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Thread #52843   Message #4222718
Posted By: Lighter
17-May-25 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Buck's Elegy (corrupt text?)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Buck's Elegy (corrupt text?)
Maynard explained in later years that the song that inspired him was "The Dying Girl's Lament," an intermediate form that was "one of the favorite songs of the cowboys in those days."