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Thread #50984   Message #1655117
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Jan-06 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Rebel Soldier (cf. Old Paint)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rebel Soldier (cf. Old Paint)
Error regarding the date of "Old Paint" as printed by John A Lomax. The song did not appear until the 1916 edition of "Cowboy Songs." It is not in the 1910 edition.
"The Rebel Soldier," in a version called "The Rebel Prisoner," appeared in 1874, in "Allan's Lone Star Ballads," pp. 80-81.