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Thread #150420   Message #3504685
Posted By: greg stephens
17-Apr-13 - 06:36 AM
Thread Name: To be a pilgrim/Thatcher's funeral
Subject: To be a pilgrim/Thatcher's funeral
Of the many things about this funeral I don't like, the use of the hymn "To be a pilgrim" stands out. The fabulous words of the very radical and persecuted-by-authority John Bunyan, the lovely English folk tune, rejigged and arranged by the very populist artistic-power-to-the-people Ralph Vaughan Williams: what right have this woman and her running jackals got to hijack such a fabulous slice of our culture?