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Thread #99630 Message #1987478
Posted By: oldhippie
05-Mar-07 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Origins: When I was on Horseback / Streets of Lar
Subject: RE: Origins: When I was on Horseback / Streets of Lar
Folk Song USA by John and Alan Lomax traces "Streets of Laredo" back to Ireland and England and offers partial lyrics:
"Had she but told me when she disordered me
Had she but told me of it in time
I might have got salts and pills of white mercury
But now I'm cut down in the height of my prime."