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Thread #6370 Message #2225881
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Dec-07 - 08:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
Subject: RE: The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty
but not part of any folk tradition I know of.
How about St James Infirmary? Just one example of a song which implies a story rather than narrating it, and leaves that story pretty wide open.