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Thread #53496   Message #1257042
Posted By: GUEST,Mary
25-Aug-04 - 11:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'The Orphan's Lament'
Subject: RE: Origins: 'The Orphan's Lament'
My grandmother also sang this song to my mother, then my mother to us when we were children. My Granny died at age 93, my mother is now 76 and I am 50. Just this week my Mother, my aunt and I were having a three way phone conversation (singing) trying to remember all the words to this song between the three of us, and we all ended up crying, me because I can remember mama singing it and they, because they were remembering their mama singing it. I am so glad to have found the words, the version that I found is the exact one they sang, we couldn't remember the part that connected to Jim's five years and I'm only seven. So glad to have found this site!