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Thread #99134   Message #1971392
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
18-Feb-07 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Christmas Carol meters in Folk.
Subject: RE: Origins: Christmas Carol meters in Folk.
The tune for 'On Ilkely Moor' was actually written as a hymn tune - it's called something like Cranbrook and fits many many songs and hymns, anything with a syllable structure of 8.6.8.6., by which token, House of the Rising Sun will also fit it.

LTS