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Thread #34906 Message #882406
Posted By: GUEST,Q
04-Feb-03 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: Help: 'Lily of the West' known during Civil War?
Subject: RE: Help: 'Lily of the West' known dur.Civil War?
Nothing to do with Lily Langtry. The song has been discussed in threads here.
Thread 13775: Lily
Thread 15769: Lily
Thread 34906: Lily
Thread 52047: Lily
Thread 34906 has a post by Malcolm Douglas that pretty well summarizes knowledge about this song (31 May 01). Also see his post of 01 Jun 01) in the same thread.
A continuing problem is identification of the tunes associated with some of the versions.