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Thread #22953   Message #1503400
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Jun-05 - 10:14 PM
Thread Name: Some info on 'Stand on the shore'
Subject: RE: Some info on 'Stand on the shore'
"Now Our Meeting's Over" was provided to Lomax and Lomax from the song collector Sam P. Bayard of Pennsylvania, and first appeared in print (1934) in American Ballads and Folk Songs," with music, p. 571. This should provide the basis for an arrangement.

Bayard noted that it was a song used to close a camp meeting, as does Paton's posting above.

Also collected by Frank Warner- see note above by Sandy Paton, who suggests that it could be an old Shape Note song.