The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83298 Message #1530376
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
28-Jul-05 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: Origin: I Come and Stand at Every Door / Hiroshima
Subject: RE: Child of hiroshima song/publisher
Seeger thought at the time that the tune he set Hikmet's lyric to was traditional; in fact it wasn't, having been written not long before by Dr James Waters of Columbia University.