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Day 290 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "A fugitive little lyric heard by Edwin Ford Piper from the singing of his pioneer mother in the 1880’s on a farm near Auburn, Nebraska.
"At the University of Virginia, a lad from near Lynchburg, Virginia, said he had heard it from old people and it had been sung roundabout that neighborhood a long time."
Day 290 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "A fugitive little lyric heard by Edwin Ford Piper from the singing of his pioneer mother in the 1880’s on a farm near Auburn, Nebraska.
"At the University of Virginia, a lad from near Lynchburg, Virginia, said he had heard it from old people and it had been sung roundabout that neighborhood a long time."
