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Thread #70606 Message #1207163
Posted By: Abby Sale
14-Jun-04 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Peter Gray / Peter Grey
Subject: RE: lyrics & origins: Peter Gray / Peter Grey
I'm pleased to say that Masato is at least partly wrong here. (I'm only pleased because it's novel - I've not seen it happen before.)
The Plantation Galop (Billy Paterson; Peter Gray) is a galop - a dance - not a song. The two names are hand written at the bottom of the cover page, apparently the performers. That also exempts the earlier date & leaves "The Music of Morris Brothers," etc as earliest so far - one year earlier than Beadle. The texts seem (quickly) to be the same for all the Am Memory & Levy items.
Note:
The first two letters of her name,
Was Loo-egge-ianna Quirl.
And a nother oddity--
But he went traveling to the west
For furs and other skins;
And there was caught and killed and drest
All by the In-gi-ins.
I know of 'dressed' used to mean 'Put clothing on' or 'Prepared to be cooked (and eaten)' or a few other less likely things. I guess the suggestion is the Indians were cannibals. Perhaps in later years this was changed to a more PC version that they were just Bloody, not actually cannibals. ??