The Legend of Tom Dula
Season 300 Episode 303 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore the song and the story of Legend of Tom Dula.
A little over 130 years ago in a small rural North Carolina town in Wilkes County, a young girl of meager means left home to meet her fiancé in the woods. She had hidden her special dress under her house clothes and had packed her belongings in a trundle bag, ready for her new life. She sat in the woods and waited for her beloved, and someone met her there and who hated her enough to kill her
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The Legend of Tom Dula
Season 300 Episode 303 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
A little over 130 years ago in a small rural North Carolina town in Wilkes County, a young girl of meager means left home to meet her fiancé in the woods. She had hidden her special dress under her house clothes and had packed her belongings in a trundle bag, ready for her new life. She sat in the woods and waited for her beloved, and someone met her there and who hated her enough to kill her
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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