The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56467   Message #886648
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
10-Feb-03 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
Subject: RE: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
DMcG: Jerusalem "answers No,No,No & no ?"
Surely here we pay attention to folklore. To quote from the "Cyberhymnal":
"The theme is unique­ly Eng­lish, and there is an un­der­tone of 19th Cen­tu­ry pol­i­tics. The lyr­ics may refer to folk­lore that says Je­sus vis­it­ed Bri­tain as a teen­ag­er with Jo­seph of Ar­i­ma­thea, who was said to be a dis­tant rel­a­tive and had a stake in Cor­nish tin mines. How­ev­er, there is no his­tor­ic­al da­ta sup­port­ing this sto­ry."

So how about Maybe, Maybe, Maybe & Maybe" ?

Nigel