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Thread #22181   Message #240154
Posted By: raredance
08-Jun-00 - 09:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Night of the Johnstown Flood
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Night of the Johnstown Flood
I have a copy of Rickaby's 1926 Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy. Unfortunately the "Jamestown Flood" song in the DT and linked to above by Wolfgang is not in that Rickaby book. Although he kept extensive notebooks of songs he collected in different categories, I am unaware that he wrote any other books. Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy, in fact, was published after his untimely death in 1925 at the age of 37. Although he got his Master's degree from Harvard and taught at the University of North Dakota and at Pomona College, I believe that most of his notebooks ended up at the University of Wisconsin because his widow remarried a many who later became president of U Wisconsin.

rich r