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Thread #19803 Message #3270806
Posted By: Lighter
08-Dec-11 - 09:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Subject: RE: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
What's a Cassanoa? And why would she "call the bastard Fagan"? Fagan must be an intruder from another version.
Edith Fowke recorded Abbott's song in 1957. He knew about eighty songs, most of them learned before 1900.