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Thread #163575   Message #3904301
Posted By: GUEST,keberoxu
07-Feb-18 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rings Like Silver and it Shines Like Gold
Subject: RE: Origins: Rings Like Silver and it Shines Like Gol
On a much older thread,
Dick Greenhaus contributed a post.
He states there that
Merle Travis' "Nine Pound Hammer"
is itself a song
whose lyrics come from a number of earlier songs.

But Greenhaus did not spell out any more about those earlier songs.