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Thread #51910   Message #2835948
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Feb-10 - 07:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Riding Down from Bangor
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Riding Down from Bangor
From "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" in Papers on Psycho-Analysis by Ernest Jones (New York: William Wood and Company, 1918), page 61:

Until a few years ago I was disgracefully ignorant of the existence of Bangor, Maine, and I remember in college days [pre-1901] being puzzled by the reference to Maine in the wellknown student song, 'Riding down from Bangor,' as in my ignorance I supposed that this related to Bangor, the university town of Carnarvonshire, Wales.