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Thread #28904   Message #4225544
Posted By: cnd
12-Jul-25 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Killiecrankie
Subject: RE: Origin: Killiecrankie
Here's a very different version of the text (I think) that I stumbled upon by happenstance today, as related by Roanoke, Virginia resident Lycurgus Drumheller in 1939:

I know you have played ‘Killyme Kranky.’ It was more like a march and went like this:

Farewell Dick and farewell Tom,
Farewell old Aunt Franky;
Every time I think of you
I’ll wind up Killyme Kranky.

If you have been where I have been,
And seen the sights that I have seen;
Four and twenty girls,
All dancing Killyme Kranky.
Roanoke, story of county and city p. 126