The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4341   Message #23531
Posted By: Sheye
11-Mar-98 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: Ballad of Dangerous Dan McGrew
Subject: RE: Ballad of Dangerous Dan McGrew
Trivia Tidbit: Robert Service was a bank teller in the Yukon. Story goes that he went to the bank late one night to write (sleep??) or something, was mistaken for a robber and was shot at. The line: "the lights went out; two guns blazed in the dark" was supposedly inspired by said incident.