box
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: there was an old soldier
All I know offhand is that the usual version is in Irwin Silber's well researched "Songs of the Civil War" (N.Y.: Columbia U. P., 1960), maybe in the "postwar" section. Can't remember his source, but I'm sure it's indicated. Postbellum, most likely: after all, it's "an *old* soldier with a wooden leg" !