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Thread #19743   Message #4220936
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
15-Apr-25 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
Subject: RE: Origins: The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
and e wrote: No chorus and minor word variations. I can't read music so will leave it to others to identify the tune used. Help is appreciated.

Not quite the melody I seem to recall Seeger singing. (I can't check the recording; the album was my parents', not mine.) However, it's similar enough that one can easily imagine it crossing over to match Calloway's tune. That would explain both the lack of a chorus here and the fact that the Seeger tune's chorus is not meaningful: It was transferred from Calloway.