The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19102 Message #193018
Posted By: Amos
10-Mar-00 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: Lyric Quote for the Day--Mar 10
Subject: RE: Lyric Quote for the Day--Mar 10
Right, this is an old traditional Elizabethan love-song which migrated to Appalachian coal-mining towns in the late 1600s on Dutch trading ships who founded the triangle trade. The wanting to scream part is from the triangle trade, tangent segment B, The fingerprint part was added later by an Irish immigrant who learned about them on the New York police department in 1895. My grandfather use to sing me to sleep with it.