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Thread #127369 Message #2840141
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
15-Feb-10 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Down in the Willow Garden
Subject: RE: Origins: Down in the Willow Garden
The 1915 version in Cox ("Wetzel County 1895")
Verse 2, line 3
I had a bottle of merkley wine, and this she did not know.
The 1917 version has it burglar's wine, "which my true love did not know."
"Burgundy" is doubtful, as least to me. I doubt that it was one of the wines marketed in the area except to well-to-do folks.