The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4913   Message #27487
Posted By: Bruce O.
06-May-98 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: The World's Oldest Folk Song?
Subject: RE: Oldest folk
I don't know if Gilgamesh was even poetical. The Descent of Inanna (in which her brother, Gilgamesh, appears) is poetical, but I don't know if it was sung. I seem to recall that the Opie's ODNR has a facsimile of the early "I have 4 sisters beyond the sea" (I gave my love a cherry without a stone).