Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a deep tooted farewell, the French Line's rebuilt Liberté last week nosed out of Le Havre into a Channel rainstorm and headed for New York. The "maiden voyage" of the world's third biggest liner had been delayed six hours by a last-minute protest...
Old Lead Belly himself thought that he had learned Irene from his Uncle Terrell, just before he was sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the...
In 1934, when Library of Congress Folklorist John Lomax recorded Lead Belly's famed pardon petition,† he put Irene on the other side. Music-loving Governor 0. K. Allen is said to have pardoned the old reprobate as much for Irene as anything. Until Lead Belly died in...
I love Irene, God knows I do,
An' ef Irene turns her back on me,