Dunlap Creek

DESCRIPTION: "A friend and I went walking Along the public way. But things had changed so strangely From that of former days." The singer compares present with past. The fish are gone from Dunlap Creek, and the mill torn down. The main sight is a railroad tunnel
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Korson)
KEYWORDS: technology railroading fishing
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-PennsylvaniaSongsAndLegends, pp. 26-27, "Dunlap Creek" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Think, O My Soul, The Dreadful Day" (tune?)
cf, "Dunlap's Creek" (tune?)
NOTES [85 words]: There seems to be real confusion about this tune, which has been credited to S. McFarland. There are words by Isaac Watts, which I have filed as "Dunlap's Creek" and which appear to be Roud #18615. There is a hellfire-and-brimstone text, found in a few shape note hymnals, which I have filed as "Think, O My Soul, The Dreadful Day." And there is a secular version filed as "Dunlap Creek." None is popular, but perhaps it would be worth some effort to try to disentangle them and determine their relationship. - RBW
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File: KPL026

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