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Thread #160071 Message #3795679
Posted By: Helen
14-Jun-16 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Same chords, different songs
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Same chords, different songs
Allright, gillymor, tell the WHOLE world I am wrong! LOL
I just hear bits of the melody of one while listening to the other. I plan to have a serious look at the two pieces of music sometime today.
It reminds me of a story I once heard, which may be just a bit of a legend, about a battle in Europe somewhere between the English and the French, I think. The English side also had a group of Welsh fighters and the French side had some Bretons. One night, after fighting all day, the Welsh were sitting around singing songs and then over the stretch of no man's land they heard the same melodies, different words of songs being sung by the Breton people. The Celtic connection I suppose.
I've always wondered, how could you fight - on behalf of another cultural group, the English or the French - people who sing the same songs as you do?
Anyway, back on topic. This is an interesting thread.
Helen