Gretings from Port Townsend Washington.

Aaron Copeland took a traditional American folk song, telling a typical sad story, and arranged it for choruses.

The title is "Long Time Ago," and the tune is very beautiful - has sort of a Stephen Foster sound to it. Not in Mud Data Base.

I'm trying to track down the genesis of the tune and/or the story - did it come out of the Appalacian tradition; does it tell the specific story of one identifiable person? Or anything else we can find out... Thanks, Nik Lauer