Minnehaha

DESCRIPTION: "On the banks of the Minnehaha, my love... We'll buy a little farm, and we'll live together there." But "death came knocking at the door" and took "my poor Nella." She is buried on the banks of the Minnehaha
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: courting love death river
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p.153, "Minnehaha" (1 text) (pp. 130-131 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #14096
NOTES [25 words]: A curiosity. The only body of water called "Minnehaha" that I can find is Minnehaha Creek in Minnesota. So why is a Pennsylvania song using the name? - RBW
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File: Shoe153

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