Mudcat Café message #2091113

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Thread #53788 Message #2091113
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
30-Jun-07 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR

I read a short biog of Foster in a collection of his songs, and it said that Jeannie was a little girl who lived across the street from Foster's parents' house in Ohio. I believe Stephen Foster, his wife and child lived in that house, too.