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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Nov-08 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: RE: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," James A. Bland, 1878; Only the title and the first line of the refrain is similar, but not the verses.
Bland's chorus-
Carry me back to Old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where this old Darkey's heart am long'd to go.