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Thread #2765   Message #11998
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
08-Sep-97 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
Subject: RE: Goodbye, England's Rose
I think the hymn sung to "O Danny Boy" ( is that the "Londonderry Air?") is in the Anglican hymn book.

They also have one sung to the tune of The Star of the County Down. I heard it in church once and was about to start singing the words to that folk song, quite puzzled as to what this had to do with an Anglican service, although I was pleased that they were playing something I knew other than "Jerusalem".

I didn't watch any of the funeral. I gave my television away some years ago after a fight with the cable company over the Nashville Network. Besides, I saw Churchill's funeral on the tube, and that was good enough pomp and ceremony for me.

Had it been my sister, I'd have had a private funeral in the little church and buried her in the crypt with the 20 generations of ancestors. This is what English aristocrats are supposed to do. I can already see the guided tours coming of this little island.