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Thread #30063   Message #897639
Posted By: GUEST,Pete Peterson
24-Feb-03 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: Origins: What Does the Deep Sea Say?
Subject: RE: What Does The Deep Sea Say?
Hi there Ms. Harp!
Yes, the Monroe Brothers regorded this as did the Blue Sky Boys, but the earliest version I know of is by Mac and Bob (Lester Macfarland and Robert A Gardner) and is much more comprehensible. I believe the Monroe Bros. learned how to reproduce phonetically other songs without paying much attention to whether the words make sense (supporting evidence: later verses of Banks of the Ohio where the singer switches back and forth from 1st to 3rd person, and the "peerious deep" in Drifting Too Far, and so on) I'll put the words as I know them in another post.