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-Joe Offer-Subject: RE: Help: song history
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 20-Mar-01 - 02:21 PMJennifer, If you'll put "how can I keep from singing" (without the quotes) in the Digitrad and Forum Search box on the first page of this site, you'll get lots of info. It seems that this song is a favorite of many people, and seem to turn up in many conversations. I noted in one thread that it's the name of Pete Seeger's autobiography.
Subject: RE: Help: song history
From: catspaw49
Date: 20-Mar-01 - 02:35 PMSome info here alluding to Quaker origins which ties in some with the abolition/civil rights end.
But that particular thing is debunked by Sandy Paton on THIS THREAD
Good reading.
Spaw