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Thread #93445   Message #2744195
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Oct-09 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: River songs
Subject: RE: River songs
Can't believe no-one has mentioned Blackwaterside.

Edith Piaf used to sing a very beautiful song called La Seine.

On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away — written by Paul Dresser, 1857-1906, who happened to be elder brother of Theodore Dreiser, one of most distinguished of US novelists [An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie, &c] - gifted family!

And NB in 1st verse of the Great Eric Bogle's The Band Played Waltzing Matilda: 'From the Murray's green basin to the dusty Outback...'

And what happened to The Old Folks at Home [Stephen C Foster}: 'Way down upon The Swanee River': or the Gershwins' Swanee, sung by the great Al Jolson?