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GUEST,Joseph Scott	Origin: Poor Boy / Coon Can / Highwayman (35)	RE: Origin: Poor Boy / Coon Can / Highwayman	29 Dec 20
At his session late in life Peg Leg Howell did a "Blood Red River" that overlaps a couple of stanzas with the Jordan. The red river stuff is a threat of violence, so it makes sense at the end of the Jordan version as part of the common sequence of events in a "Poor Boy"/"Coon Can Game" story: "it runs by my baby's door." Howell mixes in some "In The Pines." The Jordan and the B.F. Shelton "Cold Penitentiary Blues" are worth comparing. https://genius.com/Peg-leg-howell-blood-red-river-lyrics

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