The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46361   Message #687315
Posted By: Mrrzy
10-Apr-02 - 04:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Oleanna (Ditmar Meidel, Norway, 1853)
Subject: Oleanna as by the Gateway Singers
I was reminded of this song by the thread on the Big Rock Candy Mountain. I see the version in the Trad but it isn't the one I had, does anybody have another one? Mine starts O to be in Olean, that's where I'd like to be, than be bound in Norway and drag the chains of slavery. It has the verse about wheat and corn that is in the trad but not the middle ones, and it had OTHER middle ones which I now cannot remember. It's from an old album of the Gateway SIngers at the Hungry I, probably from the 40's or so. Maybe even 30's...