If I had been thinking I would've given the address for the company who has been publishing these songbooks for years- it started as The Cooperative Recreation Service, with Lynn and Katherine Rohrbough and their daughters. Now it is, World Around Songs, Inc. and their latest address(I think, and hope) is, Rt.5, Box 398, Burnsville, NC 28714. So many hundreds of lovely songs, from all round the world. The Rohrboughs used to visit our home in Viper, Kentucky, and they collected and did the first publication of several of our family song variants. But I had never heard many songs from other countries, and we loved to sing and harmonize on incredibly beautiful ones, like

:Goodnight, goodnight, beloved mine,
Goodnight, sleep well my dear:
May Cherubim and Seraphym (sp?)
Watch over you and hover near-
Goodnight, goodnight, beloved mine,
Goodnight, sleep well, my dear.

That one used to give me goose bumps. I remember we sang it years later, at one of my sisters' funeral. Everyone cried.

I love our own songs dearly, but the rest of the world has endless treasures. My hope is that they will be sung forever, and not vanish like our Kentucky mounaintops- that's a sadness from which I cannot recover.      Jean