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Thread #18014   Message #2534151
Posted By: GUEST
07-Jan-09 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Origin: I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
Subject: RE: Help: I wish I was a mole in the ground
It was entitled "My Last OLD (not Gold) Dollar". Can the person "Jeep Man" who posted on 19.2.2000 (8.44 pm) the statement that "Old Mountain Dew" was written by Zeke Morris rather than Bascom Lamar Lunsford, back this up by providing (approximate) dates? Lunsford died at the age of 91 on 4.9.1973 (according to the Sleeve Notes on "Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina) which means he was born about 1881 or 1882, which means that he would have been about 39 when he wrote the song (as he claimed) in 1920 (although the song was apparently released by Brunswick in 1928). This is all more than 80 years ago!