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Thread #4257   Message #4233322
Posted By: Lighter
21-Dec-25 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Shenandoah
Subject: RE: Origin: Shenandoah
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Mar. 4, 1877:

"[In the Aleutian Islands] our men started a stanza of 'Shenandoah I Love Your Daughter;' 'Ten Thousand Miles Away;' 'The Louisiana Lowlands;' 'Old Dog Tray,' etc., to the intense delight of the people, who capered around us after the approved scalp-dance of the North American Indians."

San Francisco Chronicle (Jan. 11, 1891): " 'Sheandoah, I love your daughter,' 'Give me some time to knock a man down,' 'Rio Grande,' and 'Homeward Bound' were the favorite 'shantys' of the old-time tar."

N.Y. Herald (Dec. 17, 1899):

"Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter!
H-o-o-ray! the rolling river!
I love her when I hadn't oughter -
Ha! Ha! I'm bound away on the wide Missouri!"