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Thread #20021 Message #207329
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
05-Apr-00 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Wild Mountain Thyme
Subject: RE: Help: real origin of Wild Mountain Thyme
The Stewart's of Blair claimed that Jock Stewart had written "I'm a man youse don't meet every day", but there are at least 4 traditional American versions of this Irish song, and one informant to Robert Gordon (Gordon MSS, Library of Congress) said in the 1920's that everybody was singing it about 1890. Claims to authorship which really amount to slight alterations of older songs are nothing new.