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Thread #71356 Message #460148
Posted By: Melani
10-May-01 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins:John Brown's Body/ Battle Hymn of Republic
Subject: RE: John Brown's Body
There is a particularly beautiful version of "Melora's Song" sung by Ann Mayo Muir on "Bok, Muir & Trickett--The First Fifteen Years, Vol.II." The words are from Stephen Vincent Benet's book-length poem, "John Brown's Body." I'm not familiar with the musical, but I'm guessing that the poem was the source of all the words to the songs.