Talk about plagiarization! Awhile ago when leaving a music party, a friend slipped me a scrap of paper and mumbled, See what you can do with that. I was surprised at the phrases he had scribbled down because he doesn't seem the romantic type but happening to know that he was not an ultra-true husband I thought he'd been thinking, shall we say. So I set to work, using as many of the words as I could, taped it and gave it, along with the lyrics, to my friend. He never said a peep. Here's what I wrote: Twilight Waltz Twilight falls; evening shadows find
There 'neath the stars, fair maiden divine
The moon up on high seems to see her there
In her eyes there's a light, shining ever so bright
As she whispers this prayer:

Oh, come back to me. Moon, send him to me.
You bright glittering stars were there when we met
Sweet love of my years, your children I'll bear
Please come back to me, please listen to me:
Forgive and forget.

Every word reveals her sad, aching heart
He's broken her faith and now they're apart
Alone there she kneels, tells the stars above
In his arms she belongs. In her prayer there's a song
Of undying love.

Well, you knowledgeable 'Catters out there are already aware of the song the original words came from! When I came across the lyrics (and I didn't even know there were any!) to Maiden's Prayer I was dumbfounded.(And all that work too, for naught!)

Here are the original words as given on the 'Net (my friend hadn't given me all of them, and none of his phrases rhymed, or I might have caught on.)

Twilight shadows fall, ev'ning shadows hide/There 'neath the stars, a maiden so fair, divine/The moon on high, seems to see her there/In her eyes was a light, shinin' ever so bright/As she whispered a silent prayer./Ev'ry word revealed an empty broken heart/Broken by fate that holds them so far apart/Lonely there she kneels and tells the stars above/In her arms he belongs, in her prayer is a song/An unending song of love.

So now I have an unusable song and an extra tune! Has anyone else been an unwitting plagiarist? Ebbie