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Thread #37176 Message #1807371
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Aug-06 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Quantrell: 'He came to burn Lawrence...'
Subject: RE: Origins: He came to burn Lawrence - Quantrell
There is another Quantrill song, very muddled history, as Guest remarks about the movie.
Anon.- "Charlie Quantrell, Oh."
Raymond Sanders collected this song "from a fellow he worked with in the woods of Stone County, cutting white oak bolts for whiskey-barrell staves." The fellow was fascinated by Quantrill. Not only the name is wrong but the details of the song are muddled.
Glenn Ohrlin, 1973, "The Hell-Bound Train," A cowboy songbook, No. 26, pp. 67-68, with music (essentially "Brennan on the Moor"). University of Illinois Press.