Our Singing Country
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PETER GRAY
e. No. 2505. Frank A. Melton, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., 1939.
Professor Frank A. Melton of the University of Oklahoma says his father sang aPeter Gray" to him thirty years ago in Kansas, sang it soberly as a straightforward, factual account. The editors of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays add, " 'Peter Gray' (1858) seems to have been, like 'Springfield Mountain,' an American ballad which proved irresistibly comic once it got on the stage." Oral transmission has brought various changes both in the words and in the music. |
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