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Thread #98232 Message #1942660
Posted By: Goose Gander
20-Jan-07 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Henry Clay Beattie (from Kelly Harrell)
Subject: RE: Origins: Henry Clay Beattie
I can't find much else on this one.
D.K. Wilgus in a review said only that Harrell's version was a ". . . rare ballad dealing with a 1911 murder case in Richmond." Journal of American Folklore Vol. 78, No. 309 (July 1965)
Norm Cohen wrote about it, "Henry Clay Beattie . . . Once a Folksong," JEMF Quarterly (Autumn 1973), but I haven't been able to locate a copy of his article.