Mudcat Café message #221303

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Thread #20929 Message #221303
Posted By: Metchosin
02-May-00 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: Origins: They Call the Wind Mariah (Lerner/Loewe)
Subject: RE: Help: Origins of They Call the Wind Maria

I spoke to my brother earlier this evening about this song and his suggestion was that it might have come out of South Africa and the Dutch that Dick Smothers referred to might have been the the Boers.

It could help to explain the setting and the mood.