The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4257   Message #27290
Posted By: Bruce O.
04-May-98 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Shenandoah
Subject: RE: Song info:
Saw one of the former 'Boarding Party' las week end and found theat "Solid Fa's" was collected by R. Abrams. Here's a short version collected in England in 1909, in JFSS V (#18) 1914.

SHanadar
O Shanadr I'll have your daughter;
Way - o, you rolling ruin;
I love her as I love the water,
Ha!---
I'm bound away across the wild Missouri

O Shenadar what is the matter?
Way O, you rolling ruin;
Your daughter's here and I am at her,
Ha! ha!
I'm bound away across the wild Missouri