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Thread #19122   Message #193425
Posted By: GUEST,shamus
11-Mar-00 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Barbara Allen (different versions)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Barbara Allen' different versions
A bluegrass banjo picker/story teller from Chicago recorded a Western flavored entry, Art Thieme. Near Medicine Bow, where I was born Was a young girl dwellin' Made all the boys ride saddle-sore and her name was Barbry Allen. There is another verse reference to 'the place where they was dug-in' (sod house on the prairie).. Waterbug label on his CD, 1998, 'Art Thieme The Older I Get, The Better I Was'