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Thread #16793   Message #158760
Posted By: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
05-Jan-00 - 10:01 PM
Thread Name: Is there a real Sourwood Mtn & where?
Subject: RE: Is there a real Sourwood Mtn & where?
The song Stewie refers to is "Springfield Mountain" a.k.a. "Pesky Sarpent." The words are, in one version

On Springfield Mountain there did dwell
a comely youth I know right well

Or words to that effect. "Sourwood Mountain" begins

Chickens a-crowin' on Sourwood Mountain
Chickens a-crowin' on Sourwood Mountain

I can't see any relationship between the two sets of words. Nor do the tunes to which I know these songs sound related.

T.