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Thread #20929 Message #1932029
Posted By: Jim Lad
10-Jan-07 - 12:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria
The Wind They Call Mariah refers to an old North American Indian legend which spoke of an ill wind that carried away all in its path. Interesting side note: Scottish Paddywagons were known as "Black Mariahs".