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Thread #66364   Message #1103109
Posted By: GUEST,reggie miles
27-Jan-04 - 10:58 PM
Thread Name: Songs about the Devil
Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs about the Devil
While I'm certain that these examples are fine, not being at all familiar with many of the melodies to these songs it's rather difficult to imagine them. Still some, as in this last example, merely mention the devil as a character in a particular circumstance. Perhaps what I was hoping for doesn't actually exist, or maybe I was unclear in my description of what I was hoping to locate.

There are many facets to the folklore of that wily character Beelzebub. The many names he's known by, his role as a tempter, the more colorful visualizations of him as a demonic entity, being red in color, having horns, and carrying a pitchfork are just a few. I imagined that perhaps there might be an older song encapsulating many of those characterizations that might be fun to sing.

I had jotted a few lines down that sparked my imagination about all of this before I started this thread. They were originally part of another composition I was working on, but I then decided to use those few lines to try to create what I was hoping to find tucked away in someone's songbook, list, or folk music anthology.

Thanks all for your input