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Subject:	Shenandoah
From:	Douglas <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:18:40 -0500
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Doesn't David Hackett Fisher, in his _Bound Away_ interpret Shenandoah
as a slave song, a lament about being sold west?  "Away, I'm bound away,
cross the wide Missouri."  I have often, when away from Virginia, found
myself pining for Shenandoah.  Works for me.

--
Dr. Douglas Day
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
McIntire Library Building
200 Second St., NE
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434-296-1492
www.albemarlehistory.org

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