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Thread #108643   Message #2264201
Posted By: 12-stringer
16-Feb-08 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: Texas Rangers melody origin
Subject: RE: Texas Rangers melody origin
One other song which uses the same melody is "Rowan County Crew," an east KY feud chronicle composed by J W Day around 1885.

Isn't one of Sarah Ogan Gunning's 1930s labor songs from east KY also set to this melody?