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Thread #32564   Message #429409
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
30-Mar-01 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The World is Old (Laurence Housman)
Subject: RE: The World is Old- request info
No, Amos, I don't...do you have a friend named Andy?

And thanks, Spaw, for the reprints and the advice- but I'd SWEAR that I did the <> brackets right. I think the FORUM is out to embarrass me!

Re the song: Here's the story. Way back in the 1930s, one of my sisters wrote and directed a Christmas play at the Hindman Settlement School, and included this "Shepherds' Song." She has passed on now and no other soul in the world, it seems, can find where she got the song. Maybe she wrote it herself! But somehow I don't think so- it MUST have a source. I think it's very beautiful and it certainly SOUNDS ancient... Jean