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Thread #7218   Message #43312
Posted By: allan S.
26-Oct-98 - 09:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: History behind 'Willow Garden'
Subject: RE: History behind
I had an old 78 by Richard Dyer Bennet With the Sally Garden Song More like a simple Love song . In the John and ALlan Lonax book there is the willow garden song with the Rose Connelly verse. The Encyclopedia of folk music has a strange version, with the following THe balad is of West Virginia origin and is said to be based in a true case history The following line"ENRAGED WAS I FOR I CLEARLY SAW I WAS TRICKED BY A FOOL PHARMACIST is strange . Does this imply that she was pregnant and an abortion did not work??? I remember that Tom Paley sang the words " A girl that looks so much like me" instead of the words Rose Connalee Would this imply an insectious relationship where he impregnated his own iligiment sister. Allan S.