Mudcat Café message #1472265

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Thread #14720 Message #1472265
Posted By: Snuffy
27-Apr-05 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: As Slow Our Ship (Thomas Moore)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: As Slow Our Ship (Thomas Moore)

idiotically cheerful? depends how you play it.

And the poem was published with that tune over 30 years before Moore's death, so presumably he was fairly happy with it.