Happy Birthday!

Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin)

The landmark New York City street artist
was born 5/26/1916
    (d9/8/1999)

(AMG bio: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Byc4uak3k5m3k )

Gunman, John Wesley Hardin

was ALSO born on 5/26 in 1853

(d8/19/1894, when Marshal John Selman shot him in the
back of the head at the Acme Saloon, El Paso, TX)

I have no information he & Moondog were related.

The old songs, the old stars,
The world so golden then!
The hand so tender to a child
Had killed so many men.
He died a hard death long ago,
Before the Road came in.
The night before he swung, he sang
To his mandolin.

"Spanish Johnny" by Willa Cather,
see Lomax & Lomax, American Ballads & Folk Songs, p123