Hi, Local Color - can you give us anything else? Where have you heard the song. Can you post full lyrics?
Thanks.
-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-

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This page says the music was written in 1936 by Margaret Sutherland, 1897-1984; lyrics by Eiluned Lewis.

Partial lyrics were posted in Thread #7247   Message #279857
Posted By: GUEST,C Dye
17-Aug-00 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Spider's Web (Girl Scout song)
Subject: RE: Help! a Girl Scout folk song?

Can anyone help me with yet another GS song? I can't quite remember it all, but I think it goes(except for the la la's..):

BIRTHRIGHT
We who are born in country places
Far from the city and shifting faces
We have a birthright no man can sell
And a secret joy no man can tell.

For we are kindred to lordly things
The wild ducks flight and la la la
Pike and salmon, bull and horse
The curlew's cry and the smell of gorse.

Pride of la, swiftness of stream
The magic of frost has shaped our dreams
No baser vision the spirit fill
Than to walk by right on the naked hill.

I checked the database, but didn't find anything.