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Thread #159811   Message #3788218
Posted By: Joe Offer
02-May-16 - 12:43 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Beautiful Light o'er the Ocean
Subject: RE: What the heck is this word (Beautiful Light o'er..
Belden says he got the song "from the MS ballad-book of Ada Belle Cowden of Woodlandville, Boone County," and Belden noted the incomprehensible word in his book. So, I'm wondering what this "MS ballad-book" was - a handwritten book of Cowden's repertoire of songs?

-Joe-