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Thread #82243   Message #1508670
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Jun-05 - 04:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Napoleon's Defeat (from Frank Harte)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Napoleon's defeat
"Sam Henry's Songs of the People" has two versions of "Plains of Waterloo," neither with the 'car' verse, and more about losing a 'sweetheart' or 'darling boy" than about Boney.

Bodleian Ballads, "Battle of Waterloo," Johnson fol. 112, ca. 1815, is illustrated with a fanciful cut of the battle. One version there has 'car.'