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Thread #167906   Message #4056506
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
01-Jun-20 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: John Lomax's credibility, an example
Subject: RE: John Lomax's credibility, an example
The cylinder of Dink is lost, by all accounts. What Lomax handwrote based on the cylinder (which still exists) might include him throwing in a Katie Adams stanza that he'd learned from a riverman because he liked it, for all we know. And if that, other non-Dink stanzas for all we know. We can't listen to the cylinder.