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Thread #169449   Message #4171192
Posted By: GeoffLawes
30-Apr-23 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Any April Songs?
Subject: RE: Any April Songs?
LITTLE MARY PHAGAN
26 April 1913 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the factory of the National Pencil Company where she worked in Atlanta .This resulted in the lynching of Leo Frank, the factory superintendent after his trial and conviction for the murder .

Various recordings of “Little Mary Phagan” on YouTube   
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=little+mary+phagan+song
Mary Phagan, American Murder Victim from Encyclopedia Britannica         https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Phagan
Little Mary Phagan - Rosa Lee Carson (Moonshine Kate)   -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MydWpM7C4OY

Another song about Mary Phagan THE GRAVE OF LITTLE MARY PHAGAN   -   Fiddlin John Carson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7rDtQrwoM