This simple melodic arrangement comes from Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1868. It was written in 1859. As the story goes, a young man, a transplant from New England, dies in New Orleans as a result of the yellow fever epidemic. Few people are there to attend his burial, and before they closed the casket, a young woman came forth with the phrase that became the subject of this song....
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