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Thread #71434   Message #1222944
Posted By: Strollin' Johnny
10-Jul-04 - 02:31 PM
Thread Name: Req: Songs about the Susquehanna River
Subject: RE: Req: Songs about the Susquehanna River
Flying Scotsman - it's sung by the magnificent Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher as 'Down By The Susquhanna And Along The Delaware' and they do a superb version of it. I believe it's a poem written by RLS when he had been through a period of depression and general-pissed-offness whilst travelling in the USA. He was so flabbergasted by the sight of the river that he composed the poem.

It's a stunning, stirring opus.

Johnny :0)