I am trying to find Maiden's Prayer for my husband. (May have 'a' or 'the' at beginning of name). I have looked for quite some time. And y'all helped me find "Colorado" last year. Maybe someone here will know of the version I am looking for.

We have looked everywhere. Amazon has 46 different listings:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-1940421-6667045

Of the ones we could listen to at the above link, none of them are the correct version. My husband is just going by memory.

It is not Bob Wills, nor is it texas swing, nor is it country western, nor is it Eddie Cantor. And it is not the lovely irish song about a lady who has hung herself, and sings: make my grave both wide and deep, put a marble stone at my head and feet.

There is no guitar, or band accompaniment in the version we are looking for. It is instrumental only.

It sounded more like an orchestral or symphonic version, no band, no guitar, ONLY violins. Twin fiddles did the major tune, and it sounded like 50 violins in the background.

The version that Bob Wills plays is the correct tune, but this sounded sweeter, almost melancholy, from what my husband says. My husband is thinking the version might be from around 1959 or so.

This was popular at the time, and was played frequently on the radio. Unfortunately my husband cannot remember who sang the song. But he would recognize it in a minute. At the Amazon site, is one listing is called "16 Fiddlers' Greatest Hits" and another called "30 Fiddler's Greatest Hits". My husband says that is about the right tempo, but it isn't the one.

If anyone could come up with any other leads, or any other web sites I could search, we sure would appreciate you emailing us at the above address. I have exhausted all my resources.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, Maria Kinsey