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Thread #20079 Message #48631
Posted By: Pete Peterson
08-Dec-98 - 10:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister
Subject: RE: ADD LYR: May I Sleep In Your Barn
The version you posted is the one James Roberts recorded in about 1926 and has a couple more verses than the more common one Charlie Poole recorded (CO 15038) in 1927. When I did it for my Marimac tape it was sort of a mixture of the two, and my stranger was "tall dark and handsome" as in the gypsy cliches. PETE