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Thread #92903   Message #1783120
Posted By: Jim Dixon
13-Jul-06 - 11:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dear Old Halifax (Merle Travis)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I live in dear old Sydney ..[NovaScotia]
Merle Travis recorded DEAR OLD HALIFAX. It begins:

In Nova Scotia I was born near Sydney on the bay,
But once I went to Halifax to spend a holiday....

That's all I was able to hear in a sound sample. The tune resembles DEAR OLD DONEGAL. It's on the Merle Travis CD "Folk Songs of the Hills (Back Home/Songs of the Coal Miners)" Bear Family CD 15636, 1994.