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“On Top of Old Smoky”

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  1. An American folksong (see folk music). It begins:

    On top of old Smoky,

    All covered with snow,

    I lost my true lover,

    By a-courting too slow.

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Her rendition of “On Top of Old Smoky” so impressed the audience that she received a two‐week contract for $125 a week.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

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