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Thread #3116   Message #113408
Posted By: Sourdough
11-Sep-99 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Whiskey In The Jar
Subject: RE: Whiskey In The Jar
In the Boston Atheneum is a one of a kind book by a highwayman sentenced to death in Colonial Massachusetts. Hemay have been a sailor at some time in his life because he had a lot of comlex tattoos.

While waiting for his execution, he didn't write a song but did write his memoirs and asked that they be bound in leather made from his decorative skin. This was done and the book is in the Atheneum.

I never had the nerve to ask the librarian whether there was a bookmark, too.

Sourdough