The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57161   Message #1066826
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Dec-03 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: O, de Lord tol' Nory
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: O, de Lord tol' Nory
Fail to see the connection with the spiritual "Norah, Hist the Window."
There are many songs about opening, coming to or going away from, the window, many of them associated with the "Awake, Drowsy Sleeper" complex, to which your examples seem to belong.

Your word "parody" perhaps should be written as "variant." Parody in North America means an imitation, usually for comic effect, or an imitation with a change in meaning (such as a hymn converted to a labor song, etc.)