what does the song on top of old smokey mean
On Top of Old Smoky The tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" familiar to most people today was also paired with a completely different set of words in a folk song called "The Little Mohee", about a frontiersman who falls in love with an Indian maiden (or, in some versions, a sailor who falls in love with a South Seas maiden).[15] This tune was collected by the American fieldworkers Loraine Wyman and Howard Brockway in Pine Mountain, Kentucky[16] from a singer named Mary Ann Bagley,[17] and published by them in 1916, hence a year before the Sharp/Karpeles version mentioned above.[18]