From time to time here at Sometimes a Song, I veer away from our beloved Great American Songbook into the realm of folk song. The writer of today’s song would have certainly loved a tune I talked about some months ago, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” by the composer he himself counted as having most influenced his own compositions, Stephen Foster. …
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