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Thread #116137   Message #2509606
Posted By: Richie
07-Dec-08 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: RE: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
There are several early versions of "We Have Met and We Have Parted" part of the "Lover's Farewell" songs

Here's one from 1875:

http://books.google.com/books?id=50YAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80&dq=%22We+Have+Met+and+We+Have+Parted%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

Belden: We have met and we have parted,
And you scarcely spoke one word.
Like some guilty thing I started
When your well-known voice I heard.

Another version from the 1800s: http://books.google.com/books?id=EWpLAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA249&dq=%22We+Have+Met+and+We+Have+Parted%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html