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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
dick greenhaus	Mathy Groves - oil of green (40)	RE: Mathy Groves - oil of green	20 Nov 13
"Oil of green" doesn't sound much like "olive green", but they don't look that different when written down. Hand-written ballad lyrics (song-ballets) were common in Appalachia, and it seems quite likely that the "oil" version came from a simple mis-reading of such a (possibly mis-spelled)song-ballet.

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