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Thread #20039 Message #2499722
Posted By: Lighter
21-Nov-08 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Subject: RE: Origins: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
That's from the Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 25, 1913, p. 278: "Some Aspects of Folk-Song," by Phillips Barry, an important American folksong scholar.
Barry also gives the text (and tune) of Chapin's "The Ocean Burial" [sic] for comparison.