The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17517   Message #169834
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Dixon
28-Jan-00 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Can anyone help? - simple vs arranged folksongs
Subject: RE: Can anyone help?
"'Tis a gift to be simple" is actually the first line of "Simple Gifts", and it's a Shaker song originally, not Quaker, although the Quakers are fond of it, too.