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Thread #119975 Message #2605957
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Apr-09 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Miss Lucy Long (minstrel)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Miss Lucy Long (minstrel)
This minstrel song is mentioned in chanteys and was revised in presentations by several minstrel groups. It has persisted in folk use, and was collected in the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (collected in Texas, recording at American Memory). Lucy Long is included in the Fiddlers Companion. Fiddlers Companion