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Thread #3934   Message #45210
Posted By: Steve Parkes
13-Nov-98 - 03:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jerusalem (The English Song)
Subject: RE: Lyrics For
I read somewhere (sorry, can't remember where!) that the "dark Satanic mills" were actualy Oxford and Cambridge Universities, which he was blasting for their unchristian teachings.

There's a legend that when Jesus was a little lad a merchant uncle, possibly J of A, took him to Britain on a business trip - whence those feet, etc.

Steve