[Ads-l] Antedating of G-string

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 3:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Hmmm.  I believe that's a somewhat different ballad, "Ramblin' Boy".  ;-)
> 
> 
> Say what, now? _What_ "is a somewhat different ballad, "Ramblin' Boy"?
> "Different" from what, Homer, Jr.? μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα. ;-)
> 
> 
Not to belabor it, but your post (yes, I know it was a typo, whence the emoticon) was

> Do you remember Guy Mitchell's 1950 hit, "The Roving Kid"?

to which my response was as above.


LH


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