Mudcat Café message #3721531

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Thread #76356 Message #3721531
Posted By: Lighter
06-Jul-15 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Sung by the Whore House Quartet'.
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Sung by the Whore House Quartet'.

The first stanza was known at the University of Virginia by 1930.

Variants of the second one were sung in WW2.

I heard the first three lines of the final one in Tennessee in 1979-80.