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Thread #7307   Message #44655
Posted By: T in Olkahoma
09-Nov-98 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
Subject: RE: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
The tune I know for "Wondrous Love" differs from the tune "Captain Kidd", though they have the same metrical structure (they are both of the "Captain Kidd" type)

In The Southern Harmony (1854) both tunes occur. The words sung to "Captain Kidd" are "In all the world below."

An Irish song, "O the praties they grow small" has a closely-related meter. The meter could be made identical by repeating some words. Instead of "O the praties they grow small over here", sing "O the praties they grow small over here, over here."

Another folk tune collected by Vaughan Williams and now occurring in some hymnals in "The Truth from Above".