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Thread #4257 Message #1431257
Posted By: GUEST,carol1211k
10-Mar-05 - 01:28 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Shenandoah
Subject: RE: Song info: Shenandoah
I've been reading previous posts trying to get a handle on the origins of "Shenandoah", and I'm pretty well convinced that I'm not going to get back to the beginnings on this one.
Since it has become a theme song of western expansion, and a song possibly known to Thomas Jefferson, any possibility it would have been known to, and possibly performed by, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition as they traveled on the "wide Missouri"?