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Thread #145512   Message #3409691
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
24-Sep-12 - 09:17 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 3
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 3
It's probably a coincidence, but the mandolin appears also in Willa Cather's romantic poem "Spanish Johnny" (1912).

http://www.bartleby.com/265/53.html

The Lomaxes included it in "American Ballads and Folksongs" in 1934.