Thanks, Malcolm. It's worth quoting, too, Dennis Smith's 10th verse: I wish I was in Spenservania Where the marble stones are as black as ink, Where the pretty little girls they do adore me, I'll sing no more till I get a drink. If Ingo is England (which I suspect), then Spencervania is Pennsylvania by the same logic. "Marble sones as black as ink," a geological statement, is interesting; particularly when one refers to the Irish song, "Carrickfergus"... And in Kilkenny it is reported On marble stone as black as ink, With gold and silver I did support her But I'll sing no more till I get a drink. I would guess that somewhere in Nova Scotia there was once a particular Peggy Gordon who disappointed a young man and that the song, "Peggy Gordon," with all its floating verses coalesced around the first verse. All the best, Dan Milner
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