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Frank of Toledo Traditional songs & madness (41) RE: Traditional songs & madness 16 Apr 99


Lunatic Asylum recorded by Rick Lee on Waterbug. In his liner notes Rick says "the basic story is about the Lunatic Asylum, where two patients, while they were in the "asylum", probably Eastern State Lunatic Asylun in Knoxville Tennessee, now called Lakeshore Hospital. They suffered some sort of mental illness or emotional breakdown , sometime around the turn of the century. The song was collected in the field by Tony Cavender of Eastern State Tennessee University around 1974. lyricsa and more background forthcoming is wanted/


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