I say "Lusitani-ay"

[Mark Mandel]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bret Harte, "The Old Major Explains: Re-Union, Army of the Potomac, 12th
> May, 1871":
>
> "And week from next is Conference. . . . You said the twelfth of May?
> Why, that's the day we broke their line at Spottsylvan-i-a!"

I'll tell you of a nice young man,
Whose name was Peter Gray,
And the town that he was born in was
Pennsylva-ni-a.

Peter Gray, a touching Comic Ballad. Arranged for the Piano Forte.
Boston. Published by OLIVER DITSON & Co 277 Washington St.
...
Entered according to act of Congress AD 1959 by O Ditson & Co in the
Clerks Offics of the Dist Court of Mass

The Historic American Sheet Music Project of Duke University,
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/

cover:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/c/cP4/cP478G/cP478G-1-150dpi.html

p.1:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/c/cP4/cP478G/cP478G-2-72dpi.html


Mark Mandel

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