The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20039   Message #208852
Posted By: Peter T.
08-Apr-00 - 10:31 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Subject: RE: Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie????
Again, thanks rich for all this work. One puzzle: I have a version by Carl T. Sprague which must be from the 1920's (it is on a compilation disk), and it is the familiar version -- well, it is not the cleaned up familiar version, but the eerie version. By eerie I mean it is in some mode (I haven't figured out which, some Mixolydian I guess) or minor key, such that, for example, the last notes are "out of tune". Everyone else regularizes it (though Murphey, to his credit, goes back, I assume, to Sprague or the part as written). yours, Peter T.