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Thread #71721 Message #4226697
Posted By: Lighter
03-Aug-25 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Old Moke Pluckin On The Banjo'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Moke Pluckin On The Banjo'
Arkansas Times and Advocate (July 10, 1837):
“I hear one of them now singing --‘Rack back, Davy, Daddy shot a bear,/ Shot him in the tale [sic] and never toch [sic] a hair.’”