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Thread #119222   Message #3704631
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
27-Apr-15 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Libba Cotten's Freight Train
Subject: RE: Folklore: Libba Cotten's Freight Train
The presence of a similar song, collected in the 1910s, in Newman White's _American Negro Folk-Songs_ suggests that Cotten may have based her "Freight Train" on a song she heard.