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Thread #128682   Message #2884489
Posted By: Commander Crabbe
11-Apr-10 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: Great folk song lyrics
Subject: RE: Great folk song lyrics
Murray

My most humble apologies!

However, you try singing the line with your punctuation to the the last bar of "The dawning of the day", the tune to which it is most frequently sung.

It was originally a poem and if I ever read it as such I promise I'll punctuate it as such. Until then, while I choose to sing it, I'll arrange it and perform it any way I want. Of the many times I have done so, no one has ever complained that I got the punctuation wrong in that line.

Quote "I do so hate to be pedantic" Hmmmmmmmmm! Maybe not I think.

Yours mistakenly

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