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Thread #140894 Message #3240916
Posted By: Lighter
18-Oct-11 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Origins: She Was Poor (Same The Whole World Over)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: She Was Poor (Same The Whole World Over)
Steve, any version that might have appeared in a booklet of "popular songs" around 1901 would have had to be pretty tame. Tamer even than Sandburg's, I'd think.
And tamer than that might mean merely the original of a later parody.