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Thread #4257   Message #1413531
Posted By: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
17-Feb-05 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Shenandoah
Subject: Lyr Add: SHENANDOAH
I'd hate muddy the waters of somebody else's river, but.....

I learned a 'stock' version of 'Shenandoah' at school. In my late teens I heard a radio programme which included a partially different lyric. I recall these lines (or something like them):

Missourie she's a mighty water,
And away you rolling river,
The Yankees march along her border
And away I'm bound to go,
Cross the wide Missouri.

Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter,
And away you rolling river,
Seven years ago I came to court her
But away I'm bound to go,
Cross the wide Missouri.

A few years now, the war'll be over,
And away you rolling river,
Then I'll come back to take my lover,
But away I'm bound to go,
Cross the wide Missouri.

Anyone know anything at all about this version?