The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126465   Message #3774236
Posted By: GUEST,folkedup
22-Feb-16 - 03:07 AM
Thread Name: Poems set to music
Subject: RE: Poems set to music
This is my thing, too.

My latest is a mash-up of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Goodbye" (1846) with "The Wayfaring Stranger" (Roud 3339).

I rewrote two lines of the poem and borrowed two lines from the folk song lyric to use for a refrain.