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Originally Posted by ATDrake
I duly ask; please feel free to explain away.
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Okay: Barbara/Elizabeth, Joan Hess, Dorothy Cannell, and Sharyn McCrumb are all buddies. One year after Malice Domestic, at the yearly after party at Mertz Manor (Barbara's house), they decided to turn their hands (and fertile crazy brains) to country song writing. That song is at the front of NTTM. It also shows up in each of the other authors published works that year. In some it plays only a cameo role - being heard on the radio or stuck in a character's head, and in some it's a major player.
I couldn't remember which titles it shows up in, but Google provided one:
O Little Town of Maggody - Joan Hess
I believe Elizabeth MacPherson's brother or cousin is singing it in one of the Elizabeth books, probably whichever one came out in '93, 94, or 95.