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Thread #16581   Message #2417441
Posted By: Phil Cooper
18-Aug-08 - 11:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The Song of Wandering Aengus
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: 'Song Of the Wandering Angus'
I was never a big fan of the tune used by Judy Collins and Dave Van Ronk of this Yeats poem. I think a lot of Yeats poems/set to music attempts don't work (poems don't necessarily make good songs, etc). I did like the tune Tom Rapp set to the poem on his "Journal of the Plague Years," however. It was a tune you could whistle out the door, not an art song tune. It is a matter of taste, though.