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Thread #62452   Message #1009081
Posted By: Burke
27-Aug-03 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: Humor- Singing songs to wrong melody
Subject: RE: Humor- Singing songs to wrong melody
It's come up a lot see switching lyrics and melodys

Amazing Grace, Gilligan's, Yellow Rose of Texas, Hernando's Hideaway, While Shepherd's, House of the Rising Sun, are all 4 lines of 8,6,8,6 syllables. Most of these Common Meter poems should be interchangeable in terms of tunes.

"Ilkley moor baht 'at"
is actually the newer words, written for the hymn tune Cranbrook that was traditionally used with "While Shepherd's" or "Grace 'tis a Charming Sound"