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Thread #19536   Message #199168
Posted By: GUEST,Rex
22-Mar-00 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Shenandoah
Subject: Lyr Add: SHENANDOAH (Connie Dover version)
This version I got from a Connie Dover album. According to liner notes, it is a song that was sung by both rivermen and cavalrymen in the American West; The last verse can be taken as insult or bragging, depending on whether the singer was one or the other.

O, Shenandoah, I long to see you
Whey hey, you rolling river
O, Shenandoah, I long to see you
Whey hey, I'm bound away cross the wide Missouri

For seven years I courted Nancy
No other girl would suit my fancy

She would not have me for her lover
Tho I never courted any other

One day she left for Kansas City
And its there she had a little baby

She must have had another lover
O, I swear it was a cavalry soldier

(Repeat first verse)


(from the "Somebody" album, Connie Dover)