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Thread #88774 Message #3209298
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-Aug-11 - 04:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Let Union Be In All Our Hearts - Grange?
Subject: RE: Origins: Let Union Be In All Our Hearts - Grange?
Hi, Artful Codger-
Look at the grange songbooks linked to above, and you'll find temperance songs. Google temperance grange, and you'll find lots of stuff - click here for an example. In the U.S. Midwest where I'm from, it was only the Catholic farmers who drank, and you won't find much of a connection between the Catholics and the Grange.
Now, I may be wrong, but my hunch is that the DT's connection between this song and the Grange, is a bunch of serious hooey. Let union be in all our farms,
Let all our farms be joined as one.
That's gotta be somebody's joke.....
-Doubting Joseph-