Art

I thought I should explain myself a little more.

Often a song is made with an initial localising or personality naming verse. The song gets popular, and the first thing to get dropped is the initial overspecific verse.

It is not impossible that this happened with Coming Round The Mountain.

If so, someone might have noted the original in an old [or new] publication.

For example, a 1963 book explained for me the other day the context of a Scots kids' song I've known and used for 40 years, and at the same time linked the song to one that the New Lost City Ramblers recorded, so the song has a far wider context than I'd ever realised.

One the other hand, you may know this sort of thing well, and be complaining about the nature of my thread heading? Just a way of asking a question in, I thought, an interesting way.