The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #27029   Message #329964
Posted By: balladeer
29-Oct-00 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew: 'Valera true'?
Subject: RE: Foggy Dew 1916
I'm very grateful to all of you who took the trouble to volunteer so much thought, information, and feeling on a painful and complex series of events.

To Boggy: I am neither young nor overly naive about the world in general, but I surely do not know much about the workings of the Mudcat Cafe. I am under the impression that this forum was created to handle such questions as mine. Whether that's true or not, I'm glad I asked.

I have sung The Foggy Dew all my adult life. I sing it because the tune is beautiful and the words poetic. I sing it because it is a powerful eulogy to a brave group of soldiers. I sing it because just reading it makes me cry. Now that I'm thinking about recording it, I want to be sure I have grasped the facts. That includes getting some sense of how people who are alive now view those facts. Thanks so much for helping me with that.