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Thread #20413   Message #4234612
Posted By: Lighter
19-Jan-26 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
Dick Devall, recorded in 1929, can be heard here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scL1BSL5dc

And here is a Canadian version of the far less well known "The Bad Girl's Lament," sung by Wade Hemsworth in 1955:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4lR7ofkEc

Both tunes are decidedly modal and rather similar.

But here's another, sung in Maine by Hanford Hayes in 1942, which is entirely different and, I would say, closer to the more usual "Tom Sherman's Barroom" tune (same as the ersatz "My Home's in Montana"):

https://archive.org/details/HHFBC_tapes_D29B

(Thanks to 'Catter "Reynard the Fox" for posting the YouTube clips.)