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Thread #65873 Message #1088506
Posted By: Stewie
08-Jan-04 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins:Where My Eileen is Waiting/Over the Mountn
Subject: RE: Origins: Where My Eileen is Waiting
According to country music historian, Dr Charles Wolfe, Uncle Dave's 'Over The Mountain' was written by William Scanlon, a 19th century Irish ballad singer from Massachusetts. Scanlon, however, seems a bit of mystery. I have looked all over online - Google, Mamma, Intelliseek, Levy, Duke, American Memory, encyclopedias (general and biographical) etc - and came up with zilch on the man. I am beginning to think that Wolfe must have made him up!