Re: Survival langauge

Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> And mine is that Dan is the name of his pack horse or mule. The
> lyrics posted say "an old Dan", but see:
> http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiRIDEPNT;ttRIDEPNT.html
> where it says "I'm leadin' old Dan".
>
> Songs are so often passed along by being heard, and there are often
> slight changes in the lyrics.

Looking at published lyrics on Amazon, I see thirteen books that have
some variation of "ride an old Paint" and "lead an old Dan", seven
that have some variation of "ridin' Old Paint" and "leadin' Old Dan",
and one that's "ride an old paint" and "leading old Dan".

Unfortunately, none of them seem to be in discussions of the song, so
I can't shed any light on which is the earlier form. But most seem to
assume that either "Paint" and "Dan" are both types of horses or both
names of specific horses.

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